Total Complaints
1 filings
LINCOLN LINCOLN · model year
1 NHTSA complaints. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 1976LINCOLNLINCOLN carries 1 consumer safety complaint in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 1976 LINCOLN is tires with 1 filings. Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 10 investigation files overlapping the 1976 LINCOLN. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
Total Complaints
1 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| TIRES | 1 |
APPROXIMATELY 18-20 YEARS AGO WE OWNED A LINCOLN WITH FIRESTONE TIRES. WE HAD A BLOWOUT AND LUCKILY MY HUSBAND WAS ABLE TO CONTROL THE CAR. THE TOW TRUCK DRIVER, UPON SEEING THAT THE TIRE HAD SHREDDED ASKED IF THEY WERE FIRESTONE P235'S EVEN BEFORE HE COULD SEE THE TIRE MARKINGS. HE HAD SEEN MANY FAILURES AS WE WERE EXPERIENCING BEFORE. OUR LOCAL FIRESTONE DEALER REPLACED THE TIRE AT A PRO-RATED PRICE AND CHECKED THE REMAINING 3 TIRES. ONE MORE TIRE HAD TO BE REPLACE AS IT WAS ON THE VERGE OF A FAILURE. I REPORTED THIS PROBLEM TO THE DOT AND WAS TOLD THAT THE FAILURE RATE FOR THESE TIRES WAS ONLY 1/2 OF 1% AND THERE WAS NO RECALL. I FEEL THAT FIRESTONE KNEW MANY YEARS AGO THAT THEIR TIRES WERE DEFECTIVE. NOW HOWEVER, SUV'S THAT HAVE BLOWOUTS ARE NOT AS CONTROLLABLE AS CARS AND ROLL OVER FREQUENTLY AND CAUSE SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. HAS FIRESTONE BEEN DISREGARDING A FAULTY AND DANGEROUS DESIGNED TIRE? PERHAPS YOU SHOULD GO BACK INTO YOUR ARCHIVES AND SEE HOW MANY COMPLAINTS THERE
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 1976 LINCOLN LINCOLN; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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