NHTSA Manufacturer Communications 10143757
Original text and source
Original text
This Preliminary information communicates to the dealer technician thatLight Duty Trucks equipped with automatic transmissions and 4 wheel drive may exhibit a condition of grinding/ratcheting type noise when shifting the automatic transmission into park while the transfer case is in 4 wheel drive low (4LO) range. Dealers technician's are advised this condition should be deemed a normal characteristic of 4WD low operation.
Source
- Source
- NHTSA Manufacturer Communications — Communication from a manufacturer to dealers (summary published by a government agency)
- Reporter type
- Manufacturer
- Source reference
- 10143757
- Country / market
- US
- Language
- en
- Document version
- Version 2 (2 held)
- Note on the source
- US federal government dataset of communications manufacturers sent to dealers. NHTSA publishes a summary of each communication, not its full text.
Dates
- Incident date
- Unknown
- Received by source
- 2018-08-20
- Added to the source's file
- 2018-08-20
- Issued / published
- 2018-07-09
- First observed
- 2026-10-05 02:21 UTC (initial bulk load)
- This version fetched
- 2026-10-05 03:49 UTC