# Service bulletin 5242

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: 615360
- Published by NHTSA: 2001\-01\-13
- Manufacturer's number: 5242
- Manufacturer's date: 1998\-12\-01
- NHTSA component: STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI\-THEFT DEVICE

## NHTSA's summary

SOME VEHICLES BUILT FROM 11/12/98 UNTIL 11/19/98 EQUIPPED WITH KEYLESS ENTRY AND PASSIVE ANTI\-THEFT SYSTEM \(PATS\) MAY EXHIBIT THE ALARM OPERATING PREMATURELY. \*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 FORD EXPLORER
- 1999 MERCURY MOUNTAINEER

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [16040](/bulletins/636235.md), 2002-11-06, Service bulletin: STEERING. EXPERIENCING A CLICKING / POPPING NOISE FROM THE UPPER STEERING COLUMN AREA WHEN TURNING THE STEERING WHEEL. \*TT
- [12197](/bulletins/615464.md), 2001-01-16, Service bulletin: STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI\-THEFT DEVICE. SOME VEHICLES BUILT FROM 11/12/98 UNTIL 11/19/98 EQUIPPED WITH KEYLESS ENTRY AND PATS MAY EXHIBIT THE ALARM OPERATING PREMATURELY. \*TT
- [13049](/bulletins/6091841.md), 2000-11-15, Service bulletin: STEERING:RACK AND PINION:RACK. EXHIBITING A POWER STEERING FLUID LEAK FROM THE STEERING GEAR BOOT\(S\). \*TT
- [13440](/bulletins/610879.md), 2000-05-16, Service bulletin: STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. EXPERIENCING VERY LIGHT STEERING VIBRATION / SHIMMY / NIBBLE AT ENGINE IDLE OR LOW SPEEDS \(PARKING LOT TYPE MANEUVERS\). \*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

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