NHTSA Safety Recalls
2005 Mercury Mountaineer Recalls
The 2005 Mercury Mountaineer has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2005 Mercury Mountaineer. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 82
- Crashes reported
- 6
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2005 Mercury Mountaineer, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2005 Mercury Mountaineer
Visibility: glass, side/rear
- Campaign
- 07E104000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2002–2004, 2006–2008 Mountaineer, 9 other models
2005 Mercury Mountaineer complaints by year
NHTSA has received 82 owner complaints about the 2005 Mercury Mountaineer, the newest on August 17, 2023. Of these, 6 describe a crash (7%); owners reported 1 injury.
In complaints about the 2005 Mercury Mountaineer, the component group named most often is the structure (32%), followed by the power train (23%) and the vehicle speed control (16%).
The 2005 Mercury Mountaineer's only recall does not concern the structure.
Where 2005 Mercury Mountaineer owners gave the mileage (69 complaints), the median was 56,750 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Structure26
- Power Train19
- Vehicle Speed Control13
- Engine7
- Electrical System5
- Engine And Engine Cooling5
Complaints received, by year
| 2005 | 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | |
| 2007 | 5 | |
| 2008 | 8 | |
| 2009 | 10 | |
| 2010 | 10 | |
| 2011 | 8 | |
| 2012 | 4 | |
| 2013 | 3 | |
| 2014 | 6 | |
| 2015 | 7 | |
| 2016 | 5 | |
| 2017 | 1 | |
| 2018 | 4 | |
| 2019 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 3 |
Complaints about the 2005 Mercury Mountaineer peaked in 2009, when NHTSA received 10. 22% arrived between 2004 and 2008, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2005 vehicles, the 2005 Mercury Mountaineer drew 0.6× the complaints of the median Mercury Mountaineer year in the same window: 6th highest of the 9 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
The 82 complaints about the 2005 Mercury Mountaineer are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Mountaineer by model year
Other 2005 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: August 17, 2023. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted