1998 Mercury Cougar

Owner complaints

Latest complaints

• Feb 17, 1999AR
  Electrical system

  While driving the vehicle stalled and lost all power, which almost caused an accident. dealer cannot determine problem. please provide details. *ak

Defect investigations

NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation opened these reviews into vehicles including this one.

• Blower switch/resistor or wiring harness

  EA01001Opened Jan 5, 2001Closed Jul 31, 2001Recall 01V230000

  There is no summary currently available

Service bulletins

Technical service bulletins and other communications the manufacturer sent dealers about this vehicle. Ask a dealer for the full document by its number.

• 10014086General (pcm) power train control module programming procedures.
• 10013369General power train control module (pcm) programming procedures.
• 10008580Lamp-brake-invadvertent disabling of brake shift interlock.
• 6092221Some vehicles equipped with 2.0L engine may exhibit a timing belt shredding or timing belt striking the front cover.
• 6091763CD4E transaxle may exhibit a no forward drive concern.
• 615292Some vehicles with CD4E transmission may exhibit a condition of no crank / no start in park. Vehicle will crank and start in neutral.
• 615213Some vehicles with CD4E transmission may exhibit a condition of no crank / no start in park. Vehicle will crank and start in neutral.
• 613138Some vehicles transmissions may exhibit a transmission fluid leak. *Mjs
• 612301Information regarding several internal changes that have been implemented on the mrx-75 transaxle to improve shift efforts. *Mjs
• 610829Some vehicles equipped with 2.0L engine may exhibit a timing belt shredding or timing belt striking the front cover.
• 610746Some vehicles may exhibit a concern in activating the octaine adjust feature when using the module reconfiguration method.
• 610679Some vehicles may exhibit a concern in activating the octane adjust feature when using the module reconfiguration method.
• 609662Information on investigating hard start / no start conditions accompanied by overfueling in ambients below 32f/0c, on vehicles with vct equipped 2.0L zetec engines.
• 609617Information on activating octane adjust function with ngs/sbds.
• 608441Concerns with activating the octane adjust function with ngs or sbds.
• 606956Vehicles may exhibit a hard to shift condition in cold weather.
• 605321Information regarding two CD4E transaxles added to ford quality renewal (fqr) program.
• 605229Some vehicles equipped with a CD4E transaxle may exhibit a transmission no forward engagement.
• 604765Conditions with diagnostic trouble code (dtc) p0460 stored in continuous memory without any driveability concerns.
• 603695Experiencing a " buzzing " or " rattling " noise from the exhaust system.
• 603539Information on performing diagnosis or programming keys on some 1998 vehicles.

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