1999 Lincoln Town Car brakes problems
24 complaints about brakes have been filed for the 1999 Lincoln Town Car, which is 12% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.
At a glance
- Complaints
- 24 12% of this year's complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 3 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 1 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
What the data shows
These complaints mention 3 crashes, 1 fire, 1 injury.
What owners wrote
Vehicle was parked with engine off. When started, vehicle went approximately 10-14 feet. Attempted to make a u-turn, and put foot on brake pedal, but there were no brakes. Vehicle accelerated out of control. Put vehicle in park and it continued to travel and hit a parked car in the rear, but continued to travel. Finally vehicle was turned off and it stopped. Upon impact , air bags failed to deploy. Drive rsustained injuries, and vehicle was totaled.
The consumer's vehicle has required multiple repairs to include ball joint replacement, turned rotors and idler arm replacement. The vehicle only has 70000 miles. The cruise would not shut off without a near skid amount of braking, this would also occur because the shifter would not come out of the park position.
Other problems reported for the 1999 Lincoln Town Car
- Air bags 29 complaints
- Suspension 24 complaints
- Wipers, windshield & visibility 21 complaints
- Body & structure 16 complaints
- Engine 15 complaints
- Steering 15 complaints