Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEERING | |||||
| 18320 | 12/01/2004 | 10014594 | Vibration felt for a few miles of driving after parking. *eh | 05/04/2005 | |
| 16168 | 08/01/2002 | 636176 | Some vehicles may exhibit a squeak or rubbing noise while turning the steering wheel. *tt | 11/06/2002 | |
| 01151 | 08/06/2001 | 623927 | Some vehicles may experience steering wheel nibble, vibration, and an audbile low frequency hum/boom noise. *slc | 10/31/2001 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEERING | |||
| 05/11/2011 | 95000 | ||
| I was driving down the highway at 50 mph when i heard a loud noise coming from the back passenger side. then i felt the car go out of control and i managed to safely get the car to the shoulder. my passenger door side airbag came out. when i got out of the car my tire was almost completely of the rim. i had my car towed to the repair shop and they said i needed a new axle, wheel bearing, control arm, rotor, rim and tire. upon further inspection they realized the rim went through the underside of trunk and damaged battery and electrical components. they estimated it would cost about $3,000 to fix not including the body damage. i just replaced the right front hub assembly and control arm in feb. 2011. i have replaced engine coils and valve covers numerous times. | |||
| 06/16/2008 | 100000 | ||
| Ball joint failure. my car was built in march of 2002 and they redesigned it in april to a larger ball joint which i learned by talking to a mechanic at the lincoln dealer. he said that he fixes a lot of them built march and before but had never had to fix a post march 2002 car. i asked if he had ever upgraded it to the new design he said no, i asked if it was possible he said probably. i took the control arm off the car paid a machine shop $25 to machine it out from 14mm the old original sizeto 16mm the new redesigned size that lincoln was putting in it after arpil and bought and installed a 16mm joint and that's all there was to it. all in all it only took a few hours (depending on the machine shop) and no special tools. if you have any mechanical ability you can do this job in your driveway, i did. | |||
| 10/30/2010 | 88000 | ||
| Steering loss due to ball joint and control arm failure for the second time. parts were repaired. vin not included in recall for same problem. | |||
| 07/01/2009 | 95000 | 1 | |
| While driving the lower ball joint fell apart. no injury resulted due to a low speed. after talking to a technician at the local lincoln dealer i found out that lincoln had changed the design a month after my car was built because they know they had underbuilt the car. i asked the technician if i could upgrade it to the part they used after march of 2002 and he said he didn't know he had never tried it but as far as he knew the parts would bolt up to the car the same, and the part they used on my car was failing on a regular basis and the part they used after march of 2002, as far as he knew never failed. i decided to take the lower control arm off my car and take it to a machine shop and have them machine it to fit the newer/larger stud in the ball joint used after march of 2002, everything worked out good and i have not had any problems. the original equipment on my car were 14 mm and after march they used 16 mm it's pretty simple to take it to a machine shop and upgrade your car. the cost of the work at the machine shop was only $25 and we did all the rest in the driveway in just a few hours. if you have any mechanical ability you can do this job, or you can pay about $1,500 to a shop to put the 14 mm back in and have it fail again. *tr | |||
| 10/20/2009 | 120000 | 1 | |
| I own a 2002 lincoln ls. the transmission seems to be a bit of a problem with this car. while i was driving on the highway, my transmission decides to give up on me in the middle of traffic while driving at 70mph. i also lost my power steering and my lights shut off. since this happened at night, the last bit was a bit of a problem. i feel that this car is not very safe and i feel that lincoln should do something to fix this. *tr | |||
| STEERING - HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST - PUMP | |||
| 10/28/2002 | 1 | 10/07/2002 | |
| My 02 lincoln ls has had 2 new rear ends and now power steering pump and actuator is gone bad. i have a list of about 12 things that has happened to my car in last 12 months, and my car only has 27,000 miles on it. not very happy at all. *la | |||
| STEERING - HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM | |||
| 06/06/2003 | 1 | ||
| While applying the brakes vehicle will stall without prior warning. consumer had no power steering or brakes. *ak | |||
| STEERING - WHEEL AND HANDLE BAR | |||
| 05/11/2011 | 95000 | ||
| I was driving down the highway at 50 mph when i heard a loud noise coming from the back passenger side. then i felt the car go out of control and i managed to safely get the car to the shoulder. my passenger door side airbag came out. when i got out of the car my tire was almost completely of the rim. i had my car towed to the repair shop and they said i needed a new axle, wheel bearing, control arm, rotor, rim and tire. upon further inspection they realized the rim went through the underside of trunk and damaged battery and electrical components. they estimated it would cost about $3,000 to fix not including the body damage. i just replaced the right front hub assembly and control arm in feb. 2011. i have replaced engine coils and valve covers numerous times. | |||