1998 Mercury Villager — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 98 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Speed control & accelerator14 (14.3%)
• Body & structure12 (12.2%)
• Brakes11 (11.2%)
• Suspension9 (9.2%)
• Fuel system8 (8.2%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 1995–1999.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)8 (8.2%)

Other / uncategorized: 2 classifications (2.0%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (2,114 records, model years 1995–2002) are most frequently classified under: speed control & accelerator, fuel system and brakes.
• Manufacturer communications (1,016 records, model years 1995–2002) are most frequently classified under: body & structure, powertrain (transmission & drivetrain) and visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors).

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1995 500 records for 1995 500
2. 1996 333 records for 1996 333
3. 1997 262 records for 1997 262
4. 1998 161 records for 1998 161
5. 1999 308 records for 1999 308
6. 2000 149 records for 2000 149
7. 2001 54 records for 2001 54
8. 2002 45 records for 2002 45

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 11mention a crash
• 4mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 2
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 73
• Investigations NHTSA 1
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 2
• Owner complaints NHTSA 83

Explore the underlying evidence records