2020 Lincoln Aviator
Complaints about this year name screen far more often than the model's other years — 18% of them, about 46× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 104 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 21 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 30 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 20.5 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- park — 14% of complaints, 36× usual
- assist — 13% of complaints, 34× usual
- transmission — 13% of complaints, 31× usual
What owners wrote
Rear backup camera tuns to blue screen when the vehicle is put into reverse. Also rear brake assist works sometimes. Vehicle was turned into service for previous rear camera recall, but condition has returned.
notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 26V402000 (Power Train). The contact stated that while stopped at a stop sign, the transmission unexpectedly shifted into park(P), and the gear shifter could not be shifted out of park(P). The vehicle was towed to a deale…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V859000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 20V788000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 21V154000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 21V735000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 21V223000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 20V693000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 21V534000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 20V497000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 30. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Lincoln Aviator was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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