Mercury Montego
Registered from 2005 to 2007.
About this model
The Mercury Montego is a nameplate that was applied to three separate generations of vehicles marketed by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company. Taking its name from Montego Bay, Jamaica, the nameplate made its first appearance for 1967 in the Canadian market as part of the Mercury-derived Meteor model line. For 1968, the Mercury Montego made its debut across North America, becoming the Mercury counterpart of the Ford Torino intermediate-size model line for two generations.
From the Wikipedia article Mercury Montego, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crash test
| Rollover | ★★★★☆ |
| Stability control | No |
| Forward collision warning | No |
| Lane departure warning | No |
Crash-tested by NHTSA, the American road safety agency.
Specification
| Year | Measured |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 12.4 L/100km (EPA) · 13.8 L/100km city · 10.2 motorway |
| 2006 | 11.8 L/100km (EPA) · 13.1 L/100km city · 9.4 motorway |
| 2005 | 11.8 L/100km (EPA) · 13.1 L/100km city · 9.4 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.
Idle instability
Preliminary evaluation, opened May 2011, closed February 2013.
Tire valve cracking
Preliminary evaluation, opened October 2008, closed April 2009.
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 8 bulletins about the 2007 Montego.
- Engine and engine cooling: 2
- Service brakes, hydraulic: 2
- Electrical system: 1
- Engine: 1
- Power train: 1
- Service brakes, air: 1
- The Powertrain Control/Emissions Diagnosis (PC/ED) manual has been revised for diagnosing electronic throttle bodies (ETBs). The ETC_ACT and ETC_DSD PIDs should not used to diagnose possible ETB… · August 2017
- Ford: see document search button for owner letter. momentary engine idle rpm surge may be intermittent and may occur, due to deposits buildup in throttle body, at low speeds, while parking or… · April 2013
- Traction control lamp on--no dtc's present, or dtc p1889 in differential electronic module (dem). *nj · May 2008
- Ford mercury service campaign: see document search button for owner letter. certain 2005 through 2007 fwd and awd ford five hundred, freestyle and mercury montego vehicles - rear brake wear. also… · November 2007
- Mil with dtc p0106 and/or p0109. *kb · July 2007
- Rear brake drag, noise, dust, and/or premature pad wear. *kb · April 2007
- Transmission shifter binding / high effort bezel replacement. *kb · March 2007
- Fuel gauge erratic/inaccurate and/or mil on with dtc p0463, b1202, b2627, b2879, and/or p2068. *kb · February 2007
Grouped by NHTSA's top-level system; a bulletin filed under a sub-heading counts toward its system.