2003 Lincoln Town Car defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2003 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…

• REAR AXLE FRACTURE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE04010 · opened Jan 22, 2004 · closed Jul 8, 2004 · led to recall 04V328000

  This pe was opened after odi became aware of two allegations concerning rear axle fracture and partial wheel separation involving my 2003 ford crown victoria police interceptors (cvpi).initially, the pe's scope involved all my 2003 grand marquis, crown victoria, and lincoln town cars (I.e., panther platform) produced t…

• INADVERTENT SIDE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENT
  Engineering Analysis EA03014 · opened Aug 22, 2003 · closed Aug 12, 2004

  This investigation identified a total of 182 reports alleging inadvertent or non-crash deployment of the side air bags.the data examined during the investigation suggest that the side air bag crash sensing system's algorithm may recognize certain non-crash incidents as deployable events.odi has not, however, identified…

• INADVERTENT SIDE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENT
  Preliminary Evaluation PE03011 · opened Mar 14, 2003 · closed Aug 22, 2003

  Odi has identified 173 complaints alleging inadvertent or non-crash deployment of side air bags on model year (my) 1999-2003 lincoln town cars.most of the complaints allege that one of the side air bags deployed while driving without any impact.analysis showed that my 2001 through early my 2003 town cars have much high…