Radiator Problems of Mercury Grand Marquis

The contact owns a 1998 Mercury Grand Marquis. The contact stated that the vehicle would overheat abnormally. The vehicle was taken to a local repair shop where the radiator was flushed but to no avail. The contact later inspected the vehicle and discovered that the intake manifold was fractured. The contact believed that the failure was caused because the intake manifold was designed using plastic. The vehicle was not repaired. The VIN was unavailable. The failure and current mileage was 64,950.

See all problems of the 1998 Mercury Grand Marquis 🔎.

While driving on interstate plastic intake manafold cracked, resulting in coolant spraying entire engine compartment and limiting visability. Entire radiator was empty in matter of seconds. Replacement part was redesigned admitting that there was a design fault in original.

See all problems of the 1996 Mercury Grand Marquis 🔎.

I own a 97 Mercury Grand Marquis we were losing radiator fluid. Found that our plastic intake manifold was cracked where the alternator hits against it. Ford motors answer is a kit that will run me $621. This should be a recall item, please help.

See all problems of the 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis 🔎.

In November of 2001 I left for a trip in my Mercury, about halfway to my destination, the intake manifold of my car failed, the entire contents of my coolant system evacuated in less than one minute. I thought I had ruptured a hose, upon closer inspection; it appeared to me that a hose had blown close to the engine block in a place that I could not see well. A mechanic at the dealership informed me the next day that the intake manifold was plastic and that it had cracked. But luckily for me he would help me out, he happened to have a spare manifold that he had taken off of another car like mine. Apparently, someone had blown a head gasket in their 97 Grand Marquis and the owners were convinced that it was the intake manifold. So the mechanic replaced their manifold and kept their old one that was still good. The mechanic was willing to sell me the manifold and replace the broken one on my car for about half the price it was going to cost me to have the dealership replace it. The dealer would have billed me nearly $600. 00, so I told him to perform the repairs. He told me that they had some problems with the plastic intakes and had redesigned them. The one he placed on my car was supposedly of the new design. . Read more...