Mercury Monterey

Owners filed 453 complaints across 4 model years of the Mercury Monterey. The 2004 drew the most (283); the 2007 the fewest (7).

Model years4

Complaints453

Recalls14

Fires6

Deaths0

Every Mercury Monterey model year compared

Complaints per year

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Crashes	Most reported	Status
2007	7	2	—	—	Power Train	Routine
2006	44	3	—	—	Power Train	Routine
2005	119	4	—	2	Power Train › Automatic Transmission	Routine
2004	283	5	6	2	Power Train › Automatic Transmission	Above average

Which Mercury Monterey years should you avoid?

On raw complaint volume the 2004 is the weakest year on record, with 283 complaints concentrated in the power train › automatic transmission. It carries 5 recalls.

Read these numbers with sales volume in mind. A model year that sold in huge numbers naturally accumulates more reports than a rare one, and older cars have had more years to fail. The stronger signal is the severity columns and whether the same component keeps coming up year after year.

Data: NHTSA complaint and recall files, September 2026. Complaints are unverified owner reports.