{"nhtsa_id":10252623,"type":"service_bulletin","type_name":"Service bulletin","date_added":"2024-04-04","date":"2024-03-13","document_id":"SSM 52351","mfr_campaign":null,"replaces":null,"component":"EQUIPMENT; VISIBILITY:DEFROSTER/DEFOGGER/HVAC SYSTEM","mfr_system":null,"summary":"Certain 2023-2024 Explorer vehicle trim levels built on or after 6-Feb-2023 are no longer equipped with the rear heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) control panel on the rear of the center console. The following Explorer trim levels no longer include the rear HVAC control panel: Base, XLT 200A, XLT 202A without the Sport Appearance Package (sales code: 68M). Customers can adjust the rear climate control system via the front HVAC control panel. Installation of a rear HVAC control panel is not warrantable.","document":{"url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10252623-0001.pdf","alternate_url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10252623-9999.pdf","confirmed":false},"url":"https://open.wenmarpro.com/bulletins/10252623","components":[{"id":"equipment","name":"Equipment and accessories","parent":null},{"id":"visibility","name":"Glass, wipers and mirrors","parent":null},{"id":"hvac","name":"Heating and air conditioning","parent":null}],"codes":[],"topics":[],"vehicles":[{"make":"FORD","model":"EXPLORER","year_from":2023,"year_to":2024,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2023_ford_explorer","2024_ford_explorer"]}],"as_of":"2026-10-19","note":"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.","attribution":[]}