Mercury Sable — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 7,804 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Suspension1,716 (22.0%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 1999–2001.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)852 (10.9%)Official recall records for this system: 10, covering model years 1996–1999.
• Speed control & accelerator802 (10.3%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 1995–1999.
• Engine618 (7.9%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 1995–2003.
• Brakes582 (7.5%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 1995–2005.
• Electrical system404 (5.2%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 1995.

Other / uncategorized: 118 classifications (1.5%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (6,162 records, model years 1995–2009) are most frequently classified under: suspension, powertrain (transmission & drivetrain) and speed control & accelerator.
• Safety recalls (81 records, model years 1995–2008) are most frequently classified under: powertrain (transmission & drivetrain), brakes and lights.
• Manufacturer communications (2,189 records, model years 1995–2009) are most frequently classified under: powertrain (transmission & drivetrain), engine and electrical system.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 3,010reports included a mileage
• 74,927average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1995 481 records for 1995 481
2. 1996 575 records for 1996 575
3. 1997 478 records for 1997 478
4. 1998 378 records for 1998 378
5. 1999 440 records for 1999 440
6. 2000 655 records for 2000 655
7. 2001 554 records for 2001 554
8. 2002 545 records for 2002 545
9. 2003 275 records for 2003 275
10. 2004 109 records for 2004 109
11. 2005 115 records for 2005 115
12. 2008 77 records for 2008 77
13. 2009 27 records for 2009 27

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 436mention a crash
• 116mention a fire
• 546mention an injury
• 2mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 81
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 2,189
• Investigations NHTSA 54
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 37
• Owner complaints NHTSA 6,162

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0442 in 15 records · 1997–2003
• P0455 in 15 records · 1997–2003
• P0457 in 14 records · 1997–2003
• P1518 in 14 records · 1996–2000
• P1309 in 11 records · 1995–2003
• P0340 in 9 records · 1995–2003
• P0171 in 8 records · 1997–2002
• P0741 in 8 records · 1996–2003
• P1131 in 8 records · 2001–2004
• P0456 in 7 records · 1997–2003
• P1442 in 7 records · 1997–2003
• P1401 in 6 records · 2000–2002

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.