Lincoln Town Car owners have reported a total of 2,426 problems for their cars built in the 16 model years listed in the chart below. The chart shows the number of problems reported across all service years for each given model year of the Lincoln Town Car. The 1997 Lincoln Town Car cars have the most problems reported (397 problems).
The following chart shows the 26 most common problems for Lincoln Town Car cars. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's engine and engine cooling (320 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's vehicle speed control (271 problems).
It would not be fair to compare the Lincoln Town Car of an older model year to newer model years since older vehicles have been in service longer and thus are expected to have more problems. In order to compare the reliability across Town Car model years, we use the PPMY index which is defined as the problems reported per thousand vehicles per Year. A smaller PPMY index indicates greater reliability of the given model year cars.
PPMY = P / S / Y * 1000,
where P = total problems reported during the life of a Lincoln Town Car model year; S = total units sold of the model year; Y = years since the debut of the model year (the age of the vehicle).
The results are shown in Table 3.
Another way to measure the reliability across the model years of the Lincoln Town Car is to use the total number of problems reported during the vehicle's first year in service, as shown in the Table 4.
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| ☘ Town Car Service Bulletins |
| ⚑ Town Car Safety Recalls |
| ☤ Town Car Defect Investigations |
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