general problems of the 2007 Mercury Mariner

90swhile driving, the vehicle will suddenly display a warning message that says “stop safely now”. When this message appears, the hybrid system overheats and the vehicle immediately loses power. The gasoline engine and electric motor both shut down without warning, even at highway speeds. I am forced to coast to the side of the road, which is extremely dangerous in traffic. This happens after the vehicle has been driven for a short period of time. The cooling fans appear to be running, but the hybrid electronics system overheats and triggers the shutdown safety mode. After waiting for the vehicle to cool down, it will restart, but the problem continues every time the car reaches normal driving temperature. This issue matches the symptoms covered under Ford’s previous safety actions and customer satisfaction programs for the 2005–2008 Ford escape and Mercury Mariner hybrid (hybrid electronics overheating and shutdown). The dealership states that no recall appears under my VIN, but the safety failure is identical. The vehicle becomes unsafe and inoperable with no advance warning beyond the brief “stop safely now” message. This defect poses a serious risk of a crash, injury, or death due to the sudden loss of propulsion in traffic.

Tl - the contact owns a 2007 Mercury mountaineer. The contact stated that while driving it was noticed the vehicle jumping and jerking. The vehicle was taken to a independent mechanic, which informed the contact it was the transmission. The manufacturer was not made aware of this failure. The VIN search revealed 2 recalls about the but neither of them . The vehicle had not been repaired. The failage mileage on the vehicle was 60,000. Odi:.

My son was using our car he drove it to work. . . All was fine. . . He used the car to go get lunch in the shopping center. . . Drove back from the shopping center to a parking spot outside his job location. . . He then completed his shift at dick's sporting goods where my wife and I met up with him. . . We all proceeded to our car and truck which were parked across from one another. . . My wife and son got in the Mercury I got in my truck. . . My son tried to start the Mercury but it would not turn over. . . My wife tried still would not turn over . . . Checked the battery all was good so I thought maybe the starter? had it towed , and a starter replaced? still nothing . . . My mechanic said it was the motor ? and I would need a new motor !!! so I looked on line and found something about a class action lawsuit involving Mercury Mariner 2005 to 2008 mine is a 2007 ? called them but the said I have to contact Ford motor company my self ???? so that is what led me to you!!! can you help?.

I purchased the vehicle with 6,000 miles on it. I kept up my normal maintance on the vehicle and replaced things when needed. At approximately 42,000 my transmission would no longer shift the gears. The vehicle was brought to wallace dealership of which they kept my vehicle for almost 2 weeks. They explained they did an overhaul of the transmission and fixed repairs on it so that their would be no further problems with transmission later on down the road. Now at 84,735 miles later, I am once again having transmission problems and my vehicle will not go into gear. Because I am out of warranty my vehicle will sit until I can make the repairs as a transmission replacement is not a cheap expense. This is a serious problem with in this car and deserves extreme priority of investigation on a recall for this year, make, and model of vehile. I am receiving no help from the Ford company and I am finding it extremely difficult that this problem in this vehilce has not been resolved or dealt with. I have had a private transmission company examine my vehilce (has not touched it), of which they discovered, the internal filter is clogging the cvt (constant velocity transmission) for which something will continiously break in the filter or where the filter is held causing this to happen. I was also advised there was nothing I could have done maintance wise or personal use of driving that could have caused this to happen.