# Service bulletin SSM 54573 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: 11028843 - Published by NHTSA: 2026\-02\-17 - Manufacturer's number: SSM 54573 - Manufacturer's date: 2026\-02\-12 - NHTSA component: STRUCTURE:BODY ## NHTSA's summary 2026 Bronco Sport Big Bend/Heritage/Outer Banks vehicles equipped with a 1.5L engine and without the Sasquatch package, built on or after 14\-Jan\-2026, are no longer equipped with the right side front air deflector \(base part number 9911782\). The vehicle is not misbuilt and the installation of this part is not a warrantable repair. Do not submit a claim for this condition. ## The document - [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2026/MC-11028843-0001.pdf) - [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2026/MC-11028843-9999.pdf) The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it. ## Components Body and frame ## Vehicles listed - 2026 FORD BRONCO SPORT ## Recalls for the same vehicles and component - [26V550000](/recalls/nhtsa/26V550000.md), 2026-08-25: STRUCTURE:BODY ## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component - [TSB 26\-2092 V2](/bulletins/11037678.md), 2026-10-01, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY; UNKNOWN OR OTHER. This article supersedes TSB 25\-2466 to add Bronco Sport, Escape, Maverick and Corsair, as well as removing Expedition and Navigator. One time use parts for Corsair and Bronco Sport were also added to the parts list. Some of the vehicles listed in the Model statement above may exhibit a headliner rattle or sagging condition around the roof opening panel. This may be due to the adhesive separating from the headliner substrate. - [SSM 54822](/bulletins/11032755.md), 2026-05-18, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY; ENGINE; UNKNOWN OR OTHER; POWER TRAIN. All 2026 Maverick non\-Lobo vehicles equipped with a 2.0L engine and built on or after 04\-May\-2026 and all 2026 Bronco Sport vehicles built on or after 07\-May\-2026 are no longer equipped with an underbody tunnel shield \(Maverick base part number 6011434/Bronco Sport base part number 7811434\). The vehicle is not misbuilt and the installation of this part is not a warrantable repair. Do not submit a claim for this condition. - [SSM 54601](/bulletins/11029052.md), 2026-02-27, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; STRUCTURE:BODY; UNKNOWN OR OTHER. Ford and Lincoln vehicles equipped with wired keyless entry keypad systems and accessory wireless keyless entry keypad systems may or may not come with a wallet card containing the master code. Unlike the integrated wired keypad, the accessory wireless keypad master code cannot be retrieved from the vehicle using a diagnostic scan tool or from the label printed on the body control module \(BCM\). The Factory Keyless Entry Code application within the diagnostic scan tool will not provide an applicable master code for the accessory wireless keypad. If the wallet card for an accessory keypad is not available, the "Wireless RF Keypad Diagnosis Guide" can be referenced and provides direction on how to retrieve the master code. This guide is located under the Workshop Manual tab \> Accessories \> Installation \> Wireless RF Keypad Diagnosis Guide \> PPT C \> Step C2.\
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