Ford Contour 1999–2000 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 13830 · NHTSA communication 612885 · issued Jan 1, 2000
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Engine and Engine Cooling
component
1999–2000
model years
6
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some vehicles equipped with a 2.5l engine and built after may 5, 1999 may exhibit an intermittent hard/no start, rough idle or hesitation after a hot soak of approxinately 30 minutes. *mjs
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.