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Mercury Cougar 1999technical service bulletin

Bulletin 12612 · NHTSA communication 605335 · issued Mar 1, 1999

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
1999
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Concerns with temperature variation between the instrument panel air registers due to insufficient refrigerant charge. *tt

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.