Lincoln Continental — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 1,514 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Suspension156 (10.3%)
• Electrical system132 (8.7%)
• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)108 (7.1%)Official recall records for this system: 8, covering model years 2000–2020.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)100 (6.6%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 1996–1997.
• Body & structure98 (6.5%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2017–2019.
• Brakes88 (5.8%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1995–2002.

Other / uncategorized: 90 classifications (5.9%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (1,178 records, model years 1995–2020) are most frequently classified under: suspension, electrical system and visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors).
• Manufacturer communications (1,977 records, model years 1995–2020) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, equipment & accessories and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 408reports included a mileage
• 74,263average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1995 226 records for 1995 226
2. 1996 208 records for 1996 208
3. 1997 256 records for 1997 256
4. 1998 215 records for 1998 215
5. 1999 153 records for 1999 153
6. 2000 145 records for 2000 145
7. 2001 85 records for 2001 85
8. 2002 72 records for 2002 72
9. 2017 278 records for 2017 278
10. 2018 158 records for 2018 158
11. 2019 160 records for 2019 160
12. 2020 79 records for 2020 79

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 84mention a crash
• 30mention a fire
• 74mention an injury
• 4mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 44
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 1,977
• Investigations NHTSA 10
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 32
• Owner complaints NHTSA 1,178

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• U0198 in 14 records · 2017–2019
• P0457 in 12 records · 1997–2002
• P0442 in 9 records · 1997–2002
• P0455 in 9 records · 1997–2002
• P0741 in 7 records · 1996–2002
• P0171 in 6 records · 1997–2002
• P0456 in 6 records · 1997–2002
• P1442 in 6 records · 1997–2002

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.