46 problems related to rear suspension coil springs have been reported for the 2002 Mercury Sable. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2002 Mercury Sable based on all problems reported for the 2002 Sable.
Rear coil spring broke. A piece of the coil actually fell off of the vehicle. I was able to retrieve piece of coil off of the road. It broke at the top of the spring. No further damage occurred.
On my 2002 Mercury Sable GS the suspension coil spring on the passenger rear of the vehicle broke while driving on a smooth highway. Was told by dealer that it is not covered. Luckily, the tire was not punctured. . . I noticed that you are investigating it so I wanted to report it.
: the contact stated the front left coil spring fractured and pierced the front left tire on 1/5/2006. The coil spring was replaced at the sales/service dealer. On 12/6/2006, the vehicle was taken to a national chain to replace the tires and the two rear coil springs were found to be fractured. The vehicle was returned to the sales/service dealer for replacement of both rear coil springs. The manufacturer was notified.
Broken rear spring. Broken in two places. Discovered during routine servicing.
My 2002 Mercury Sable has broken all four coil springs, both sets in multiple fractures in each spring. Although they admit this is frequent (the local dealer service garage said that they had seen hundreds of 02s with this problem, I believe that the 450 or so shown on this site on this site is very far off) the front pair broke around the 50,000 mark, it took about five visits to the dealer to get even limited credit toward replacement. The failure was progressive, sag was only noticed when it got extreme. Interestingly they did break in pairs. Tire damage occurred when one edge of the spring protruded into the tire. They refused to allow me to keep the spring/strut combo(the struts were leaking from the added abuse and travel) the spring looked to have broken through inclusions in the steel, from my auto industry connections, I found these had been sourced in china, and were hold-overs from the 2001 model. At about the 80,000 mile mark, the rear springs were obviously failed, again multiple crack points, one tire was gouged out by the protruding spring. Dealer service again indicated that no help was being issued, despite again in their words hundreds of complaints I still have both the damaged tire and spring/strut combos. Again, the fracture surface was marked with inclusions, and voids, corrosion looked to be secondary. I have run into at least five additional owners who have a fracture and were denied any satisfaction from Ford. Ford zone and regional people underplay the problem as if trying to convince it is rare, yet both times the service people indicate it to be common. This has been very frustrating. There are also unscrupulous repair facilities, one of which initially refused to take my car down from the lift saying it was deadly, while trying to extort over $1,200 to repair same. I had to threaten to call the local police before they would let me have my own car.
: the contact stated while reversing and slightly turning the wheel, the rear coil spring detached and punctured the front driver side tire. The vehicle was taken to a service dealer, where it was determined that a fractured coil spring caused the spring to rub against the tire. The dealer replaced all 4 coil springs and 2 tires as a result of the fractured coil spring. The manufacturer was notified. Updated 09/13/06.
2002 Mercury Sable left rear coil spring broke. The spring appeared to have been corroded.
Rear passenger side coil spring broke and has damaged my new tire dealer said I would need to bring it in. Is not covered by warranty this needs investigated I read 2 other complaints of this occurring on 2002 Sables as with earlier years.
2002 Mercury Sable both front & both rear springs/ corroded & snapped. Front left tire punctured. No official recall for 2002. My father has a 2000 with same exact problem which was covered by recall my car needs rear struts/rear springs /sway bar links/front struts/& springs with link kits basically the whole front & rear suspension. Transmission failed a just over 80,000 miles.
The rear coil spring on my 2002 Mercury Sable is broken and needs to be replaced. My son also has a 2002 Mercury Sable and he had a similar problem with a broken rear coil spirng. Please check the replacements on the Ford taraus and Mercury Sables and I am sure you will find there is a defect problem. This is a saftey defect and neds to be addressed. Thank you!.
The car had a noise in the rear sounded like a lose pipe was waiting to have the car look at. Some days later all of a sudden one day the spring must have moved and flattened the tire. Installed the spare tire and drove to the dealer turns out that both rear coil springs were broken.