2015 Lincoln Mkz at 47,495 miles
You did not give a mileage, so this uses 47,495 — the median reported failure mileage for this model year, which is a rough stand-in for “a typical example of this car”. Put your real reading in the box below for an answer about your car.
At 47,495 miles on this car
At 47,495 miles on a 2015 Lincoln Mkz, 13 of the failure modes other owners have reported already have their median report at or below your reading, and 0 more fall inside the window where they are usually reported. The heaviest of the ones already due is seat belt or retractor failure.
Already past the median 13
Half of all reports of these failures came in at or below where your car is now.
- Seat belt or retractor failure 45k
- Air conditioning failure 20k
- Other electrical problem 25k
- Other body or interior problem 28k
- No-start or intermittent start failure 46k
- Other engine problem 29k
- Other lighting problem 28k
- Other suspension problem 28k
- Other visibility problem 20k
- Harsh or jerky shifting 24k
- Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 29k
- Tire blowout or tread separation 46k
1 more.
You are in the window 0
Your reading falls inside the middle half of reports for these.
Nothing here.
Typically later 11
Reported further down the road than where you are.
- Other steering problem 56k
- Other brake problem 59k
- Other powertrain problem 59k
- Other driver assistance problem 59k
- Other speed control problem 64k
- Stalling while driving 65k
- Loss of braking 83k
- Loss of power steering 88k
- Fuel leak or fuel odor 115k
- Brake line, hose or caliper failure 122k
- Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 284k
Timing unknown 12
Reported, but too few owners gave an odometer reading to place them.
- Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure 4×
- Head gasket failure 3×
- Cruise control failure 3×
- Radiator or coolant leak 2×
- Complete transmission failure 2×
- Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 2×
- Wheel bearing or hub failure 1×
- Backup camera failure 1×
- Airbag inflator rupture 1×
- Rust or structural corrosion 1×
- Other fuel system problem 1×
- Other wheel or tire problem 1×
Why the list is generic until you type a number
Every figure below is a comparison against your odometer, so with no reading given the page has to pick one: 47,495 miles, roughly what a 2015 car covers at 12,000 miles a year. A reading 30,000 miles either side of that moves failures between the columns, which is the difference between a useful list and a generic one.
Already inside the reported range
13 failure modes on the 2015 Lincoln Mkz have a median reported mileage at or below 47,495: seat belt or retractor failure (median 45,000 miles, 7 reports), air conditioning failure (median 20,000 miles, 7 reports), other electrical problem (median 25,000 miles, 7 reports), other body or interior problem (median 30,000 miles, 5 reports), no-start or intermittent start failure (median 45,000 miles, 4 reports) and other engine problem (median 30,000 miles, 4 reports).
Half the owners who reported each of these had done so by that mileage, which means half had not. A failure being "due" here is a statement about other people's cars, and the useful response is an inspection rather than a pre-emptive repair.
Still ahead of you
11 further modes sit above your reading, the nearest being other steering problem at a median of 55,000 miles. On a car you intend to keep, these are the ones that decide whether it is worth keeping.
What this list is not
It is a reading of what owners of other 2015 Lincoln Mkzs reported, and at what odometer reading they reported it. It is not a maintenance schedule, not a diagnosis, and not a prediction about this car: two identical cars with different service histories are not the same car.
Complaints are filed voluntarily, mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers, and a failure mode with few reports has a wide window even when the median looks precise. Modes with fewer than 8 dated reports are shown without percentiles for that reason.
Where 47,495 miles falls on the curve
The three columns above sort the failure modes one by one. This is the same evidence in aggregate: every dated report on this model year, stacked up in the order the odometer readings arrived. The dashed line marked you is where your car sits. How much of the line is to the left of that mark is how much of this model year's reported trouble is, on the evidence, already behind you.
About 41% of the dated reports on this model year had already been filed by 47,495 miles. That is the share of the problems that show up in this record, not of the problems this car will have. A further 1 report came in above the top of the scale, which is why the line stops short of the top.
- Line share of reports filed by that mileage
- Dashed the mileages called out above
A steep early climb means a car whose reports cluster young, which is the pattern of a defect rather than of wear. A line that only gets going past six figures is the opposite. Neither shape says anything about the specific car in your driveway, and a curve built from a few dozen readings can be moved by one owner with a talkative afternoon.
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Questions this page answers
What should I expect at 47,495 miles on a 2015 Lincoln Mkz?
13 of the failure modes owners have reported on the 2015 Lincoln Mkz have a median report at or below 47,495 miles, and 0 more fall inside the mileage window where they are usually reported. That is a watch list drawn from other owners, not a prediction about this car.
How to use the three columns. The left column is the list to hand a mechanic before you buy, and to check the service history for if you already own the car. The middle column is what to budget for this year. The right column is not a reprieve — it is a reminder that a used car has a bill schedule, and this is roughly where it falls. All of it is drawn from 107 owner complaints about this exact model year, not from a maintenance manual. How the percentiles are computed.
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed