# Service bulletin 12533

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: 6091781
- Published by NHTSA: 2000\-11\-14
- Manufacturer's number: 12533
- Manufacturer's date: 1999\-03\-01
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY

## NHTSA's summary

CONCERNS WITH THE REVERSE CLUTCH LIP SEALS BECOMING RIPPED / TORN DURING REVERSE ENGAGEMENT RESULTING IN NO REVERSE OR INTERMITTENT NO REVERSE ENGAGEMENT DURING EXTREME COLD TEMPERATURES. \*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

Transmission and driveline, Clutch

## Vehicles listed

- 1999 FORD TAURUS
- 1999 FORD WINDSTAR
- 1999 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL
- 1999 MERCURY SABLE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [8242](/bulletins/613625.md), 2000-07-26, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY:BELL HOUSING. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT TRANSMISSION FLUID AT THE BELL HOUSING AREA. \*\*MR
- [13924](/bulletins/612914.md), 2000-06-13, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY:BELL HOUSING. SOME VEHICLES BUILT BEFORE NOVEMBER 1999 MAY EXHIBIT TRANSMISSION FLUID AT THE BELL HOUSING AREA. \*TT
- [8242](/bulletins/612678.md), 2000-06-12, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY:BELL HOUSING. SOME VEHICLES BUILT BEFORE NOVEMBER, 1999 MAY EXHIBIT TRANSMISSION FLUID AT THE BELL HOUSING AREA. \*TT

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