Mercury Marauder
Registered in 2004.
About this model
The Mercury Marauder is an automobile nameplate that was used for three distinct full-size cars produced by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company. Deriving its name from the most powerful engines available to the Mercury line, the Marauder was marketed as the highest-performance version of the full-size product range.
From the Wikipedia article Mercury Marauder, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crash test
| Stability control | No |
| Forward collision warning | No |
| Lane departure warning | No |
Crash-tested by NHTSA, the American road safety agency.
Specification
| Year | Measured |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 13.8 L/100km (EPA) · 15.7 L/100km city · 11.2 motorway |
Regulator investigations
Opened by NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation is a question the regulator asked about a possible defect, not a fault it found — most end without a recall.
Steering Column Shaft Obstruction
Preliminary evaluation, opened July 2014, closed November 2014.
What the maker told its dealers
Service bulletins are the manufacturer's own repair guidance to dealers, filed with NHTSA. A bulletin is not a defect finding; the count rises with how many things a maker writes down, not only with how many go wrong.
Mercury filed 4 bulletins about the 2004 Marauder.
- Engine and engine cooling: 1
- Service brakes, hydraulic: 1
- Structure: 1
- Suspension: 1
- Some 2000 and newer Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles equipped with aluminum body panels may exhibit corrosion concerns appearing as bubbled and/or peeling paint with or without accompanying white… · April 2019
- Engine misfire with diagnostic trouble code (dtc) pewee, p0302, p0303, p0304, p0305, p0306, p0307, p0308, and p0316. *tt · May 2006
- Cosmetic cracking of lower control arm bushing sleeve. *mj · July 2004
- Anti-lock brake system (abs) light on with diagnostic trouble code (dtc) c1222 (speed wheel mismatch). *tt · June 2004
Grouped by NHTSA's top-level system; a bulletin filed under a sub-heading counts toward its system.