Vehicle
Mercury Villager
A minivan built jointly with Nissan and mechanically a Nissan Quest — the VG30E and later VG33E V6, a Nissan transaxle, and Nissan's engine management, all in a Ford-badged body. That is the single most useful fact about it, because a workshop reaching for Ford data will find very little that applies. The VG-series V6 is a belt-driven engine and an interference design, so a neglected timing belt is a destroyed engine rather than a tow home; the belt interval is the first thing to establish on any example. The distributor and its internal bearing are the usual cause of a rough-running or no-start complaint.
Generations
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First generation 1993–1998
The VG30E — an interference belt engine, so a neglected timing belt is a destroyed engine rather than a tow home.
- Body styles
- MPV
- Platform
- Nissan VX54
- Engines
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- 3.0 V6 — petrol · Nissan VG30E
- Transmissions
- 4-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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Second generation 1999–2002
The larger VG33E, still Nissan's and still an interference design; the distributor bearing is the usual rough-running cause.
- Body styles
- MPV
- Platform
- Nissan VX54
- Engines
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- 3.3 V6 — petrol · Nissan VG33E
- Transmissions
- Jatco RE4F04A 4-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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