Three problems related to equipment have been reported for the 1999 Mercury Cougar. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
1999 Cougar battery connection problems or something faulty. Sometimes while I'm driving my car just goes dead. It's done that a lot lately. I now have a new battery but the same thing happens and I'm scared when it happens on the freeway . Tonight I was driving on the freeway and it went dead! I had no lights , I had no tail lights,no head lights ,no blinkers and no emergency lights and the car close behind me had to slam on breaks cause there was no emergency lane, no side of the road just a guard rail! I was in the middle of the road . Brand new battery just goes dead like it did many times on the older battery it's not the alternator either. . . Something is not making a connection. I'm gonna end up squashed, dead cause on a freeway at night when the car dies everything dies: lights,tail lights and emergency lights if im in the dark no one would see me in time to stop if im in the middle of the road.
I have always had my car washed and rust proofed during the winter ever 2 weeks. Last December the paint under the bottom of both the drivers and passenger doors started having the paint bubble up on both rocker panels. It started bubbling up then curling and the pain started coming off. Ive seen many other Cougars with this same problem and feel it is due to a defect in the paint that was used or something missing from the paint job that was done.
Exterior lights not working ,replaced brand new and shut off again causing car to lock itself in park.