The Recall Desk

Vehicle

Mercury Montego

1 recall affects this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

1–1 of 1

NHTSA crash-test safety rating

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.

  • 2007Not rated by NHTSA

    2 trims tested for 2007; overall ratings can differ by trim.

    View on NHTSA.gov

Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.

Wider context for this vehicle

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.

Complaint clusters with no matching recall

  • 2005 · powertrain — 43 complaints, median 60,000 mi
  • 2006 · powertrain — 26 complaints, median 80,000 mi
  • 2005 · electrical — 20 complaints, median 90,000 mi
    Includes 2 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.

Technical service bulletins

55 manufacturer service bulletins across 3 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

  • 2007: 4.0/5 · 36 complaints · most complained-of: cruise-control
  • 2006: 3.9/5 · 85 complaints · most complained-of: powertrain
  • 2005: 3.7/5 · 135 complaints · most complained-of: powertrain

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.

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