Ownership Cost for 2008 Lincoln Town Car (Signature L)
Estimated: $72686 over the next 5 years
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Total
Depreciation
$9984
$4792
$4193
$3794
$3394
$26157
Insurance
$1994
$2064
$2136
$2211
$2289
$10694
Fuel
$2108
$2171
$2247
$2337
$2442
$11305
Maintenance
$2763
$2912
$1804
$2611
$2291
$12381
Repairs
$977
$1138
$1298
$1417
$1627
$6457
Taxes & Fees
$3842
$3842
$3842
$3842
$3842
$5689
Total Ownership Costs
$21668
$13515
$12236
$12727
$12540
$72686
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: Gasoline
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: Executive LWB
TPMS: Direct
Valve Train Design: Single Overhead Cam (SOHC)
Vehicle Type: PASSENGER CAR
Wheel Base Type: Long
Model year
COMPONENT
Complaint
2005
SERVICE BRAKES
I WAS DRIVING MY 2005 LINCOLN TOWN CAR SIGNATURE SERIES APPROXIMATELY TWENTY FIVE MILES PER HOUR. WHEN I APPROACHED A STOP SIGN THAT ANOTHER DRIVER WAS ALREADY STOPPED AT, MY BRAKES COMPLETELY FAILED, WITH THE PEDAL GOING ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR, CAUSING ME TO HIT THE BACK OF THE OTHER PERSON'S VEHICLE. I THEN THREW MY CAR INTO PARK TO SPEAK WITH THE DRIVER OF THE OTHER VEHICLE. THE BRAKES SEEMED TO WORK AFTER THAT BUT NOW I'M COMPLETELY PARANOID THAT THIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN AT SOME POINT! NOBODY SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY BRAKES! *TR
2008
TIRES
IN 2008, I PURCHASED A NEW LINCOLN TOWN CAR. THE TIRES ON THE CAR ARE MICHELIN ENERGY LX4 XSE RADIALS. THE DOT NUMBER IS M3XHDEH3X0208. TREAD WEAR IS SHOWN AS 500. TIRE SIZE IS P225/60R17. MY COMPLAINT IS THAT ALL 4 TIRES SHOW SIDEWALL CRACKING. THE CAR HAS 23,000 MILES ON IT. TREAD WEAR LOOKS TO BE ABOUT HALF OF NEW. THE SIDEWALL CRACKING IS EXTENSIVE, AND I BELIEVE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, ESPECIALLY IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA, WHERE I LIVE, BECAUSE OF THE HIGH AMBIENT DAYTIME TEMPERATURES. I HAVE GOOGLED THE TIRE їMICHELIN ENERGY LX4ї AND HAVE FOUND THAT THERE ARE MANY CONSUMER SAME MODEL MICHELIN TIRE COMPLAINTS FOR SIDE WALL CRACKING. DEALERS REPRESENTING THE MICHELIN BRAND, UPON INSPECTING THE PROBLEMATIC TIRES HAVE DETERMINED THE PROBLEM DUE TO їTIRE ROT.ї I BELIEVE WHOLEHEARTEDLY THAT THIS ISSUE DEMANDS IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION, BEFORE SOMEONE GETS KILLED, DUE TO A SIDEWALL BLOWOUT. *TR