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1993 Mercury Tracer service brakes, hydraulic problems

11 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the service brakes, hydraulic on the 1993 Mercury Tracer18% of all complaints for this model year.

11
Service Brakes, Hydraulic complaints
18%
share of all complaints
median reported incident mileage
2 / 0
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • Vehicle towed back to dealer twice. The second time the dealer charged $300 for brake repair. Vehicle is now at another repair shop for same problem, including axle damage. *ak

    filed Mar 5, 2001

  • While attempting to slow down, brakes do not work, rpms go up. Tt consumer states thsi has happened twice while traveling on a major highway, engine strides at 2500 rpm it will not go up when consumer steps on the gas and will not sloow below 200rpm consumer sttes it seems like cruise control but…

    filed Nov 28, 1995

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Service Brakes, Hydraulic problems in other Tracer years

YearReportsShare
1999 Tracer420%
1998 Tracer25%
1997 Tracer118%
1995 Tracer66%
1994 Tracer1218%
1991 Tracer35%
1988 Tracer15%
Tracer service brakes, hydraulic problems by year →

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.