Ford Contour 1996–1998 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 11530 · NHTSA communication 613794 · issued Apr 1, 1998
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Engine and Engine Cooling
component
1996–1998
model years
22
vehicle entries
Official summary
When diagnosing crank / no start on certain vehicles equipped with passive anti-theft (pats) check the customers key ring for any magnetic objects like the mobile speedpass key which may affect the signal transmission between the pats key and the vehicle transceiver. *tt
Vehicles covered
- 1998 Ford Contour
- 1998 Ford Crown Victoria
- 1997 Ford Expedition
- 1998 Ford Expedition
- 1998 Ford Explorer
- 1996 Ford Mustang
- 1997 Ford Mustang
- 1998 Ford Mustang
- 1996 Ford Taurus
- 1997 Ford Taurus
- 1998 Ford Taurus
- 1998 Lincoln Continental
- 1997 Lincoln Mark Viii
- 1998 Lincoln Mark Viii
- 1998 Lincoln Navigator
- 1998 Lincoln Town Car
- 1998 Mercury Grand Marquis
- 1998 Mercury Mountaineer
- 1998 Mercury Mystique
- 1996 Mercury Sable
- 1997 Mercury Sable
- 1998 Mercury Sable
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.