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Service bulletins for the 1999 Mercury Cougar

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.

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

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133862000-04-05. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE. INFORMATION ON INVESTIGATING HARD START / NO START CONDITIONS ACCOMPANIED BY OVERFUELING IN AMBIENTS BELOW 32F/0C, ON VEHICLES WITH VCT EQUIPPED 2.0L ZETEC ENGINES. *TT
73112000-03-31. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM. SOME VEHICLES WITH CD4E AUTOMATIC TRANSACLE MAY EXHIBIT AN OBJECTIONABLE SULFUR OR ROTTEN EGG ODOR FROM THE EXHAUST FOLLOWING AGGRESSIVE DRIVING. *TT
992372000-03-09. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM. OBJECTIONABLE EXHAUST, SULFUR, OR ROTTEN EGG ODOR AGGRESSIVE DRIVING ON VEHICLES WITH 2.5L ENGINE AND CD4E TRANSAXLE. *TT
99130921999-12-07. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING. INFORMATION WHEN DIAGNOSING THE AMBIENT TEMPERATURE DISPLAY AND / OR THE OPTIONAL FROST / ICE WARNING SYSTEM ON SOME VEHICLES, AWARENESS OF THE OPERATING STRATEGY MAY AID IN IMPOROVED DIAGNOSIS. *TT
99130291999-12-07. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM. ENGINEERING IS CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING CONCERNS WITH 2.5L VEHICLES EXHIBITING A SULFUR SMELL FROM THE EXHAUST. *TT
9967461999-12-02. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM. CUSTOMERS MAY COMPLAIN OF A SULFUR SMELL FROM THE EXHAUST ON VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH A 2.5L. *TT
991381999-08-26. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE. A ROUGH IDLE, STALLING AT AN IDLE, REDUCED POWER AND / OR MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LAMP (MIL) WITH DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODES (DTCS) P1381 AND P1383 MAY BE STORED IM MEMORY ON SOME VEHICLES. *TT
998161999-08-19. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE. FORD MOTOR COMPANY NOW RECOMMENDS SAE 5W-30 VISCOSITY GRADE FOR SERVICING ANY FORD GASOLINE-POWERED VEHICLE REGARDLESS OF MODEL YEAR. *TT
58481999-06-04. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM. CONCERNS WITH CONTAMINATION IN THE COOLANT EXPANSION TANK. *TT
9823161999-03-04. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM. PREMATURE DETERIORATION OF THE COOLING SYSTEM RESULTING IN POTENTIAL LEAKS AND / OR COMPONENT FAILURE MAY OCCUR IF CONVENTIONAL PREMIUM ENGINE COOLANT (GREEN-COLORED) IS MIXED WITH NEW EXTENDED LIFE ENGINE COOLANT ( ORANGE-COLORED) FOUND IN THE VEHICLE. *YC
9820101999-03-02. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM. EXPERIENCING A " BUZZING " OR " RATTLING " NOISE FROM THE EXHAUST SYSTEM. *YC
9825141999-03-01. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE. CONCERNS WITH THE TIMING ARROWS/FLAGS ON THE BACK OF THE CAMSHAFT SPROCKET (S) ARE MIS-MARKED BY AS MUCH AS 30 DEGREES ROTATION. *YC

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