NHTSA Safety Recalls
2002 Lincoln Navigator Recalls
The 2002 Lincoln Navigator has 4 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on September 7, 2005.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2002 Lincoln Navigator. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 4
- Owner complaints
- 32
- Crashes reported
- 2
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
5 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2002 Lincoln Navigator, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
4 recalls on the 2002 Lincoln Navigator
Vehicle speed control
- Campaign
- 05V388000
- Reported
- September 7, 2005
- Vehicles affected
- up to 4,500,000
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2000–2001 Navigator, 3 other models
Fuel system, gasoline
- Campaign
- 06E056000
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2000–2001 Navigator, 24 other models
Exterior lighting
- Campaign
- 06E064000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2000–2001, 2003 Navigator, 19 other models
Exterior lighting
- Campaign
- 09E012000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2000–2001 Navigator, 57 other models
2002 Lincoln Navigator complaints by year
NHTSA has received 32 owner complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Navigator, the newest on August 8, 2016. Of these, 2 describe a crash (6%) and 5 a fire; owners reported 7 injuries.
In complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Navigator, the component group named most often is the air bags (22%), followed by the engine and engine cooling (22%) and the vehicle speed control (22%).
1 of the 2002 Lincoln Navigator's 4 recalls also concerns the vehicle speed control.
Where 2002 Lincoln Navigator owners gave the mileage (22 complaints), the median was 90,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags7
- Engine And Engine Cooling7
- Vehicle Speed Control7
- Electrical System6
- Steering3
- Engine2
Complaints received, by year
| 2002 | 7 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1 | |
| 2004 | 1 | |
| 2005 | 1 | |
| 2006 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 2 | |
| 2008 | 3 | |
| 2009 | 1 | |
| 2010 | 6 | |
| 2011 | 4 | |
| 2012 | 1 | |
| 2014 | 2 | |
| 2016 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Navigator peaked in 2002, when NHTSA received 7. 31% arrived between 2001 and 2005, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2002 vehicles, the 2002 Lincoln Navigator drew 0.5× the complaints of the median Lincoln Navigator year in the same window: 12th highest of the 12 ranked years.
That makes 2002 one of the three best-measured Lincoln Navigator years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Rollover: 2/5
The 32 complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Navigator are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Lincoln Navigator by model year
Other 2002 Lincoln models
Newest record on this page: August 8, 2016. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted