Lincoln Town Car owners have reported 3 problems related to steering anti-theft device (under the steering category). The most recently reported issues are listed below. Also please check out the statistics and reliability analysis of Lincoln Town Car based on all problems reported for the Town Car.
The consumer was not able to restart the parked vehicle due to the locked steering column. The steering column had been excessively difficult to unlock. The consumer was concerned about being stranded when the situation occurs. Mr the incident happened in the summer of 1998 as well-possibly the first incident. Scc.
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Anti theft - system would go off on its own; locked garage, etc. After 3 tries, dealer replaced sterring column tamper switch. (3/15/00). No problem since then. Soon roof rocker switch has broken twice. You still must be extremely careful when opening and closing the sun roof.
Ant-theft device goes off for no apparent reason, causing horn to blow and lights to flash. Consumer has expeireinced this problem over 100 times since April of 1998. The dealer is not able to find out what causes this problem.