Anyone familiar with 2001 Mercury Sables? I recently have gotten to use a 2001 Sable that is a perfectly great car. Low mileage, (43,000) fully loaded etc. However, it was obviously not driven very much, once a week back and forth to the beauty shop, but it was not garaged… mostly parked under a car…

The Sable you’ve recently gotten to use may be a “perfectly great car” now, but it won’t when you’re finished with it. The coolant light is not related to the AC. They are separate issues. Have you ever heard of “paragraphs?”

Thanks for the constructive insight. Very helpful. (notice the Paragraph?) The reason I am asking for advice is because I would like for it to STAY a good car. Whenever the light comes on I park the car as quickly as possible. There are times when I can drive it all day and the light doesn’t com…

Very nicely done. Truly, there’s little excuse for not being at least semi-professional, failing that, nice. Top 20 contributor or not. I suspect, as you suspect, that you are correct. :slight_smile: Most of what you describe sounds electrical (to me). Not knowing a heck of a lot about Sables, I’d …

Hello, It sounds as if the vehicle is overheating on you occasionally. The electric cooling fan is designed to come on when the coolant/antifreeze reaches 215 degrees. The electric cooling fan is supposed to come on automatically whenever the A/C is as well. Some fans have two speeds as well. I…

Skip the fuel injection service: a waste of your money. Don’t get the trans flushed. Get the pan dropped, fluid and filter changed. Make sure they use the proper fluid that Ford specifies.

How was the coolant level checked? It is very possible for the reservoir to be showing full and there be air inside the engine’s water jacket. In a properly functioning system, the expanding hot fluid would push past eth radiator cap and into the reservoir and then be drawn back into the engine when…

Thanks, hadn’t thought of that. We are in Texas and Fire Ants love to eat the electrical insulation around wires. Many an AC compressor outside a house has bitten the dust due to ants at first being drawn to the condensation run off, and then the insulation.

Thanks everyone. This is very helpful. Now I know where to focus when we take the car to the garage. My brother has been trying to oversee Mom’s car but really only knows how to SELL you a car. I know more about cars than he does - which should give you a good idea about how much he knows. I’m f…

I have a 99 Taurs that has had similar problems. If you have flushed the coolant and are still getting the light coming on then it most likely is the switch in the tank or the connection to the switch under the tank. A replacement tank is $25-$40 at a parts store and very easy to change. As far as y…

Low Coolant light

Maintenance/Repairs

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Have seen a lot of coolant level sensors located in the coolant tank hang up causing the low coolant light to come on. The only real fix is to replace the tank. There could be a strategy programmed into the PCM to kill the A/C if any kind of problem occurs with the cooling system. That rating has nothing to do with automobile knowledge, just how much someone has responded. Gotsta feel impotent!

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