Recall Register

Lincoln Mark VII: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Lincoln Mark VII, model years 1984 to 1998. NHTSA has 106 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 15 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. 19843
  2. 19852
  3. 19865
  4. 19871
  5. 19881
  6. 19890
  7. 19900
  8. 19910
  9. 19920
  10. 19930
  11. 19940
  12. 19950
  13. 19960
  14. 19970
  15. 19980
Lincoln Mark VII: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1998 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page0571%
1997 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page0228%
1996 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page0228%
1995 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page0342%
1994 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page0114%
1993 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page0342%
1992 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page0342%
1991 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page014198%
1990 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page012170%
1989 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page013184%
1988 Lincoln Mark VII126368%3,600,000
1987 Lincoln Mark VII NHTSA page1799%3,600,000
1986 Lincoln Mark VII58113%3,674,147
1985 Lincoln Mark VII2685%57,200
1984 Lincoln Mark VII3114%553,600

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

137 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 VII: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System189.826
Service Brakes, Hydraulic131.418
Engine and Engine Cooling102.214
Suspension80.311
Exterior Lighting80.311
Vehicle Speed Control65.79
Power Train51.17
Visibility51.17
Seats43.86
Seat Belts43.86

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lincoln Mark VII, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Lincoln Mark VII, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 20 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lincoln: all 24 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lincoln Mark VII: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/mark-vii/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
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 VII model years have the most recall campaigns?
1986 with 5, 1984 with 3, 1985 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lincoln Mark VII model year has the most complaints?
The 1988 model year, with 26 of the 106 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lincoln Mark VII name?
Electrical System: 189.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 131.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 102.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Lincoln Mark VII?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.