2018 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL — Complaint #2155394
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NHTSA Complaint about LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:DOORS:LATCH filed December 8, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2155394 (ODI reference 11703803) concerns a 2018 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL and was filed on December 8, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 8, 2025. The vehicle had 108,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kentucky based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as latches/locks/linkages:doors:latch, 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 CONTINENTAL cohort independently describe similar latches/locks/linkages:doors:latch 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 2018 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2018 Lincoln Continental. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, the front driver's door latch failed to latch as intended. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, where it was diagnosed with a failed front driver's door latch. The contact was informed that the front driver's door latch needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. In addition, the contact was concerned that the front driver's door might unlatch while driving the vehicle. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The contact was informed that an unknown recall was performed in 2019, and that the front driver's door latch was replaced. The contact was informed that the repair was not covered under a recall. The failure mileage was approximately 108,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2155394 |
| ODI Number | 11703803 |
| Date Filed | December 8, 2025 |
| Failure Date | October 8, 2025 |
| VIN | 1LN6L9NP7J5 |
Similar LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:DOORS:LATCH Complaints for 2018 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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