1990 Mercury Marquis

Routine

Owners filed 6 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags › frontal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports	Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Vehicle Speed Control	1	1	0	1
Fuel System, Gasoline › Delivery › Hoses, Lines/Piping, and Fittings	1	0	0	0
Fuel System, Gasoline › Delivery › Fuel Pump	1	0	1	0
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline	1	0	1	0
Electrical System › Wiring	1	0	1	0
Air Bags › Frontal	1	1	0	1

What owners reported

Newest filings

Electrical System › WiringFire

Filed Jul 26, 2000IL

WHILE DRIVING COULD SEE SMOKE COMING FROM THE TRUNK AND THE VEHICLE WILL SHUT OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. AFTER CHECKING WITH TECHNICIAN IT WAS ESTABLISHED THAT IT WAS AN ELECTRICAL SYSTEM PROBLEM. *AK WIRING IN TRUNK TO GAS SHUT OFF SWITCH AND WIRING INTO BULK HEAD TO FUEL PUMP BURST INTO FLAMES AND BURNED. THE DRIVER QUICKLY DISCONNECTED BATTERY AND SHUT OFF SOURCE OF POWER TO WIRING FOR SAFETY PURPOSE. THE CAUSE WAS LATER FOUND TO BE FAULTY INSERT MOLDING OF WIRES, BOTH HOT AND COLD SHORTING TOGETHER. *YH

Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › GasolineFire

Filed Sep 30, 1996NY

VEHICLE FIRE.

Air Bags › FrontalCrash1 injured

Filed Feb 26, 1996NJ

FRONTAL COLLISION IMPACT 12:00, POSITION SPEED 55 MPH, DRIVER SIDE AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY. *AK

Vehicle Speed ControlCrash1 injured

Filed Aug 31, 1995NJ

PUT VEHICLE IN REVERSE AND IT ACCELERATED ABOUT 100 MPH AND RAN INTO A HOUSE

Fuel System, Gasoline › Delivery › Hoses, Lines/Piping, and Fittings

Filed Apr 26, 1995NY

LOCATION OF FUEL LINE RESULTS IN INTERFERENCE ALSO DEVELOPS BURNING SMELL. TT

Fuel System, Gasoline › Delivery › Fuel PumpFire

Filed Feb 15, 1995VA

FUEL PUMPWIRING HOUSING SHORTED OUT, CAUSING A FIRE. TT

6 of 6 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1997

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Assessment
2004	12	0	0	Routine
2003	33	0	1	Routine
2002	11	0	0	Routine
2001	26	0	0	Routine
2000	23	0	0	Routine
1999	24	0	1	Routine
1998	29	0	0	Routine
1997	53	1	3	Routine
1996	31	0	1	Routine
1995	20	0	0	Routine
1994	30	0	7	Routine
1993	23	0	4	Routine
1992	24	0	3	Routine
1991	9	0	3	Routine
1990 — this page	6	0	3	Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.