Model years to avoid

Lincoln Navigator

What it says about you

Opinion

Enormous, quiet, and considerably nicer inside than people expect when they get in. You enjoy that moment. It is most of why you bought it.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

23 model years on record, 682 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (seat belt). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • transmission 2018, 2019, 2020 peak 48.3% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 1 recall 0 complaints
  2. 2026 2 recalls 0 complaints
  3. 2025 6 recalls 11 complaints
  4. 2024 7 recalls 15 complaints
  5. 2023 8 recalls 6 complaints
  6. 2022 14 recalls 40 complaints
  7. 2021 12 recalls 31 complaints
  8. 2020 13 recalls 58 complaints
  9. 2019 seat belt 118 complaints
  10. 2018 12 recalls 50 complaints
  11. 2017 5 recalls 30 complaints
  12. 2016 4 recalls 25 complaints
  13. 2015 4 recalls 21 complaints
  14. 2014 0 recalls 17 complaints
  15. 2013 0 recalls 14 complaints
  16. 2012 3 recalls 12 complaints
  17. 2011 0 recalls 9 complaints
  18. 2010 0 recalls 32 complaints
  19. 2009 1 recall 10 complaints
  20. 2008 2 recalls 30 complaints
  21. 2007 2 recalls 45 complaints
  22. 2006 3 recalls 60 complaints
  23. 2005 0 recalls 48 complaints

What does a Lincoln Navigator say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.