Ford Contour 1998 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 12301 · NHTSA communication 615546 · issued Dec 1, 1998
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
1998
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some 2.5l equipped vehicles may exhibit an inoperative alternator due to rusting / corrosion on the brush path of the slip rings. *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.