The Recall Desk

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Mercury Sable

2 recalls affect this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

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All years2008 · 1 recall2001–2005 · 1 recall

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  • Severity pendingNHTSA·16V247000·2016-04-26

    Ford Recalls Taurus, Flex, and MKS for Air Bag Defect

    Ford is recalling specific 2008-2012 Taurus, Flex, Taurus X, Sable, and MKS vehicles because the driver's frontal air bag may inflate improperly during a crash.

    Product
    FORD — FORD, LINCOLN, MERCURY TAURUS X, FLEX, MKS, TAURUS
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide
  • Severity pendingNHTSA·16E026000·2016-04-01

    Bosch Recalls Aftermarket Brake Pads for Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury Vehicles

    Bosch is recalling specific aftermarket front brake pads for 1993-2007 Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury vehicles because a shifting shim may damage the brake disc, potentially reducing braking power.

    Product
    FORD — FORD, LINCOLN, MERCURY TAURUS, TAURUS SHO, CONTINENTAL, SABLE
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide

NHTSA crash-test safety rating

Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.

Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.

Wider context for this vehicle

Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.

Complaint clusters with no matching recall

  • 2005 · cruise-control — 34 complaints, median 91,100 mi
  • 2005 · powertrain — 25 complaints, median 83,215 mi

Technical service bulletins

42 manufacturer service bulletins across 3 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

  • 2009: 4.3/5 · 20 complaints · most complained-of: cruise-control
  • 2008: 3.9/5 · 61 complaints · most complained-of: steering
  • 2005: 3.8/5 · 83 complaints · most complained-of: cruise-control

This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.

Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.

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