1994 Mercury Tracer problems
NHTSA has received 81 complaints about the 1994 Mercury Tracer, and 15% of them involve brakes. After that come seat belts (15%) and air bags (12%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 81 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 15% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 25 and 7
- Injuries and deaths
- 26 and 0
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%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 25 complaints mention a crash; 7 complaints mention a fire; 26 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 99% 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 1994 ranks 4th most-complained-about out of 8 model years of the Mercury Tracer with enough data (55 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
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.
Driving vehicle, rearended another vehicle, slammed on brakes, css was leaning from rear seat, child facing floor of vehicle, child's face was bruised, also front /rear seat belts failed.
Tl*the contact owns a 1994 mercury tracer. While driving 25 MPH, the brakes failed and the contact struck a pole head on. The air bags failed to deploy. There were no injuries. The vehicle was towed to a dealer and they stated that they would inspect the vehicle. They discovered that the brakes were faulty and had been repaired prior to the crash. The VIN was not included in NHTSA campaign id number 94v218000 (air bags:frontal).
On february 4, 2006 we had a goodyear allegra tire, purchased as sam's club, go flat. It was the right front tire. When the sam's club tire technician inspected the tire he found a deep cut or crack on the side wall. He thought it could be road hazard damage or vandalism. Sam's club replaced the based on tread wear. On april 8, 2006 the tire on the left front went flat. It has deep cuts or cracks on both side of the tire, one on the outside and two on the back of the tire.