17V024000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2008 MERCURY MILAN
4 safety recall campaigns, 2 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 5 defect investigations, 522 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
2 campaigns covering the 2008 MERCURY MILAN carry NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns4
Park it2stop driving until repaired
Investigations5
Owner complaints522
Complaints citing a crash31
Complaints citing a fire3
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 4 of 4
16V384000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
21V158000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
19V904000
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP:CONTROL UNIT/MODULE
If the valves do not properly close, additional brake pedal travel may be required to stop the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 210AIR BAGS
- 178SERVICE BRAKES
- 19VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 16SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 15POWER TRAIN
- 12ENGINE
- 10UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 6STRUCTURE:BODY
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2008 MERCURY MILANs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.