Mercury Mystique stalling problems

Filed Jan 11, 2009 · Electrical · 89,000 miles · NY · fire

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.

Filed Oct 26, 2008 · Steering · 114,390 miles · WA

Fluid on the ground apparently coming fro the power steering line under the pump. Also the vehicles at idling 1000 RPM will stall out. Engine light comes on.

Filed Apr 10, 2008 · Electrical, Engine · 88,081 miles · IN

2000 mystique ls, engine stall 7 times over the last 10 months. After multiple repairs, the mercury dealer could not find the problem. Problem still exists.

Filed Oct 18, 2006 · Transmission · 158,689 miles · CA

Failed to go into gear from park, changing gears difficult, did not move in drive, would not go into reverse, engine died while driving 35 m.p.h made loud noise.

Filed Sep 7, 2006 · Electrical · 98,400 miles · FL · fire

Car has had increasing number of electrical problems...check engine light coming on. Mechanics couldn't find what was triggering it after replacing the oxygen sensors repeatedly. Other twitches (stalling, burned up turn signal module,) finally culminating in complete brake light and reverse light failure. Took the car back to my mechanics, who replaced the signal module, and showed me the burn marks on it. They stated that they tried to get the brake lights to work, and found that the primary wiring harness was just disintegrating (insulation failures all over.) they called ford/mercury before they told me of this problem, and were told that ford/merc would replace the harness as long as the car hadn't gone over 100k miles, and was not more than ten years old (it wasn't.) dropped the car at a local ford dealer, who called me back to say that they would have been glad to replace the harness, had I found the problem prior to jan 2006. They promptly informed that they would be more than happy to replace the harness for about $2,000.00 I informed them that I'd be more than happy to perform brain surgery on them with a weedeater at no charge. I'll never purchase another ford product in my life, and I unfortunately currently own five.

Filed Jan 15, 2004 · Brakes, Steering · AL

I replaced the alternator last summer and I had to replace it again this summer. I had to replace my tail lights twice the brakes is always giving me problems. The window on the drivers side doesnt roll down. When it rain the floors get wet. I have a hard time putting it into gear and taking it out of gear. It stalls to cut on and drives really rough.I had to replace the tires numerous times.the speedometer went out and the temperture gauge as well.the AC dosent work and it takes a while for the heat to warm up car.something need to be done about this.

Filed Jan 15, 2004 · Engine · 28,000 miles · OH

While driving at any speed, the vehicle stalled in traffic. The vehicle is currently at the dealer. The mechanic was unable to determine or duplicate the problem. *jb the consumer talked to another consumer who experienced the same problem and the problem was with the module that controlled the computer module (possibly the ignition module) and a flight recorder was added and found the intermittent problem. (the problem hadn't been experience since per the consumer who experienced this same problem, not the consumer of this letter)

Filed Dec 9, 2003 · Engine · 134,000 miles · 00

Vehicle stalled intermittently. When this occurred steering and brakes locked up.

Filed Dec 8, 2003 · Electrical · OH

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.

Filed Oct 29, 2003 · Acceleration, Fuel system · 36,000 miles · MS

When depressing the accelerator pedal vehicle hesitated and stalled. Took vehicle to dealer, and dealer informed consumer that the problem was the fuel pump. However, that part was not covered under a recall.