NHTSA Safety Recalls
2006 Mercury Mariner Recalls
The 2006 Mercury Mariner has 4 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on September 29, 2015.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2006 Mercury Mariner. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 4
- Owner complaints
- 63
- Crashes reported
- 5
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2006 Mercury Mariner, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
4 recalls on the 2006 Mercury Mariner
Power train: automatic transmission: lever and linkage: floor shift
- Campaign
- 15V606000
- Reported
- September 29, 2015
- Vehicles affected
- up to 57
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury
- Same campaign
- also 2005, 2007–2008 Mariner, 1 other model
Hybrid propulsion system
- Campaign
- 14V526000
- Reported
- September 3, 2014
- Vehicles affected
- up to 70,209
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2007–2008 Mariner, 1 other model
Visibility: windshield wiper/washer: motor
- Campaign
- 05V520000
- Reported
- November 9, 2005
- Vehicles affected
- up to 199,942
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 12 other models
Suspension: front: wheel bearing
- Campaign
- 15E045000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2005, 2007–2011 Mariner, 2 other models
2006 Mercury Mariner complaints by year
NHTSA has received 63 owner complaints about the 2006 Mercury Mariner, the newest on November 14, 2022. Of these, 5 describe a crash (8%); owners reported 4 injuries.
In complaints about the 2006 Mercury Mariner, the component group named most often is the vehicle speed control (21%), followed by the power train (17%) and the steering (14%).
1 of the 2006 Mercury Mariner's 4 recalls also concerns the power train.
Where 2006 Mercury Mariner owners gave the mileage (53 complaints), the median was 82,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Vehicle Speed Control13
- Power Train11
- Steering9
- Engine8
- Suspension8
- Structure5
Complaints received, by year
| 2006 | 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | |
| 2008 | 4 | |
| 2010 | 3 | |
| 2011 | 3 | |
| 2012 | 7 | |
| 2013 | 8 | |
| 2014 | 9 | |
| 2015 | 5 | |
| 2016 | 3 | |
| 2017 | 3 | |
| 2018 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 4 | |
| 2021 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2006 Mercury Mariner peaked in 2014, when NHTSA received 9. 21% arrived between 2005 and 2009, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2006 vehicles, the 2006 Mercury Mariner drew 0.4× the complaints of the median Mercury Mariner year in the same window: 6th highest of the 6 ranked years.
That makes 2006 one of the three best-measured Mercury Mariner years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 3/5
The 63 complaints about the 2006 Mercury Mariner are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Mariner by model year
Other 2006 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: November 14, 2022. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted