1999 Lincoln Town Car: fire, smoke or burning smell

Filed Apr 15, 2019 · Fuel system · 161,000 miles · TN · fire

I was driving down a public street not even going the speed limit and I came to the stop light my car acted like it didn't wanna go I got it to a parking spot and it burst to a ball of flames I had no previous symptoms and the car was driving fine it had just gotten to halfway mark on my heat gauge. I think it may have been the plastic intake manifold melted maybe? Any ways thought I would report that this is actually a very dangerous thing it almost burnt me alive going down the road and then almost burnt a business down and I'm hoping to get some sort of compensation because no one told me till just now. If I could get some info on who to call at ford that'd be great

Filed Jan 17, 2014 · Electrical · 71,932 miles · NJ · fire

1999 lincoln town car with 71,932 miles suddenly and without any warning caught fire ten minutes after being parked in an attached garage. This incident caused the home to become structurally damaged due to fire. Vehicle was purchased as second owner in 2003 until present time. No recalls notices were ever received.

Filed Feb 25, 2008 · Brakes · MS · fire

On the 2-19-2008 I was going to walmart,when I go to the frontage road and tried to stop the brakes go out. I went thur the stop sign, there were no car coming . I manage to park in the walmart parking lot. I put the emergency brake on. Went into the store, in about two minute there was a page for the owner of a black lincoln town car to come to the front deck. My car was on fire. It was burning under the hood on the driverside. When the fire department arrived everything under the hood was burn up. The fire started from the mastercylinder. It a total lose. .

Filed Sep 8, 2005 · Electrical · 49,500 miles · NC · fire

As the car neared the end of its warranty, I had several failures. The air conditioning failed at 45000 mi., two coil packs failed under warranty. I was driving the car about a week before the final failure and it just lost all power. I barely got it to pull by holding it in low gear. It would barely move but I got it to a parking lot and left it for about an hour. When I returned it started up and drove just fine. I took it to the lincoln mercury dealer and they could find nothing wrong. About a week later my wife started to drive the car (cold) and almost got run over trying to leave the driveway. I was walking one block up the street and she pulled in and asked me to look at the car. It was running very rough just as before so I told her to take it back home and park it and take the other car. She did this, locked it and left. It had only run about 4 or 5 minutes. As I walked around the block I heard a car alarm going off and as I approached my house I saw the car on fire sitting just outside the garage, luckily I called the fire dept and they came and put it out but it was destroyed. The car was maybe one month out of warranty so I called the dealer, the regional ford rep and a retired ford rep I know. And none of them would talk to me, return phone calls( in the case of the regional ford rep) I called detroit to the executive offices of ford and a lawyer told me it was not their problem and to file a claim with my insurance company. He would not even send someone to inspect it. The insurance company paid off and I tried to get them to investigate to find the problem but I don't know what they did. The fire was obviously electrical but I don't know more. The car was a 1999 lincoln town car so the present recall doesn't cover enough cars.

Filed Apr 28, 2005 · Brakes · 48,500 miles · OH

There was a burning smell coming from under the hood. Consumer looked, however, he could not find the source. Then one day the vehicle would not go into gear, and no brakes. After the vehicle was inspected by the dealer, they found the brake switch connector burned.