NHTSA Safety Recalls
2002 Mercury Sable Recalls
The 2002 Mercury Sable has 4 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on March 2, 2004.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2002 Mercury Sable. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 4
- Owner complaints
- 440
- Crashes reported
- 32
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
5 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2002 Mercury Sable, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
4 recalls on the 2002 Mercury Sable
Exterior lighting: brake lights: switch
- Campaign
- 04V106000
- Reported
- March 2, 2004
- Vehicles affected
- up to 938,789
- Same campaign
- also 2000–2001, 2003 Sable, 1 other model
Visibility: windshield
- Campaign
- 03V087000
- Reported
- March 10, 2003
- Vehicles affected
- up to 67,894
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Federal standard
- FMVSS 212, windshield mounting
- Same campaign
- also 2003 Sable, 1 other model
Service brakes, hydraulic: pedals and linkages
- Campaign
- 02V266000
- Reported
- October 2, 2002
- Vehicles affected
- up to 369,614
- Same campaign
- also 2000–2001 Sable, 1 other model
Service brakes, hydraulic: foundation components: disc: pads
- Campaign
- 16E026000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2001, 2003–2005 Sable, 2 other models
2002 Mercury Sable complaints by year
NHTSA has received 440 owner complaints about the 2002 Mercury Sable, the newest on October 4, 2022. Of these, 32 describe a crash (7%) and 5 a fire; owners reported 22 injuries and 1 death.
In complaints about the 2002 Mercury Sable, the component group named most often is the suspension (54%), followed by the vehicle speed control (13%) and the visibility (6%).
1 of the 2002 Mercury Sable's 4 recalls also concerns the visibility.
Where 2002 Mercury Sable owners gave the mileage (358 complaints), the median was 75,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Suspension239
- Vehicle Speed Control56
- Visibility26
- Air Bags24
- Power Train23
- Engine And Engine Cooling20
Complaints received, by year
| 2002 | 21 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 19 | |
| 2004 | 33 | |
| 2005 | 28 | |
| 2006 | 28 | |
| 2007 | 47 | |
| 2008 | 59 | |
| 2009 | 37 | |
| 2010 | 49 | |
| 2011 | 34 | |
| 2012 | 28 | |
| 2013 | 16 | |
| 2014 | 12 | |
| 2015 | 8 | |
| 2016 | 11 | |
| 2017 | 4 | |
| 2018 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 2 |
Complaints about the 2002 Mercury Sable peaked in 2008, when NHTSA received 59. 23% arrived between 2001 and 2005, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2002 vehicles, the 2002 Mercury Sable drew 1.2× the complaints of the median Mercury Sable year in the same window: 3rd highest of the 6 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
The 440 complaints about the 2002 Mercury Sable are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Sable by model year
Other 2002 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: October 4, 2022. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted