Mercury Cougar 1999–2000 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 8192 · NHTSA communication 612344 · issued Feb 1, 2000
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Service Brakes, Hydraulic
component
1999–2000
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some vehicles equiped with 4-wheel disc brakes may exhibit a groan / grind noise from the rear brakes on the first application after the vehicles has been parked overnight. *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.