Ford Escape 2018 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin tsb18-2229 · NHTSA communication 10144197 · issued Jul 27, 2018
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2018
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some 2018 Escape vehicles equipped with BLIS and CTA built on or before 4-May-2018 may exhibit BLIS and CTA fault messages in the instrument panel cluster (IPC) with diagnostic trouble code (DTC) U3000:46 stored in the side obstacle detection control module left side (SODL) or side obstacle detection control module right side (SODR). Follow the Service Procedure steps to correct the condition.
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.