Ford E-150 2021 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SSM 48976 · NHTSA communication 10177887 · issued Jul 7, 2020
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2021
model years
6
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some 2021 E-Series/F-650/F-750 vehicles may exhibit inoperative RKE key fobs or some customers may seek service to program additional key fobs to the vehicle. Inform customers that Ford is developing an IDS procedure that is expected late August 2020, which will restore RKE function and allow for programming additional RKE key fobs. The Workshop Manual procedure for RKE programming is also being updated. Because these vehicles have a new generation body control module (BCM), replacement of the BCM is no longer the recommended repair procedure. Advise the customer they can continue to drive the
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.