Recall Register

Lincoln Mark V: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 7 recall campaigns for the Lincoln Mark V, model years 1977 to 1985. NHTSA has 4 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 5 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. 19774
  2. 19783
  3. 19792
  4. 19840
  5. 19850
Lincoln Mark V: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1985 Lincoln Mark V NHTSA page01125%
1984 Lincoln Mark V NHTSA page01125%
1979 Lincoln Mark V200%89,000
1978 Lincoln Mark V31125%160,000
1977 Lincoln Mark V41125%152,063

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

5 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 Mark V: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Tires6003
Suspension2001
Electrical System2001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lincoln Mark V, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Lincoln Mark V, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lincoln: all 24 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lincoln Mark V: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/mark-v/. 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 Mark V model years have the most recall campaigns?
1977 with 4, 1978 with 3, 1979 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lincoln Mark V model year has the most complaints?
The 1977 model year, with 1 of the 4 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lincoln Mark V name?
Tires: 3 component mentions. Suspension: 1 component mention. Electrical System: 1 component mention.