Owner-reported complaints naming the airbag system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the air-bag system — deployment behaviour, inflators, sensors and warning lights. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1990 Lincoln Town Car submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 9 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
VEHICLE WAS GOING 40-45MPH IN THE DARK AND RAIN, AND VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A FRONTAL COLLISION. UPON IMPACT, AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. VEHICLE WAS TOTALED. CONSUMER SUSTAINED SPINAL INJURIES. DEALER WAS NOTIFIED.*AK PHOTOS ATTACHED. *TT
VEHICLE ISN'T ACCELERATING PROPERLY WHEN CONSUMER IS DRIVING. CONSUMER HAD TO PULL OFF THE ROAD AS ANOTHER VEHICLE WAS COMING STRAIGHT AT THE CONSUMER VEHICLE. IN ORDER TO AVOID AN ACCIDENT VEHICLE RAN OVER SOMETHING, AND THE AIR BAGS ON BOTH SIDES DIDN'T DEPLOY. *AK
DUAL AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY DURING FRONT END COLLISION. ENTIRE FRONT END SMASHED, VEHICLE HIT ANOTHER VEHICLE AT TOTAL STANDSTILL, VEHICLE AT BODY SHOP AWAITING INSPECTION BY INSURANCE COMPANY, SPEED 10 MPH. *AK
TOWN CAR STOPPED AT RED LIGHT, STARTED ON GREEN, ANOTHER VEHICLE RAN RED LIGHT & SMASHED FRONT OF TOWN CAR, DRIVER & PASSENGER AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. *AK *JB
DRIVERS AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY DURING A HEAD ON COLLISION AT 35MPH, TOTALLING OTHER VEHICLE. TT
DRIVERS AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY WHEN VEHICLE WAS HIT HEAD ON, DURING ACCIDENT SENSOR WAS KNOCK OUT OF PLACE AND THE LIGHT CAME ON. TT
DRIVER'S SIDE AIRBAG INDICATOR LIGHT CAME ON, DEALER SAID THEY NEED TO REPLACED SENSORS. TT THE DEALER WANTED $500 TO REPLACED ALL SENSORS INORDER TO STOP THE CONTINUEOUS FLASHING OF THE AIR BAG LIGHT. THE CONSUMER THINKS THIS WAS A MANUFACTURING PROBLEM AND HE SHOULD NOT PAY FOR IT. *YH
DRIVERS SIDE AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY UPON 12:00. TT
NO DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S AIR BAG DURING ACCIDENT.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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