NHTSA Safety Recalls
2002 Lincoln Town Car Recalls
The 2002 Lincoln Town Car has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2002 Lincoln Town Car. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 65
- Crashes reported
- 14
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2002 Lincoln Town Car, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2002 Lincoln Town Car
Steering
- Campaign
- 15E082000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2000–2001 Town Car, 2 other models
2002 Lincoln Town Car complaints by year
NHTSA has received 65 owner complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Town Car, the newest on May 14, 2026. Of these, 14 describe a crash (22%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 12 injuries.
In complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Town Car, the component group named most often is the air bags (31%), followed by the vehicle speed control (18%) and the service brakes, hydraulic (15%).
The 2002 Lincoln Town Car's only recall does not concern the air bags.
Where 2002 Lincoln Town Car owners gave the mileage (36 complaints), the median was 48,880 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags20
- Vehicle Speed Control12
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic10
- Latches/Locks/Linkages4
- Electrical System3
- Engine And Engine Cooling3
Complaints received, by year
| 2001 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 17 | |
| 2003 | 5 | |
| 2004 | 12 | |
| 2005 | 3 | |
| 2006 | 8 | |
| 2007 | 3 | |
| 2008 | 1 | |
| 2009 | 4 | |
| 2010 | 4 | |
| 2012 | 1 | |
| 2014 | 1 | |
| 2016 | 1 | |
| 2018 | 2 | |
| 2019 | 1 | |
| 2026 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Town Car peaked in 2002, when NHTSA received 17. 58% 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 Town Car drew 0.9× the complaints of the median Lincoln Town Car year in the same window: 5th highest of the 8 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 4/5
The 65 complaints about the 2002 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 2002 Lincoln models
Newest record on this page: May 14, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted