Ford Explorer 2020 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SSM 48910 · NHTSA communication 10177040 · issued Jun 18, 2020
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2020
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some 2020 Police Interceptor Utility vehicles that had dark car mode enabled or disabled with FDRS on or before 21-May-2020 may have inadvertently had the remote keyless entry (RKE) transmitters disabled. To correct the condition, reprogram the RKE transmitters with FDRS application BCM - Remote Keyless Entry (RKE) Transmitter Programming. For claiming, use causal part 15607 and applicable labor operations in Section 10 of the Service Labor Time Standards (SLTS) Manual.
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.