1998 Lincoln Mark Viii Visibility (wipers, defrost, mirrors) Problems

“The blend door that controls the heat and air conditioning has stopped working and has rendered my heating / cooling system dysfunctional. This seems to be a widely known issue for this car (1998 Lincoln Mark Viii lsc) - it poses a dangerous and tangible threat to safety considering heat will not work to defrost the windows and front windshield.”

“Electronic temperature control failures prevents windshield clearing when internal to external tempertaure differential fogs the glass. Blend door fails on a significant number of Lincoln Mark Viii models. Mine happens to be a 1998. It's bound to lead to accidents”

“At different times the door ajar indicator will come on. This causes the interior lights in the vehichle to light up and is extremely hazardous at night. Often times it will switch from the drivers door to the right passenger door and on occasion will indicate both.(one goes out and the other starts) this also causes the alarm system to engage. When I exit the vehicle, if sensors indicate that one of the doors is still ajar, the alarm activates intermittently.”

“I've had this gem since 2010, bought with 30,000 miles...now has 104,000 miles. It was great until 2014. Where do I start? (1) no heat- broken blender door actuator...manually set it to the warm setting for the winter behind glove box. (2) driver's door handle snapped last year(replaced for $100)...and now this year the passenger side snapped. (3) doors are constantly ajar , alternating from one side to the other. …”

“The contact owns a 1998 Lincoln Mark Viii. While backing out of the garage, the contact could not see through a small portion of the driver side door mirror. Approximately two weeks later, the contact could not see out of the entire mirror. There were no recalls for this failure. The speed was unknown. The current mileage was 24,875 and failure mileage was 24,775.”