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1988 Mercury Grand Marquis Ls Colony Park 10 Passenger Wagon With Nice Leather on 2040-cars

US $2,900.00
Year:1988 Mileage:1988
Location:

Wyckoff, New Jersey, United States

Wyckoff, New Jersey, United States

1988 Mercury Grand Marquis LS Colony Park 10 Passenger Wagon.   This is Country Squire's cousin.  5.0 V8 Fuel Injected engine, 4 speed automatic overdrive transmission.  This wagon has been well maintained, garage kept, never smoked in and owned by the same family since new!  Excellent interior, Original paperwork and lots of maintenance records included.  166,000 original miles.  Transmission replaced 30,000 miles ago – receipt included. Loaded with options and room for everyone:

10 passenger! – 3rd row seat that face each other, kids love this

Leather interior – Excellent condition.  One small rip in drivers seat not visible in photos can be repaired.

Power front seat

Deluxe luggage rack

Air conditioning – needs a charge

Power windows – including power tailgate window (2 back windows don’t go down)

Rear window defroster

Illuminated entry system

Power steering

65 Amp alternator

Premium sound system

Cruise control

Power brakes

Power locks

Power antenna

Tilt leather wrapped steering wheel

Magic tailgate door – opens both ways

Upgraded aluminum wheels – tires are older

 

This wagon has not been driven regularly this year and is need of some engine work.   Right now it looks better than it runs.  Brakes are very sensitive and need to be adjusted or checked.  The exhaust pipe behind the muffler needs to be replaced.  The engine runs very rough at idle but runs pretty smooth once you start driving.   It needs a major tune-up and fluid change but it always starts up when you turn the key.  Remember this has the 5.0 engine so it’s easy to work on and parts are plentiful.  Looks very retro like wagons from the 60s Country Squires and Colony Parks but has all the modern technology for a dependable cruiser.  One repaint looks very nice.  Some rust and rust bubbles popping up here and there but nothing major.  The woodgrain stickers on the side still look pretty good but are worn in spots have come off in a few also.   The interior is amazing for the mileage of the wagon, dash looks great, the leather seats looks amazing and are very comfortable.  Door panels and headliner look great too.  Carpet is original and is worn in a few spots but still looks nice.   The wagon has passed MA inspection in 2013 but has not been to inspection this year.  The wagon is older than 25 years it is eligible for classic car insurance and QQ classic license plates in NJ which means no inspection and can cost less than $200 per year to insure with zero deductible.    Clear Massachusetts title ready to go. Please inspect this car before bidding so there are no surprises or disappointments.  This wagon is sold as-is.

NADA Values with options

 

Original
MSRP

Low
Retail

Average
Retail

High
Retail

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL PRICE:

$16,926

$2,155

$5,000

$8,812

 

Also have a one owner 1990 LTD Crown Victoria with less than 57,000 origial miles for sale.  Any questions please call Joe 201-577-2683

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Ford recalls 600,000 older-model sedans for braking issue

Fri, Dec 20 2019

Ford is recalling 600,166 older-model Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles over an issue that could affect braking and increase the risk of a crash. The safety recall covers certain Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln MKZ sedans from the 2006 through 2010 model years that were built at Ford’s Hermosillo Assembly Plant in Mexico between Feb. 22, 2006, and July 15, 2009. Ford says a valve that is normally closed inside the hydraulic control unit may get stuck in the open position or be slow to close, which could make it harder to engage the brakes and increase risk of a crash. Ford says itÂ’s aware of 15 reports of accidents and two injuries possibly related to the issue. Dealers will inspect the hydraulic control unit for signs of the problem and replace it, if necessary. The dealers will pressure-flush the system with brake fluid and replace the reservoir cap with a new one. Ford is also issuing a small recall of 33 of its 2020 F-150 trucks in the U.S. and 51 in Canada over potentially damaged spare tires. It says the bead area on the tires may have been damaged when it was mounted onto the wheel assembly, leaving it vulnerable to corrosion, separation of the bead wire and ultimately a rapid loss of air pressure and detachment from the wheel. Dealers will replace the spare tire. Affected vehicles were built at the Dearborn Truck Plant from Nov. 10-21 of this year.

Junkyard Gem: 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis LS

Thu, Nov 24 2022

We've all been seeing the instantly familiar Ford Crown Victoria P71 Police Interceptor on North American roads for what seems like forever, though in fact the very first of the aerodynamic Crown Vics didn't appear until a mere 31 years ago. Yes, after more than a decade of boxy LTD Crown Victorias, Dearborn took the late-1970s-vintage Panther platform and added a brand-new, Taurus-influenced smooth body and modern overhead-cam V8 engine, giving us the 1992 Ford Crown Victoria. The rule was, since 1939, that (nearly) every Ford model needed a corresponding Mercury, and so the Mercury Division applied different grille and taillights and the rejuvenated Grand Marquis was born. Here's one of the first of those cars to be built, now residing in a Denver-area self-service boneyard. The Marquis name goes respectably far back, to the late 1960s and a Mercurized version of the Ford LTD hardtop. The Grand Marquis began life as the name for an interior trim package on the 1974 Marquis Brougham (also LTD-based), eventually becoming a model in its own right for the 1979 model year. Today's Junkyard Gem came off the Ontario assembly line in March 1991, making one of the very first examples built. For 1992 (and through 2011), the Grand Marquis was a Crown Victoria with slightly enhanced bragging rights. This one has the top-grade LS trim, with an MSRP of $20,644 (that's about $44,370 in inflation-adjusted 2022 dollars). The corresponding Ford-badged model (built on the same assembly line by the same workers) would have been the Crown Victoria LX, which actually cost a bit more: $20,987 ($44,910 now). The very cheapest civilian 1992 Crown Vic cost just $19,563 ($42,045 today). There weren't any powertrain differences between the Crown Victoria and Grand Marquis in 1992. The only engine available was this Modular 4.6 SOHC V8, rated at either 190 (single exhaust) or 210 (dual exhaust) horsepower. The transmission was a four-speed automatic with overdrive. How many miles are on this one? Can't say! Based on the worn-out interior, I'm going to guess 221,719 miles passed beneath this car's wheels during its 32-plus years on the road. I've seen some very high-mile Police Interceptors, of course, including one with 412,013 miles, but Ford didn't go to six-digit odometers in the Grand Marquis until a bit deeper into the 1990s. Thanks to flawed speech-to-text applications on smartphones, the Grand Marquis is known as the "Grandma Keith" to many of us today.

NHTSA advances investigation of Ford Crown Victoria headlights

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening a preliminary evaluation into reports of suddenly failing headlights on 517,945 examples of the 2003-2005 Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis. The government started looking into this problem in April when the North Carolina Consumers Council filed a defect petition with the agency. Now, the inquiry has moved to the next step. According to NHTSA's documentation (as a PDF), it examined its own database and worked with Ford to come up with a total of 3,609 complaints of the front lighting control module suddenly failing. When this happens, drivers lose the low-beam headlights, but the high-beams can be used by holding the stalk. Sometimes turning the switch off and on fixes the issue. Additionally, there are 15 allegations of crashes, and one reported shoulder injury. NHTSA's preliminary evaluations "evaluate the scope, frequency, and consequence of the alleged defect" and don't necessarily lead to a recall. NHTSA looked into this problem once before in 2008 and 2009 and decided that a recall wasn't necessary. Ford also extended the warranty on the front lighting control module for these vehicles. INVESTIGATION Subject : Loss of headlights Date Investigation Opened: AUG 10, 2015 Date Investigation Closed: Open NHTSA Action Number: PE15028 Component(s): EXTERIOR LIGHTING All Products Associated with this Investigation Vehicle Make Model Model Year(s) FORD CROWN VICTORIA 2003-2005 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS 2003-2005 Details Manufacturer: Ford Motor Company SUMMARY: After receiving a defect petition (DP15002) concerning the loss of headlights and other exterior lighting in model year (MY) 2003-2005 Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis vehicles, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) analyzed Vehicle Owner Questionnaire (VOQ) complaints received from consumers and identified a total of 605 reports (for all submission dates) alleging headlight failure. The complaints indicate failures of both low beam headlights typically while driving, a defect condition that was evaluated under a prior ODI investigation (PE08066). Most consumer VOQs indicate that the headlights failed suddenly and without warning leaving the driver with no forward lighting, however some report the headlights flickered or dimmed prior to turning off. In some cases drivers were able to turn the headlights back on after a period of time while others reported the headlights would not come back on at all.