NHTSA Safety Recalls
2004 Mercury Sable Recalls
The 2004 Mercury Sable has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on July 8, 2004.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2004 Mercury Sable. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 52
- Crashes reported
- 3
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2004 Mercury Sable, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2004 Mercury Sable
Seats: front assembly: power adjust
- Campaign
- 04V330000
- Reported
- July 8, 2004
- Vehicles affected
- up to 24,277
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2 other models
Service brakes, hydraulic: foundation components: disc: pads
- Campaign
- 16E026000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2001–2003, 2005 Sable, 2 other models
2004 Mercury Sable complaints by year
NHTSA has received 52 owner complaints about the 2004 Mercury Sable, the newest on April 10, 2020. Of these, 3 describe a crash (6%); owners reported 3 injuries.
In complaints about the 2004 Mercury Sable, the component group named most often is the vehicle speed control (29%), followed by the power train (23%) and the service brakes (17%).
None of the 2004 Mercury Sable's 2 recalls concerns the vehicle speed control.
Where 2004 Mercury Sable owners gave the mileage (42 complaints), the median was 71,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Vehicle Speed Control15
- Power Train12
- Service Brakes9
- Exterior Lighting7
- Electrical System6
- Engine3
Complaints received, by year
| 2004 | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | |
| 2006 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 1 | |
| 2008 | 3 | |
| 2009 | 1 | |
| 2010 | 1 | |
| 2011 | 3 | |
| 2012 | 9 | |
| 2013 | 6 | |
| 2014 | 6 | |
| 2015 | 4 | |
| 2016 | 4 | |
| 2017 | 1 | |
| 2018 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2004 Mercury Sable peaked in 2012, when NHTSA received 9. 21% arrived between 2003 and 2007, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2004 vehicles, the 2004 Mercury Sable drew 0.2× the complaints of the median Mercury Sable year in the same window: 6th highest of the 6 ranked years.
That makes 2004 one of the three best-measured Mercury Sable years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 3/5
The 52 complaints about the 2004 Mercury Sable are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Sable by model year
Other 2004 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: April 10, 2020. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted