2001 MERCURY SABLE Complaints

THE BRAKES, THE PEDAL, THE POWER TRAIN AND TRANSMISSION FAILED DUE TO THE COMPUTER MALFUNCTIONS. *YH

ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS VEHICLE REVVED AND ACCELERATED SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY. DEALER INSPECTED VEHICLE, AND COULD NOT DUPLICATE OR CORRECT THE PROBLEM. AFTER DEALER'S INSPECTION, VEHICLE, REVVED AND ACCELERATED FORWARD GAIN, RESULTING IN A COLLISION. VEHICLE WAS TOTALED. PLEASE PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.*AK CONSUMER STATES THREE TIMES AT SPEEDS RANGING FROM 3 TO 20 MPH WHEN JAMMING N THE BRAKES EITHER IN FOWARD OR REVERS THE ENGINE WOULD REV UP AT HIGH SPEED AND THE VEHICLE WOULD LURCH EITHER BACKWARDS OR FOWARDS, DEPENDING ON WHAAT GEAR CONSUMER WAS IN, CONSUMER WAS INFORMED THAT THE PROBLEM COULD NOT BE DUPLICATED, ON THE LAST OCCASION THE VEHICLE WENT OUT OF CONRTOL AND WAS TOTALLED.*JB

BEFORE CONSUMER'S WIFE COULD TAKE FOOT OFF THE BRAKE, AND AFTER SHIFTING FROM PARK TO DRIVE, VEHICLE SUDDENLY ACCELERATED AND WENT 30 FEET BEFORE HITTING A BUILDING. CONSUMER BRUISED, BUT OTHERWISE NOT SERIOUSLY INJURED. *AK MANUFACTURER IS STATING THAT ACCIDENT WAS CAUSED NOT CAUSED BY A DEFECT IN THE VEHICLE. *SLC

WHEN BRAKES ARE APPLIED BRAKE PEDAL IS DEPRESSED AND IT GOES DOWN FLUSH WITH ACCELERATOR PEDAL, CAUSING UNINTENTIONAL ACCELERATION. BRAKE PEDAL SITS HIGHER THAN ACCELRERATOR PEDAL. SO ACCLERATOR DOES NOT CAUSE A PROBLEM, UNTILE BRAKE IS APPLIED. FORD SENT A LETTER STATING IT WAS WITHIN DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE VEHICLE.*AK THE CONSUMER DEPRESSES THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL AND THE BRAKE PEDAL AT THE SAME TIME UNINTENTIONALLY DUE TO FAULTY DESIGN OF THE PEDAL. *YH

CONSUMER STATES HE IS HAVING TROUBLE TURNING THE KEY IN THE IGNITION, WHICH ALSO RESULTED IN THE STEERING WHEEL NOT TURNING.*YD

A FEATURE THAT WAS USED TO SELL CAR, MADE FOR TALLER DRIVERS, DID NOT WORK WELL. WHEN PEDAL WAS IN THE HIGH POSITION DRIVER'S FOOT COULD GO UNDER PEDAL. WHEN IN LOW POSITION IT COULDN'T GO UNDER PEDAL. THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH FOOT ROOM FOR LEFT FOOT. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK

DUE TO DESIGN OF HEAD RESTRAINT AND HEIGHT OF THE HEAD REST, WHEN BACKING VEHICLE OUT, CONSUMER NOTICED THERE WAS A BLIND SPOT, OBSTRUCTING DRIVER'S VISION ON ONE SIDE WHICH COULD CAUSE AN ACCIDENT. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED DEALER. DEALER STATED THAT OTHER CONSUMER'S HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT DESIGN OF THE HEAD REST.*AK CONSUMER STATES THERE IS ONLY 4 AND 1/2 INCHES BETWEEN SIDE OF HEADREST AND DOOR, THERE IS 5 INCHES BETWEEN TOP OF HEADREST AND CEILING AND CONSUMER CAN NOT SEE AROUND IT OR OVER IT, TOP OF CONSUMERS HEAD IS LEVEL WITH TOP OF HEADREST. *SLC

THE CAR WILL NOT START ALTHOUGH THE BATTERY IS CHARGED. THE ANT-THEFT DEVICE APPEARS TO BE THE PROBLEM AGAIN. THE FORD TOWING SERVICE TOLD ME THAT THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM.*AK

TRANSMISSION FITTING NOT SECURED CAUSING LOSE OF FLUID, TRANSMISSION TO SLIP WITH SUDDEN RAPID ACCELERATION RESULTING. CAUSING VERY NEAR MISS WITH ONCOMING TRAFFIC. GROSS NEGLIGENCE , NO EVIDENCE OF SAFETY INSPECTION HAD TO HAVE CAR TOWED 35 MILES BECAUSE IT WAS UNDRIVABLE, CAR ONLY 4 DAYS OLD. DEALER CLAIMS NEGLIGENCE DUE TO FACTORY ERROR.

WHILE AT A STOP LIGHT ENGINE STARTED TO REV. THEN CONSUMER CRASHED INTO ANOTHER CAR. RECENTLY, AUTHORIZED MECHANIC'S FOOT ACCIDENTALLY ENGAGED THE GAS PEDAL WHILE APPLYING THE BRAKE PEDAL AND DROVE CONSUMER'S VEHICLE INTO A WORK BENCH CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THE VEHICLE. *AK THE GAS PEDAL AND BRAKE PEDAL ARE TOO CLOSE TOGETHER AND ARE A DANGEROUS SAFETY HAZARD. THIS PROBLEM WAS A DESIGN DEFECT. *YH CONSUMER HAS EXPERIENCED 3 ACCIDENTS DUE TO THE DESIGN OF THE GAS AND BRAKE PEDAL. BY INSPECTED DEALERSHIP AND DEPT. OF HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, THE BRAKE AND GAS PEDAL ASSEMBLIES WERE REPLACED. *TT