I have the Same Exact Van, Great Shape, Jus needing minor work. I put new ignition on it, fuel pump kit, 2 front tires, Thermostat, It was a 1 owner driven & then to being parked, & not able to drive Anymore, It sat for 6 yrs. , m noticing it may need a cv joint I’m guessing from a lil crank noise I only hear when I make a right turn,, I’m Jus guessing , idk Any Ideas ??
in which case you buy the parts on rockauto, do the work yourself and fix it up cheap. reliance on "shops" that charge $80 per hour has allot to do with this. if only i could find high mileage cars like this around here that i could buy at scrap prices and fix up. unfortunately around here, anything this vintage that has been driven all year round is long since garbage, if it is already scrapped its falling apart at the pinch welds ready to be put out of its misery. the rots the shit out of them.
Or at most the grandkid's were in it only once in awhile. My folks had two vans during my childhood. We kept them clean, but I wasn't harsh on cars as a kid or in my mid twenties. We still have the second van to this day. A good detailing and she'll shine like new.
The Villager was built along side its twin, the Nissan Quest in a Ford plant. It has a drivetrain from the Nissan Maxima, probably the best and most reliable of the time. These are still popular and 1/2 a million miles is not unusual and will probably be purchased quickly for good money. In the NYC area you could get $3-4K for it.
Up until past few years, these Quest/Villagers were used by contractors and lasted long time. Rust and age is taking their toll. Was funny to see former top of line Villager Nauticas with ladders on roof, used as painters vans. No, the motors are not Ford's, were Nissan v6's. Ford/Nissan should have kept these going, the last year was 2003.
I had one of these with the rear seat heat and air. It was quiet and reliable, but a bit piggish on gas. The fan was actually made my Nissan and uses a timing belt. It's taller and has longer, wider doors than my Grand Caravan has and is a helluva lot more comfortable to drive. The only weakness these have are the control arms that are almost $200 a side and break frequently on Michigan's moonscape of roads. I miss mine.
Some friends of my family (not the Voyager owners) had a Villager when their son, daughter and me were kids. The daughter said they chose Villager over Nissan Quest because the Quest was 2000 dollars more. My dad found out from them Villager was a Mercury like Prizm was a Chevy, basically. In Villager's case, it was a Ford/Nissan joint venture.
Thats Nissan's infamous 3.0 V6 under the hood - no American motor. Funny to see the mix of Nissan and Ford parts. Nissan switches, Ford ignition switch tumbler and radio, etc.
Actually they're pretty good engines the same one used in Z31 300ZXs though in these it's a non interference design so if the timing belt ever breaks you don't end up with trashed valves.
Lot of wierd quirks and things for sure. Definitely a 90s car! Wouldn't mind that for a couple hundred bucks myself. My philosophy is if a car has got high mileage but is in great condition and is that clean, means it's better than many cars with half the mileage which tend to be double the price!
When the interior is pristine and a dash mat is protecting the dash, you know the previous owner loved his/her car. I treat my Corolla like a baby. I'm probably going to get a dash mat and a back deck mat to protect the interior better.
3.0L Nissan VG30E under the hood. Same engine found in 80's 300ZX and Maxima, and 90's Pathfinder. Torquey but not a screamer. The updated 3.3L VG33E was available in all kinds of Pathfinders, Frontiers, Quests, etc. Lots of them still on the road with 300K+ on them. It's really the engine the Vulcan or GM Vortec should have been. Great van! Buy it for your road trips.
There's a middle eastern owned taxi company here the runs these still to this day. They love them. Basically there whole fleet. Many have 350k miles plus. They do change oil no joke every 3k miles which is sometimes as soon as a week. Compared to the caravan, windstar, venture, Sedona, town and county, etc. They are pretty dam reliable. This van is Easily worth 500 to someone.
Seriously? Sure, it has almost 300k miles on the odemeter, but the van is nearly mint, who scraps a nearly mint condition van? If I had $500, I'd find a way to get that van to my place, it'd be a good replacement for my 1992 Buick Century.
Thats a good move by Mercury, because the villager van, the ones with the 3.3 liter nissan engine, thats a non interference engine. Thats good to know.
Had the same van brand new. Drove it from NJ to FL several times. It was very quiet and quite comfortable to drive. Mine was deep jewel green metallic and also had the rear A/C option. I'd keep that one for sure. It's well worth holding on to.
That van is from the period when Ford and Mazda were heavily tied up together so there may well be more Mazda than Ford in that one, it does look rather similar to a JDM Mazda people carrier from that period. The fact that the original cargo net is still in place is a damn good sign of careful ownership as things like that tend to get removed and lost pretty quickly. With the overall condition of that van for $500 it should be a no-brainer, it might not be the most interesting car on the road but it's very practical, it should be pretty cheap to run and it has obviously been very well cared for. I reckon that dash mat has been in the car from new to stop the dashboard getting cooked by the sun and cracking up...
+Steve Varholy It could be, it does look very similar to the Nissan Vanette+Serena/LDV Cub sold in the UK in the late '90s but this predates them by a few years and they were rear-wheel drive but this is front-wheel drive...
In the US it was the Nissan Quest as Josh noted below. For Nissan, it was pretty much a US-market only vehicle. The engine is a Nissan 3-liter as Nick Meyers noted. Both Ford and Nissan were scrambling to get into the Minivan game, so they teamed up. This was much more reliable than the Windstar with the "disposable" automatic transaxles.
Yes. And the Windstar had not launched yet. The Aerostars are actually a really nice drive. I used to drive one for work back in the day and it was one of the few station vehicles I did not mind taking home. Aerostars are basically a van Explorer/Ranger so they were not right for the consumer market expecting a fwd car-like experience. I still see a number of them around. They look like hell usually from deteriorating plastic. Had a friend with an ex-Consumer Reports 4wd Aerostar... he drove it until the CT winters ate it away....
My father use to have a 1998 Nissan Quest, which was identical to the Mercury Villager. He had to get rid of it when the brake line began leaking fluid and the part that needed to be replaced stopped being made by Nissan and the third party manufacturers.
They are some good vans. My mom use to own a 1994 nissan quest years ago. Pretty much the same thing. She also had a 2000 nissan quest right after. It was totalled and she bought an odyssey. Someone is bound to scoop that thing up.
I know this is a old video but just a little info these Mercury Villager vans was built by Nissan for Ford Mercury nothing like the Taurus's or any of the Ford V6s. Still a very good engine an maybe even less trouble free, I think there was only a couple of them in our dealer ship for work the whole time I was there and it wasn't power or drive train related that I recall. What area are you guys located?
They are decent vans, i daily drove mine for a year then it had a few issues that weren’t worth fixing with the mileage, 230k with reverse going out, blown brake line and head gasket blown. It’s going on it’s second demo derby and this one will go into a heavy weld class
That's Nissans good ol VG30E under the hood. Same motor in my 94 Pathfinder. If the stories are true the motors in the Mercury villager in Nissan quest are non interference which makes them even better than the rest of the VG30E lineup.
My Brother Had The same van in 2004 when I was 3 years old! 😃 and then my mom started driving it and it broke down on her! and it ended up being in the driveway of my house in 2008-2009 until she got rid of it in 2010! 😃 that’s one of my childhood memories!
Not sure if thats true. Gates timing belt guide states it is an interference engine. Cant image since these were built different than other Nissan 3.0L
its true, the 3.0l and the 3.3l used in the second gen are all the same engines even for the trucks besides diffrent ecu tunes.... but they were modified to be non interference engines only to go in the minivans though.
I have the Nissan quest which is identical to this vehicle down to every bolt and I have 225,000 miles on it and it’s still going strong and in great shape mechanic told me these things will do 350,000 no problem with normal maintenance I even have a blown head gasket I have to put in some gasket sealer in it keeps on going but now I’m trying to take out the rear bench seat and I can’t get the brackets out I may have to cut them out after I remove the couch
Love those vans save it. There's nothing ford about it except for the hood ornament Jay. Ford and Nissan teamed up for this one. That motor is a Nissan 3 L. Same motor that is in the Nissan Maxima. The Nissan quest and mercury villager are the same van. Keep it around Jay or sell it and make some money. :-)
In the uk you need to get an m.o.t every year to make sure its safe, is it the same in the usa? It can be that it needs a lot of small thing doing to it making it uneconomical to put it back on the road, if it had spent its 12 years here in Scotland it would be rotten underneath . I really enjoy watching your videos thanks.
I know this is a really late reply but depending where you live in the US we only have to pass emission inspection every year and where I live we don't even have to do that, all we do is buy registration tabs every year for around $50.
This V6 isn't Ford built at all, it's Nissan's VG30. Used in the Pathfinder/D21 truck up until 95, and the VG33 was used in the Pathfinder from 96-2000.
Wasn't made until '93. The fully optioned out LS trim level and Nautica had digital dashes. They were always available thru the entire production run of these vans. Mine has it
Yes it's a Nissan Quest. The motorized seat belt I think was a Nissan thing. Don't recall seeing this on other brands. My 94 Maxima had the same thing. It's too nice to scrap. What do people get when you pick up a car for scrap? Do they get money or something? Hope someone buys it.
$500 is an absolute steal for that.
I have the Same Exact Van, Great Shape, Jus needing minor work. I put new ignition on it, fuel pump kit, 2 front tires, Thermostat, It was a 1 owner driven & then to being parked, & not able to drive Anymore, It sat for 6 yrs. , m noticing it may need a cv joint I’m guessing from a lil crank noise I only hear when I make a right turn,, I’m Jus guessing , idk Any Ideas ??
Another classic agp Van !!!!!!!!! He had this when he was in trailwood
283K van looks like it has only done 50k or less... TOO good to scrap!
most of the time it has to undergo service or repair that is to expensive, exceeding the price of the whole car
in which case you buy the parts on rockauto, do the work yourself and fix it up cheap. reliance on "shops" that charge $80 per hour has allot to do with this. if only i could find high mileage cars like this around here that i could buy at scrap prices and fix up. unfortunately around here, anything this vintage that has been driven all year round is long since garbage, if it is already scrapped its falling apart at the pinch welds ready to be put out of its misery. the rots the shit out of them.
Wtf. That's cleaner then most used cars with 20k on them
i bet elderly people owned it. No way it was actually used with kids.
If it was used with kids, everything would be worn to shit most likely
It was probably bought new by someone in their mid 60s and was a dd for them until they couldn't drive anymore.
Or at most the grandkid's were in it only once in awhile.
My folks had two vans during my childhood. We kept them clean, but I wasn't harsh on cars as a kid or in my mid twenties. We still have the second van to this day. A good detailing and she'll shine like new.
I love that van. Nothin' better than a junky 90's car that isn't actually junk and has good use
Wow that's a very well maintained car. It deserves a good home. Keep it Jay or sell it to someone who will treat it well. :-)
The Villager was built along side its twin, the Nissan Quest in a Ford plant. It has a drivetrain from the Nissan Maxima, probably the best and most reliable of the time. These are still popular and 1/2 a million miles is not unusual and will probably be purchased quickly for good money. In the NYC area you could get $3-4K for it.
way too much
Bought mine in the Bronx for 1250, 130,000 miles. In a year it was shot to shit
Just bought a 93 last week with 91000 miles. And the damn things is clean as all hell.
The best minivan ever made. Period
hope it gets a good home
If I lived in the USA I would buy it. This is a really good car
ThePawel121 same, even though im not a fan of minivans
That Minivan Brings Back So Many Memories Of My Family
Amazing vans, I still use a '93 as my winter beater, never let me down once, I hope someone put this one to good use!
Up until past few years, these Quest/Villagers were used by contractors and lasted long time. Rust and age is taking their toll. Was funny to see former top of line Villager Nauticas with ladders on roof, used as painters vans.
No, the motors are not Ford's, were Nissan v6's. Ford/Nissan should have kept these going, the last year was 2003.
That's a very nice looking Villager especially considering it's 22 years old. In my opinion it's definitely worth saving.
That dash mat is used to stop the original dash from serious cracking, which can happen in a 22 year old vehicle
David Thomas. Yes. The owner was on top of it. Whoever owned it , took care of it for sure. The cleaness of the engine speaks for itself.
Still have my 98 Villager, bought brand new, just hit 190K miles! Great great van. Going to be hard to trade it in but I need to someday.
I had one of these with the rear seat heat and air. It was quiet and reliable, but a bit piggish on gas. The fan was actually made my Nissan and uses a timing belt. It's taller and has longer, wider doors than my Grand Caravan has and is a helluva lot more comfortable to drive. The only weakness these have are the control arms that are almost $200 a side and break frequently on Michigan's moonscape of roads. I miss mine.
Some friends of my family (not the Voyager owners) had a Villager when their son, daughter and me were kids. The daughter said they chose Villager over Nissan Quest because the Quest was 2000 dollars more. My dad found out from them Villager was a Mercury like Prizm was a Chevy, basically. In Villager's case, it was a Ford/Nissan joint venture.
Thats Nissan's infamous 3.0 V6 under the hood - no American motor. Funny to see the mix of Nissan and Ford parts. Nissan switches, Ford ignition switch tumbler and radio, etc.
yes, because Nissan made it for Mercury and it similar to the Nissan Quest.
i thought it was a badge engineered windstar boy was i wrong.
Actually they're pretty good engines the same one used in Z31 300ZXs though in these it's a non interference design so if the timing belt ever breaks you don't end up with trashed valves.
@@Patchuchan Ford forced an upgrade on nissan to a metal timing belt. No worries with this car. I still own one.
I have a93 still runs good. I would buy this one as well
Holy crap that's mint.
Lot of wierd quirks and things for sure. Definitely a 90s car! Wouldn't mind that for a couple hundred bucks myself. My philosophy is if a car has got high mileage but is in great condition and is that clean, means it's better than many cars with half the mileage which tend to be double the price!
The Villager is a Nissan Quest same motors and everything just different badging
the villager and quest were co-designed and developed by ford and nissan. so you can say that quest is a villager as well.
Those always had a Nissan engine
And the grill
The Mercury Villager is like a combination between a Nissan Quest and a Ford Windstar.
windstar is not even on the same platform as the villager/quest.
When the interior is pristine and a dash mat is protecting the dash, you know the previous owner loved his/her car. I treat my Corolla like a baby. I'm probably going to get a dash mat and a back deck mat to protect the interior better.
3.0L Nissan VG30E under the hood. Same engine found in 80's 300ZX and Maxima, and 90's Pathfinder. Torquey but not a screamer. The updated 3.3L VG33E was available in all kinds of Pathfinders, Frontiers, Quests, etc. Lots of them still on the road with 300K+ on them. It's really the engine the Vulcan or GM Vortec should have been. Great van! Buy it for your road trips.
That's in great condition. Just noticed that this is also the original Angry Grandpa Van, but that thing was crappy looking compared to this.
Oh man, angry grandpa.. may he RIP
There's a middle eastern owned taxi company here the runs these still to this day. They love them. Basically there whole fleet. Many have 350k miles plus. They do change oil no joke every 3k miles which is sometimes as soon as a week. Compared to the caravan, windstar, venture, Sedona, town and county, etc. They are pretty dam reliable. This van is Easily worth 500 to someone.
Seriously? Sure, it has almost 300k miles on the odemeter, but the van is nearly mint, who scraps a nearly mint condition van? If I had $500, I'd find a way to get that van to my place, it'd be a good replacement for my 1992 Buick Century.
Michael Lutz, old people mostly. And some dealers will scrap things with near 300k instead of having to sell it.
Fix the RPM gage and paint the roof and that's it! Also the power lock needs to be fixed if you cared to fix that.
Way better than my 96 that I'm still driving, with a dead cylinder. Figure it will still go another 50k. Amazing the nice vehicles people junk
Where is it located and how much
Thats a good move by Mercury, because the villager van, the ones with the 3.3 liter nissan engine, thats a non interference engine. Thats good to know.
Had the same van brand new. Drove it from NJ to FL several times. It was very quiet and quite comfortable to drive. Mine was deep jewel green metallic and also had the rear A/C option. I'd keep that one for sure. It's well worth holding on to.
That van is from the period when Ford and Mazda were heavily tied up together so there may well be more Mazda than Ford in that one, it does look rather similar to a JDM Mazda people carrier from that period. The fact that the original cargo net is still in place is a damn good sign of careful ownership as things like that tend to get removed and lost pretty quickly. With the overall condition of that van for $500 it should be a no-brainer, it might not be the most interesting car on the road but it's very practical, it should be pretty cheap to run and it has obviously been very well cared for. I reckon that dash mat has been in the car from new to stop the dashboard getting cooked by the sun and cracking up...
It's a Nissan van.
+Steve Varholy It could be, it does look very similar to the Nissan Vanette+Serena/LDV Cub sold in the UK in the late '90s but this predates them by a few years and they were rear-wheel drive but this is front-wheel drive...
In the US it was the Nissan Quest as Josh noted below. For Nissan, it was pretty much a US-market only vehicle. The engine is a Nissan 3-liter as Nick Meyers noted. Both Ford and Nissan were scrambling to get into the Minivan game, so they teamed up. This was much more reliable than the Windstar with the "disposable" automatic transaxles.
I think Ford was still making the older RWD Aerostar at this point.
Yes. And the Windstar had not launched yet. The Aerostars are actually a really nice drive. I used to drive one for work back in the day and it was one of the few station vehicles I did not mind taking home. Aerostars are basically a van Explorer/Ranger so they were not right for the consumer market expecting a fwd car-like experience. I still see a number of them around. They look like hell usually from deteriorating plastic. Had a friend with an ex-Consumer Reports 4wd Aerostar... he drove it until the CT winters ate it away....
Thanks guys . I Appreciate the videos !!!
Anytime , thanks for watching !
I wonder why they scrapped it. Looks like mostly everything works and it's very clean. They should've donated it to a charity.
Starman998 nice of you to decide what others should donate to charity..
it's sold
Colin Johnston Nice of you to vocalize your unsolicited opinion.....
My father use to have a 1998 Nissan Quest, which was identical to the Mercury Villager. He had to get rid of it when the brake line began leaking fluid and the part that needed to be replaced stopped being made by Nissan and the third party manufacturers.
They are some good vans. My mom use to own a 1994 nissan quest years ago. Pretty much the same thing. She also had a 2000 nissan quest right after. It was totalled and she bought an odyssey. Someone is bound to scoop that thing up.
I know this is a old video but just a little info these Mercury Villager vans was built by Nissan for Ford Mercury nothing like the Taurus's or any of the Ford V6s. Still a very good engine an maybe even less trouble free, I think there was only a couple of them in our dealer ship for work the whole time I was there and it wasn't power or drive train related that I recall.
What area are you guys located?
I get floor mats clean by spaying Simple Green on them, hit them with a brush, hit it with a hose and leave out to dry.... they look brand new!
"I know its ugly but its good"
"ash tray for all them kids smokin in the back" Lmao omg
They are decent vans, i daily drove mine for a year then it had a few issues that weren’t worth fixing with the mileage, 230k with reverse going out, blown brake line and head gasket blown. It’s going on it’s second demo derby and this one will go into a heavy weld class
They may have been boring to look at and drive but 90's Fords have always been extremely reliable in my experience.
Did this get sold?
Love the videos makes me sad though because I'm in Australia
Mercury's will run forever
Beautiful where’s your junkyard located
Who bought this van ? just curious. Not a bad deal for $500.00 !
That's Nissans good ol VG30E under the hood. Same motor in my 94 Pathfinder. If the stories are true the motors in the Mercury villager in Nissan quest are non interference which makes them even better than the rest of the VG30E lineup.
What happened to this van? Hope it found a good home.
My Brother Had The same van in 2004 when I was 3 years old! 😃 and then my mom started driving it and it broke down on her! and it ended up being in the driveway of my house in 2008-2009 until she got rid of it in 2010! 😃 that’s one of my childhood memories!
lol
where are you located
please, where do i find chassis numbering
Where is this scrap yard
where are you guys located?
Bad head gasket? Any issues at all?
that would be the Nissan 3.0l the same one that's in the trucks.
Not sure if thats true. Gates timing belt guide states it is an interference engine. Cant image since these were built different than other Nissan 3.0L
its true, the 3.0l and the 3.3l used in the second gen are all the same engines even for the trucks besides diffrent ecu tunes.... but they were modified to be non interference engines only to go in the minivans though.
Are we going to see the svt focus?
All this car needs is a NEW home! Does not even really need cleaning it is already very tidy all round.
I am interested in buying it how much are you asking?
$550!
Jay Smart Where are you located
Did these share a similar body style with the older nissan quests??
they are one in the same only difference is the decals
where are you located I'm interested?
Cant beat it for 500. With that mileage someone took good care of it.
what state is the the van in?
You'll Need That One "Jay" When You Find That Special Lady & Bring Some Children Into The World.
That is a Nissan V6 modified to Ford specs. The Villager is identical to the Nissan Quest. My friends mom owned one when I was in middle school.😀
I wonder how many parts it shares with the windstar/aerostar
Not bad I'd take it, could be a shaggin wagon 4 sure!
Did it sell???!!!
Have you had a chance to film a video of the silver saturn VUE that y'all put a clutch in
Where is ur lot located?
sure would like to own this car
My aunt Ethel had this van but her's was the Special Edition in red and grey with grey interior however she basically sold it
I have the Nissan quest which is identical to this vehicle down to every bolt and I have 225,000 miles on it and it’s still going strong and in great shape mechanic told me these things will do 350,000 no problem with normal maintenance I even have a blown head gasket I have to put in some gasket sealer in it keeps on going but now I’m trying to take out the rear bench seat and I can’t get the brackets out I may have to cut them out after I remove the couch
It cranked for a long time prior to starting. Possible check valve on fuel pump or something else.
Love those vans save it.
There's nothing ford about it except for the hood ornament Jay.
Ford and Nissan teamed up for this one.
That motor is a Nissan 3 L.
Same motor that is in the Nissan Maxima.
The Nissan quest and mercury villager are the same van.
Keep it around Jay or sell it and make some money. :-)
In the uk you need to get an m.o.t every year to make sure its safe, is it the same in the usa? It can be that it needs a lot of small thing doing to it making it uneconomical to put it back on the road, if it had spent its 12 years here in Scotland it would be rotten underneath . I really enjoy watching your videos thanks.
I know this is a really late reply but depending where you live in the US we only have to pass emission inspection every year and where I live we don't even have to do that, all we do is buy registration tabs every year for around $50.
Nice van
Still got it?
It's in better shape than my 2015 dodge grand caravan
do you list the cars on cragslist and other car buying internet applications so other people could see it?
and then add your video to the description of the car for a more information on the vehicle
This V6 isn't Ford built at all, it's Nissan's VG30. Used in the Pathfinder/D21 truck up until 95, and the VG33 was used in the Pathfinder from 96-2000.
I haven’t seen one of those since i was a kid.
Why didint you buy it?
Do you have toyota camery 2002?or toyota pruise I need to buy one!
The 3.0 is a Nissan, lifted from the 90s Maxima.
I'd love to have one like this those Vulcan engines can go
My aunt patty use to drive a van like this with a long straight face like she dgaf
That’s the Nissan 3.0 V6.
Where are you located? I am interested in this van.
Its sold. Long ago.
I’m pretty sure it’s a Nissan V6. It was a joint venture with the Nissan Quest.
Do you still have the van? I want to come get it if it is still available
Video is old. And van is long gone. Most of the time if a video is older then two weeks the item in it is GONE
@@MXguy95 olA
Didn’t this Van have a Digital Dash?
the 92/93 did but after 93 NO
richard c oh ok.
Wasn't made until '93. The fully optioned out LS trim level and Nautica had digital dashes. They were always available thru the entire production run of these vans. Mine has it
Send address where van is located. Will buy..Jerry Adams
i would buy it and turn it into a camper or something to temporarily live in. and for $500 dang awesome price.
my wife and I would love to have it.
Hey give it a tune up wrap it get some new tiers can use it as a work van
My Mom Used To Have One Of These Vans Like That
Where the Mercury at I always like them want/ would like another one
Yes it's a Nissan Quest. The motorized seat belt I think was a Nissan thing.
Don't recall seeing this on other brands. My 94 Maxima had the same thing. It's too nice to scrap. What do people get when you pick up a car for scrap? Do they get money or something? Hope someone buys it.