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Hi Bigcat41059 and welcome to the Lincoln MKZ Forum. Unfortunately, as you have been told on multiple Lincoln MKZ and Lincoln Forums, there is no way to adjust the horizontal aim of the factory headlight units, only the vertical aim.   If you wish to have your factory headlights aimed properly and eliminate the glare to other drivers, you will need to remove the incorrect aftermarket bulbs you installed, and install the proper factory bulbs.   Good luck.

Today I was putting gas in my 12 MKZ, didn't fill it, just put 20 bucks in and upon finishing I looked down and saw fuel leaking onto the pavement from under the car. I assume this is a filler tube issue, anyone else had this problem?

Sadly my 2011 MKZ Hybrid was taken out by a Michigan Whitetail Deer back in April. Had 213,000+ miles on it and was still going strong. Was still getting 37-40mpg at the time. Never had a major repair required the whole time I owned it.

Hi clintkelly15 and welcome to the Lincoln MKZ Forum. Internet diagnosis is iffy at best, even under the best of circumstances. Plus, you don't mention mileage, which engine, maintenance history, condition of the vehicle otherwise, etc. etc. What I can guess is: If it is only getting 8-9 mpg, there is more wrong than a thermostat and water pump.   I am sure others will jump in to help, so keep us updated and good luck.

I’m also having this problem. It seems to start when I start the car and turn the air conditioning on sometimes when I turn the air conditioning on a full blast at first, it’ll turn itself off and then after that it will run fine if I put it  back up. But also want to find inexpensive things that I can do to this car to make it a little bit more pleasant to drive because it’s got really rough suspension and also makes alot of noise under hood I have 190,000 miles

I’m not too mechanically enclined but I purchased a 2008 Lincoln mkz I love it butnit overheated and had to have thermostat replaced and I think it needs another water pump idk if it’s worth getting done or not also I’m getting really awful gas mileage like 8 or 9 mpg. Any advice?

I wanted to give an update to this many years later and after the car has been brought to service some 5 times at different dealerships it's the same thing. The seats have a thermo electric cooling device in them so they are "AC" seats. The buts gets cold.. very cold. It's only the back of the driver seat that has an issue. The passenger seat works fine. The car right now is at the dealership and the heated/cooled seats are one of the things that is an issue. The response I am getting at this point in time is "you have to turn on the air conditioning to the car and set it to floor in order for them to work properly." .. I am looking at the wiring schematics to the seats an and they do in fact have a TED which is a thermoelectric device, these devices are seen in things like the igloo coolers you can plug in. how they work is when electric is supplied one side of the device gets hot and the other side gets cold. The seats have a temperature sensor in them and that sensor is located on what is supposed to be the hot side of the device. The reason why no errors are present is the power that is feeding these devices is flip flopped. So the side the sensor is on is getting cold not hot and the software is not looking for it being cold it is looking for it being hot. I think there is some kind of a component failure in the module that controls that portion of the cooled seats and for whatever reason it flip flops the power output going to those thermoelectric devices. This is not something that would be out of the real of possible depending on how the circuit is made on the board. I just got off the phone with the service manage who happens to have a Fusion and it has the same issue with the seats that mine does. I asked him to have the tech check the leads that go to the TEDs in the seat backs and specifically looking at the polarity of the power. I told him it needs to be tested at the blower int he seat and at each clip between the blower and the controller. want to rule out an issue with something being wired backwards. I instructed him to also check and see of cold air is being exhausted out the back side of the blower. If there is cold air coming out the back side of the blower and hot air coming out the front side then we know what the problem is. The TED is connected backwards inside the blower if the polarity is correct going into the blower.

What is the average miles and years the battery will last in my MKZ. 2020.

Does anyone know how to horizontally make adjustments to the adaptive headlight alignment while diving straight? My driver side headlight is pointing in on coming traffic while driving straight forward.

Hi Sdkicker1904 and welcome to the Lincoln MKZ Forums. Unfortunately, there are no custom fit aftermarket CAI's available. You would need to purchase something and fabricate it to fit.   Also, on a related note: Our cars already have a very efficient factory "CAI", which can handle more than the engine needs, even under full throttle loads. And it is well sealed from hot engine compartment air.   Therefore, if you want an aftermarket CAI for the looks and added intake noise, go ahead and install one. However, most/virtually all aftermarket "CAI's" are open and/or poorly sealed. This results in hot engine compartment air being sucked into the engine, actually reducing power.    This is why an aftermarket one will not add any power, only added intake noise. So do it for looks and intake noise, but you will not see any additional power.   Let us know how you make out and good luck.