# Service bulletin 183098

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: 602429
- Published by NHTSA: 1998\-11\-04
- Manufacturer's number: 183098
- Manufacturer's date: 1998\-09\-04
- NHTSA component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE

## NHTSA's summary

CONDITIONS WITH SAGGING/ HESITATION / AND STUMBLING AFTER A COLD START. \*AK

## 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

Engine

## Vehicles listed

- 1998 DODGE STRATUS
- 1998 PLYMOUTH BREEZE

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