Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2003 Mercury Mountaineer

Two problems related to car accelerates on its own have been reported for the 2003 Mercury Mountaineer. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2003 Mercury Mountaineer based on all problems reported for the 2003 Mountaineer.

1 Car Accelerates On Its Own problem

Failure Date: 03/01/2005

Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration periodically when coming to a stop. Taken to dealer for a check up for the third time, but the problem recurred.

2 Car Accelerates On Its Own problem

Failure Date: 02/09/2005

Unintended acceleration of vehicle without warning. Also had unintended shut downs of vehicle during previous week. Vehicle was taken to dealer for repairs. Dealer still has vehicle. I almost ran over 2 pedestrians crossing the street at a nursery school. I was able to control the problem with the vehicle's brakes.


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