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Ford Five Hundred 2005technical service bulletin

Bulletin 0551 · NHTSA communication 10014682 · issued Mar 21, 2005

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2005
model years
3
vehicle entries

Official summary

Intermittent headlamp flicker with no key in the ignition - vehicles built before 2/21/2005. *tt

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.