NHTSA Safety Recalls
2008 Mercury Milan Recalls
The 2008 Mercury Milan has 5 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on March 10, 2021.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2008 Mercury Milan. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 5
- Owner complaints
- 451
- Crashes reported
- 22
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2008 Mercury Milan, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
5 recalls on the 2008 Mercury Milan
Air bags: frontal: driver side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 21V158000
- Reported
- March 10, 2021
- Vehicles affected
- up to 2,602,668
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2006–2007, 2009–2011 Milan, 6 other models
Service brakes, hydraulic: antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip: control unit/module
- Campaign
- 19V904000
- Reported
- December 18, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 600,166
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2006–2007, 2009–2010 Milan, 3 other models
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 17V024000
- Reported
- January 10, 2017
- Vehicles affected
- up to 654,695
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- NHTSA advisory
- do not drive until repaired
- Same campaign
- also 2006–2007, 2009 Milan, 8 other models
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 16V384000
- Reported
- May 31, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,892,343
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- NHTSA advisory
- do not drive until repaired
- Same campaign
- also 2006–2007, 2009–2011 Milan, 8 other models
Equipment
- Campaign
- 14E028000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2006–2007, 2009–2011 Milan, 3 other models
2008 Mercury Milan complaints by year
NHTSA has received 451 owner complaints about the 2008 Mercury Milan, the newest on April 16, 2025. Of these, 22 describe a crash (5%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 8 injuries and 1 death.
In complaints about the 2008 Mercury Milan, the component group named most often is the air bags (47%), followed by the service brakes (39%) and the vehicle speed control (4%).
3 of the 2008 Mercury Milan's 5 recalls also concern the air bags.
Where 2008 Mercury Milan owners gave the mileage (252 complaints), the median was 91,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags211
- Service Brakes178
- Vehicle Speed Control19
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic18
- Power Train17
- Engine12
Complaints received, by year
| 2008 | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1 | |
| 2010 | 7 | |
| 2011 | 6 | |
| 2012 | 2 | |
| 2013 | 10 | |
| 2014 | 18 | |
| 2015 | 19 | |
| 2016 | 52 | |
| 2017 | 175 | |
| 2018 | 80 | |
| 2019 | 16 | |
| 2020 | 29 | |
| 2021 | 20 | |
| 2022 | 7 | |
| 2023 | 3 | |
| 2024 | 1 | |
| 2025 | 2 |
Complaints about the 2008 Mercury Milan peaked in 2017, when NHTSA received 175. 4% arrived between 2007 and 2011, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2008 vehicles, the 2008 Mercury Milan drew 0.9× the complaints of the median Mercury Milan year in the same window: 5th highest of the 5 ranked years.
That makes 2008 one of the three best-measured Mercury Milan years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 5/5
The 451 complaints about the 2008 Mercury Milan are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Milan by model year
Other 2008 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: April 16, 2025. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted