Recall Register

Mercury Sable: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 46 recall campaigns for the Mercury Sable, model years 1984 to 2009. NHTSA has 5,381 complaints on file for this model line. 21 of the 24 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19840
  2. 19868
  3. 19878
  4. 19885
  5. 19896
  6. 19905
  7. 19914
  8. 19924
  9. 19936
  10. 19944
  11. 19955
  12. 19965
  13. 19973
  14. 19982
  15. 19995
  16. 20007
  17. 20018
  18. 20023
  19. 20033
  20. 20041
  21. 20050
  22. 20060
  23. 20081
  24. 20090
Mercury Sable: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2009 Mercury Sable NHTSA page0209%
2008 Mercury Sable16127%695
2006 Mercury Sable NHTSA page010%
2005 Mercury Sable08337%
2004 Mercury Sable15223%24,277
2003 Mercury Sable320190%1,406,609
2002 Mercury Sable3440196%1,376,297
2001 Mercury Sable8430192%3,952,991
2000 Mercury Sable7464207%3,688,463
1999 Mercury Sable5258115%939,166
1998 Mercury Sable219085%578,800
1997 Mercury Sable3228102%711,800
1996 Mercury Sable5304136%556,900
1995 Mercury Sable5350156%3,681,660
1994 Mercury Sable4387173%3,490,900
1993 Mercury Sable6674301%3,772,112
1992 Mercury Sable4364162%3,638,900
1991 Mercury Sable422199%3,888,700
1990 Mercury Sable516674%4,243,900
1989 Mercury Sable6238106%4,541,000
1988 Mercury Sable512656%5,564,000
1987 Mercury Sable87634%8,919,345
1986 Mercury Sable84621%8,923,200
1984 Mercury Sable NHTSA page010%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

7,190 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Mercury Sable: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling191.91,380
Suspension137.4988
Power Train117.4844
Vehicle Speed Control72.3520
Electrical System65.6472
Service Brakes, Hydraulic61.5442
Structure47.4341
Steering46.9337
Visibility41.2296
Exterior Lighting39.9287

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercury Sable, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1998, with 8 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercury Sable, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 649 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercury: all 26 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercury Sable: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/sable/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Mercury Sable model years have the most recall campaigns?
2001 with 8, 1987 with 8, 1986 with 8. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercury Sable model year has the most complaints?
The 1993 model year, with 674 of the 5,381 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercury Sable name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 191.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 137.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 117.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercury Sable?
50 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.