NHTSA Safety Recalls
2000 Mercury Villager Recalls
The 2000 Mercury Villager has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on October 10, 2000.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2000 Mercury Villager. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 71
- Crashes reported
- 8
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2000 Mercury Villager, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2000 Mercury Villager
Steering: rack and pinion
- Campaign
- 00V292001
- Reported
- October 10, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 67,200
- Same campaign
- only the 2000 Mercury Villager
Seat belts
- Campaign
- 00V228001
- Reported
- August 18, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 144,435
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Federal standard
- FMVSS 209, seat belt assemblies
- Same campaign
- also 9 other models
2000 Mercury Villager complaints by year
NHTSA has received 71 owner complaints about the 2000 Mercury Villager, the newest on January 27, 2015. Of these, 8 describe a crash (11%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 11 injuries.
In complaints about the 2000 Mercury Villager, the component group named most often is the vehicle speed control (55%), followed by the service brakes, hydraulic (10%) and the seat belts (8%).
1 of the 2000 Mercury Villager's 2 recalls also concerns the seat belts.
Where 2000 Mercury Villager owners gave the mileage (38 complaints), the median was 40,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Vehicle Speed Control39
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic7
- Seat Belts6
- Air Bags5
- Structure5
- Seats4
Complaints received, by year
| 2000 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | |
| 2002 | 7 | |
| 2003 | 13 | |
| 2004 | 11 | |
| 2005 | 11 | |
| 2006 | 7 | |
| 2007 | 4 | |
| 2008 | 2 | |
| 2009 | 1 | |
| 2010 | 1 | |
| 2015 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2000 Mercury Villager peaked in 2003, when NHTSA received 13. 46% arrived between 1999 and 2003, the model year's first years on the road.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
The 71 complaints about the 2000 Mercury Villager are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Villager by model year
Other 2000 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: January 27, 2015. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted