1996 Mercury Mystique GS from North America - Comments

I have had a 1998 Mercury Mystique LS for a little over a year now and despite the problems I love the car. Nobody looks at it and thinks it has any power until they are left in my dust. Right now I am currently replacing the upper intake manifold gasket along with a new PCV valve. This all came in to play when I saw the intake manifold runner rod was not connected. I have to take off the upper manifolds so I can get to it to reconnect it. Hopefully will get to it in a day or so. Other than that it leaks a little oil and I had to replace both rear struts and all 4 rotors. I love the car and will keep it until it dies.

'There has also been a loud vacuum noise coming from the hood, which has been happening since about 110K. I asked the mechanic to look into it, and they could not figure it out, so now I just ignore it.'

My 96 GS also has this problem.

And to fix your check engine light, you just need to hit the right bump in the road, works for me ;-)

Holy crap! Yeah I had a 1996 V6 Mercury Mistake. Man I put more money into that thing than I spent on myself. There were so many problems with the damn car all the time. Like the engine light always coming on. Taking it to a mechanic and couldn't find a problem. OR they find one, but it's so much $ to fix it. The only thing good about that car was the sound system I put in it, and how fast it would go before it would die out on me. Damn that car!