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2014 Lincoln MKT

Complaints about this year name roof far more often than the model's other years — 30% of them, about 74× the usual rate of 0.4%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Also unusual this year

• glass — 30% of complaints, 20× usual
• exploded — 22% of complaints, 56× usual
• shattered — 17% of complaints, 42× usual

What owners wrote

TRAVELING DOWN THE ROAD 4/16/17 ON A CLEAR 78 DEGREE DAY AND THE FRONT VISTA GLASS ROOF EXPLODES INTO PIECES. NO OTHER VEHICLES AROUND AND NO EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THE GLASS SHATTERED. SHARDS OF BROKEN GLASS CAME INTO THE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT ONTO THE DRIVER…

19 JAN 2021 - FRONT MOONROOF GLASS EXPLODED OUT AT 69 MILES PER HOUR WITH NO OTHER VEHICLES AROUND, NO DEBRIS AROUND, ON I65 SOUTHBOUND AT APPROXIMATELY 8:00PM AND 61 DEGREES. AFTER GLASS EXPLODED OUTWARD, RESIDUAL GLASS THEN FELL ON MY HEAD (BALD), DOWN MY BA…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 15V172000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 16V621000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
• 14V393000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
• 20V072000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Lincoln MKT 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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