# Service bulletin 00204

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: 618542
- Published by NHTSA: 2001\-04\-16
- Manufacturer's number: 00204
- Manufacturer's date: 2000\-10\-02
- NHTSA component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:MANIFOLD/HEADER/MUFFLER/TAIL PIPE

## NHTSA's summary

ON SOME VEHICLES, THE EXHAUST PIPE CONTACTS THE REAR CONTROL ARM RESULTING IN BUZZING, GROANING AND / OR RATTLING NOISE FROM THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE. \*JB

## 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

Engine, Exhaust and emissions, Exhaust manifold, pipes and muffler

## Vehicles listed

- 2000 to 2001 FORD TAURUS
- 2000 to 2001 MERCURY SABLE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [14074](/bulletins/620296.md), 2001-07-24, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:MANIFOLD/HEADER/MUFFLER/TAIL PIPE; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE \(TCM/PCM/TECM\). THIS BULLETIN STATES THAT CERTAIN VEHICLES' POWERTRAIN CONTROL MODULE \(PCM\) REQUIRE A FINAL DRIVE RATIO \(NOT AXLE RATIO\) AND TIRE REVOLUTION PER MILE INFORMATION DURING A PCM REPLACEMENT OR PCM RE\-PROGRAM. \*TT

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