2013 Lincoln MKX
This year drew an ordinary 163 complaints for a Lincoln MKX — the model's median is 84. What they were about is the unusual part: 28.2% of them mention pedal, against 9.3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 163 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 84 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pedal — 28.2% of this year's complaints, against 9.3% across the model's other years (3×).
- park — 30.1% of this year's complaints, against 11.7% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: park, lose, put car, stationary.
- driving mph — 11% of this year's complaints, against 4.3% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: driving mph, train, power train, body replaced.
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
RECALL # 14V393000 IS WITH MAKE, MODEL & YEAR, BUT NOT VIN #. STARTING A MONTH AGO, THE CAR ROLLS WHEN IN PARK ESPECIALLY ON UNEVEN PAVEMENT. SHOULD YOU LOSE POWER, AS HAPPENS WITH THIS PROBLEM GOING 70 MPH, IT WILL RESULT IN DEADLY CRASH. CONTACTED LINCOLN CU…
NEAR THE END OF MY 35 MINUTE COMMUTE HOME I STOPPED AT A RED LIGHT ON A BUSY CITY STREET. WHEN THE LIGHT TURNED GREEN, I PUT MY FOOT OFF THE BRAKE AND PLACED IT ON THE ACCELERATOR. . THE CAR WOULD NOT ACCELERATE. THE LOW ENGINE PRESSURE LIGHT CAME ON. I TURNED…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V393000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Lincoln MKX 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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