# Service bulletin RP\-13R01

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: 10054924
- Published by NHTSA: 2014\-03\-12
- Manufacturer's number: RP\-13R01
- Manufacturer's date: 2014\-09\-16
- Replaces: RP\-13R01\-3
- NHTSA component: STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT PITMAN

## NHTSA's summary

FORD: THE LOWER INTERMEDIATE STEERING SHAFT, HAS CORROSION OF SWING LINK JOINTS, COMBINED WITH COLLAPSED UPPER INTERMEDIATE STEERING SHAFT, RESULTING IN STEERING COLUMN SEPARATION AND LOSS OF STEERING CONTROL. MODEL 2005\-2011 CROWN VICTORIA, GRAND MARQUIS, TOWN CAR. \*PE UPDATED 04/23/14 \*LJ UPDATED 07/10/15 \*TA UPDATED 7/15/15 \*TA

## 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

Steering, Steering gear

## Vehicles listed

- 2005 to 2011 FORD CROWN VICTORIA
- 2005 to 2011 LINCOLN TOWN CAR
- 2005 to 2011 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [14V704000](/recalls/nhtsa/14V704000.md), 2014-11-05: STEERING:RACK AND PINION:PINION SHAFT

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