2001 MERCURY SABLE — Complaint #665511
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS filed April 13, 2008
NHTSA complaint #665511 (ODI reference 10224339) concerns a 2001 MERCURY SABLE and was filed on April 13, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 4, 2008. The vehicle had 88,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:rear:springs, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same MERCURY SABLE cohort independently describe similar suspension:rear:springs failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2001 MERCURY SABLE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
A LOUD BANG FROM THE REAR OF MY 2001 MERCURY SABLE. I REMOVED ONE OF THE REAR TIRES AND FOUND THAT THE REAR SPRING HAD BROKE ON THE DRIVERS SIDE. IT HAD A SHARP EDGE ON IT THAT COULD PUNCTURE THE REAR TIRE. THE FRONT SPRINGS HAD A RECALL DONE ON THEM. WHY ARE THE REAR SPRINGS NOT COVERED UNDER THIS RECALL? *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 665511 |
| ODI Number | 10224339 |
| Date Filed | April 13, 2008 |
| Failure Date | April 4, 2008 |
| VIN | 1MEFM55S01G |
Similar SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS Complaints for 2001 MERCURY SABLE
BROKEN FRONT AND REAR SPRINGS 2001 MERCURY SABLE. *TR
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HAD TO REPLACE RIGHT REAR COIL SPRING, WHICH BROKE AND WAS SCRAPING THE TIRE, WHICH WAS A VERY HAZARDOUS CONDITION. THE FRONT COIL SPRINGS WERE REPLACED IN A FORD RECALL ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO, THE LEFT R
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2001 MERCURY SABLE. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO HAVE MAINTENANCE WORK PERFORMED, AND LEARNED THAT THE REAR SPRINGS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE VEHICLE FAILED. THE COST TO REPLACE
LEFT REAR SPRING BROKE WHILE SITTING IN PARKING LOT. WHEN DRIVEN NEXT THE REAR TIRE WAS SHREDDED! VEHICLE HAD TO BE TOWED. *TR
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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