Ford Escape 2017 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SSM 46472 · NHTSA communication 10100084 · issued Mar 17, 2017
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2017
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some 2017 escape vehicles with electronic manual temperature control (emtc) and ford original accessory or fia scalable remote start systems may exhibit a concern of the air distribution and temperature controls becoming locked after 5 minutes when the vehicle is started with the remote start system. After approximately 5 minutes of driving the air distribution and temperature controls lock and requests for air distribution and temperature changes will not occur. The heating ventilation and air conditioning (hvac) controls correctly indicate when changes are selected but the requested air dist
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.