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Ford Windstar 1999–2000technical service bulletin

Bulletin 13969 · NHTSA communication 612942 · issued Mar 1, 2000

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
1999–2000
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

Vehicles built from 01/31/00 may exhibit an unable to reprogram the pcm or unable to clear the pcm vid (vehicle identification) block conition, or unable to reprogram the pcm or unable to clear pcm vid block on vehicles where the icm (instrument cluster module) has been replaced. *tt

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.