Ford Taurus 2000 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 8359 · NHTSA communication 612764 · issued Mar 2, 2000
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2000
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some vehicles equipped with a 3.0l-2v (valcan) engine, built before 12/17/1999 with ax4s transaxle and 1/14/2000 with ax4n transaxles may exhibit a growl or scraping sound during acceleration from a stop. *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.