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Lincoln Continental

Every Lincoln Continental model year on file, 2017 to 2020. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years1346 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years42017 to 2020

Recall campaigns5Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins520Summed across model years

By model year

The 2017 model year drew the most complaints, 75, 56% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.

Components

Latches and locks leads the Lincoln Continental complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Latches and locks

Structure

Electrical system

Back-over prevention

Steering

Brakes

Engine and cooling

Powertrain

Seats

Airbags

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each Lincoln Continental model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Lincoln Continental by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Bulletins
2020	Sedan	7	14.3	78	2	68
2019	Sedan	32	6.3	237	3	122
2018	Sedan	20	5.0	167	2	135
2017	Sedan	75	2.7	441	4	195

Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Lincoln Continental

25V-442 Jun 27, 2025
Software error may cause the rearview camera to display a blank image, or the image may remain on the display after the backing event has ended
Back-over prevention · 200k vehicles
22V-644 Aug 26, 2022
Degradation of the camera's anit-reflective lens coating can lead to a foggy or cloudy rearview camera image
Back-over prevention · 277k vehicles
19V-077 Feb 11, 2019
Door latch pawl motors may not function properly, possibly resulting in a door latch not fully engaging
Latches and locks · 28k vehicles
17V-123 Feb 27, 2017
In the event of a crash, the driver's frontal air bag may not fully inflate or the air bag cushion may detach from the air bag module
Airbags · 28k vehicles
16V-731 Oct 12, 2016
Headlights may have been built with incorrect lenses, adversely affecting the turn signal visibility as well as not being properly marked
Lighting · 1,827 vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.