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1993 Mercury Sable cruise control problems

Owners reported cruise control problems in 28 complaints for the 1993 Mercury Sable, 3% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
28 3% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
4 and 1
Injuries and deaths
1 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 4 crashes, 1 fire, 1 injury.

What owners wrote

Sudden acceleration forward; vehicle raced forward with foot on brake pedal, crashed into garage door, throwing driver forward and backward, resulting in injuries.

June 1996 CrashInjury

While driving down rd gas pedal stuck my daughter road the brake until she could get off road .she called I work the linkage for the gas by hand that freed it up took it to my mechanic he took it for a test drive said its not releasing fast enough he tried a couple things vacuum hoses and some other parts that did not solve the problem he went on line and found there has been problems with the cable and told me to call ford.

Reported at 153,600 miles, December 2012

Other problems reported for the 1993 Mercury Sable

Cruise control problems in other years

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