Ford Taurus 2000–2001 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 14579 · NHTSA communication 617964 · issued Jan 1, 2001
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Air Bags
component
2000–2001
model years
4
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some vehicles equipped with side seat air bags may exhibit an intermittent air bag lamp on with diagnostic trouble codes u2017 and / or u2018 (side crash sensor communications error) stored in memory. *tt
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.