2000 Mercury Sable defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2000 Mercury Sable. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Speed control cable damage
  Preliminary Evaluation PE12033 · opened Oct 24, 2012 · closed Jun 26, 2013

  On June 21, 2013, Ford initiated Customer Satisfaction Program 13B04 to address a concern with Speed Control Cable damage in certain model year (MY) 2000 through 2003 Taurus and Sable vehicles equipped with 3.0L 4V Duratec engines and built at the Chicago assembly plant.In the dealer letter for the program, Ford indica…

• REAR COIL SPRING FRACTURE
  Engineering Analysis EA06002 · opened Jan 24, 2006 · closed Feb 5, 2007

  Odi's analysis identified a high complaint rate for the rear coil springs in the salt belt states (approximately 250 per 100,000 vehicles).approximately 59 percent of the complaints alleged that the coil spring failure caused damage to the adjacent rear tire, with about half of these (30 percent of total complaints) al…

• REAR COIL SPRING FRACTURE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE05054 · opened Sep 27, 2005 · closed Jan 24, 2006

  The office of defect investigation (odi) opened preliminary evaluation, pe05-054, based on 131 vehicle owner questionnaires related to alleged rear coil spring fractures.since opening the investigation there have been an additional sixty-three (63) complaints alleging rear coil spring fracture.an analysis of the vehicl…

• FRONT SUSPENSION COIL SPRING FRACTURE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE04044 · opened May 24, 2004 · closed Aug 16, 2004 · led to recall 04V332000

  Odi possesses 130 vehicle owners questionnaires (voq) alleging front suspension coil spring failure in the subject (model year 1999-2000) vehicles.an additional 11 voqs concerning my 2001 vehicles have been found, bringing the total to 141.more than 75% of these reports allege that the broken spring damaged or puncture…

• BRAKE/ACCELERATOR PEDAL APPLICATION
  Investigation RP03001 · opened Oct 31, 2003 · closed Mar 23, 2004

  Ms. Rodman reported that after her vehicle was inspected for the recall, her mother experienced a sudden acceleration and crashed the sable into a light pole.previously nhtsa had conducted an investigation for this issue (pe02-035) that resulted in the recall (02v-266) of 369,000 my 2000-2002 taurus and sable vehicles …

• BRAKE LIGHT SWITCH FAILURE
  Recall Query RQ03008 · opened Oct 23, 2003 · closed Mar 5, 2004 · led to recall 04V106000

  Ford conducted a recall in march, 2001 to correct a defect affecting the brake light switch in my 2000 through early-2001 taurus and sable vehicles equipped with power adjustable pedals (recall 01v-078).rq03-008 was opened to investigate complaints concerning the remedy and scope of 01v-078.odi's analysis identified co…

• FRONTAL AIR BAG NON-DEPLOYMENT IN CRASH
  Engineering Analysis EA03010 · opened Jul 2, 2003 · closed Jun 23, 2004

  This investigation identified a total of 427 reports alleging non-deployment of the frontal air bags.of the 427 reports, two incidents (fatal crashes) have been identified as severe frontal crashes in which the frontal air bags did not deploy.a defect trend has not been identified at this time.further use of agency res…

• FRONTAL AIR BAG NON-DEPLOYMENT IN CRASH
  Preliminary Evaluation PE03002 · opened Jan 6, 2003 · closed Jul 2, 2003

  Ford motor company has identified 260 reports alleging frontal air bag non-deployment for any (severity) frontal or near-frontal crash on model year 2000-2001 ford taurus and mercury sable vehicles.additional crash reports are contained in nhtsa's fatality analysis reporting system (fars) database.the single odi report…

• BRAKE/ACCEL PEDAL SEPARATION
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02035 · opened Mar 15, 2002 · closed Oct 22, 2002 · led to recall 02V266000