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Ford Taurus 2000technical service bulletin

Bulletin 13732 · NHTSA communication 620268 · issued Mar 1, 2001

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Vehicle Speed Control
component
2000
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some vehicles built prior to 12/20/1999 equipped with 3.0l 2-valve engines may exhibit a crank - no start, rough idle, malfunction indicator lamp and / or any driveability sympton associated with a rich or lean fuel mixture. This may be caused by a contaminated fuel rail pressure sensor. *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.