Recall Register

Lincoln MKZ Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, model years 2011 to 2020. NHTSA has 178 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 10 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. 20110
  2. 20120
  3. 20130
  4. 20140
  5. 20150
  6. 20160
  7. 20170
  8. 20180
  9. 20190
  10. 20200
Lincoln MKZ Hybrid: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2020 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid NHTSA page016%
2019 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid NHTSA page0211%
2018 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid NHTSA page0211%
2017 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid NHTSA page01796%
2016 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid NHTSA page0634%
2015 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid NHTSA page01267%
2014 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid027152%
2013 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid NHTSA page01267%
2012 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid059331%
2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid040225%

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

236 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 MKZ Hybrid: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering169.540
Air Bags156.837
Service Brakes, Hydraulic84.720
Unknown or Other84.720
Electrical System76.318
Structure46.611
Engine46.611
Service Brakes46.611
Power Train46.611
Wheels38.19

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 39 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lincoln: all 24 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lincoln MKZ Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/mkz-hybrid/. 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

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 MKZ Hybrid model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which Lincoln MKZ Hybrid model year has the most complaints?
The 2012 model year, with 59 of the 178 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid name?
Steering: 169.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 156.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 84.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid?
7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.