1991 Mercury Marquis

Routine

Owners filed 9 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the electrical system › alternator/generator/regulator. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Electrical System › Alternator/Generator/Regulator2
020
Vehicle Speed Control › Cables1
001
Vehicle Speed Control1
000
Steering › Steering Wheel/Handle Bar1
101
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation Components › Hoses, Lines/Piping, and Fittings1
000
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation Components1
000
Electrical System1
010
Air Bags › Frontal1
001

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical SystemFire
Filed Apr 30, 2004LA

WHILE VEHICLE WAS PARKED, IT CAUGHT ON FIRE WITHOUT WARNING. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT EXTINGUISHED THE FIRE, AND VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE DEALER FOR INSPECTION. THE CAUSE HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED AT THIS TIME. *LA

Air Bags › Frontal1 injured
Filed Mar 11, 200300

THE DRIVER SIDE AIR BAG DEPLOYED WITHOUT IMPACT AND CAUSED INJURIES TO THE CONSUMER.*JB THE DRIVER SIDE AIR BAG DEPLOYED WITHOUT IMPACT AND CAUSED INJURIES TO THE CONSUMER. *MR

Vehicle Speed Control
Filed Mar 12, 1999OH

WHILE VEHICLE WAS PARKED IN DRIVEWAY CONSUMER CHANGED GEAR TO REVERSE AND VEHICLE ACCELERATED FOR UNKNOWN REASON. DEALER/ MANUFACTURER WERE NOT NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME. SEEKING HELP IN THIS MATTER FORM NHTSA . ALSO VEHICLE IS EQUIPPED WITH CRUSIE CONTROL. *AK

Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation Components › Hoses, Lines/Piping, and Fittings
Filed Feb 20, 1999UT

REAR BRAKE LINE PUNCTURED DUE TO CONTACT WITH OR AGAINST BODY WELD SEAM DIRECTLY UNDER MASTER CYLINDER NEAR FOOT WELL. *AK

Vehicle Speed Control › Cables1 injured
Filed Jun 3, 1998MA

ACCELERATOR CABLE JAMMED, CAUSING THREE CASES OF SUDDEN ACCELERATION/LOSS OF CONTROL/ACCIDENT/INJURY.

Electrical System › Alternator/Generator/RegulatorFire
Filed Dec 16, 1997TX

THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED OUT IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE AND NEIGHBOR NOTICED THAT SMOKE WAS COMING FROM UNDERNEATH THE HOOD OF THE VEHCILE, RAISED THE HOOD UP AND EVERYTHING HAD BURNED UP UNDER THE HOOD. VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A DEALER, WAS TOLD THAT THE ALTERNATOR HAD CAUSED THE FIRE. *AK

Steering › Steering Wheel/Handle BarCrash1 injured
Filed Oct 7, 1996CO

DIRIVNG AT SPEED 30MPH, TRIED TO MAKE A RIGHT TURN STEERING WHEEL LOCKED UP, CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO ROLL OVER. *AK CONSUMER STATES THE SEAT BROKE IN THE ACCIDENT, HOWEVER SEATBELT HELD HER IN, CONSUMER WAS INJURED IN ACCIDENT. *SLC

Electrical System › Alternator/Generator/RegulatorFire
Filed Jul 2, 1996FL

ALTERNATOR BURNED OUT, CAUSED STALLING AND LOSS OF POWER STEERING. *AK

Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation Components
Filed Nov 7, 1995MA

BRAKING PROBLEMS. TT THE VEHICLE ACCELERATED DID NOT STOP WHEN BRAKES WERE APPLIED. THE DEALER REPAIRED THE VEHICLE BUT CONSUMER WAS NOT CONFIDENT IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. *YH

9 of 9 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1997
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
200412000Routine
200333010Routine
200211000Routine
200126000Routine
200023000Routine
199924010Routine
199829000Routine
199753130Routine
199631010Routine
199520000Routine
199430070Routine
199323040Routine
199224030Routine
1991 — this page9030Routine
19906030Routine

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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.