Best tires for the Lincoln Town Car
Top picks across four categories for the Lincoln Town Car, anchored to the current-generation OEM size 225/60R17. Every recommendation is selected from our 22,000-tire catalog by ranking on UTQG treadwear, mileage warranty, cabin-noise rating, and season class; no commission-weighted reordering.
Daily driver
Best all-season touring
Long warranty, low noise, balanced ride. The one-tire compromise that works for 80% of owners.
Bridgestone
Turanza QuietTrack
UTQG 800 with a 80,000-mile warranty; long-wear all-season compound built for the daily-driver mileage profile typical for Lincoln Town Car owners.
Goodyear
Assurance MaxLife
UTQG 820 with a 85,000-mile warranty; long-wear all-season compound built for the daily-driver mileage profile typical for Lincoln Town Car owners.
Michelin
CrossClimate 2
UTQG 640 with a 60,000-mile warranty; long-wear all-season compound built for the daily-driver mileage profile typical for Lincoln Town Car owners.
Michelin
Defender 2
UTQG 800 with a 80,000-mile warranty; long-wear all-season compound built for the daily-driver mileage profile typical for Lincoln Town Car owners.
Lowest cost per mile
Best budget
Best price-per-warranty-mile in this size. Trade-off is shorter warranty vs premium options, not safety.
Goodyear
Assurance MaxLife
820 UTQG with a 85,000-mile warranty works out to roughly 0.00¢ per 100 miles before install. Best price-per-mile in this size; no premium-brand markup.
Bridgestone
Turanza QuietTrack
800 UTQG with a 80,000-mile warranty works out to roughly 0.00¢ per 100 miles before install. Best price-per-mile in this size; no premium-brand markup.
Continental
TrueContact tour
Lowest sticker price in this size that still meets the OEM load index. Trade-off is shorter warranty vs premium options.
Cooper
CS5 ultra touring
800 UTQG with a 80,000-mile warranty works out to roughly 0.00¢ per 100 miles before install. Best price-per-mile in this size; no premium-brand markup.
Lowest cabin noise
Best quiet
Tread patterns engineered to break up the harmonic peaks that cause highway droning. Pick this if you commute long highway distances daily.
Bridgestone
Turanza QuietTrack
68 dB cabin-noise rating per the EU tire label; library-quiet. Tread pattern engineered to break up the harmonic peaks that cause highway droning.
Michelin
Defender 2
68 dB cabin-noise rating per the EU tire label; library-quiet. Tread pattern engineered to break up the harmonic peaks that cause highway droning.
Goodyear
Assurance MaxLife
70 dB cabin-noise rating per the EU tire label; library-quiet. Tread pattern engineered to break up the harmonic peaks that cause highway droning.
Cooper
CS5 ultra touring
70 dB cabin-noise rating per the EU tire label; library-quiet. Tread pattern engineered to break up the harmonic peaks that cause highway droning.
Cold-weather grip
Best winter
Dedicated winter or all-weather compounds that stay pliable below 7 °C. Necessary for >5 snow days a year.
Michelin
X-Ice snow
Dedicated winter tire compound; stays pliable below 7 °C where summer/all-season rubber hardens. Recommended for Lincoln Town Car drivers in cold or snowy regions.
Toyo
Celsius
Dedicated winter tire compound; stays pliable below 7 °C where summer/all-season rubber hardens. Recommended for Lincoln Town Car drivers in cold or snowy regions.
Side-by-side
Pick the trade-off that matches your driving
| All-season Bridgestone Turanza QuietTrack | Best budget Goodyear Assurance MaxLife | Best winter Michelin X-Ice Snow |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| UTQG treadwear | 800 | 820 | - |
| Mileage warranty | 80,000 mi | 85,000 mi | - |
| Cabin noise | 68 dB | 70 dB | 71 dB |
| Season class | all-season | all-season | winter |
| Type | touring | touring | passenger |
OEM tire sizes by year
What size does the lincoln town car use?
Recommendations on this page are anchored to the latest model-year's OEM size. Confirm yours against the driver-door placard before purchase.
| Year | OEM size | |
|---|---|---|
| 1981–1983 | 205/75R15 | Year-specific fitment → |
| 1984–1988 | 215/70R15 | Year-specific fitment → |
| 1989 | 205/70R15 | Year-specific fitment → |
| 1990–1997 | 215/70R15 | Year-specific fitment → |
| 1998–2002 | 225/70R16 | Year-specific fitment → |
| 2003–2011 | 225/60R17 | Year-specific fitment → |
How we ranked these tires for the lincoln town car
We started with the latest model-year's OEM tire size; 225/60R17; and filtered our catalog of 22,000+ tires to those offered in that exact size. From there, four parallel rankings:
- Best all-season ranks on a weighted score: tire type matches passenger car segment, season is "all-season", premium brand bonus (Michelin / Continental / Bridgestone / Pirelli / Goodyear / Nokian).
- Best budget ranks on cost-per-warranty-mile; the lower the better. Premium brands get no bonus here.
- Best quiet ranks on the EU tire-label dB rating; lower is quieter.
- Best winter filters to tires marked 3PMSF severe-snow rated or all-weather class, with a small premium-brand bonus because winter-compound R&D is capital-intensive.
For sedans and compacts, the all-season touring tire below is the best default; long warranty, low cabin noise, reasonable cost per mile. Switch to the quiet pick if highway droning is a deal-breaker; switch to the winter pick if you see significant snow each year. Use the side-by-side comparison above to weigh the trade-offs against your specific driving; highway-heavy, winter-state, performance-oriented, or budget-constrained.
NHTSA-reported issues for lincoln town car
Top issue category: Tires (General)
Reported across: 2011 – 2011 (1 year)
What owners described
Blowout or sudden deflation appears in 31% of these reports; about 1.5× as often as across all tire complaints. Percentages are shares of the 48 reports covering every model year of the Lincoln Town Car that include a written account; a single report can describe more than one problem, so they do not total 100%.
| Reported problem | This subject | All tire complaints | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blowout or sudden deflation | 31% | 20% | 1.5× |
| Sidewall failure | 21% | 15% | 1.4× |
| Cracking or dry rot | 15% | 9% | 1.6× |
| Tread or belt separation | 13% | 13% | 0.9× |
| Loss of control, rollover or collision | 10% | 8% | 1.2× |
| Premature or uneven wear | 2% | 1% | 1.6× |
Mileage at failure
17 of these reports state an odometer reading. The middle report is at 30,000 miles, with 8 in 10 falling between 4,644 and 99,024 miles.
In owners' own words
Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA about Lincoln Town Car. Reports are published by NHTSA as filed and are lightly cleaned here only to remove intake codes.
ON JUNE 20 2012 I PURCHASED 4 GOODYEAR VIVA AUTHORITY TIRES 225/70/16.ON APRIL 24 2014 I NOTICED I WAS LOSING AIR ON MY FRONT LEFT TIRE! I WENT TO WALMART# 01698 IN HOOKSETT,N.H.,AND WAS TOLD MY TIRE HAD DRY ROTTED,THE OUTSIDE SIDEWALL LOOKED FINE, THE INSIDE SIDEWALL HOWEVER LOOKED LIKE IT WAS ABOUT TO SPLIT IN TWO,THE MANAGER SAID THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF AN IMPACT AND THE TIRE WAS PRO-RATED. THE MANAGER ALSO INFORMED ME THE OTHER TIRES,ALL BOUGHT ON 6/20/12,SHOWED EVIDENCE OF DRY ROT,BUT SINCE THEY HAD NOT YET FAILED,THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO.
AFTER DRIVING LEFT REAR TIRE WAS FLAT. THEN, APPLIED AIR AND IT WENT FLAT AGAIN. TAKEN TO TECHNICIAN WHERE COULD NOT BE FIX IT BECAUSE THE SIDE WALLS WORE OUT. NEXT DAY RIGHT REAR TIRE WAS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM, AND HAD TO BE REPLACED. LINCOLN, TOWN CAR, 1991, P215/70R15, DOT BEM3NX71239.
WHILE SITTING AT A STOP LIGHT THE SPARE TIRE T125/80R16, DOT FNTA2XHX150 LOCATED IN TRUNK OF 1990, LINCOLN, TOWN CAR EXPLODED. THIS EXPLOSION OF SPARE TIRE RESULTED IN TRUNK OF VEHICLE, RAISING 1 1/2 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL LEVEL AND A CHUNK OF GLASS AND REAR VIEW MIRROR, TO FALL FROM FRONT WINDSHIELD. *AK CONSUMER WAS TOLD BY A MICHELIN REPRESENTATIVE THAT AGE AND TEMPERATURE WOULD CAUSE A SPARE TIRE TO FAIL, THAT THEY NEEDED TO BE REPLACED PERIODICALLY, ONE PERSON WAS INJURED DUE TO FAILURE. *SLC
WHILE TRAVELING APPROXIMATELY 68 MPH IN A 1994, LINCOLN, TOWN CAR LEFT-REAR FIRESTONE TIRE, SIZE: P215/70R15, DOT: UNKNOWN EXPERIENCED TREAD SEPARATION. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 15,000 MILES ON THE TIRES, AND THEY WERE NOT ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT. *AK DOT NUMBER HYM3F28018.
Complaints are voluntarily submitted to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation and are not verified by NHTSA; they represent owner-reported problems, not proven defects. Counts can be useful as a relative quality signal across comparable tires or vehicles.
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