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| Author: | KryptonKnight [ Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | TSB and recalls |
TSB www.mustangforums.com/recalls-and-tsbs/tsb.htm To check for any TSB's go to www.ford.com and type in your VIN. TSB’s get updated and revised or discarded, but yet the old ones still show up, regardless, TSB’s are usually only needed when a vehicle exhibits a problem. A TSB and Recall are different. A Recall/Campaign must be done and the dealer/manufacturer is to send you a notice. You won’t be informed of a TSB or PI. These are bulletins to help a technician in diagnosing a problem, especially when under warranty. Recalls are covered for awhile and they do them in phases. Don’t bother going to the dealer, because they won’t have any parts or such for your vin yet. They receive a certain amount of kits/parts to perform so many recalls at a time. Just wait for your notice, or a few months, then go in for an oil change and mention that you want them to check for any outstanding recalls or campaigns. Ford Motor Co. is recalling 435,000 Mustangs built for the 2005-08 model years so dealers can adjust the airbag module software. In a compliance test, federal safety officials found that a passenger’s frontal-impact airbag deployed with more force than is allowed when using an unbelted small female test dummy with the seat in the full-forward position, according documents on the Web site of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Recall notices are to be sent this week to vehicle owners, the automaker told NHTSA. Dealers are not to demonstrate or sell any of the affected vehicles until the software change is made. Ford noted that the noncompliance in one airbag test configuration does not affect the car’s five-star front-crash safety rating under the federal government’s consumer information program. Vehicles are given one to five stars for the amount of protection provided in frontal and side-impact tests. |
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