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Ford Transit 2015–2018technical service bulletin

Bulletin SSM 47003 · NHTSA communication 10138518 · issued Jan 10, 2018

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2015–2018
model years
4
vehicle entries

Official summary

2015-2018 Transit vehicles ordered with a keyless entry keypad arrive with the Ford Accessory keypad installed and programmed. Vehicles built prior to late January 2017 will have a cardboard box containing a master keycode card and personal entry code programming instructions stowed in the vehicle s driver door pocket. Vehicles built after late January 2017 will have the cardboard box containing the card and instructions already stowed in the glove box. The master keycode card and programming instructions must be placed along with the other owner literature in the glovebox, for future referenc

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.