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Ford Focus 2016–2017technical service bulletin

Bulletin SSM 46540 · NHTSA communication 10109020 · issued Apr 21, 2017

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2016–2017
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some 2016-2017 Focus RS customers may ask to have the upshift lamp operation programmed to function on their vehicle. North American vehicles do not support this feature and it cannot be added. The performance shift indicator (the RS icon in the tachometer) still functions the same as described in the RS Owner's Supplement

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.