Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC | |||
| 08/12/2011 | 58953 | ||
| Driving perhaps 30 miles per hour i suddenly heard the car accelerate and it started to go faster. i hit the brakes and that did not slow down the car. i was in heavy traffic and quickly went into a side street turning sharply and narrowly missing parked cars but struck two steel poles and than a parked truck. it was a horrible experience! | |||
| 08/01/2006 | 9000 | ||
| Tl-the contact owns a 2006 lincoln towncar. the contact stated that he has been intermittingly experiencing a braking problem since the purchase of the vehicle. when attempting to brake the vehicle would slightly surge forward until pressure was released and reapplied to the brakes. the vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer on numerous occasions where the contact was informed he must have been putting his foot on the brake and accelerator at the same time. the failure mileage was 9,000 and the current mileage was 34,000. sm. | |||
| 07/25/2009 | 23740 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 2006 lincoln town car. while driving between 10-15 mph, the brake pedal extended to the floor when it was depressed. the vehicle failed to slow down and the driver veered off the road onto a grassy area and sidewalk to avoid crashing into other vehicles. immediately, the vehicle came to a complete stop. there were no injuries or damages. the failure recurred within 500 feet from the previous failure. the vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer, but they could not duplicate the failures. the failure still persists. the failure mileage was 23,740 and current mileage was 23,782. | |||
| 07/16/2008 | 24000 | 1 | |
| I have a 2006 lincoln town car. it has a driver adjustment on the height of the brake pedal. even with it at the top, when you apply the brakes, the accelerator is so close that you can push it also. this is very dangerous. several times now, i have avoided an accident only because an oncoming driver missed me. coming up to a stop sign, i've applied the brakes only to have the car jump forward into traffic. *tr | |||
| 10/05/2006 | 2 | ||
| 2006 lincoln town car with brake failure**cc 03/01/07 customer send in additional info**cc the consumer rented the 2006 lincoln town car. the consumer experienced two brake failures while driving the vehicle. when the consumer applied the brakes, the vehicle didn't stop immediately in a controlled manner. the second occurrence, the consumer had to use the parking brake to stop the vehicle. *jb see also 10177497. *dsy | |||
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC - PEDALS AND LINKAGES | |||
| 08/01/2007 | 13000 | 1 | 07/01/2007 |
| Tl*the contact owns a 2006 lincoln town car. the contact stated that the accelerator and brake pedals were extremely close to one another. the contact would often depress the accelerator pedal as opposed to the brake pedal. the contact stated that the failures have occurred every since the vehicle was purchased. the manufacturer was contacted but did not provide any assistance. the dealer was not notified. the failure mileage was 13,000. updated 05/12/10 *bf updated 05/14/10.*jb | |||
| 06/26/2006 | 50 | 15 | 07/07/2005 |
| I believe that the car is so dangerous. i am not willing to let anyone else drive it. i have been driving for proximately 54 years. this has included all kinds of cars including racing sports cars and big luxury cars and all types of emergency vehicles (including fire trucks and ambulances). i believe the problem is with the placement of the brake and accelerator pedal. this new car has adjustable pedals. i do drive with my heal on the floor boards and rock my foot back and forth from the gas to brake to stop. i had just a few hundred miles on my new car and at a stop light found i could not stop the car. i almost ran into the car in front of me. fortunately, i shifted the car into neutral and was able to stop the car but noticed the engine was racing when i came home i almost ran a stop sign since i could not stop the car without shifting it into neutral. and after finding nothing wrong they installed a computer with a button by my seat so that if that happened again i would push the button and the computer would remember the last twenty seconds of what happened. but by now i was used to the problem and would push the button slowly lift my foot off the brake and i noticed that i was probably pushing on the accelerators at the same time i was pushing on the brake. basically if i pushed real hard on the brake my foot would go down and push on the accelerator. this was confirmed by the dealership when they looked at the computer. a call to the lincoln headquarters took down all this information for future reference and told me that i would have to work through the dealership. i have noted that this problem has occurred with other drivers of 2005 town cars. i have noticed in the news more and more folks who have driven into walls and stated the cause is that they stepped on the gas instead of the brake. *jb | |||
| 05/01/1901 | 4 | ||
| The consumer experienced sudden acceleration while driving his 2005 lincoln town car. *nm the arbitrator concluded that the consumer foot was most likely on the brake and accelerator at the same time. the consumer disagreed with the findings. *jb | |||