Ford Taurus 2000 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 14566 · NHTSA communication 617948 · issued Jan 1, 2001
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2000
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some vehicles built before 12/17/99 equipped with 3.0lv-2v (vulcan) engine and ax4s transaxle and built before 01/14/2000 with an ax4n transaxle may exhibit a growl or scraping sound during acceleration from a stop. *jb
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.