Mercury Cougar. Published by Transport Canada as 2001043 on 6 February 2001. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the brass terminals in the stop lamp extension harness connector at the brake lamp switch are inadequate to handle the current required by the two stop lamp filaments on each side of the vehicle. Either a short or an open circuit may develop, which could result in either a lack of stop lamp …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2001043
- Recall date
- 6 February 2001
- Make
- Mercury
- Models
- Cougar
- Model years
- 1999
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 2,280
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the brass terminals in the stop lamp extension harness connector at the brake lamp switch are inadequate to handle the current required by the two stop lamp filaments on each side of the vehicle. Either a short or an open circuit may develop, which could result in either a lack of stop lamp function or in the stop lamps being continuously illuminated. Correction: Stop lamp switch will be replaced, in addition, the stop lamp extension harness will be replaced with a harness containing bronze terminals at the stop lamp switch connector.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2001043.
Mercury elsewhere in this register
Mercury is named on 243 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2001025 · 9 February 2001 · Villager · Fuel System
- 2001042 · 21 February 2001 · Cougar · Electrical
- 2001194 · 16 July 2001 · F-350, Excursion, F-150 · Seats And Restraints
- 2001195 · 16 July 2001 · Contour, Mystique, Cougar · Powertrain
- 2001205 · 7 August 2001 · Contour, Mystique · Other
- 2001290 · 11 December 2001 · Mustang, Sable, Taurus · Electrical
- 2000304 · 29 December 2000 · Windstar, Town Car, Grand Marquis · Seats And Restraints
- 2000284 · 29 November 2000 · Contour, Mystique · Electrical
The same system: Lights And Instruments
900 notices in this register name Lights And Instruments. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2001044 · 21 February 2001 · Taurus · Lights And Instruments
- 2001018 · 29 January 2001 · C Class · Lights And Instruments
- 2001159 · 3 January 2001 · Rescue Vehicle · Lights And Instruments
- 2001068 · 16 March 2001 · Excursion, Taurus · Lights And Instruments
- 2001070 · 30 March 2001 · Legacy · Lights And Instruments
- 2001101 · 9 May 2001 · V70, S70, C70 · Lights And Instruments
Reading this against the source
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Keystone Cougar, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Mercury: 243 in the register, and 301 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2001.
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