NHTSA safety record
Every complaint, recall and defect investigation on file for a Mercury, model years 2010 to 2011.
9
Vehicles
1,662
Complaints
119
Recalls
8
Fires
0
Deaths
9Mercury year and model combinations have enough on file to be worth a page here, and between them their owners have filed 1,662 safety complaints with NHTSA. More of those name the steering than any other system: 430 of them. The single most complained-about is the 2010 Milan, with 1,001.
NHTSA holds 119 recall campaigns naming Mercury vehicles, across every model year the agency records rather than only the ones shown here.
Complaints for every published model year of each model added together. A model that sold in larger numbers collects more complaints, and nothing here divides by sales because NHTSA does not publish them.
The systems named most often across every Mercury complaint on file. One complaint can name more than one system, so these add up to more than the complaint total. "Unknown or other" is excluded: it is what the intake form records when an owner cannot place the failure.
The newest campaigns naming a Mercury, by the date the manufacturer's defect report reached NHTSA. Each one covers a build range, which may be narrower than the model years listed.
21V158000 · March 10, 2021
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
Ford Motor Company · up to 2,602,668 vehicles
Pages 2011 Milan 2010 Milan
21V081000 · February 16, 2021
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the frontal air bag, an inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Ford Motor Company · up to 1,067 vehicles
Pages 2011 Milan 2010 Milan
19V904000 · December 18, 2019
If the valves do not properly close, additional brake pedal travel may be required to stop the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
Ford Motor Company · up to 600,166 vehicles
Pages 2010 Milan
19V001000 · January 7, 2019
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Ford Motor Company · up to 782,384 vehicles
Pages 2011 Milan 2010 Milan
18V775000 · November 1, 2018
If the air bag does not inflate as intended, there is an increased risk of injury in the event of a crash.
Ford Motor Company · up to 215 vehicles
Pages 2010 Milan
18V046000 · January 11, 2018
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Ford Motor Company · up to 327,796 vehicles
Pages 2010 Milan
17V024000 · January 10, 2017
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Ford Motor Company · up to 654,695 vehicles
16V777000 · October 26, 2016
A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.
Ford Motor Company · up to 329,265 vehicles
Pages 2011 Mariner 2010 Mariner
16V384000 · May 31, 2016
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Ford Motor Company · up to 1,892,343 vehicles
Pages 2011 Milan 2010 Milan
16V247000 · April 26, 2016
An improperly inflated air bag increases the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
Ford Motor Company · up to 695 vehicles
Every manufacturer's latest recalls, or check a single car with the VIN lookup.
9 vehicles across 6 models, newest model year first.
Built from NHTSA's complaint file published August 20, 2026, its recall campaign API and its defect investigation file. A complaint is one owner's unverified account, not a finding of fault. How this is counted. · All makes
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