Recall Register

2002 Lincoln Town Car: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2002 Lincoln Town Car. NHTSA has 65 complaints on file for this model year. 3 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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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

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2002 Lincoln Town Car. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 65 complaints for it.

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

65 complaints, 71 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.

  • 2002 Lincoln Town Car
  • All 2002 vehicles
2002 Lincoln Town Car: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2002 Town CarAll 2002 vehiclesTown Car, all yearsMentions
Air Bags295.873.77621
Vehicle Speed Control16939.2108.312
Service Brakes, Hydraulic140.876.510010
Latches/Locks/Linkages56.311.319.24
Visibility42.338.7403
Engine and Engine Cooling42.3100.31093
Suspension42.381.277.23
Steering42.339.655.43
Electrical System42.394.6128.93
Structure28.26238.62

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 16.

Complaints that report a crash
14
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
12
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
14 May 2026

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 2002 Lincoln Town Car, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2002, with 17 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2002 Lincoln Town Car
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
DP05005Defect petitionSPARK PLUG EJECTION FROM CYLINDER HEADEngine and Engine Cooling / Engine22 Sep 20054 Jan 2006
EA03014Engineering analysisINADVERTENT SIDE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENTAir Bags / Side/Window22 Aug 200312 Aug 2004
PE03011Preliminary evaluationINADVERTENT SIDE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENTAir Bags / Side/Window14 Mar 200322 Aug 2003

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. 2002 Lincoln Town Car: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/town-car/2002/. 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

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Questions

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. None of them names the 2002 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Town Car name most often?
Air Bags: 21 of 71 component mentions, or 295.8 per 1,000. For all 2002 vehicles the figure is 73.7 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2002 Lincoln Town Car open?
No. Each of the 3 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.