NHTSA Safety Recalls
2008 Mercury Mountaineer Recalls
The 2008 Mercury Mountaineer has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on September 26, 2007.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2008 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
- 96
- Crashes reported
- 3
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2008 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 2008 Mercury Mountaineer
Power train: automatic transmission: cooling unit and lines
- Campaign
- 07V453000
- Reported
- September 26, 2007
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,497
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2 other models
Visibility: glass, side/rear
- Campaign
- 07E104000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2002–2007 Mountaineer, 9 other models
2008 Mercury Mountaineer complaints by year
NHTSA has received 96 owner complaints about the 2008 Mercury Mountaineer, the newest on September 3, 2025. Of these, 3 describe a crash (3%).
In complaints about the 2008 Mercury Mountaineer, the component group named most often is the seats (56%), followed by the electrical system (41%) and the power train (9%).
1 of the 2008 Mercury Mountaineer's 2 recalls also concerns the power train.
Where 2008 Mercury Mountaineer owners gave the mileage (81 complaints), the median was 66,600 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Seats54
- Electrical System39
- Power Train9
- Engine6
- Exterior Lighting6
- Unknown Or Other5
Complaints received, by year
| 2008 | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 2 | |
| 2010 | 5 | |
| 2011 | 6 | |
| 2012 | 10 | |
| 2013 | 15 | |
| 2014 | 16 | |
| 2015 | 5 | |
| 2016 | 15 | |
| 2017 | 4 | |
| 2018 | 2 | |
| 2019 | 4 | |
| 2020 | 7 | |
| 2021 | 1 | |
| 2025 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2008 Mercury Mountaineer peaked in 2014, when NHTSA received 16. 17% 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 Mountaineer drew 0.5× the complaints of the median Mercury Mountaineer year in the same window: 7th highest of the 9 ranked years.
That makes 2008 one of the three best-measured Mercury Mountaineer years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 3/5
The 96 complaints about the 2008 Mercury Mountaineer are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Mountaineer by model year
Other 2008 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: September 3, 2025. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted