# Service bulletin 5140

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: 615333
- Published by NHTSA: 2001\-01\-13
- Manufacturer's number: 5140
- Manufacturer's date: 1998\-12\-01
- NHTSA component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR

## NHTSA's summary

SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT AN INOPERATIVE ALTERNATOR. THIS CONCERN IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. \*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

Electrical system, Alternator

## Vehicles listed

- 1998 FORD CONTOUR
- 1998 MERCURY MYSTIQUE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [12301](/bulletins/615546.md), 2001-01-18, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR. SOME 2.5L EQUIPPED VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT AN INOPERATIVE ALTERNATOR DUE TO RUSTING / CORROSION ON THE BRUSH PATH OF THE SLIP RINGS. \*TT
- [985140](/bulletins/613276.md), 2000-06-20, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT AN INOPERATIVE ALTERNATOR. \*AK
- [12105](/bulletins/613090.md), 2000-06-16, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT AN INOPERATIVE ALTERNATOR. \*MJS

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