Motor seat belt would stick midway and lock up, and would continue to run, leaving occupant unrestrained . Dealer and manufacturer were not notified at this time.
Mercury Tracer seat belt problems
15 of the 528 owner complaints about the Mercury Tracer describe seat belt won't latch or retract, most of them for the 1995 model year.
- owner complaints
- 15
- worst model year
- 1995
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
By model year
- 19974
- 19955
- 19943
- 19931
- 19921
- 19911
Often reported together
What owners say
Automatic driver's side seat belt hesitates to release and retracts after entering car.*ak
Automatic seatbelt stuck in forward position.
Driver's seatbelt stuck midway in overhead track. *ak the track was replaced.
Driver's seatbelt stuck in overhead track. Also, airbag cover looked like it was ready to pop off, and airbag light came on/off. *ak the dealer replaced the track and checked the air bag.
Driver's seat belt failed to operate properly. Belt would stop the middle of track, leaving driver without proper retraint. Also, passenger's seat belt would intermittently stop operating. Dealer notified, and informed consumer that repairs would be done only at consumer's cost because this vehicle was not covered under a manufacturer's recall.
Front driver's side seatbelt keeps getting stuck, and would lock consumer in seat. Also rear driver's side seatbelt buckle will not latch. Vehicle has been taken to dealer, but dealer will not fix it.
While driving at 35mph a deer was on the road. Consumer attempted to avoid hitting the deer and lost control of vehicle, and hit a tree. Consumer went to unhook seat belt to get out of the car, and heard vehicle running. Leaned back to cut it off, and seat belt came outof buckle and knocke driver out. Also air back sensor light came on, indicating that air bags were inoperative. Driver suffered injuries, was hospitalized.
When trying to apply the seat belt buckle the seat belt broke.dealer was contacted and stated that they would fix the seat belt at owner's cost.
Steering, shimmering like the front end was out of line, service engine soon light came on and went off 2 times third time went to dixie and set up to have it check since the light stayed on this time and did not go back off. Seatbelt, will not latch at times I have to keep trying to press in the release button for it to finally lock. At times would come off while driving. Dixie set up an appointment 1 week after I went there to have all of the above checked.date dixie motors looked at car july 24,1998. Keeped car about 7 hrs. Told me they cleaned seatbelt, did not tell me what was wrong with sterring and the only thing fixed was service engine light. On july 30,1998 3 days after bringing my car in to be fix the steering grab to right coming out of curve and seatbelt came off when the car hit a pole. Injuring my arm,neck and lower back. All have healed except my arm. Call a ford repersentive they had the claim divions call me. I went to brumfield ford in amite since I do not trust the dixie motor. Mr raff called dixie motors last week they told him I have never brought my car in to be service. I showed mr. Raff the workorder paper 42094 customer#35145, he did not understand why they said I did not bring the car there. I do not know what to do anymore, I have a new car I'm afraid to drive please help. Thank you janelle negrotto( dot number: ap7jjkuu tire size: p185/65r14 )
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the Mercury Tracer seat belt
Which Mercury Tracer years have seat belt won't latch or retract problems?
The model years with the most reports are 1995 (5 complaints), 1997 (4 complaints) and 1994 (3 complaints).
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