Recall Register

Lincoln MKX: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 23 recall campaigns for the Lincoln MKX, model years 2007 to 2020. NHTSA has 890 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 14 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. 20075
  2. 20086
  3. 20096
  4. 20106
  5. 20113
  6. 20121
  7. 20131
  8. 20141
  9. 20150
  10. 20167
  11. 20175
  12. 20185
  13. 20191
  14. 20201
Lincoln MKX: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2020 Lincoln MKX NHTSA page100%200,237
2019 Lincoln MKX NHTSA page100%200,237
2018 Lincoln MKX535%1,007,612
2017 Lincoln MKX569%1,088,964
2016 Lincoln MKX75485%1,205,129
2015 Lincoln MKX NHTSA page0914%
2014 Lincoln MKX NHTSA page11524%83,250
2013 Lincoln MKX15891%83,250
2012 Lincoln MKX14368%83,250
2011 Lincoln MKX380126%22,830
2010 Lincoln MKX680126%5,716,894
2009 Lincoln MKX64977%5,589,205
2008 Lincoln MKX6224352%5,336,939
2007 Lincoln MKX5269423%5,336,797

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

1,074 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 MKX: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags352.9379
Electrical System95102
Engine89.496
Power Train81.988
Service Brakes64.269
Fuel/Propulsion System60.565
Unknown or Other43.847
Structure39.142
Vehicle Speed Control32.635
Exterior Lighting19.621

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lincoln MKX, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2018, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Lincoln MKX, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 269 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lincoln: all 24 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lincoln MKX: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/mkx/. 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 MKX model years have the most recall campaigns?
2016 with 7, 2010 with 6, 2009 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lincoln MKX model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 269 of the 890 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lincoln MKX name?
Air Bags: 352.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 95 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 89.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Lincoln MKX?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.