2009 Mercury Mariner Hybrid problems
The 2009 Mercury Mariner Hybrid has 30 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (27%) concerns steering. Next are cruise control (20%) and brakes (13%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 30 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Steering 27% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 2 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 0 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 101,000 miles 30 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 1 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 3 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 3 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 5 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 3 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 3 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 8 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 3 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 1 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 30 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 101,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 2 complaints mention a crash. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 84% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2009 ranks 4th most-complained-about out of 4 model years of the Mercury Mariner Hybrid with enough data (8 complaints in that window).
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Tl*the contact owns a 2009 mercury mariner hybrid. The contact stated that after applying the brakes in the parking lot the vehicle accelerated. The vehicle did not respond to the brakes and did not stop until the vehicle crashed into a parked vehicle. After hitting the vehicle the rpms continued to increase and did not stop until the engine was turned off. The vehicle was towed to the dealer to be inspected. The police did not file a report because they said it was in a school parking.
Mercury mariner hybrid 2009 had it for 18 months and august 3, 2010 upon an approach to a stop light engaging the brakes I heard an audible warning sound and looked at my console to see the warning to check brakes, at that moment my brake pedal went soft and to the floor, I had to apply the emergency brake to stop the mariner to avoid hitting the vehicle in front of me.
Power steering cut out, quit working, on left turn, speed about 10 MPH. Outage lasted about 1-2 seconds. Believe would have hit far side curb if steering had not spontaneously recovered. This was first occurrence. Drove car directly to dealer from incident; diagnosis tbd. Afraid to drive. At higher speed or if had lasted just a little longer would have wrecked!
Throttle body problem. All of a sudden I had no power and barely made it home. I had to be towed to ramey ford in princeton, wv they replaced throttle body but I had to pay $100 deductible. This car was part of a customer service arrangement worked out with NHTSA but the VIN was not included and I was told it was not covered for cost of replacement . This was a very dangerous situation and could have resulted in an accident.
I was on my way to drop my 3 month old off at daycare and then to work. I was driving down the highway going 60 MPH with the cruise control set when I feel the car start to jerk back and forth a little. I look at my gauges all are normal except the RPM gauge is jumping up and down then all of a sudden it is kick out of cruise control, and I lose acceleration and a wrench light came on. I was almost hit by 2 vehicles because of the sudden lose on speed.