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Mercury Mountaineer 2002technical service bulletin

Bulletin 15840 · NHTSA communication 637586 · issued Apr 1, 2002

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2002
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some vehicles with the 4.6l engine and all wheel drive built between 02/25 and 04/24, 2002 may exhibit a shudder on the 4-5 upshift and / or the 5-4 downshift. *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.