# Service bulletin 12173

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: 613223
- Published by NHTSA: 2000\-06\-19
- Manufacturer's number: 12173
- Manufacturer's date: 1998\-11\-01
- NHTSA component: INTERIOR LIGHTING

## NHTSA's summary

SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT A CONDITION OF INTERIOR/COURTESY LAMPS ON AT ALL TIMES. \*MJS

## 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

Lighting

## Vehicles listed

- 1999 FORD WINDSTAR

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [02176](/bulletins/10008580.md), 2004-08-05, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BRAKE LIGHTS:SWITCH. LAMP\-BRAKE\-INVADVERTENT DISABLING OF BRAKE SHIFT INTERLOCK. \*MJ
- [15438](/bulletins/630458.md), 2002-04-17, Service bulletin: INTERIOR LIGHTING. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT INOPERATIVE/FLICKERING DOME LAMP, LAMP STAYING ON ALL THE TIME, COMING ON BY ITSELF, OR INOPERATIVE WITH ANY DOOR AJAR INPUTS TO THE DOME LAMP. \*TT
- [15021](/bulletins/622839.md), 2001-10-23, Service bulletin: INTERIOR LIGHTING. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT AN INOPERATIVE / FLICKERING DOME LIGHT, LIGHT STAYING ON ALL THE TIME, COMING ON BY ITSELF, OR INOPERATIVE WITH ANY DOOR AJAR INPUTS TO THE DOME LIGHT. \*TT
- [5209](/bulletins/615341.md), 2001-01-13, Service bulletin: INTERIOR LIGHTING. INTERIOR / COURTESY LAMPS ON AT ALL TIMES. THIS MAY BE CAUSED BY A WIRING CONCERN. \*TT
- [12516](/bulletins/6091760.md), 2000-11-14, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING. INFORMATION USED WHEN DIAGNOSING A LAMP OUTAGE INDICATION. \*TT
- [7364](/bulletins/610790.md), 2000-05-15, Service bulletin: INTERIOR LIGHTING. SOME VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH HEATED OUTSIDE MIRRORS MAY EXHIBIT INTERIOR LIGHTS THAT ILLUMINATE WHEN THE REAR DEFROST BUTTON IS ACTIVATED. \*TT
- [13421](/bulletins/609686.md), 2000-04-06, Service bulletin: INTERIOR LIGHTING. SUBJECT PERTAINING TO VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH HEATED OUTSIDE MIRRORS EXHIBITING INTERIOR LIGHTS THAT ILLUMINATE WHEN THE REAR DEFROST BUTTON IS ACTIVATED. \*TT
- [99243](/bulletins/6090186.md), 2000-03-10, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TURN SIGNAL:SWITCH. ON SOME VEHICLES, THE FRONT WINDSHIELD WIPERS MAY OPERATE WHILE THE MULTIFUNCTION SWITCH IS IN THE OFF POSITION. \*TT
- [99139](/bulletins/606508.md), 1999-08-26, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BRAKE LIGHTS. CONDITIONS WITH THE BRAKE LAMPS INADVERTENTLY DISABLING THE BRAKE SHIFT INTERLOCK. \*TT

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