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2 recalls affect this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.
Ford is recalling 2004-2007 Freestar and Mercury Monterey vehicles because the third-row seat may not latch properly due to corrosion, increasing injury risk in a rear-end crash.
Ford is recalling 2004-2005 Freestar and Mercury Monterey vehicles because a torque converter output shaft may fail, causing sudden loss of motive power and increasing crash risk.
Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.
Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.
Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.
45 manufacturer service bulletins across 3 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.
This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.
Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.