Consumer Complaint Detail

LINCOLN / NAVIGATOR / 1998

Recalls
0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
Complaints
No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 000195942 Incident Date: Jan, 10 2000
Consumer's City: JACKSONVILLE Consumer's State: NC
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: Ford Motor Company
Model Name: NAVIGATOR Model Year: 1998
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Electrical system
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 5LMRU27L2WL Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Jan, 13 2003 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Mar, 10 2002
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 8 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Spark plugs!! i have a 98 lincoln navigator, i just had a 60,000 mile service completed on it 3,000 miles ago. the truck was sputtering and stalling out in traffic, the lincoln dealership assured me it was a hose egr/pcv, i can't really recall which. they replaced the hose along with the service. i deploy to korea in sep 02', and i get a call from my wife the truck is doing the same thing. so she takes it to a different lincoln dealership, they inform her that a spark plug is rusted and frozen in the head assy. they also inform her that the upper half is broken off, and the lower half is still in the head. i call to ask is this something that should have been caught on one the regular services, and he said "maybe". that is all he would say , he said he could not comment on what another dealership should have done. so i'm getting nowhere, but out of $14-$1,500. my complaint is that how is something like this suppose to caught if no one ever checks under the spark plug covers even for condition and security. i had this truck checked before i left so i would feel good that my wife and kids wre in a reliabl/safe vehicle, when in fact that truck could of stalled out when she was passing or even caught on fire or something. that is my complaint.