# Service bulletin 12709

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: 6091685
- Published by NHTSA: 2000\-11\-09
- Manufacturer's number: 12709
- Manufacturer's date: 1999\-05\-01
- NHTSA component: STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI\-THEFT DEVICE

## NHTSA's summary

EXHIBITING ACTIVATION OF THE PERIMETER ALARM SYSTEM WHEN THE IGNITION KEY IS TURNED TO START OR RUN, BUT THE ENGINE WILL CRANK AND START NORMALLY. \*TT

## 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

Steering

## Vehicles listed

- 1999 MERCURY COUGAR

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [041814](/bulletins/10013115.md), 2005-04-08, Service bulletin: STEERING:COLUMN. STEERING COLUMN SHIPPED WITHOUT CRUSH PAD \- REUSE ORIGINAL CRUSH PAD IF NOT DAMAGED. \*TT
- [0246](/bulletins/636067.md), 2002-11-05, Service bulletin: STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI\-THEFT DEVICE. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT COMPLAINTS OF FALSE ALARM ACTIVATION OFTHE PERIMETER ANTI\-THEFT ALARM OR BEING INOPERATIVE. \*TT
- [5227](/bulletins/615346.md), 2001-01-13, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:POWER STEERING FLUID. SUBJECT REGARDING VEHICLES EXHIBITING POWER STEERING FLUID LEAK AT THE HIGH PRESSURE LINE TO STEERING GEAR FITTING. \*TT
- [12176](/bulletins/613229.md), 2000-06-19, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:HOSE, PIPING, AND CONNECTIONS. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT A POWER STEERING FLUID LEAK AT THE HIGH PRESSURE LINE TO STEERING GEAR FITTING. \*MJS
- [982315](/bulletins/603762.md), 1999-03-04, Service bulletin: STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI\-THEFT DEVICE. CONCERNS OF THE PASSIVE ANTI\-THEFT SYSTEM \(PATS\) MAY BE INOPERATIVE. \*YC

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