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Ford F-150 2022technical service bulletin

Bulletin SSM 51298 · NHTSA communication 10230801 · issued Jan 16, 2023

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2022
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some 2022 F-150 vehicles built on 04-Aug-2022 and through 20-Sep-2022 at Dearborn Truck Plant (DTP) may exhibit inoperative FordPass activation, a Feature Unavailable error message when trying to activate the vehicle from FordPass, a telematics control unit (TCU) not responding to network test while using the Ford Diagnosis and Repair System (FDRS), diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) U2402:00 and U2402:92 stored in the gateway module (GWM), and U0198:00 stored in the accessory protocol interface module (APIM). This may be due to absence of TCU. Check for TCU presence and if missing, install TCU a

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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.