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Ford Taurus 2000–2001technical service bulletin

Bulletin 14579 · NHTSA communication 620475 · issued Jan 1, 2000

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Air Bags
component
2000–2001
model years
4
vehicle entries

Official summary

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.