16V247000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
An improperly inflated air bag increases the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
2008 MERCURY SABLE
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation, 81 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints81
Complaints citing a crash10
Complaints citing a fire3
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 14STEERING
- 10VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 9ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 9POWER TRAIN
- 5ENGINE
- 4UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 3AIR BAGS
- 3SEATS
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2008 MERCURY SABLEs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.