Service bulletins for the 2002 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.

323 on file from NHTSA, as of 2026-10-19.

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Only bulletins with component: Ignition are shown. Show all

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01245	2002-04-18. Service bulletin. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:ANTI-THEFT:CONTROL MODULE. SOME VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH THE 4.0L ENGINE MAY EXHIBIT A CONDITION OF UNABLE TO ACCESS WITH THE SECURILOCK PASSIVE ANTI-THEFT SYSTEM (PATS). *TT
012113	2002-02-22. Service bulletin. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:SWITCH. SOME IGNITION SWITCH LOCK CYLINDER ASSEMBLIES MAY EXHIBIT ROUGNESS AND / OR EXCESS EFFORT IN TURNING, KEY DOES NOT FULLY RETURN FROM START, A MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LAMP MAY ILLUMINATE WITH P0500, P1502 AND U1039 STORED IN POWERTRIAN CONTROL MODULE (PCM). *TT
15193	2001-11-16. Service bulletin. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT INTERMITTENT DIFFICULTY TURNING THE IGNITION KEY UPON STARTING. *JG
15107	2001-09-07. Service bulletin. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION. SOME VEHICLES MAY REQUIRE EXCESSIVE EFFORT WHEN TRYING TO INSERT THE KEY INTO THE IGNITION LOCK CYLINDER. *TT
14906	2001-07-20. Service bulletin. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:ANTI-THEFT:CONTROL MODULE. INFORMATION ON PERFORMING ANY PASSTIVE ANTI-THEFT (PATS) SYSTEM FUNCTIONS INCLUDING KEY REPLACEMENTS WITH WDS OR NGS. *TT
14890	2001-07-20. Service bulletin. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT EXCESSIVE EFFORTS WHEN TRYING TO INSERT OR REMOVE THE KEY FROM THE IGNITION LOCK. *TT
0162	2001-05-22. Service bulletin. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:ANTI-THEFT:CONTROL MODULE. VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH PASSIVE ANTI-THEFT SYSTEM (PATS) MAY NOT START OR CRANK. *TT

The summaries are NHTSA's. Each bulletin's page links NHTSA's copy of the manufacturer's document.