2019 Lincoln Nautilus
Complaints about this year name transmission far more often than the model's other years — 21% of them, about 52× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 96 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 19 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- under — 13% of complaints, 31× usual
- instrument panel — 10% of complaints, 26× usual
- acceleration — 8% of complaints, 21× usual
What owners wrote
Was slowly entering my garage when there was a sudden acceleration. Put on brake but not before my car went thru the back garage wall and fell about four feet down before hitting the patio floor. It traveled across the patio and went over some furniture on the…
STARTED CAR AND INSTRUMENT PANEL WAS BLACKED OUT. RESTATING CAR DID NOT CORRECT IT SO HAD NO VISIBILITY TO ANYTHING FROM THE INSTRUMENT PANEL DISPLAY.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V076000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 19V031000 LANE DEPARTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 20V414000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V806000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 25V442000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 20V550000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 26V372000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 26V377000 LANE DEPARTURE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Lincoln Nautilus 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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