2000 Lincoln LS from North America - All Comments

My Lincoln LS (2000) is a piece of junk!!! My window has broken twice, my thermostat is making it overheat, my front left wheel fell off one day, I've had to replace the ball joints at 60,000 miles. But it handles and looks sweeeeet! What else can go wrong with this car???

My 2000 Lincoln LS has given me the same problems posted here (hot air blowing through vents, wiper liquid not dispensing, transmission jerking, fogging front lights, rear brake light blowing out, driver side window regulator broke, replaced front wheel hub bearings, catalytic converter replaced). Now I'm dealing with squeaking brakes; I've had over 5 sets of pads on the car, but the brakes still squeak; and now my airbag light stays on all the time. The LS is a beautiful car and the handling is great, but the quality control sucks. There should have been numerous recalls on this vehicle.

I thought I had the only lemon out there we should file a class action law suit against the ford motor company.

Lots of problems= = = = HA HA!

So you guys are all having problems with this Lincoln Model. Well its because it's a FORD!! What is it with Ford and lack of quality. I swear Ford builds nothing, but junk regardless of MSRP.

My window broke 2 weeks after I got the car got my oil changed yesterday now the emmisions light is on, car sputters and actually died. I am buying a new bmw!!!1.

I love My 2000 LS. Best car I ever had. Sure I had all the problems listed above - fogging lights, replaced window motors, bearings, power steering pump, entire new front end because they couldn't fund the source of a thunking noise - but this was all done at their cost under my 5 year warranty. I got a nice replacement vehicle during the repairs. It came back washed inside & out. Did I mention the sales person & service department are HOT babes? Oh well, on a darker note, my warranty is now over... what else can go wrong? Julian

WOW! This is UNBELIEVABLE! On the first and second comment published in this review, described word by word the exact same problems I had with my 2002 LS. One thing for sure, I am done with Lincoln, I am going next week to the Infiniti dealer to get me a car that I know will make it to the movie theater (My 2002 LS with just 61000 miles broke down twice on the first and second date I went with my fiancé)

Felix.

My Lincoln LS has 86,000 miles and one owner. It has been garage kept and mostly highway driven. Now, it's falling apart. My rear differential and bearings are worn/broken. The car makes a high wheesh when accelerating. Lincoln tells me that the wheels will likely freeze soon if the differential is not replaced. Two independent mechanics say they have never seen this problem with a Lincoln, and the problem must be MANUFACTURER DEFECT. The repairs will be $2-3K. What to do? Does anyone have experience with Ford on problems like this? Can I risk buying another LS?

I have an 03 LS I bought new with 12 miles on it. I bought it becasue I loved the looks and the handling. my mom had just bought an 02 TBIRD, same chasis and engine and tranny as the LS V8 Sport, which is what I bought. the bird, no problems. the LS, just he window regulators on the back two windows about 3000 miles after my warranty expired. I have seen previous comments where dealers/repairshops have priced this repair at $240 a pop, but I have found an extremely cheap way of doing this: buy the regulators from parts supplier, or Lincoln, at $20 per (US) and install it yourself... only took me 45 minutes to do both and at a cost of $200-$600 less than what other commenters have been charged, the 45 minutes of do-it-yourself ain't bad.

I have had my Lincoln ls for 9 months, v8 version. well transmission problems, well aware of everyones, also condensation in the front lights, valve cover gaskets, new coils. luckily I am a tech at Lexus and my father owns a car shop. well now I ran into more bigger and better things. my car a few days ago can't come out of park. I got the solenoid unplugged so I can drive, but my status button tells me that all my sensors are messed up,"data error" it reads. also the windows don't roll down and sunroof doesn't work. All of which, happened at once. any comments, help, advice, would be appreciated. I plan to flash the CPU, but Lexus can't help, because we don't have any wire harness, nor the right diagnostic program.thanks.

I've owned my 2002 Lincoln LS V8 for over a year now and I haven't had any problems...I'm a 20 year old kid and I absolutely love this car... I have personally replaced the brakes and tires on the car and that is it... The car has about 83K miles on it and runs like a champ... I even beat on the car every once in a while... I have no complaints and I will likely buy another...

To the guy who posted above me... Id recommend checking the fuses... because if all that stuff stopped at once its bound to be a fuse...

I bought my 2000 Lincoln LS V8 in October 2002 with 30k miles on it. As for the problems, the fogging light covers were replaced under warranty. At 73k miles, I replaced the valve cover gaskets at a cost of about $250. Also, I had a friend replace the window regulators on both rear doors. Including parts, it cost me about $100. At 81k miles, I had an exhaust manifold leak, which cost me about $200 to repair. Some of the time, the A/C will blow hot air out of the drivers side vents. Has anyone had this problem repaired and how much was the cost? At 86k miles, I still love the car and I still get 23mpg.

I bought a 2004 LS with just over 25,000 miles about two months ago and it has been in the shop three times since the purchase. The first break down was a computer chip failure, which caused the engine to terribly misfire, the the rack and pinion assembly had to be replaced and now it in in the shop because the catalytic converter has to be replaced.

All of this is under warranty and they give me a replacement vehicle, but it takes at least four days to get my car repaired because the parts all have to be shipped from Detroit.

If this is Ford's idea of quality, service and a luxury vehicle they won't be in business very much longer.

We purchased our 2001 LS V6 in May, 2001 with 3400 miles on the clock. A "buy back", but we only found that little tid-bit out from the Ford lawsuit settlement years later... we did get $500 cash and several free services... Car is good looking and handles well, certainly the equivalent of some much higher priced Euro cruisers.

Litany of problems: front end alignment, replace CPU, both rear window regulators, wiring for driver seat and airbag (twice), both rear wheel bearings (high dollar item done on AWA), AC control failure (another high dollar done on AWA), front brake noise (I replaced them with Brembo discs and EBC "Greenstuff" pads for a total cost of $300) and, finally (hopefully), after five years and 134,000 miles, it is starting to overheat in SoCal traffic. Dealer is great and has fooled with it for several days on two occasions (at NO cost to me aside the inconvenience), but as yet the problem is unresolved. I am thinking of replacing that marvelous bit of over engineering, the hydraulic cooling fan, with an electrical unit from the wrecking yard. Car still gets 23 mpg (checked weekly) with the original spark plugs, COP's, cats, etc... so it ain't all bad!