Owner-reported complaints naming the fuel system system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming fuel storage or delivery — tanks, pumps, lines, injectors and fuel leaks. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1994 Lincoln Town Car submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 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
THE FUEL FROM THE TANK AND THE RETURN LINE WERE BURNED. THE VEHICLE LEAKED GAS RIGHT ABOVE THE EXHAUST SYSTEM. THE CONSUMER CONTACTED THE MANUFACTURER AND RECEIVED NO ASSISTANCE. PROVIDE FURTHER DETAILS. *JB
NOTICED A WET SPOT, FUEL LINE COMING OUT FROM THE TANK WAS CORRODED SO BAD THAT IT CRUMBLED, CAUSING THE FUEL WHICH IS UNDER PRESSURE AT ALL TIMES TO BE RUNNING OUT LIKE A BADLY LEAKING FAUCET,
THE ENGINE HAD A NOTICEABLE AMOUNT OF OIL EXHAUST SMOKE, THIS IS AN INDICATION OF INTERNAL ENGINE WEAR. NLM
WHILE DRIVING AT 40 MPH WHEN A LOUD NOISE COULD BE HEARD COMING FROM UNDER THE HOOD. VEHICLE WOULD VIBRATE WHEN SHIFTING GEARS . CONSUMER TALKED TO DEALER ABOUT NOISE, AND WAS TOLD THAT NOISE WAS COMING FROM THE INTAKE MANIFOLD. NO CAUSE FOUND FOR VIBRATION. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. *AK
CONSUMER WOULD BE DRIVING 40 MPH WHIEN A LOUD NOISE CAN BE HEARD COMMING FROM UNDER THE HOOD. VEHICLE WOULD VIBRATE BADLY WHEN SHIFTING GEARS. BEEN TO DEALER ABOUT NOISE AND TOLD COMING FROM THE MANIFOLD INTAKE. NO CAUSE FOUND FOR VIBRATION.
FUEL GAUGE INOPERATIVE. *SD
FUEL SHUTOFF SWITCH ACTIVATED WHEN A DRIVER HIT BACK REAR TAIL LIGHT, DID NOT HAVE ANY BRAKES OR OWER STEERING WENT ACROSS MEDIAN AND GOT HIT HEAD ON TRAFFIC, CONSUMER BROKE HIS LEG TRYING TO PUT ON BRAKES, CONSUMER STATES HE THINKS THE SHUT OFF SWITCH IS A HAZARD, WHEN TRYING TO GO 55 MPH THE VEHICLE TAKES OFF LIKE A ROCKET NO CONTROL OF VEHICLE AT ALL.*JB
THE VEHICLE WAS SITTING FOR 30 HRS. WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT BURST INTO FLAMES AND BURNED DOWN THE HOUSE. PLEASE DESCRIBE. TT REFERENCED IN EA02-025
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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