# Service bulletin 13440

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: 610879
- Published by NHTSA: 2000\-05\-16
- Manufacturer's number: 13440
- Manufacturer's date: 1999\-11\-01
- NHTSA component: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM

## NHTSA's summary

EXPERIENCING VERY LIGHT STEERING VIBRATION / SHIMMY / NIBBLE AT ENGINE IDLE OR LOW SPEEDS \(PARKING LOT TYPE MANEUVERS\). \*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, Power steering

## Vehicles listed

- 1995 to 2000 FORD EXPLORER
- 1995 to 2000 FORD RANGER
- 1995 to 1996 MERCURY MOUNTAINEER
- 1997 to 2000 MERCURY MOUNTAINEER

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [12510](/bulletins/6091750.md), 2000-11-14, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT A POWER STEERING GRUNT / GROAN / NOISE WHILE TURNING. \*TT
- [99211](/bulletins/6089657.md), 2000-02-11, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. EXHIBITING A GRUNTING NOISE HEARD FROM THE POWER STEERING SYSTEM DURING SLOW SPEED TURNING, OR WHILE STATIONARY WHEN TURNING TO THE LEFT OR COMING OFF THE STEERING STOPS. \*TT
- [996777](/bulletins/608466.md), 1999-12-02, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:POWER STEERING FLUID. EXHIBITING A POWER STEERING FLUID LEAK FROM THE STEERING GEAR BOOT\(S\). \*TT
- [98\-3423](/bulletins/607762.md), 1999-10-07, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. EXHIBITING A POWER STEERING NOISE. \*TT
- [996088](/bulletins/606964.md), 1999-09-08, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. EXPERIENCING A GRUNT NOISE WHILE TURNING. \*TT
- [5812](/bulletins/605223.md), 1999-06-04, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. CONCERNS WITH POWER STEERING MAKING A GRUNTING / GROANING NOISE WHILE TURNING. \*TT

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