# Service bulletin SSM 46477

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: 10100503
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-05\-24
- Manufacturer's number: SSM 46477
- Manufacturer's date: 2017\-03\-21
- NHTSA component: SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS

## NHTSA's summary

2016\-2017 FOCUS RS MODELS ARE SHIPPED WITH FRONT COIL SPRING SPACERS THAT KEEP THE SUSPENSION FROM BOTTOMING OUT AND TO PROVIDE RAMP CLEARANCE DURING SHIPPING. THE VEHICLE IS SHIPPED WITH A STICKER ON THE WINDSHIELD AND SECTION 2 IN THE PDI SERVICE RECORD DIRECTS THE TECHNICIAN TO REMOVE THE BLOCKS PRIOR TO CUSTOMER DELIVERY. FAILURE TO REMOVE THE SPACERS WILL RESULT IN A ROUGHER THAN NORMAL RIDE AND WILL MAKE NOISE WHILE DRIVING. PLEASE SHARE THIS SSM WITH YOUR SALES AND PDI DEPARTMENTS.

## 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

Suspension

## Vehicles listed

- 2016 to 2017 FORD FOCUS
- 2016 FORD FOCUS RS

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SSM 45956](/bulletins/10092374.md), 2017-02-21, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION. 2016 FOCUS RS MODELS ARE SHIPPED WITH FRONT COIL SPRING SPACERS THAT KEEP THE SUSPENSION FROM BOTTOMING OUT AND TO PROVIDE RAMP CLEARANCE DURING SHIPPING. THE VEHICLE IS SHIPPED WITH A STICKER ON THE WINDSHIELD AND SECTION 2 IN THE PDI SERVICE RECORD DIRECTS THE TECHNICIAN TO REMOVE THE BLOCKS PRIOR TO CUSTOMER DELIVERY. FAILURE TO REMOVE THE SPACERS WILL RESULT IN A ROUGHER THAN NORMAL RIDE AND WILL MAKE NOISE WHILE DRIVING. PLEASE SHARE THIS SSM WITH YOUR SALES AND PDI DEPARTMENTS.

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