2009 Mercury Mariner Other or unknown Problems

“Was using cruise control down the road doing 45 miles per hours. While on a straight stretch and going up slight hill car was fine. When I started to go down the slight hill car seemed to sound like it was in neural gear and my rmps jumped to between 3 and 4. I looked to see if some how the car got accidently shifted into neutral and it wasn't it was still in drive. So I turned the cruise control off and everything went back to driving and sounding normal. This is now the third time this has happened. …”

“On october 18, 2018 I received the power steering assist failure error on my instrument panel when turning on my vehicle. I had driven it earlier in the day without issue. Previously I had the occasional warning noise and quick flash of an error (too quick for me to read all the way) and would have momentary difficulty turning. This issue makes it almost impossible to steer the vehicle. Research indicates that it is most likely a malfunctioning torque sensor. I reached out to ford after learning of recalls for the 2009 model year. I was informed that my VIN was not included in the recall. …”

“While driving the car will it suddenly stop receiving any fuel, car does not necessarily stall, it is very dangerous, because I will have to pull over shut the car off and it will restart, the wrench icon will come on, sometimes the engine icon, this at first was random, no pattern, once on the tobin bridge in boston, with very heavy traffic, thankfully was able to pull over out of the way, it would happen randomly for a few months and now it happens so often I am afraid to drive it, I have no money to bring this to a garage as I fear it will cost me way too much to fix, very disappointed…”

“The vehicle AC unit water drains directly over the front sub-frame and rusts through the frame, at which point the front driver side suspension will collapse and loss of steering results. This problem was acknowledged for some escape vehicles, but not its Mercury Mariner equivalent, even though it shares same part/problem. Dealer refuses to cover repair and cust sevice suggested I contact NHTSA.”

“I was making a turn and the vehicle seemed as if the steering locked up. It randomly does this and is starting to be more and more often. It has already made me run off of the road and hit a culvert causing even further damage.”