# Service bulletin 9861

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: 601309
- Published by NHTSA: 1998\-07\-21
- Manufacturer's number: 9861
- Manufacturer's date: 1998\-03\-30
- NHTSA component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:SWITCH

## NHTSA's summary

DIFFICULTIES REMOVING KEY FROM IGNITION ON SOME VEHICLES. \*YC

## 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

Electrical system, Ignition

## Vehicles listed

- 1997 to 1998 FORD ESCORT
- 1998 FORD ZX2 \(ESCORT\)
- 1997 to 1998 MERCURY TRACER

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [9811345](/bulletins/607515.md), 1999-09-24, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION. ENGINEERING IS INVESTGATING VEHICLES EXHIBITING A CONDITION IN WHICH THE IGNITION KEY IS DIFFICULT TO TURN AND / OR DIFFICULT TO REMOVE THE FROM THE SWITCH. \*TT
- [9943](/bulletins/604751.md), 1999-05-11, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:MODULE; POWER TRAIN. INFORMATION REGARDING REPROGRAMMING POWERTRAIN CONTROL MODULES \(PCMS\). \*TT
- [97050110628](/bulletins/52907.md), 1997-10-30, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:MODULE. FUEL DIAGNOSTICS WERE COMPUTER EXHIBITS DTC 300. \*YC
- [BC105139705](/bulletins/52850.md), 1997-09-18, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:MODULE. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT A MIL \(MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LAMP\) AND DTC \(DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODE\) P1443 STORED IN MEMORY WITH NO DRIVEABILITY CONCERNS. \*TW
- [96265](/bulletins/50991.md), 1997-06-17, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:MODULE. MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LAMP \(MIL\) \- DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODES \(DTCS\) P0300, P0301, P0302, P0303, P0304, P0305, P0306, P0307, AND/OR P0308 STORED IN MEMORY. \*TW
- [962511](/bulletins/50968.md), 1997-06-17, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:MODULE. POWERTRAIN CONTROL MODULE \-REPROGRAM POWERTRAIN CONTROL MODULE \(PCM\) \- SERVICE PROCEDURES \- SERVICE TIP. \*TW
- [962510](/bulletins/50967.md), 1997-06-17, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:MODULE. MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LAMP \(MIL\) \- DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODES \(DTCS\) P0300, P0301, P0302, P0303, P0304, P0305, P0306, P0307 AND/OR P0308 STORED IN MEMORY. \*TW

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