1996 Mercury Villager 3.0 from Netherlands - Comments

10th Aug 2006, 05:14

"An invitation to drive!"

What things have gone wrong with the car?

Steering parts

flashing light for the airbag

start security

brake.

General comments?

Fantastic car which is for me an invitation to drive. I love it. The car is not suitable for sportly driving as it is fairly slow from start and drinks gasoline heavily. But when you drive defensively it is a very comfortable car with acceptable gasoline use.

Steering parts, fusee bullets we call them, were replace at 210.000 km (168000 miles).

The airbag lights keep on flashing, no idea how to stop them.

The start security we disabled as is was no longer reliable. The car is however 10 years old now and less attractive to steal.

The brakes are not so smooth anymore.


11th Feb 2008, 13:25

We had the flashing air bag light. The mechanic determined that the van had been put into diagnostic mode by a certain number of the door being opened and closed in some special sequence. He then found out what that sequence was - repeated it and viola, no more flashing air bag light.

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