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4.88 out of 5 stars

A much needed improvement

RocoMano, 04/19/2002
2002 Mercury Mountaineer 2WD 4dr SUV (4.0L 6cyl 5A)
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What a pleasant change from my last Mountaineer! The comfort and handling are vastly improved. I am glad my old lease was up.

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4.75 out of 5 stars

2002.5 Mountaineer

Jay9890, 05/06/2002
2002 Mercury Mountaineer AWD 4dr SUV (4.0L 6cyl 5A)
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I took delivery of a '02.5 Premier Edition Mountaineer on 4/29/02. So far so good. The ride is very smooth for a SUV. Much better then my '96 Explorer. I test drove the Explorer and the Mountaineer. For the me, the Mountaineer was a better choice, and cheaper.

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3 out of 5 stars

Transmission Problems

Ursula, 12/23/2009
2002 Mercury Mountaineer AWD 4dr SUV (4.0L 6cyl 5A)
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I have had many problems with my 2002 Mountaineer. I am so disappointed in my choice to purchase this auto. Soon after we bought it we had to pay almost $2000 to have the rear axles fixed, a couple years later we had to replace the back A/C unit & some other parts, and that was another $2000 +. I just found out yesterday that my transmission is going out! I am really frustrated with Ford.........I won't make this mistake again, it's Nissan or Toyota for me!!!!!!!!!!

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2.13 out of 5 stars

Horrible Transmission Problems

sin143, 11/17/2008
2002 Mercury Mountaineer AWD 4dr SUV (4.0L 6cyl 5A)
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To anyone that is looking to buy a Mercury Mountaineer. I never ever buy domestic cars, but needed a 7 seater so decided to go with the Mountaineer. 2 weeks into purchasing the car, the wheel bearing went out, so that was replaced by Ford at no charge. 2 years later the transmission went out on me. I had to fight it thru corp to get the dealership to fix it thru the warranty. It's been 2 years since I had that replaced, the transmission is starting to stall at 20-30 miles again, so another tranny problem comes. There should be a recall on transmission on these cars. If I have to replace 2 already in 4 years.

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3.25 out of 5 stars

has your mercury spit a spak plug latley

Mike, 01/10/2010
2002 Mercury Mountaineer AWD 4dr SUV (4.0L 6cyl 5A)
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This vehicle was purchased used with 19k miles on it from a local mercury dealership, it has all the options, we bought this instead of the lexus rx300 big mistake, we've been ford people for 25 years, have had several ford vehicles but this ones been pretty much junk and the bad thing is that they know they issues with these vehicles but don't want to take the responsibility to take of there problems. This vehicle has had both rear wheel bearings replaced before the warranty ran out, constant transmission issues, rear axel leaking oil, rear coil spring broken, and it blew a spark plug out the head last week. Not to mention all the sensors replaced. We won't be buying this brand any more.

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