2002 mercury cougar manual transmission problems

Although the car is automatic, I could feel the car lose power as it shifted automatically from 1st gear into 2nd gear. I am appalled!. I was driving on the street and my car hesitated to go when I pressed on the gas pedal, when it finally grabbed the gear it jerked me twice. The following day it died on me and it would drive or go on reverse.

Not a good car. It's been discontinued. No wonder. Transmission failure at miles transmimssion was replaced. Fuel pump replaced at miles. Transmisson replaced second time at miles.

Lcd dashboard features never worked properly, serviced twice for the problem never resolved. Automatic transmission failed completely in forward. Reverse still works. Several service bulletins noting a defect in the tranny have been posted.

Car had 60k on it and had regular transmission services. While driving, transmission intermittently failed to shift. When vehicle is put into gear, the vehicle will not accelerate.

The vehicle will not move anywhere. My Mercury Cougar, started grinding in the third gear. I took it to my dealer and they quoted me I was unable to afford the cost, so I had to drive skipping the third gear position. The saftey issue involved is that it is hard to get on the California ramps at a good speed to keep from causing a wreck. Come to find out, Mercury made third gear wrong when it was built in the factory. Supposedly, a lot of Mercury Cougars are coming back with the same problems in third gear.

I feel that it is Mercury's duty to recall this issue with the transmissions. It was their fault in the first place, and they should fix the problem.

Thank the lord that nothing has happened to me or someone else with this issue as far as a wreck. But there are other Cougars out there. We were driving our vehicle on the interstate and the car started to hesitate then accelerate fast it did this 6 times. We stopped at a store and pulled in forward when we came back out and started the car the car would not go into the reverse position. The car some how was frozen into drive even if you put the car into neutral. Now our car is at another dealership with no explanation why or how this could have happened.

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