Engine Cooling System Problems of Mercury Cougar

The contact owns a 2002 Mercury Cougar. The contact stated that the vehicle would often fail to accelerate and increase in rpm's. In addition, the vehicle would frequently stall. Once the vehicle was turned off, it would restart immediately. The contact took the vehicle to a local mechanic because the warranty was no longer valid. The mechanic diagnosed the cause of the failure as a faulty fuel injector. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure still persists. The manufacturer stated that the VIN was not included in NHTSA campaign id number 04v421000 (fuel system, gasoline), although the failures were identical. The manufacturer was unable to provide assistance. The failure mileage was 60,000 and current mileage was 98,000.

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I was driving and saw my low coolant light was on. Pulled into car parts company parking lot. Opened hood saw coolant on top of motor and underside of hood. Coolant was leaking from front of the intake manifold. Upon inspection realized the manifold is made of plastic. I attempted to stop the leak with plastic repair and a coolant system repair, no use. Had to limp the car to zender Ford in spruce grove, alberta. They are fixing the car at an estimated cost of $900. 00 no warranty or recall. Left me stranded 400 km's from my home.

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1997 Mercury Cougar developed a cracked manifold. ** answer required***. A recall was issued for 1996 and 1997 Mercury Cougars but the consumer's vehicle was not included due to VIN.

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I just purchased vehicle from used car lot. During my 3 mile trip home the car over heated and water vapor was coming in through air conditioning vents. When I stopped at my home, I could see steam coming from inside engine. When I opened the hood, I found that there was crack in a plastic part coming directly off of the engine block to a coolant hose. I went to several auto parts stores to identify the part and found it was a crack in the intake manifold water cross-over jacket causing coolant leak. The stores did not carry a replacement, so I called the Ford dealership. Ford does have a replacement part, actually they redesigned the whole intake manifold because of their poor design error. They also had extended the car warranty to 7 years to replace this part if/when failure occurs. The Ford replacement is an assembly, not part just the problem part, it costs $589. 17 and dealer installation of it costs $450. 00. Ford would not assist or give at all on the 7 year warranty extension to fix their obvious design flaw in the part and/or the whole assembly. Through on-line newgroups about this problem, junkyards cannot keep the old plastic part in their yards. I love the Cougar xr7 v8, but beware if this part hasn't been fixed with the new one, that you will at some point have to fix it.

For no reason at all antifreeze started leaking from the plastic intake manifold in my 1997 Cougar with a 4. 6l motor. I searched the web and learned that this is a common problem and Ford extended the warranty on some plastic intake manifolds. Found all info I could and copied it for the local Mercury dealer to repair under warranty. Dropped it off for service, only to get a call that my VIN was not one that was awarded the extended 7 year warranty, even though the length of time we owned this Cougar fit the time criteria. Im really disappointed in Ford that they are not covering all of their plastic junk manifolds. I called the 800 number for complaints, but the man said I am sorry I can not help you, but I will type your info in our database. So I am no spending $900. 00 to repair a car with 82k miles on it for something I would not have expected to have trouble with. To prove that they know there is a problem, they now replace the original manifold with a new part number, and design. They admit it was a bad deal, but still will not help me. I told them that while they were typing my complaint, also type that this is my last Ford, and also my families last Ford. It's a sad testament for the USA workers. Henry Ford would not be pleased. Thank you, keith korhely.

The low coolant warninging light came on and the smell of antifreeze came into the vehicle compartment. The temperature gauge moved to the highest setting. Copious smoke escaped from under the hood of the vehicle. The forward tube of the plastic intake manifold showed a rupture about four inches long on the front of the intake manifold. Reapair cost was $1455, including replacement of the spark plugs, which had been soaked in antifreeze. The texas comission on environmental quality issued a warning to me by letter that a concerned citizen had reported my vehicle was seen emitting excessive smoke and that if I did not take action to repair the vehicle, they would charge me with a violation. The vehicle has been repaired with a new Ford intake manifold that has the forward tube made out of aluminum and the rest plastic. Ford refuses to issue a recall on this model saying that human life has not been endangered.

Temperature gauge went up, car overheated. Took vehicle to independent shop, and technician stated that intake plastic manifold cracked.

I have a 1997 Cougar xr7 with a 4. 6 liter v8. Around July 1, 2001, the intake manifold on the car cracked causing it to overheat. I had the car fixed, not knowing there was a recall on these intake manifolds. In March of 2004, I found the recall letter sent to me by Lincoln Mercury. I contacted the service manager, tim coats, at what was then ruston Ford (I knew him as he did most of my vehicle's warranty work when he was at the Lincoln Mercury dealership in monroe, la. ). I told him about the letter and I still had all my receipts. He sent everything in to Lincoln Mercury and I was reimbursed. The recall was good for 7 years, unlimited mileage beginning in February 1998. Last February, I was told my car was leaking antifreeze. As it was repeatedly pressure tested, and did not loose pressure, we could not find the source. Finally, in June of last year, that intake manifold cracked. Both intakes that cracked lasted approximately 70,000 miles and/or 4 years. I contacted the Lincoln Mercury dealer in minden where I got the part and was told that the warranty had expired and there was nothing Lincoln Mercury would do. I have since called Lincoln Mercury customer service 3 times and they have told me there is no current recall on the car and due to the mileage, there is nothing they will do. So, I replaced this intake with one from o'reilly auto parts. I have know found out this one is cracked and leaking. O'reilly will warranty the part, but I have to submit the bill for labor with the defective part and hope they will reimburse. Each time this happens, the labor runs around $250 - $300. Then, it has to have new plugs and wires as they get wet. All I know is there is a serious problem. This will be the fourth intake manifold in 9 years, the car has 175,000 miles on it and I have to keep it until the first of next year. I no longer feel safe as you never know when the intake is going to crack. The VIN # is 1melm62wxvh623591. Nm.

Oil filter combusted due to pressure. Engine has been destroyed!!! car is a year and a half old with 24,500 miles. I have a number of problems that have occurred with this car. I have ignored due to they come and go. Such as rattling noises from the trunk, cigarrette lighter is dead, gas gauge doesn't read properly all the time, lights illuminate for rear light out, airbags, coolant, next time start up car they are out??? I had a Saturn for 5 years never had a problem. I have this Cougar for a year and a half and look at all these problems. I am sorry a car that is a year and a half should not be getting a new engine!!!! I am extremely disappointed with Mercury. I will never get another one again.

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Coolant level switch/sensor failed causing coolant light on dash to illuminate.