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Ford F-250 SD 2023technical service bulletin

Bulletin SSM 51490 · NHTSA communication 10233837 · issued Mar 24, 2023

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2023
model years
4
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some 2023 F-Super Duty vehicles may experience various display anomalies from the center display screen such as momentary center display screen color change, screen freeze while trying to connect a phone, overlapping soft buttons, text overlap, brightness bar not updating, and/or word repetition. These issues will typically recover after a key cycle. This may be due to the accessory protocol interface module (APIM) software. Replacement or reprogramming of the APIM may not resolve this condition. Inform customers that engineering is currently working on a solution for this condition and will b

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.