1996 Lincoln Mark

Routine

Owners filed 7 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the exterior lighting › headlights. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Exterior Lighting › Headlights2
000
Power Train › Automatic Transmission › Torque Converter1
000
Power Train › Automatic Transmission1
101
Fuel System, Gasoline › Storage › Tank Assembly1
000
Electrical System › Wiring › Interior/Under Dash1
000
Electrical System1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical System
Filed Jan 23, 201473,000 milesNV

THE HEADLIGHT ASSEMBLY REFLECTIVE COATING HAS ALL CLOUDED AND FLAKED OFF CAUSING HIGHLY UNSAFE NIGHT TIME DRIVING CONDITIONS. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY COMMON ISSUE WITH THE MARK VIII FOR MODEL YEARS 93-96 WITH THE STANDARD HALOGEN HEADLAMPS. FORD MOTOR CO. IS AWARE AND SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPAIR / REPLACEMENT OF THE AFFECTED PARTS. *TR

Exterior Lighting › Headlights
Filed Aug 15, 2006IN

I UNDERSTAND THAT LAMPS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR MY HID HEADLIGHTS. I AM CONCERNED THAT THE VEHICLE WILL BE UNSAFE AT NIGHT WHEN THEY EVENTUALLY REQUIRE REPLACEMENT. *NM

Power Train › Automatic Transmission › Torque Converter
Filed Aug 27, 2001MI

VEHICLE EXPERIENCED INTERMITTENT VIBRATION WHEN TRANSMISSION SHIFTS UP FROM THIRD TO FOURTH, TRANSMISSION GOT WORSE AND WOULD NOT DOWNSHIFT, DEALER REPLACED THE TORQUE CONVERTER CLUTCH. *SLC

Power Train › Automatic TransmissionCrash1 injured
Filed Jan 13, 1998AL

VEHICLLE JUMPED FROM PARK INTO REVERSE WHILE DRIVER HAD STEPPED OUT. VEHICLE HIT AN EMBANKMENT, WHILE TRAVELING BACKWARDS, JUMPED INTO DRIVE AND RAN OVER DRIVER, SEVERELY INJURING DRIVER. NEITHER LINCOLN DEALERSHIP NOR A FORD DESING ANALYSIS ENGINEER COULD FIND THE CAUSE FOR THIS ERRATIC OCCURRENCE. *AK

Exterior Lighting › Headlights
Filed Sep 11, 1997CA

HEADLIGHT FAILURE.

Electrical System › Wiring › Interior/Under Dash
Filed Sep 2, 1997CA

COMOPUTER COMPONENT FAILURE.

Fuel System, Gasoline › Storage › Tank Assembly
Filed Aug 29, 1997CA

GAS TANK DOOR RELEASE LATCH FAILED.

7 of 7 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1995
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19991000Routine
19988010Routine
19974000Routine
1996 — this page7000Routine
19959000Routine
19945010Routine
19938000Routine
19921000Routine
19905000Routine

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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.