NHTSA Safety Recalls
2006 Mercury Mountaineer Recalls
The 2006 Mercury Mountaineer has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on November 9, 2005.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2006 Mercury Mountaineer. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 117
- Crashes reported
- 6
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
2 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2006 Mercury Mountaineer, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer
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
Visibility: glass, side/rear
- Campaign
- 07E104000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2002–2005, 2007–2008 Mountaineer, 9 other models
2006 Mercury Mountaineer complaints by year
NHTSA has received 117 owner complaints about the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer, the newest on December 27, 2022. Of these, 6 describe a crash (5%) and 2 a fire; owners reported 7 injuries.
In complaints about the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer, the component group named most often is the engine and engine cooling (37%), followed by the power train (33%) and the engine (12%).
None of the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer's 2 recalls concerns the engine and engine cooling.
Where 2006 Mercury Mountaineer owners gave the mileage (94 complaints), the median was 58,753 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Engine And Engine Cooling43
- Power Train39
- Engine14
- Electrical System9
- Unknown Or Other9
- Structure7
Complaints received, by year
| 2006 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | |
| 2008 | 9 | |
| 2009 | 12 | |
| 2010 | 12 | |
| 2011 | 24 | |
| 2012 | 10 | |
| 2013 | 8 | |
| 2014 | 7 | |
| 2015 | 9 | |
| 2016 | 6 | |
| 2017 | 2 | |
| 2018 | 2 | |
| 2019 | 2 | |
| 2021 | 3 | |
| 2022 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer peaked in 2011, when NHTSA received 24. 26% 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 Mountaineer drew 1.0× the complaints of the median Mercury Mountaineer year in the same window: 5th highest of the 9 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 3/5
The 117 complaints about the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Mountaineer by model year
Other 2006 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: December 27, 2022. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted