Ford Contour 1998–2000 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 00186 · NHTSA communication 618595 · issued Sep 4, 2000
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Engine and Engine Cooling
component
1998–2000
model years
8
vehicle entries
Official summary
Vehicles may experience no start condition when the wiper switch is in the intermittent or low-speed setting during vehicle start-up. *jb
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.