Owner-reported complaints naming the fuel system system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming fuel storage or delivery — tanks, pumps, lines, injectors and fuel leaks. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1996 Mercury Mystique submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 14 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
DT*: THE CONTACT STATED THERE WAS FUEL LEAKAGE WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS BEING FUELED. THERE IS A NHTSA RECALL, # 99V247000, REGARDING THE FUEL SYSTEM GASOLINE STORAGE TANK ASSEMBLY FILLER PIPE AND CAP. THE VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL. ALTHOUGH THE MANUFACTURER WAS ALERTED, NO INSPECTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE.
I FIRST STARTED SMELLING FUEL AFTER FUELING UP MY CAR. THEN LATER I NOTICED THAT FUEL LEAKS OUT FROM UNDER MY CAR WHEN I PUT FUEL INTO IT. I RECENTLY NOTICED IT RUNNING OUT FROM UNDER THE CAR WHEN I JUST HAPPEN TO FILL UP AT A GAS STATION THAT WAS ON AN INCLINE. I TOOK THE CAR TO A DEALERSHIP AND THEY SAID THAT THE FORD RECALL #99S24 DOES NOT APPLY TO MY CAR. BUT.... IT IS WHAT PROBLEM IS. HELP PLEASE. *JB
FILLER HOSE LEAKS BADLY WHEN TANK IS FILLED. CAR DIAGONOSED BY MEL CLAYTON FORD OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA WITH FILLER HOSE AND VENT VALVE NEED TO BE REPLACED, POSSIBLY NEEDING A NEW FUEL TANK AS WELL. CAR ALSO RUNS HOT ALL THE TIME (FORD UNABLE TO DIAGNOSE THE PROBLEM)
THE RECALL REGARDING THE FUEL FILLER PIPE VENT HOSE WAS PERFORMED ON THE VEHICLE, HOWEVER IT FAILED. RECALL # 99 V 247 000
AFTER THE VEHICLE WAS FILLED WITH FUEL THE CONSUMER NOTICED THAT THE FUEL LEAKED FROM UNDER THE VEHICLE. THE DEALER SERVICED THE VEHICLE. *NLM
CONSUMER STATES WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE CUT OFF WHEN VEHICLE IS IDLING, THE RMP WILL GO UP TO 4. DEALERSHIP CANNOT FIND PROBLEM, HAD VEHICLE DIAGNOSED ,THE HEAT FROM THE MOTOR HAS CAUSED THE PLASTIC PART OF THE INTAKE MANIFOLD TO WARP AND FUEL AND ANTIFREEZE LEAKES INTO HEAD OF ENGINE. NLM
IF GAS TANK IS FILLED TO CAPACITY, GAS WILL LEAK FROM UNDERCARRIAGE OF CAR. CONSUMER UNABLE TO DETERMINE WHERE LEAK IS COMING FROM.*AK *SLC
FUEL TANK LID DOES NOT OPEN WHEN THE LEVER IS PUSHED DOWN FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE CAR. IT HAS TO BE OPENED FROM THE TRUNK. *AK
THERE WAS A LEAKAGE AROUND THE GAS TANK DUE A SPLIT, AND THE GAS LEAKED OUT. *AK
FUEL FILLE R LINE CRACKED, CAUSING FUEL TO LEAK. DEALER NOTIFIED, AND REFUSED TO REPAIR VEHICLE UNLESS COST GOES TO CONSUMER. SEEKING HELP FROM NHTSA IN THIS MATTER. *AK
WHEN DRIVING CONSUMER CAN SMELL GAS FUMES COMING FROM THE TANK, AND THERE IS A LEAKAGE COMING FROM THE REAR TANK. THE CONSUMER FILLED UP THE VEHICLE WITH GAS, HE WALKED AROUND THE VEHICLE AND NOTICED GAS WAS ON THE GROUND. *AK
GAS CAP FAILED, CAUSING IT TO OPEN WITH TRUNK RELEASE.
FUEL INJECTION FAILURE.
BRAKES FADE.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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