19V001000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2011 LINCOLN MKZ
5 safety recall campaigns, 2 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 2 defect investigations, 180 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
2 campaigns covering the 2011 LINCOLN MKZ carry NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns5
Park it2stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints180
Complaints citing a crash23
Complaints citing a fire8
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 5 of 5
16V384000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
21V158000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
18V775000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
If the air bag does not inflate as intended, there is an increased risk of injury in the event of a crash.
15V340000
STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM
If the vehicle experiences a loss of power steering assist, extra steering effort will be required at lower speeds, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
What owners report most
- 66AIR BAGS
- 20SERVICE BRAKES
- 18STEERING
- 10ENGINE
- 9STRUCTURE:BODY
- 8UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 7ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 7VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2011 LINCOLN MKZs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.