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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 000027025 | Incident Date: Dec, 31 1999 |
| Consumer's City: CHINO VALLEY | Consumer's State: AZ |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Ford Motor Company |
| Model Name: MARK VIII | Model Year: 1995 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Exterior lighting:headlights |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Jul, 02 2005 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: - |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 8 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: I am currently an owner of a 1995 lincoln mark 8 and want to report an issue i and many other owners have with the car. headlight housing failure: the design of the early and mid 90's lincoln mark 8 headlights are very poor. the housings tend to turn yellow or turn cloudy under normal driving conditions, making the car unusable for night driving. there are many (i should say all) others that have this same problem. there is a website devoted to lincoln mark 8 owners, and this is one of the main complaints. http://www.mark8.org/lod/. unfortunately, replacing the stock headlight housings only bandaids the problem, as the new housings yellow and turn cloudy very shortly after being installed. however, there is an easy fix for these model years. starting in 97', the ford company switched to the hid lighting system and changed the design of the housing, eliminating the problem. i believe ford knows of this problem and have since changed the lenses starting with the 1997 lincolns. i just wanted to put in a complaint to you to see if there was anything else that could be done about this. thank you for your time, jim ayres |
