After hearing c. The recent sudden acceleration with toyota vehicles, I am prompted to write you again regarding the sudden acceleration with my 2002 lincoln towncar. While attempting to drive up my driveway, and park in my garage, traveling c. 5 MPH, the car suddenly sounded as if were revving and lurched forward. The agent sent from my insurance company, recorded 35 feet of skid marks. Brakes did not work and my vehicle and I crashed into my den. I did report this incident to ford and to you at the time. My cousin, in illinois, had the same make and year automobile, and had the incident occur three times. It is a frightening occurrence and one feels totally helpless. What can be done to eliminate this from our driving experience?
2002 Lincoln Town Car: brake failure
5 of the 65 complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Town Car describe brake failure.
- owner complaints
- 5
- of this car's complaints
- 8%
- recalls
- 0
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
Brake failure by model year
What owners say
The consumer had difficulty getting the vehicle repaired after her brother had an accident in the vehicle. *ph the accelerator pedal would stick. This problem caused the accident in which the consumer's brother turned the steering wheel and the gas pedal went to the floor and accelerated at a high speed and ran into another driver. *sc
Gas pedal went to the floor and accelerated at a high rate. *la vehicle was involved in an accident due to problems with the accelerator pedal and high rate acceleration.
While driving down a mountain, the engine went into an uncontroled speed. It was if someone floored the gas and the engine screamed. The brakes did not work, nor did the emergency brake. The only was to slow it down some was to put it in neutral. When put into drive again, we fishtailed the car. Finally, my husband, turned the car off. Each time we went up a hill we slowed down but not enough to stop, then would pick up speed when we hit another hill. After several miles my husband, when there wasn't a gully, drove on the side in dirt and high grass to slow us down. Finally, just before we crested another hill, he was able to pull over more and stop. This doesn't even describe how horrible it was. We didn't think we were going to die, we knew we were, but weren't sure if we'd go over a cliff or into trees. We still don't know how we pulled it off. Needless to say, I'm angry that we had brought the car in 5 weeks before for the same problem, but on flat road, and they found nothing wrong with the car. I have been informed that the nemith motors found out by calling the manufacurer, that this had been a problem. Had they known 5 weeks before this, they would not have given back our car to us. I would like any report that this has happened to others, and hope their experience turned out as well as ours.
On two occasions wihile attempting to stop the brakes failed to stop the vehicle, the first occurance the vehicle struck another vehicle, no injuries reported, on the second occurance the brakes did not engage until the consumer took his foot off the brake completely and reapplied, no accident ocued this time.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 2002 Lincoln Town Car brake failure
Is brake failure a common problem on the 2002 Lincoln Town Car?
5 of 65 owner complaints about the 2002 Lincoln Town Car (8%) mention brake failure. The model year with the most reports is 1996.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 2002 Lincoln Town Car?
There is no recall or service bulletin for this area of the car on record.
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