Is This A Lemon?

Year · Make · Model

1985 Mercury Cougar

What the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knows about this vehicle: every recall, every consumer complaint, every defect investigation, every NCAP crash test. Sourced directly from NHTSA data feeds.

1
Open recalls
10
NHTSA complaints
1
Defect investigations
17
Service bulletins

Consumer complaints

10 filed
0
Crashes
1
Fires
1
Injuries reported
0
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • Electrical SYSTEM:IGNITION:SWITCH
    4
  • Vehicle Speed Control
    2
  • Engine AND Engine COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE
    1
  • Electrical SYSTEM:STARTER Assembly
    1
  • Seat BELTS:FRONT:BUCKLE Assembly
    1
  • STRUCTURE:BODY
    1
  • Tires
    1
  • Electrical SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY:SOLENOID
    1

Recalls

1 campaign
85V025000·SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER1985-03-11

BRAKE MASTER CYLINDERS MAY HAVE IMPROPERLY ANODIZED INTERNAL SURFACES CAUSING ACCELERATED WEAR OF A PISTON SEAL. CONSEQUENCE OF DEFECT: ONE PORTION OF THE SPLIT BRAKE SYSTEM WOULD BECOME INEFFECTIVE RESULTING IN INCREASED STOPPING DISTANCE WHICH MAY CAUSE AN ACCIDENT. DRIVER WOULD BE WARNED BY INCREASED PEDAL TRAVEL AND THE BRAKE WARNING LIGHT.

FixMASTER CYLINDERS BUILT ON JANUARY 9, 1985 WILL BE REPLACED.

NHTSA investigations

1 action
EA86010·SEATS1986-03-26 → 1989-07-28

SEATBACK FAILURE

Led to recall86V082000

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