# Service bulletin 15\-0082

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: 10058071
- Published by NHTSA: 2015\-07\-28
- Manufacturer's number: 15\-0082
- Manufacturer's date: 2015\-05\-19
- NHTSA component: TRAILER HITCHES

## NHTSA's summary

FORD 2013\-2014 ESCAPE: BULLETIN INFORMATION INVOLVING VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH A 2.0L GASOLINE TURBOCHARGED DIRECT INJECTION ENGINE WITH FACTORY EQUIPPED TRAILER TOW PACKAGE MAY EXPERIENCE ISSUES WITH TRAILERS EQUIPPED WITH LIGHT EMITTING DIODE LIGHTNING. \*LJ

## 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

Trailer hitch

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 to 2014 FORD ESCAPE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SSM 47430](/bulletins/10144219.md), 2018-09-10, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY:HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE; LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE:LOCK; TRAILER HITCHES; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. If a trailer hitch receiver is installed on a 2013\-2018 Escape or 2015\-2019 MKC vehicle equipped with a hands\-free liftgate, the hands\-free liftgate function will become inoperative. Hands\-free liftgate function can be restored by replacing the existing hands\-free liftgate actuation upper sensor \(14F680\), lower sensor \(14F680\), stone deflector \(17779\), hands\-free liftgate actuation module \(14B291\), plastic fasteners \(N807951S\) and screws \(W506964\) that are required for the factory installed trailer hitch receiver with hands\-free liftgate option. Replacement of these parts to restore hands\-free liftgate function is not warrantable. Regardless of trailer hitch configuration, the hands\-free liftgate system cannot be added to a vehicle that was originally built without the hands\-free liftgate option.
- [SSM\-45838](/bulletins/10079006.md), 2016-08-31, Service bulletin: TRAILER HITCHES; STRUCTURE:BODY:HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE. INOPERATIVE HANDS\-FREE LIFTGATE AFTER ADDITION OF TRAILER HITCH

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