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Ford Escape 2005technical service bulletin

Bulletin 05514 · NHTSA communication 10014699 · issued Mar 21, 2005

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Steering
component
2005
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

High steering efforts in cold ambient temperatures - vehicles built prior to 2/15/2005. *tt

Vehicles covered

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.