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Service bulletin SSM 53236

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.

The communication, as NHTSA indexes it (as of 2026-10-19)
TypeService bulletin
NHTSA id11012136
Published by NHTSA2025-01-02
Manufacturer's numberSSM 53236
Manufacturer's date2024-12-17
NHTSA componentUNKNOWN OR OTHER

NHTSA's summary

Some 2021-2023 F-150 non-Lightning, 2022-2024 F-150 Lightning/Expedition/Navigator, and 2024 Ranger vehicles may exhibit a "trailer brake module fault" message in the instrument panel cluster (IPC) with diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) U0137 and/or U0252 stored in the body control module (BCM),

The document

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it. NHTSA files a document at one of these two addresses; we have not asked NHTSA which.

Trouble codes named

U0137, U0252

Vehicles listed
FORD EXPEDITION2022, 2023, 2024
FORD F-1502021, 2022, 2023
FORD F-150 LIGHTNING BEV2022, 2023, 2024 (the catalog's model; the bulletin names a series or trim of it)
FORD RANGER2024
LINCOLN NAVIGATOR2022, 2023, 2024

Listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned: the document says which.