# Service bulletin 16602

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10002488
- Published by NHTSA: 2003\-09\-04
- Manufacturer's number: 16602
- Manufacturer's date: 2003\-02\-01
- NHTSA component: LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:TAILGATE:LATCH

## NHTSA's summary

LOCKING TAILGATE LOCKS ITSELF. \*TT

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Latches and locks

## Vehicles listed

- 1997 to 2003 FORD F\-150

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [16835](/bulletins/10002759.md), 2003-09-16, Service bulletin: LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:TAILGATE:LATCH. TAILGATE LOCKING BY ITSELF WHEN SLAMMED SHUT OR WHEN THE VEHICLE IS BEING DRIVEN OVER ROUGH ROADS. \*TT
- [15145](/bulletins/624867.md), 2001-11-15, Service bulletin: LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:TAILGATE:LATCH. SOME VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH REMOTE LOCKING TAILGATES MAY EXHIBIT A TAILGATE LOCKING ITSELF WHEN THE VEHICLE IS BEING DRIVEN OVER ROUGH ROADS OR IS SLAMMED SHUT. \*ET
- [96252](/bulletins/50959.md), 1997-06-17, Service bulletin: LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:DOORS:LATCH. LOCKS \- REPLACE AND/OR REPAIR ANY LOCK COMPONENT \- SERVICE TIP. \*TW

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