Ownership Cost for 2008 Lincoln Town Car (Signature Limited)
Estimated: $43334 over the next 5 years
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Total
Depreciation
$2409
$1156
$1012
$915
$819
$6311
Insurance
$1680
$1739
$1800
$1863
$1928
$9010
Fuel
$2108
$2171
$2247
$2337
$2442
$11305
Maintenance
$2763
$1914
$1100
$1066
$2291
$9134
Repairs
$977
$1138
$1298
$1417
$1627
$6457
Taxes & Fees
$753
$753
$753
$753
$753
$1115
Total Ownership Costs
$10690
$8205
$7566
$7668
$9205
$43334
Air Bag Loc Curtain: 1st Row (Driver & Passenger)
Air Bag Loc Front: 1st Row (Driver & Passenger)
Air Bag Loc Side: 1st Row (Driver & Passenger)
Body Class: Sedan/Saloon
Displacement CC: 4600.0
Displacement CI: 280.70922283576
Displacement L: 4.6
Doors: 4
Engine Configuration: V-Shaped
Engine Cylinders: 8
Engine HP: 239
Engine KW: 178.2223
Fuel Type Primary: Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV)
Make: LINCOLN
Manufacturer: FORD MOTOR COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD.
Manufacturer Id: 977
Model: Town Car
Model Year: 2008
Plant City: Talbotville
Plant Company Name: St. Thomas
Plant Country: Canada
Plant State: Ontario
Seat Belts All: Manual
Series: Signature Limited
TPMS: Direct
Valve Train Design: Single Overhead Cam (SOHC)
Vehicle Type: PASSENGER CAR
Model year
COMPONENT
Complaint
1992
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE
VEHICLE FIRE DUE TO POSSIBLE ENGINE FAILURE.
2008
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
WE HAD A SUDDEN UNINTENDED ACCELERATION OF OUR CAR. WE WERE TRAVELING WEST ON THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY (I-90) TOWARDS NIAGARA FALLS. AS WE EXITED INTO A REST AREA, SUDDENLY THE ENGINE RACED AS IF THE GAS PEDAL WERE FLOORED. THE DRIVER PRESSED ON THE BRAKE VERY VERY HARD, AND THE CAR ALMOST STOPPED, MOVING FORWARD SLOWLY. THE DRIVER THEN SHIFTED INTO NEUTRAL, AND THE ENGINE SLOWEDAND WE STOPPED--ABOUT 50 FEET BEYOND WHERE THE SUDDEN UNINTENDED ACCELERATION STARTED. WE TURNED THE ENGINE OFF, AND EXAMINED THE FLOORMAT--IT WAS NOT IN A POSITION TO PRESS THE GAS PEDAL. WE CHECKED UNDER THE HOOD, AND DID NOT FIND ANYTHING THAT SEEMED RELATED TO CAUSING THE SUDDEN UNINTENDED ACCELERATION. WE LATER CHECKED IF THE DRIVER COULD PRESS THE GAS AND BRAKE PEDALS AT THE SAME TIME, BUT ON OUR CAR THEY ARE SO FAR APART THAT THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE. WE THINK IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS OCCURRENCE WAS DUE TO INADEQUATE SHIELDING, AND INADEQUATE PROGRAMMING, OF THE GAS PEDAL COMPUTER WHICH SENDS SIGNALS TO THE ACCELERATION SYSTEM. AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT, WE HAD A GPS, CELL PHONES, AND GAME MACHINES IN OPERATION, AND THE REST AREA WE WERE PULLING INTO HAD WIFI. THUS, THE ACCELERATION SYSTEM COMPUTER WAS RECEIVING MANY SIGNALS FROM "NOISE." IF THEY CAME IN A CERTAIN SEQUENCE, IT WOULD CAUSE AN SUA, UNLESS THE CAR HAD ADEQUATE CODING TO PREVENT THAT OCCURRENCE. THE FIX FOR THIS WOULD BE TO EITHER HARD WIRE THE GAS PEDAL, OR TO PUT ADEQUATE PROGRAMMING TO PREVENT STRAY SIGNALS FROM BEING ACCEPTED. WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE ONE OF THESE FIXES IMPLEMENTED. *TR