2019 Lincoln MKC
This year drew an ordinary 111 complaints for a Lincoln MKC — the model's median is 130. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.2% of them mention service center, against 2.5% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 111 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 130 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- service center — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: service center, resulted, app, see attached.
- replace engine — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: replace engine, wouldn work, work started.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
I started my car with no prior warning light or malfunction alerts on my dashboard or Lincoln phone app. Upon shifting into drive, the vehicle began shaking severely, accompanied by a loud rattling noise for the first time. I had the car towed to a Lincoln dea…
wheel bearing on driver's side front had to be replaced. It is not available for inspection. vehicle started making a loud woomp woomp noise near the wheel.My wheel could have seized while driving. The problem was confirmed and resolved by an independent servi…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V378000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V572000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V685000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Lincoln MKC was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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