1998 Lincoln Town Car defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1998 Lincoln Town Car. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• SPARK PLUG EJECTION FROM CYLINDER HEAD
  Defect Petition DP05005 · opened Sep 22, 2005 · closed Jan 4, 2006

  On september 6, 2005, odi received a petition requesting that the agency investigate allegations of engine spark plug ejection in certain model year 1997 through 2004 ford vehicles with triton v-8 and v-10 engines.odi received a total of 474 non-duplicative complaints on the subject vehicles where the complainant, or t…

• FUEL-FED FIRES
  Defect Petition DP02007 · opened Aug 22, 2002 · closed Dec 4, 2002

  The fars data shows that the risk of fire from impact in all directions in the subject vehicles is the same as all other sedans.the subject vehicles are not over represented with respect to the risk of fire in real-world high-energy crashes.a further discussion of issues related to post crash fires in the subject vehic…

• POST REAR END COLLISION FIRES
  Investigation SQ01014 · opened Nov 27, 2001 · closed Oct 3, 2002 · led to recall 02I003000

  There is no summary currently available

• FUEL SPIT BACK DURING REFUELING
  Engineering Analysis EA99010 · opened Apr 9, 1999 · closed May 4, 1999

  There is no summary currently available

• FUEL SPIT BACK DURING REFUELING
  Preliminary Evaluation PE98052 · opened Sep 25, 1998 · closed Apr 9, 1999

  The subject vehicle is fitted with an onboard refuelig vapor recovery (orvr) system, as required by the epa.the epa safety requirements, prepared in cooperation with ,and approved by nhtsa, require vehicles to be refueled at a rate of 10 gallons per minute (the maximum rate allowed to be used in refueling stations, by …