The under hood wire harness burned up. This car has 89,000 miles and runs good. I heard there was a recall / tsb #( onp 99m03) on this car but ford will not honor it because the car is over 10 years old. I think ford should reimburse for repairs or buy back the car. This is a dangerous situation as the car will stall abruptly and lose power steering.
Mercury Mystique power steering loss problems
16 of the 1,017 owner complaints about the Mercury Mystique describe loss of power steering, most of them for the 1995 model year.
- owner complaints
- 16
- worst model year
- 1995
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
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Fuel pump failure in a 2000 mercury mystique , causing loss of power to engine & loss of power steering & brakes . I almost hit a light pole tring to get the car pulled over. The auto only has 2664 miles on it. If wife would have been driving , doubtful she wouldnt have been able to keep control of car , ford knows they have a problem with fuel pumps , when are they going to responsable for their actions.
I have to date had 4 starters replaced in my 99 mercury mystique 2.5l v6. I have had concurrent idling problems/surging that leads to jerking and stalling. Dash warpage which is now causing a blockage of the venting system causing a defrost problem. Problems when driving in the rain (loss of power steering). All of these issues have been brought to the dealerships/service dept.'s attention. As well I have contacted the fords customer relations center and they will not honor their recalls for my vehicle. Here is what happened the 4th time the starter went out. On november the 20th at 7:00am (during rush hour traffic) my car started making a horrible whirring noise behind the steering wheel column. As I was turning left at a busy intersection I can hear the car starting to die from the battery being drained. Upon trying to turn the car off the starter would not disengage. Eventually after repeated attempts to turn it off the car died from the battery being drained. The car was towed to 32 ford in batavia, oh. I once again explained to them the symptoms that LED up to the problem with the rampant idling/surging and the whirring noise behind the steering column. The same day they called and told me the car was ready for me to pickup and that they had replaced the starter again. I asked once again is there any explanation as to why this is happening. Their response was it was a manufacturer defect. I said 4 times a manufacturer defect?? How is that possible. Something must be causing this problem. I want ford to acknowledge that there is a problem with this make and model and make an attempt to resolve it. I want consumers to know that 32 ford and ford motor company has acted in callous disregard to my request for help in resolving this issue.
Power steering assist is lost in the rain. The car had this issue when it was new. Most of the time it happened, the car was going straight. Now when it occurred in a turn, this becomes much more of a safety issue. Within minutes, upon reaching highway speed, the power steering went out when I went through a puddle as the road was in a bend. This known vehicle defect is a major safety issue when the driver can not safely control the vehicle. There should be a recall to fix it immediately.
While driving 55 MPH vehicle completely shut down without warning, causing loss of power steering and brakes. Cause unknown. Please give any further details.
First incidents occurred several times between 9,000 and 25,000 miles while pulling into driveway at low speed where there can be standing water when it rains. Power steering failed from belt slippage. On 7-3-2001 while driving on a city street through reasonable curb-side water on a rainy afternoon the power steering failed at n intersection. This is a serious design flaw. The belt pullies are located in such a place that the tires splashing through shallow standing water causes the belts to slip and steering and electrical system to fail (alternator)
Serpentine belt can slip when wet and making a turn because you lose power steering and engine may stop. Very dangerous even though it happens at slow speed because hard steering and brakeing, not power assisted. Just missed having head on collision. This has to be investigated because it may have caused some serious or fatal accidents without being noticed as the reason. Have there been any internal notices about this at ford?
Car being driven at around 30mph, numerous times, all power was lost, hit curb, had no steering, brakes, luckily could put in neutral and re-start, cranskshaft sensor was cracked, causing vehicle to die out. Very dangerous going thru intersection or driving downtown.
While driving defective tie rod end broke, causing a loss of steering control which resulted in a crash. Please provide further information.
Vehicle does not have splash shields, causing loss of power steering when vehicle drives over 2 inch puddle of water. This could result in an accident.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the Mercury Mystique power steering loss
Which Mercury Mystique years have loss of power steering problems?
The model years with the most reports are 1995 (7 complaints), 1996 (5 complaints) and 1999 (2 complaints).
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