NHTSA Safety Recalls
2001 Lincoln Town Car Recalls
The 2001 Lincoln Town Car has 6 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on August 8, 2001.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2001 Lincoln Town Car. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 6
- Owner complaints
- 161
- Crashes reported
- 21
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
4 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2001 Lincoln Town Car, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
6 recalls on the 2001 Lincoln Town Car
Visibility: windshield wiper/washer: motor
- Campaign
- 01V258000
- Reported
- August 8, 2001
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,083,000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2000 Town Car, 14 other models
Seat belts: front: buckle assembly
- Campaign
- 01V227001
- Reported
- July 16, 2001
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,400,000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 12 other models
Tires
- Campaign
- 00V356000
- Reported
- December 12, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 10,000
- Federal standard
- FMVSS 109, bias-ply tires
- Same campaign
- also 2000 Town Car
Air bags: frontal: sensor/control module-inactive
- Campaign
- 00V412000
- Reported
- December 6, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 16,000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 3 other models
Air bags
- Campaign
- 00V270000
- Reported
- September 13, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 18,500
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury
- Same campaign
- also 3 other models
Steering
- Campaign
- 15E082000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2000, 2002 Town Car, 2 other models
2001 Lincoln Town Car complaints by year
NHTSA has received 161 owner complaints about the 2001 Lincoln Town Car, the newest on October 17, 2022. Of these, 21 describe a crash (13%) and 4 a fire; owners reported 20 injuries.
In complaints about the 2001 Lincoln Town Car, the component group named most often is the air bags (34%), followed by the vehicle speed control (16%) and the visibility (9%).
2 of the 2001 Lincoln Town Car's 6 recalls also concern the air bags.
Where 2001 Lincoln Town Car owners gave the mileage (90 complaints), the median was 80,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags54
- Vehicle Speed Control26
- Visibility14
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic13
- Engine And Engine Cooling10
- Steering10
Complaints received, by year
| 2000 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 16 | |
| 2002 | 20 | |
| 2003 | 22 | |
| 2004 | 14 | |
| 2005 | 12 | |
| 2006 | 7 | |
| 2007 | 10 | |
| 2008 | 10 | |
| 2009 | 5 | |
| 2010 | 4 | |
| 2011 | 5 | |
| 2012 | 4 | |
| 2013 | 4 | |
| 2014 | 6 | |
| 2015 | 6 | |
| 2016 | 3 | |
| 2017 | 3 | |
| 2018 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 2 |
Complaints about the 2001 Lincoln Town Car peaked in 2003, when NHTSA received 22. 47% arrived between 2000 and 2004, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2001 vehicles, the 2001 Lincoln Town Car drew 1.8× the complaints of the median Lincoln Town Car year in the same window: 1st highest of the 8 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 4/5
The 161 complaints about the 2001 Lincoln Town Car are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Lincoln Town Car by model year
Other 2001 Lincoln models
Newest record on this page: October 17, 2022. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted