1994 Lincoln Mark Iii

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the seat belts › front › anchorage. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Vehicle Speed Control1
011
Seat Belts › Front › Anchorage1
000
Exterior Lighting › Headlights1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Exterior Lighting › Headlights
Filed Oct 4, 2007OH

I HAVE REPLACED THE HEADLIGHT ASSEMBLY'S WITH NEW AND THEY ARE ALREADY FOGGED UP AGAIN THE LIGHTING IS VERY POOR ON THESE CARS EVEN WITH THE NEW ASSEMBLY'S ON LOW BEAM ITS LIKE HAVING A LIGHT OUT I HAVE HAD IT AT THE DEALER SHIP AND THEY SAYS ITS NORMAL LIGHTING HAS BEEN TERRIBLE ON THESE CARS . *TR

Vehicle Speed ControlFire1 injured
Filed Apr 16, 2007TX

1994 LINCOLN MARK VIII THAT CAUGHT FIRE WHILE SITTING IN THE DRIVEWAY WITH THE ENGINE OFF**CC THE CONSUMER SUFFERED BURNS ON FOUR OF HIS FINGERS FROM TRYING TO PUT THE FIRE OUT. THE CONSUMER STATED IT LOOKED AS THOUGH THE FIRE STARTED IN THE RIGHT FRONT FENDER PANEL WHERE THE AIR SUSPENSION, MOTOR, BRAKE DEACTIVATION SWITCH AND THE SUBSEQUENT ELECTRONICS RESIDED. AFTER DOING SOME RESEARCH, THE CONSUMER DISCOVERED THE BRAKE DEACTIVATION SWITCH WAS THE CULPRIT AS IT WAS A KNOWN PROBLEM FOR CERTAIN FORD VEHICLES OF THE MODEL YEAR THE CONSUMER OWNS. *JB

Seat Belts › Front › Anchorage
Filed Jan 11, 1995OH

SAFETY BELTS ARE NOT WORKING PROPERLY. TT

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1994
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
1994 — this page3010Routine
19932000Routine
19902000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.