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Plymouth Neon 1998technical service bulletin

Bulletin 182398 · NHTSA communication 602323 · issued Jul 17, 1998

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Engine and Engine Cooling
component
1998
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Vehicle sags/hesitates/ stumbles after a cold start in ambient temperatures of -7 to 30 c (20-86 f). This condition may persist up to a minute. *ak

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.