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Melody Joseph Posted on Jun 17, 2008
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1996 mercury sable speed hand and drives in strain and ****

My 1996 Mercury Sable speed hand works off and on, it drives at a strained, jerks off, and steer wheel becomes hard to turn what is wrong?

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  • Anonymous Jul 13, 2008

    My seedometer stops working and i loose power steering, its an off and on problem today was the first day i lost steering, and once the speedometer started working again the steering was fine.

  • Anonymous Sep 01, 2008

    My Sable is doing the same. My code reader says it has a faulty speed sensor. I have not yet had an opportunity to replace it yet to see.

  • Anonymous Mar 18, 2014

    runs rough at speed. fine at idle

  • Anonymous Mar 27, 2014

    What would make steering wheel difficult to turn at times when driving especially on right turns.

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I hace a 19196 sable-the problem is the transaxle speed sensor-this part sends all speed info to the computer ..-First symptom(speedometer stops working and then transmission shifts erratacially and power steering becomes hard and engine light comes on..The computer on this all eletronic car cannot send proper signals to the speedo-trans-power steering and other functions without knowing how fast or slow the car is going..Have the SPEED SENSOR mounted on top of the tranaxle replaced and all will be well.Part is not to expensive.labor can vary depending whether you have 3.0OHV or DOHC engine-some cars have to have exhaust dropped to get at it-Good Luck All

  • Anonymous Sep 16, 2008

    Follw Up

    I had the Output Speed Sensor Replaced this morning..

    Parts $62.00

    Labor $120.00

    all symptoms as described above are gone and car drives and shifts normal and power steering too-with engine light out..

    This is the solution.....

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My Sable is doing the same. My code reader says it has a faulty speed sensor. I have not yet had an opportunity to replace it to see if that solves the problem.

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Wheel pressure most of time its this.

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