# Service bulletin 15636

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: 630685
- Published by NHTSA: 2002\-04\-19
- Manufacturer's number: 15636
- Manufacturer's date: 2002\-02\-01
- NHTSA component: EXTERIOR LIGHTING

## NHTSA's summary

CONCERN WITH HEADLAMPS AND/OR INSTRUMENT PANEL LAMPS DIMMING SLIGHTLY AT IDLE. \*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

Lighting

## Vehicles listed

- 1995 to 2000 FORD CONTOUR
- 1999 to 2002 MERCURY COUGAR
- 1995 to 2000 MERCURY MYSTIQUE

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2001043](/recalls/tc/2001043.md), 2001-02-06: Lights And Instruments
- [01V032000](/recalls/nhtsa/01V032000.md), 2001-02-06: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BRAKE LIGHTS:SWITCH
- [1999094](/recalls/tc/1999094.md), 1999-05-19: Lights And Instruments
- [99V103000](/recalls/nhtsa/99V103000.md), 1999-05-05: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:SWITCH
- [1998050](/recalls/tc/1998050.md), 1998-03-26: Lights And Instruments
- [98V028000](/recalls/nhtsa/98V028000.md), 1998-02-10: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS

## 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
- [01211](/bulletins/627754.md), 2002-02-22, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT CONDENSATION IN THE HEADLAMPS. \*TT
- [15183](/bulletins/624583.md), 2001-11-08, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS. INFORMATION REGARDING COUGAR HEADLAMP PARTING LINE, WHICH RESULTS FROM THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND CAN BE SEEN DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE TURN SIGNAL FUNCTION FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM. \*YD
- [01162](/bulletins/624084.md), 2001-11-01, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BRAKE LIGHTS:SWITCH. SOME VEHICLES BUILT PRIOR TO 22\-SEP\-2000, MAY EXHIBIT THE BRAKE LAMPS STAYING ON. \*SLC
- [14775](/bulletins/619489.md), 2001-06-01, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:HIGH/LOW BEAM DIMMER SWITCH. SOME VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH DAYTIME RUNNING LAMPS \(DRL\) MAY EXHIBIT THE HIGH BEAM INDICATOR IN THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER FLASHING WHEN THE DAYTIME RUNNING LAMPS ARE ON. \*TT
- [00236](/bulletins/616517.md), 2001-03-01, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS. EXPERIENCING VISIBLE MOISTURE / CONDENSATION IN THE HEADLAMP ASSEMBLY OUTER EDGE AREAS AFTER WASHING OR RAINFALL. \*TT
- [98\-4740](/bulletins/607155.md), 2000-11-03, Service bulletin: INTERIOR LIGHTING. COURTESY LIGHTS STAY ON AND/OR DOOR AJAR LAMP STAYS ON.
- [99248](/bulletins/6090196.md), 2000-03-10, Service bulletin: INTERIOR LIGHTING. CONCERNS WITH THE INTERIOR LAMP STAYING ON. \*TT
- [983311](/bulletins/607475.md), 1999-09-23, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING. EXHIBITING A MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LIGHT \(MIL\) ON WITH VARIOUS CODES AND POSSIBLE DRIVEABILITY CONCERNS. \*TT
- [12802](/bulletins/606876.md), 1999-09-07, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS. EXPERIENCING HEADLAMP CONDENSATION. \*TT

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