While the tow truck driver was backing the consumer car out of the garage noticed a scraping noise. Tow truck driver found that the coil spring broke and punctured the left tire. Dealer was contacted. Dealer informed consumer that the vehicle was not covered under a manufacturer's recall.*ak the consumer stated that the front springs, struts, sway bar needed to be replaced.
1998 Mercury Sable suspension complaints
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While parked front driver's side coil spring failed. As a result, the tire was punctured. One month later, the front passenger side failed. *ak consumer doesn't know if first failure was occurred while parked or while moving it out of 3ft of snow. Consumer couldn't see it until moved from snow, 2nd failure occurred in the parking lot. Both times it ripped a 12' whole in the tire. Consumer neighbor also has the same model vehicle and the same problem. Consumer had to replace both coil springs and tires.
While driving left spring popped and punctured the tire, causing it to blow out. One year later the same incident happened with the right side.
Recall 04v332000 concerning front coil springs failure. Dealership did not repair the problem, because the VIN was not included.
Car set in driveway and left front spring broke.
While driving 45 MPH outer right rear tire blewout . Consumer changed tire, noticing rear spring struts broke and caused blowout of tire.
While driving at 20 MPH, the front coil spring failed, and punctured the passenger side tire.
I took this car in for routine tire rotation and wheel alignment and was told about the defective rear camber. They said it needs a kit 20% of the time before 60,000 miles. This rotation and alignment cost me $206.09. This is unacceptable in my opinion.
When consumer moved the vehicle from the driveway, front spring broke causing front left tire to blowout. *nlm
While consumer was backing out of driveway front coil spring broke, and went through the tire. Dealership was aware of problem. *ak
While driving vehicle vibrates and severely pulls to the right, cause unknown. Please give any further details.
Vehicle makes a clunking noise when vehicle hits a bump.
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