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Ford Mustang 2000–2003technical service bulletin

Bulletin 16067 · NHTSA communication 636261 · issued Jul 1, 2002

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2000–2003
model years
4
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some vehicles with manual transmission may exhibit a hard to shift into gear condition paritcularly from a stop into first or reverse gear. *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.