# Service bulletin BC3482972301

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: 51478
- Published by NHTSA: 1997\-06\-27
- Manufacturer's number: BC3482972301
- Manufacturer's date: 1997\-01\-23
- NHTSA component: SUSPENSION:FRONT:MACPHERSON STRUT

## NHTSA's summary

REPLACING FRONT REAR STRUTS ON A VEHICLE, THE REPLACEMENT STRUT MAY APPEAR TO BE APPOXIMATELY 2" TOO SHORT. \*JD

## 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, Shocks and struts

## Vehicles listed

- 1996 to 1997 FORD TAURUS
- 1996 to 1997 MERCURY SABLE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [BC1019697230](/bulletins/51556.md), 1997-06-27, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT:MACPHERSON STRUT. REPLACING FRONT OR REAR STRUTS ON A 1996/97 VEHICLE, THE REPLACEMENT STRUT MAY APPEAR TO BE APPROXIMATELY 2" TOO SHORT WHEN COMPARED TO THE STRUT IN THE VEHICLE. \*JD

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