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Ford Focus 2012technical service bulletin

Bulletin TSB-12-1-7 · NHTSA communication 10043323 · issued Jan 16, 2012

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2012
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Ford: in the message center, on some model year vehicles, there are dark horizontal lines showing in instrument panel and/or may be accompanied by erratic gauge or sticking, intermittently. *pe

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.