2001 Lincoln LS review from North America

The first 45000 miles were pretty well. Other than service and a set of tires the car performed well and reliably.

In the past 4 months and 4000 miles:

1. Brake light and tail light malfunctions to the point of leaving the car set in the dealership for over a week. Parts availability is terrible! Lincoln must have had to make the tail light and reflector assemblies with wiring harnesses before shipping the parts.

The check engine light then started coming on. Oxygen sensors on the engine were malfunctioning. It was the same problem again. Parts were not available. We have great dealer service, but parts from Lincoln could not be obtained in a timely fashion.. The car sat in the dealership for a week or more again.

Leaking vacuum hose assemblies were the next problem. Same problem again, no parts available again for a week or more.

Latest problem we have. We had to tow the car from our home's garage. The LS won't start. The engine's pcm computer that runs the engine is bad now. After a week now the parts are still not available. The car sets at the dealer. We have no car to drive and no idea when the parts will be in.

We own and operate an engineering company and have a fleet of work vehiles. The newer Ford and Lincoln products we own have not been reliable and have all been towed from our garages when they wouldn't start.. Too complicated of computer systems with a total lack of readily available parts for the top of the line vehicles in our experience.

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Rmn 03-13-04.

We like the Ford and Lincoln products. Reliability is bad in our experience, made worse by a serious lack of parts availability on the computerize components.