# Service bulletin 0581

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: 10017922
- Published by NHTSA: 2005\-12\-07
- Manufacturer's number: 0581
- Manufacturer's date: 2005\-06\-07
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION

## NHTSA's summary

DIFFICULT OR UNABLE TO SHIFT INTO 5TH GEAR. \*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

Transmission and driveline, Manual transmission

## Vehicles listed

- 2002 to 2005 FORD FOCUS

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [04215](/bulletins/10013367.md), 2005-04-15, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION. DIFFICULTY CHANGING GEARS \- UNABLE TO ENGAGE GEARS. \*TT
- [17804](/bulletins/10008565.md), 2004-08-05, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION. GRINDING WHEN SHIFTING INTO THIRD GEAR. \*TT
- [0481](/bulletins/10008250.md), 2004-07-24, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION. CLUNKING OR RATTLE NOISE IN THE TRANSAXLE, MAINLY AT IDLE IN NEUTRAL, WITH CLUTCH PEDAL RELEASED. \*TT
- [17697](/bulletins/10008213.md), 2004-07-24, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION. GEAR RATTLE OR GEAR ROLLOVER NOISE FROM THE TRANSAXLE AT IDLE, IN NEUTRAL, WITH THE CLUTCH PEDAL UP \(ENGAGED\). \*TT
- [17507](/bulletins/10007340.md), 2004-06-14, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION. CLUNKING FOR RATTLING NOISE IN THE TRANSMISSION. \*TT
- [17214](/bulletins/10004075.md), 2003-11-18, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION. TRANSAXLE STUCK IN GEAR OR AN UNABLE TO SHIFT CONDITION DUE TO A LOOSE SHIFT CABLE. \*TT
- [17062](/bulletins/10003170.md), 2003-10-10, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION. INABILITY TO SHIFT GEARS DUE TO LOOSE SHIFT CABLES. ENGINEERING IS INVESTIGATING. \*TT

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