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1997 Lincoln Town Car lighting problems

Owners reported lighting problems in 23 complaints for the 1997 Lincoln Town Car, 6% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
23 6% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
0 and 0
Injuries and deaths
0 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

None of the lighting complaints mention a crash, fire, injury or death.

What owners wrote

When driving vehicle for about 1-2 hours headlights will become inoperative, causing loss visibility. Consumer has to wait overnight in order for headlights to become operative.dealer cannot find problem, has already replaced headlight switch twice/light control module/keypad ,and circuit breaker, defect still occurring.

While driving at 65 MPH headlights failed. Consumer used the hazard lights while stopping on the shoulder of the highway. After a few minutes the headlights began to work normally again. This problem occurred more than twice with this vehicle.

Reported at 111,000 miles, April 2004

Other problems reported for the 1997 Lincoln Town Car

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Lighting problems across all Lincoln models