Recall Register

1983 Lincoln Town Car: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the 1983 Lincoln Town Car. The newest campaign is 90V093000. NHTSA received the report on 9 May 1990. The NHTSA record gives the component Equipment / Other / Labels. NHTSA has 4 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names this model year.

The NHTSA recall file shows no do-not-drive advisory and no park-outside advisory on these campaigns.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Remedy of the newest campaign, 90V093000, in the NHTSA record

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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.

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Recall campaigns

3 campaigns, newest first. 134,706 units in total.

  1. 90V093000Received . 544 units.

    Equipment / Other / Labels

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Vehicle description: limousines built by empire coach. Vehicle alterers label may be missing or incomplete.
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    Vehicles do not comply with part 567.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Add compliance label.

    Report filed by EMPIRE COACH COMPANY. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  2. 83V028000Received . 98,162 units.

    Power Train / Automatic Transmission

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The parking gear may not engage, even though the gear shift lever is placed in the "park" position. This occurs if the linkage inside the transmission that actuates the park gear was improperly manufactured. A pin that retains components on a linkage (actuating) rod could break and the linkage may not engage the parking gear.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealer will inspect and, if necessary, replace the parking pawl actuating rod assembly.

    Report filed by FORD MOTOR COMPANY.

  3. 83V017000Received . 36,000 units.

    Power Train / Automatic Transmission / Lever and Linkage / Column Shift

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The shift indicator may not accurately reflect the shift selector position. Some vehicles were produced with transmission control selector tube retaining clips that may not be hard enough. The clip may loosen or fall off, and the selector tube may become displaced.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    The dealer will replace the transmission control selector tube retaining clip at no charge to owner.

    Report filed by FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

The campaign number opens the NHTSA record. Each quotation is the text of the NHTSA recall file.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

4 complaints, 6 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1983 Lincoln Town Car: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Engine and Engine Cooling2
Latches/Locks/Linkages2
Vehicle Speed Control1
Steering1
Complaints that report a crash
0
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
1
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
12 Sep 2000

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1983 Lincoln Town Car, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 1 complaint.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1983 Lincoln Town Car
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE89039Preliminary evaluationPARKING BRAKE FAILUREParking Brake9 Feb 198913 Jun 1989

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19770
  2. 19780
  3. 19800
  4. 19810
  5. 19820
  6. 19833
  7. 19841
  8. 19851
  9. 19864
  10. 19876
  11. 19885
  12. 19895
  13. 19904
  14. 19915
  15. 19924
  16. 19934
  17. 19945
  18. 19956
  19. 19968
  20. 19976
  21. 19987
  22. 19995
  23. 20008
  24. 20015
  25. 20020
  26. 20031
  27. 20040
  28. 20053
  29. 20062
  30. 20073
  31. 20083
  32. 20093
  33. 20103
  34. 20113

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1983 Lincoln Town Car: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/town-car/1983/. 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
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
EMPIRE COACH COMPANY

The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

How many units are in the recall campaigns for the 1983 Lincoln Town Car?
134,706 units in 3 campaigns. A campaign can name other models and model years, and its units include them.
How many recall campaigns does the Lincoln Town Car have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 47 recall campaigns for the Lincoln Town Car, model years 1977 to 2011. 3 of them name the 1983 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1983 Lincoln Town Car name most often?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 2 of 6 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1983 Lincoln Town Car open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.