Service bulletins for the 1996 Ford Explorer
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.
238 on file from NHTSA, as of 2026-10-19.
About P1131 on the 1996 Ford Explorer: what the code means, and the bulletins and recalls about the same components.
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Only bulletins with trouble code: P1131 are shown. Show all
| 99104 | 1999-08-25. Service bulletin. UNKNOWN OR OTHER. THE MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LAMP (MIL) MAY ILLUMINATE AND DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODES (DTCS) P0171, P0174, P1131, AND / OR P1151 MAY BE PRESENT WITH OR WITHOUT MISFIRE, ROLLING IDLE, ROUGH IDLE, ETC. *TT |
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| 98117 | 1999-07-13. Service bulletin. EXTERIOR LIGHTING. SOME VEHICLE MAY EXHIBIT MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LAMP (MIL) ILLUMINATED WITH DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODES (DTCS) PO171, PO174, P1131 AND / OR P1151 STORED IN MEMORY. *TT |
The summaries are NHTSA's. Each bulletin's page links NHTSA's copy of the manufacturer's document.