Recall Register

Lincoln MKS: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Lincoln MKS, model years 2009 to 2015. NHTSA has 19 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 7 model years have a page on this register.

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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. 20091
  2. 20100
  3. 20113
  4. 20123
  5. 20137
  6. 20142
  7. 20153
Lincoln MKS: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2015 Lincoln MKS300%84,870
2014 Lincoln MKS200%160,752
2013 Lincoln MKS700%1,153,484
2012 Lincoln MKS300%591,549
2011 Lincoln MKS300%589,207
2010 Lincoln MKS NHTSA page04147%
2009 Lincoln MKS NHTSA page115553%695

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

27 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 MKS: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic333.39
Vehicle Speed Control148.14
Seats111.13
Equipment74.12
Visibility74.12
Steering371
Power Train371
Latches/Locks/Linkages371
Traction Control System371
Engine and Engine Cooling371

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lincoln MKS, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2015, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Lincoln MKS, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 16 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lincoln: all 23 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lincoln MKS: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/mks/. 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
29 Mar 2018
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 MKS model years have the most recall campaigns?
2013 with 7, 2015 with 3, 2012 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lincoln MKS model year has the most complaints?
The 2009 model year, with 15 of the 19 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lincoln MKS name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 9 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 4 component mentions. Seats: 3 component mentions.