Text/Shore Qing
The importance of the engine to the car is beyond doubt, as one of the most critical components of the car, it is like a human heart, without which the car cannot function normally. Therefore, the major criterion for evaluating whether a car is good or bad is how the engine of the car is.
As a luxury car brand under the famous American automobile company Ford, Lincoln Automobile's reputation believes that everyone has heard of it, since 1939, because the excellent performance of Lincoln Automobile has been used as the special car of the White House President, "Extended Lincoln" is a major symbol of the identity of luxury cars in early years, but this century-old luxury brand named after the president does not seem to show the tone of luxury brand in quality.
Lincoln's engine quality seems to be the opposite of his luxurious positioning and identity, when we open the Tara search, we will find lincoln engine oil leakage, can not shake, noise, leakage of antifreeze and other news reports everywhere, mainly involving the imported model MKC and MKX.
Perhaps some friends said that it was a quality problem in the early years, Lincoln's sales and performance after localization has been good, adventurer aviator Navigator Three Musketeers have been in the leading position in sales in the domestic market, I opened XXX, has never seen a problem ah, the current Lincoln car engine should not be too much of a problem, right?
It is true that the number of failures and the sales base may only be 0.1% of the probability, but we can not use the problem of survivor bias to look at all, perhaps some owners are lucky to encounter a good car with full quality scores, but their own luck can not replace the dissatisfaction of other owners who have encountered failures.
Even if the probability of an accident is only 0.0001%, then this quality problem should also arouse people's attention and deep thinking, not to mention, for the Lincoln brand, the probability of accidents is much higher than similar models.
We open the car quality network to search for related words can find that from the earliest 2017 to today's 2022, there are complaints about the engine failure of Lincoln models, almost every month there are several accidents, the problem models cover almost all lincoln products, from imported MKX/ MKC to today's domestic adventurers and navigators, hundreds of complaints, covering a full five pages.
You know, Lincoln as a 2017 into the domestic market, 2020 only began to localize, the current annual sales of only 90,000 brands, can reach so many complaints, then how high the accident rate of the engine should be.
Some owners in the return to the factory maintenance, and even found that there is glue paper inside the engine, seriously affecting the normal work and performance of the engine, for the emergence of this situation, Lincoln official should give a reasonable explanation, rather than hasty maintenance, and let the owner continue to drive on the road?
In addition, about the frequent problems of the engine, the 4S shop does not seem to be able to give a good solution, and the owner returns to the factory four times for maintenance, and the problem remains four times, and even just installs an extra piece of copper to solve the problem, whether it is maintenance or coping, perhaps only the parties know it.
What is even more surprising is that Lincoln and Ford currently use the same platform components, and the 2.7T turbo V6 engine equipped with its models has also been rated as ward's top ten engines in 2018, with excellent power output, integrated in-cylinder direct injection, twin turbocharging, large displacement V6, electro-hydraulic dual VVT technology, integrated exhaust manifold and other technologies, which have been well received.
But it is this engine that has received countless praises, but in the oil leakage, failure, jitter problems frequently, and from 2017 to the present, Lincoln officials still have not solved this problem, the current complaints continue, perhaps Lincoln's senior management in envy Cadillac can quickly occupy the market at the same time, but also should reflect on how to solve their own engine problems.