2015 Lincoln MKC
This year drew an ordinary 130 complaints for a Lincoln MKC — the model's median is 111. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.3% of them mention motion, against 2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 130 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 111 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 12 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- motion — 12.3% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (6.2×). Owners wrote it as: motion, fuel pump, vehicle motion, 5mph.
- fuel system — 16.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.8% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: fuel system, additionally contact, however vin, numbers.
- goes — 11.5% of this year's complaints, against 4.5% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: goes, headlight, discontinued, designed.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Left headlight goes on and off. Dealer can’t find the problem. Has offered different very expensive options to see if it would work. One part that was told may be needed is the body control module which Lincoln and Ford has discontinued. Told they can try repl…
The fuel pump/sensor. My vehicle died (steering column locked as well) while in motion on a busy highway. I took it to the Ford dealership and they replaced the sensor. After I picked it up from the dealership, my car died again on the same highway only this t…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V331000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 17V472000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V183000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 16V643000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 14V484000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 15V006000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 14V525000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 15V005000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 12. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Lincoln MKC 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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