Owner-reported complaints naming the fuel system system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming fuel storage or delivery — tanks, pumps, lines, injectors and fuel leaks. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1998 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
THE ENGINE ON MY SABLE WAGON ACCELERATES ON ITS OWN AFTER IT IS PUT INTO PARK, AND MANY TIMES BEFORE I TAKE IT OUT OF PARK. IT IS VERY DANGEROUS!
PRIOR TO RECALL REGARDING OBDII, CONSUMER EXPERIENCED FAINTNESS, NAUSEA AND DIZZINESS, FOLLOWED BY HEADACHES AND WEAKNESS WHILE DRIVING, CONSUMER BECAME AWARE OF THE RECALL AND HAD REPAIRS COMPLETED ON THE VEHICLE, HOWEVER CONSUMER SOUGHT A SECOND OPINION AND EMISSION LEAKS WERE FOUND IN THE MANIFOLD AREAS AND THE CATALYTIC CONVERSION PIPE, CONSUMER DOES NOT FEEL SAFE DRIVING THIS VEHICLE DUE TO THE CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING. *SLC
TURNED VEHICLE OFF TO FILL IT WITH FUEL. TURNED IT OFF & THEN ON WITHOUT STARTING. WAS UNABLE TO SHIFT VEHICLE INTO NEUTRAL TO BE MOVED. CONTACTED DEALER & WAS INFORMED HOW TO SHIFT WHEN ON BUT NOT RUNNING.*AK
WHILE PARKING VEHICLE A LOUD POPPING SOUND WAS HEARD COMING FROM UNDER THE HOOD. HOOD WAS RAISED AND A FIRE BROKE OUT AGAINST FIRE WALL IN CENTER AREA OF VEHCLE. BELIEVED FIRE WAS CAUSED BY A FUEL LEAKAGE FROM INJECTOR RAIL. DEALER / MANUFACTURER WERE NOT CONTACTED AT THIS TIME. CAN NHTSA HELP IN THIS MATTER. *AK
THE SYMPTOM IS THE 'CHECK ENGINE' LIGHT IS ALWAYS ON. IT CONSUMES MUCH MORE GAS THAN BEFORE DURING IDLING AND THE ENGINE TEMPERATURE TENDS TO BE HIGH.
ELECTRONIC SENSOR ASSEMBLY. F6DZ-964444-EA. FUEL GAUGE ASSEMBLY. F7DZ-93055-AA. PROBLEMS SINCE PURCHASE.
WINDSHIELD--LINES IN GLASS. DASHBOARD--COVERING IS BUBBLED.
HEAVY SMELL OF GASOLINE IS FELT WHEN GAS TANK IS ABOVE 3/4 FULL OR MAKING LEFT HAND TURNS ABOVE 20 MPH. DEALER ATTEMPTED TO FIX PROBLEM, BUT SMELL CONTINUES. CLAIM THEY HAVE SEEN IT IN MANY 1998 SABLES.
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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