2008 LINCOLN MKZ — Complaint #975037
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:BRAKE FLUID LOW WARNING: LAMP filed April 22, 2013
NHTSA complaint #975037 (ODI reference 10509054) concerns a 2008 LINCOLN MKZ and was filed on April 22, 2013. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 1, 2013. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:brake fluid low warning: lamp, 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 MKZ cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:brake fluid low warning: lamp 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 2008 LINCOLN MKZ shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
LETTER FROM SENATOR NELSON RE CONSTITUENT REGARDING 2008 LINCOLN MKZ ( REFERENCE CONSTITUENT FOR THEIR RECORDS). *SMD THE CONSUMER STATED SLIGHTLY FOR MORE THAN A YEAR, THREE SAFETY WARNING LIGHTS ILLUMINATED ON THE DASHBOARD. THEY WERE THE TRACTION-STABILITY, ABS, AND BRAKE WARNING LIGHTS. THE FIRST TIME THE CONSUMER RETURNED TO THE DEALER, THEY STATED THE COMPUTER DID NOT DETECT ANY MALFUNCTION, AND TO BRING THE VEHICLE BACK, WHEN THE LIGHTS CAME BACK ON. THE LIGHTS WOULD ILLUMINATE INTERMITTENTLY AND WITHOUT APPARENT CAUSE, OFTEN ALL AT ONCE OR INDIVIDUALLY AND BEFORE, HE COULD GET TO THE DEALER. THE SECOND TIME, THE CONSUMER TOOK THE VEHICLE BACK TO THE DEALER, THEY WERE STILL UNABLE TO DETECT A PROBLEM. THE THIRD TIME, THE CONSUMER WENT TO THE DEALER, HE LEFT THE VEHICLE THERE. AFTER TWO WEEKS OF HAVING THE VEHICLE, THE LIGHTS FINALLY ILLUMINATED, WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS BEING TEST DRIVING. AFTER HOOKING THE VEHICLE TO THE COMPUTER, THE DEALER FOUND THE PROBLEM, WAS THE ANTI-LOCK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 975037 |
| ODI Number | 10509054 |
| Date Filed | April 22, 2013 |
| Failure Date | April 1, 2013 |
| VIN | 3LNHM26T28R |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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