NHTSA Safety Recalls
2005 Mercury Sable Recalls
The 2005 Mercury Sable has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2005 Mercury Sable. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 83
- Crashes reported
- 3
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2005 Mercury Sable, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2005 Mercury Sable
Service brakes, hydraulic: foundation components: disc: pads
- Campaign
- 16E026000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2001–2004 Sable, 2 other models
2005 Mercury Sable complaints by year
NHTSA has received 83 owner complaints about the 2005 Mercury Sable, the newest on September 14, 2023. Of these, 3 describe a crash (4%); owners reported 3 injuries.
In complaints about the 2005 Mercury Sable, the component group named most often is the vehicle speed control (46%), followed by the power train (31%) and the service brakes (8%).
The 2005 Mercury Sable's only recall does not concern the vehicle speed control.
Where 2005 Mercury Sable owners gave the mileage (71 complaints), the median was 80,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Vehicle Speed Control38
- Power Train26
- Service Brakes7
- Steering7
- Electrical System6
- Engine5
Complaints received, by year
| 2005 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 2 | |
| 2008 | 4 | |
| 2009 | 1 | |
| 2010 | 1 | |
| 2011 | 8 | |
| 2012 | 19 | |
| 2013 | 16 | |
| 2014 | 8 | |
| 2015 | 3 | |
| 2016 | 3 | |
| 2017 | 4 | |
| 2018 | 4 | |
| 2019 | 3 | |
| 2020 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2005 Mercury Sable peaked in 2012, when NHTSA received 19. 11% arrived between 2004 and 2008, the model year's first years on the road.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 3/5
The 83 complaints about the 2005 Mercury Sable are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Mercury Sable by model year
Other 2005 Mercury models
Newest record on this page: September 14, 2023. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted