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Ford Explorer 2002technical service bulletin

Bulletin 01134 · NHTSA communication 620982 · issued Jul 9, 2001

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Fuel System, Gasoline
component
2002
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

Fuel hesitation while making hard sweeping right hand turns (such as a highway on-ramp)

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.