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#2 of 4 Get the VIN # and do a background check. by greasyknucks Apr 29, 2009 (6:42 pm)
This will not always tell you the complete history, but may give you the worst. The next thing I would do, after spending 3 days reading about all the problems LS owners have, I would go out and spend $20 bucks on a 2 pound hammer, carefully inscribe the notorious Lincoln-Mercury moniker on it and proceed to beat myself in the head until I came to my senses.. Son, unless you're a real glutton for punishment, go out and buy something you can work on. I've worked on english cars and old trucks all my life and never ever seen anything as problematic as this Lincoln LS model. I'm currently up to my ears with problems on my daughters 03!!!
#3 of 4 Re: 2000 Lincoln LS....HEY GUYS PLEASE HELP ME ON THIS ONE [mikesmith132] by leadfoot4 Apr 30, 2009 (3:17 am)
Replying to: mikesmith132 (Apr 29, 2009 6:31 pm) "Mikesmith", I understand your issue...you're young, most likely still in high school, and obviously on a budget. Cars today have become far more complicated than they were when I was your age, therefore there are more things to break down, which could cost you a lot of money. However, when on a limited budget, you're forced into looking at older, potentially troublesome cars.   I owned a 2000 LS for 9 years, purchasing it new, and very recently trading it off for something else. My car, however, only had 60,000 miles on it, and I took very good care of it. Would I recommend an LS, with 2000,000 miles on it to you? NO...in fact I wouldn't recommend ANYTHING with 200,000 miles on it, unless it was a Mercedes-Benz diesel powered car, and it came from a dry, road salt free state such as Arizona.   As much as I enjoyed my LS, and even though it was pretty much trouble free for me, it's a complicated car, with a LOT of electronics, that COULD give you fits. They didn't make a lot of them, even though the car is essentially a "clone" to the Jaguar "S-Type", so parts aren't readily available, therefore not inexpensive.   My advice to you, at this stage of your life, is get the most basic car you can find. Get a car without all the power "toys". They may be cool things to have, but they'll give you headaches if they break down. Also, try to find a car with a few miles as possible. Look in your local paper for estate sales. Old people don't necessarily drive "cool" cars, but they don't beat on them, and when an estate sale has one, they sometimes can be bought fairly cheap. So what if it's a Buick, as long as it starts EVERY time.....
#4 of 4 Hammer by cmax Oct 04, 2009 (5:15 pm)
Even ford does not claim this car .They run away from it like the wind.

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