Recall Register

Lincoln LS: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the Lincoln LS, model years 2000 to 2006. NHTSA has 960 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 7 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20001
  2. 20011
  3. 20020
  4. 20031
  5. 20040
  6. 20051
  7. 20060
Lincoln LS: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2006 Lincoln LS NHTSA page01813%
2005 Lincoln LS18461%56
2004 Lincoln LS08965%
2003 Lincoln LS16547%1,736
2002 Lincoln LS011483%
2001 Lincoln LS1237173%82,300
2000 Lincoln LS1353257%82,300

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

1,331 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Lincoln LS: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Suspension211.1281
Engine and Engine Cooling109.7146
Air Bags102.2136
Power Train94.7126
Electrical System77.4103
Vehicle Speed Control59.479
Service Brakes, Hydraulic40.654
Visibility37.650
Steering36.849
Structure24.833

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lincoln LS, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Lincoln LS, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 88 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lincoln: all 24 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lincoln LS: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/ls/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Lincoln LS model years have the most recall campaigns?
2005 with 1, 2003 with 1, 2001 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lincoln LS model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 353 of the 960 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lincoln LS name?
Suspension: 211.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 109.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 102.2 per 1,000 component mentions.