Owner-reported complaints naming the other system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports whose component NHTSA recorded as unknown, or that do not map to one of the categories above. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1996 Mercury Sable submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
I HAVE HAD THIS CAR FOR ONE YEAR AND ONE HALF. I BOUGHT IT FROM RAY HUDSON CHEVROLET IN LA CROSSE ,WIS. I HAD THE CAR TWO WEEKS AND THE TRANSMISSION HAD TO BE REPLACED. TWO WEEKS AFTER THE FRONT AND BACK BRAKES HAD TO BE REPLACED. THIS WAS AT THE DEALERS EXSPENSE. I HAD TO HAVE A WHEEL BEARING REPLACED AND NOW AFTER A YEAR AND 1/2 I HAVE TO REPLACE THE WHOLE MOTOR.
OWNER'S MANUAL INCORRECTLY IDENTIFIES FUSES IN PWR DIST. BOX PAGE 311. DT
CONSUMER COMPLAINS THAT THE JACK FOLDED THE FIRST TIME BEING USED. *JG
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I USED THE JACK. AS I WAS TIGHTENING THE LAST LUG NUT THE JACK COLLAPSED. IT WAS ON A FLAT ASPHALT SURFACE. THE HINGES OF THE JACK HAD BROKEN.
THERE WAS A NOISE SIMILAR TO THAT OF A SEPARATING BELT IN THE TIRE COMING FROM THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL. THE WHEEL WAS REMOVED FOR INSPECTION. WE DISCOVERED THAT THE CHROME WAS PEELING FROM THE BACK OF THE WHEEL AND WAS RUBBING AGAINST THE CALIPER WHEN THE WHEEL ROTATED. UPON REMOVING THE LOOSE CHROME, THE BACK OF THE ALUMINUM WHEEL WAS EXPOSED. THERE WAS CONSIDERABLE CORROSION ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE ALUMINUM SPOKES. THIS CAR HAS HAD VERY LIMITED EXPOSURE TO SALT/WINTER CONDITIONS AND THIS WHEEL IS BADLY CORRODED. BY THE TIME THIS CAR ACCUMULATES 80K-100K MILES THE WHEEL SPOKES WILL HAVE FAILED. I PLAN TO CONTACT THE DEALER AND INFORM THEM OF THIS SITUATION. *AK
LEFT LATCH ON THE CONVERTIBLE TOP HAD SNAPPED LOOSE.
STEERING WHEEL BROKE.
STEERING PROBLEMS DUE TO HIGH TORQUE.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
Categories with enough reports to have a page of their own
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