2006 Mercury Grand Marquis

AIR BAG LIGHT STARTED BLINKING, SAME SEQUENCE REPEATED FIVE TIMES AFTER WARDS IT STAYED ON. AFTER A MINUTE OR SO A WARNING BEEP SOUNDED. THE BEEPS WERE IN A SEQUENCE OF 5 BEEPS WHICH REPEATED FIVE TIMES THEN REPEATED AGAIN EVERY HALF HOUR WHILE DRIVING.. MECHANIC REPLACED THE WHOLE DRIVERS SIDE SEAT BELT ASSEMBLY - $800.00. A YEAR LATER - SAME PROBLEM. FORD SHOULD HAVE A RECALL FOR THIS PROBLEM. I REFUSE TO PAY ANOTHER $800. I TOOK OUT THE FUSE THAT SOUNDED THE BEEP ALARM AS IT WAS DRIVING ME CRAZY. *TR

WHILE DRIVING THE AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT CAME ON. MECHANIC DETERMINED THAT THE PASSENGER SEAT BELT PRETENSIONER WAS BAD. REPLACED PRETENSIONER AT 68527 MILES ON THE ODOMETER. FIXED PROBLEM. AT 68669 MILES THE AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT AGAIN CAME ON. MECHANIC NOW SAYS THE DRIVER SIDE PRETENSIONER IS BAD. THIS AUTOMOBILE HAS NEVER BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT. FIRST INCIDENT 9/16/16. SECOND INCIDENT 10/27/16. *TR

NO ACCIDENT, 2/23/16, THE AIR BAG LIGHT AND CHIMES ACTIVATED WHEN CAR STARTED AND CONTINUED WHILE CAR RAN. VERY DISTRACTING. ALSO, ONCE, THE 'AIR BAG OFF LIGHT' NEAR TOP OF GLOVE COMPARTMENT CAME ON. CHECKED NHTSA SITE AND FOUND MANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT AIR BAGS/SEAT BELT TENSIONERS, AND AIR BAGS NOT DEPLOYING WHICH IS WHY I AM FILING THIS COMPLAINT. -- THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A SAFETY HAZARD, WHY NO RECALL? WILL GO TO MY DEALER IN MARYLAND TO FIND OUT MORE.

A FEW MINUTES AFTER STARTING MY MERC GR MAR 2006 I GET A 5 PINGLING SINGNALS THAT CONTINUES FOR ABOUT 4 MINUTES, THEN STOPS, THE AIRBAG LIGHTS SHOWS ON THE DASHBOARD AFTER TURNING OFF MY CAR AND RESTARTING IT THE SAME PINGLING SOUNDS COMES ON AGAINI HAVE TAKING MY CAR TO THE FORD DEALER AND COULD GET NO REAL HELP, TOLD IT DID NOT EFFECT MY DRIVING THE CAR, BUT WOULD HAVE TO SPEND ALMOST 1,000 FOR A DIAGNOSTIC TEST, WHY ITS NOT MY FAULT, THIS STARED ALREADY LATE 2013,, HAD NOT USED THE CAR FOR 4 MONTHS WHEN THIS OCCURRED, PLEASE HELP, MANUFACTURER HAS TO BE RESPONSIBLE TO CORRECT THIS, VERY ANNOYINGSOUND

START ENGINE, AIR BAG LIGHT ON DASH ILLUMINATES, BEEP ALARM SOUNDS FOR A SERIES OF FIVE BEEPS FOLLOWED BY 1 SECOND OF SILENCE, AND REPEATS FOR FIVE REPETITIONS OF THE SAME. LIGHT REMAINS ON AND AFTER 30 MINUTES OF DRIVING ON ROAD OPERATION, THE ALARM REPEATS FOR 5 REPETITIONS AS BEFORE. THIS CONTINUES AS LONG AS THE ENGINE IS OPERATED WITHOUT TURNING OFF. WHEN SHUT OFF AND RESTARTED, THE ALARM STARTS ALL OVER FOR THE SERIES OF 5 BEEPS IN 5 REPETITIONS. MY DEALER SAYS THIS IS NOT A SAFETY ISSUE AND WANTS OVER $800.00 FOR A NEW COMPUTER MODULE. I HAVE NO WAY TO DOCUMENT COMPLAINT OR DEALER RESPONSE.

ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 I PURCHASED A USED 2006 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS LS. I WAS INFORMED THAT THE AIRBAG LIGHT WAS ON. I SUBSEQUENTLY FOUND THAT THERE HAD BEEN SOME MINOR DAMAGE TO THE LOWER FRONT OF THE VEHICLE, NOT RESULTING IN AIRBAG DEPLOYMENT. IN RESEARCHING THE PROBLEM AND TO DETERMINE IF THERE HAD BEEN AN AIRBAG RECALL BY THE NHTSA, I FOUND THAT THERE HAD BEEN 57 REGISTERED COMPLAINTS ON THE REPAIR PAL WEBSITE AND THAT A COMPLAINT HAD ALSO BEEN FILED WITH THE NHTSA.FOR THIS PROBLEM AND THAT THE PROBLEM WAS A RESULT OF DEFECTIVE SEAT-BELT ASSEMBLIES. THERE SHOULD BE A SAFETY RECALL ISSUED FOR THIS PROBLEM AS IT EFFECTS THE PROPER FUNCTIONALITY OF THE RESTRAINT SYSTEM IN THE EVENT OF A COLLISION.

IN FEB, 2014, I ORIGINALLY HAD A MINOR CRASH WHEN ANOTHER DRIVER WAS CITED FOR RECKLESS DRIVING. HIS INSURANCE PAID FOR MY DAMAGE. NO AIRBAGS WERE DEPLOYED ON EITHER ME, THE DRIVER, OR MY MOTHER, THE PASSENGER. WE WERE BELTED IN. RECENTLY, ON SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2015, THE AIRBAG WARNING LIGHT AND CHIMES CAME ON WHEN I STARTED THE VEHICLE. THE LIGHT CONTINUES TO COME ON, THE CHIME RINGS IN 3 SETS OF 5 PERIODICALLY. THE DEALER THAT FIXED THE ORIGINAL DAMAGE, ALAN JAY, RAN A $55 DIAGNOSTIC AND STATED THE PASSENGER SEAT BELT PRETENSIONER WAS OPEN, AND THAT THIS COULD HAVE ONLY OCCURRED IN AN ACCIDENT. I ASKED WHY THE SYSTEM DID NOT RESPOND THE 1 1/2 YEARS EARLIER WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED? ALAN JAY DID NOT HAVE AN ANSWER, BUT STATED MY ENTIRE RESTRAINT SYSTEM AND AIRBAGS WOULD NOT OPERATE IN ANY FUTURE CRASH, UNTIL I REPLACE THE PASSENGER SEAT BELT, WHICH WILL COST $780.00 ALAN JAY FORD / MERCURY SAID TO CONTACT NATIONAL GENERAL INSURANCE BECAUSE "THE PRETENSIONER DOESN'T JUST GO" THAT AN ACCIDENT HAD TO HAVE OCCURRED TO CAUSE THIS. NATIONAL GENERAL CALLED ME BACK TODAY AND STATED THIS IS UNTRUE. THERE HAS BEEN MULTIPLE COMPLAINTS ON THE MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS AIRBAG LIGHT ACTIVATING AND SHUTTING DOWN THE RESTRAINT SYSTEM AND TURNING OFF THE AIRBAGS FOR NO CAUSE. THEY REFERRED ME TO WWW.CARCOMPLAINTS.COM, AND I FILED THE 19TH COMPLAINT FOR THIS PROBLEM ON THE 2006 GRAND MARQUIS MODEL. THERE ARE ALSO MULTIPLE COMPLAINTS ON THE SAME PROBLEM WITH OTHER MODEL YEARS FOR THE GRAND MARQUIS AIR BAG RESTRAINT SYSTEM SHUTTING DOWN. WHY HAS THERE NOT BEEN A RECALL TO FIX THIS PROBLEM? WHY DON'T THE MERCURY DEALERS KNOW ABOUT THIS PROBLEM? LIKE MANY OTHERS, I AM FORCED TO DRIVE MY ONLY VEHICLE IN AN UNSAFE CONDITION UNTIL I CAN AFFORD THE $780.00 TO FIX IT?