Ford Explorer 2000 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 8424 · NHTSA communication 612848 · issued Mar 1, 2000
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2000
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some vehicles equipped with the premium am / fm / cassette / single cd (pioneer t100i radio) may exhibit a radio remaining on after the key is shut off and removed potentially resulting in a dead battery / no crank condition. *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.