2005 LINCOLN TOWN CAR — Complaint #1137364
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NHTSA Complaint about BACK OVER PREVENTION:WARNINGS:EXTERNAL/PEDESTRIAN ALERT filed December 8, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1137364 (ODI reference 10662958) concerns a 2005 LINCOLN TOWN CAR and was filed on December 8, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 2, 2014. The vehicle had 65,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as back over prevention:warnings:external/pedestrian alert, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same LINCOLN TOWN CAR cohort independently describe similar back over prevention:warnings:external/pedestrian alert failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2005 LINCOLN TOWN CAR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 LINCOLN TOWN CAR. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT CONTINUOUSLY ILLUMINATED. THE DEALER STATED THAT BOTH FRONT SEAT BELT ASSEMBLY MODULES FAILED. IN ADDITION, THE CONTACT MENTIONED THAT THE BACK UP SENSORS FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURES. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 65,000. UPDATED 1/16/15*CN UPDATED 01/20/15*LJ UPDATED 06/4/2015 *JS UPDATED 9/8/2017*CN
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1137364 |
| ODI Number | 10662958 |
| Date Filed | December 8, 2014 |
| Failure Date | June 2, 2014 |
| VIN | 1LNHM81W75Y |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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