NHTSA Safety Recalls
2001 Mercury Grand Marquis Recalls
The 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis has 5 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on July 16, 2001.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 5
- Owner complaints
- 157
- Crashes reported
- 26
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
3 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
5 recalls on the 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis
Seat belts: front: buckle assembly
- Campaign
- 01V227001
- Reported
- July 16, 2001
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,400,000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 12 other models
Air bags: frontal: sensor/control module-inactive
- Campaign
- 00V412000
- Reported
- December 6, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 16,000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 3 other models
Air bags
- Campaign
- 00V270000
- Reported
- September 13, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 18,500
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury
- Same campaign
- also 3 other models
Fuel system, gasoline
- Campaign
- 06E056000
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2000, 2002–2006 Grand Marquis, 24 other models
Steering
- Campaign
- 15E082000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2000, 2002 Grand Marquis, 2 other models
2001 Mercury Grand Marquis complaints by year
NHTSA has received 157 owner complaints about the 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis, the newest on January 26, 2023. Of these, 26 describe a crash (17%) and 3 a fire; owners reported 20 injuries and 2 deaths.
In complaints about the 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis, the component group named most often is the vehicle speed control (17%), followed by the seat belts (15%) and the engine and engine cooling (13%).
1 of the 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis's 5 recalls also concerns the seat belts.
Where 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis owners gave the mileage (86 complaints), the median was 70,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Vehicle Speed Control27
- Seat Belts23
- Engine And Engine Cooling20
- Air Bags19
- Electrical System13
- Power Train13
Complaints received, by year
| 2000 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 22 | |
| 2002 | 24 | |
| 2003 | 16 | |
| 2004 | 14 | |
| 2005 | 9 | |
| 2006 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 3 | |
| 2008 | 7 | |
| 2009 | 7 | |
| 2010 | 7 | |
| 2011 | 2 | |
| 2012 | 1 | |
| 2013 | 4 | |
| 2014 | 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | |
| 2016 | 4 | |
| 2017 | 5 | |
| 2018 | 5 | |
| 2019 | 4 | |
| 2020 | 4 | |
| 2021 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 4 | |
| 2023 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis peaked in 2002, when NHTSA received 24. 49% arrived between 2000 and 2004, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2001 vehicles, the 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis drew 1.5× the complaints of the median Mercury Grand Marquis year in the same window: 1st highest of the 10 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 4/5
The 157 complaints about the 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Grand Marquis by model year
Other 2001 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: January 26, 2023. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted