2000 Mercury Sable electrical system problems
25 complaints about electrical system have been filed for the 2000 Mercury Sable, which is 4% of all its NHTSA complaints.
At a glance
- Complaints
- 25 4% of this year's complaints
- Typical mileage
- 49,000 miles 16 complaints with mileage
- Crashes and fires
- 0 and 4
- Injuries and deaths
- 0 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
When electrical system problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 4 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 4 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 0 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 1 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 1 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 4 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 1 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 1 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 16 electrical system complaints that report mileage, the median is about 49,000 miles, and 50% were reported before 60,000 miles.
These complaints mention 4 fires.
What owners wrote
Loud explosion which was result of back fire blowing out upper intake manifold. This condition is adressed in ford owner notification 00b38 (affecting 2000 sable and taurus with 3.0l duratec engine) in which ford agreed to reprogram the PCM to prevent this backfire and ruptured inake condition. Program was only open from april 2000 to april 2001. Obviously this car was never reprogrammed due to lack mailing issue or change of vehicle ownership.
Brakes shudder when applied, been cut down once already stopped for about 5000 miles then started again increasing in intensity as mileage climbed, also car will shut off for a moment or two causing loss of all power, and all dash indicator lights to come on, also had to replace brake light switch twice now.
Other problems reported for the 2000 Mercury Sable
- Suspension 170 complaints
- Cruise control 72 complaints
- Brakes 68 complaints
- Lighting 60 complaints
- Air bags 33 complaints
- Engine 31 complaints
- Transmission 24 complaints