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Identification Codes: Other Mercury Sable V

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Protocol 3

The following offers a more detailed explanation of the coding strategy used for Protocol 3.

Model Year

Model year code indicates the year in which the calibration code was introduced.

  1. 0 - 2000
  2. 1 - 2001
  3. 2 - 2002
  4. 3 - 2003
  5. 4 - 2004
  6. 5 - 2005
  7. 6 - 2006
  8. 7 - 2007
  9. 8 - 2008

Vehicle Code

The vehicle code indicates the vehicle line to which the code applies.

  1. PG - Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable
  2. P5 - Ford Taurus X

Transmission Code

The transmission code identifies the type of transmission used.

  1. 1 - Automatic transmission

Fleet Coding

Identifies the fleet to which the vehicle belongs.

  1. 0 - Certification (U.S. 4K, final sale in export markets)
  2. 1 - HDGE/Dyno
  3. 2 - Fast AMA U.S.
  4. 3 - ADP U.S.
  5. 4 - Not assigned
  6. 5 - Not assigned
  7. 6 - Evaporative emissions
  8. 7 - MACAA
  9. 8 - On-board diagnostics (OBD)
  10. 9 - Not assigned

Certification Region

When instances where multiple regions are included in one calibration, the lead region will be listed.

  1. 5 - U.S. 50 states
  2. A - U.S. federal, including altitude, may include Canada and/or Mexico
  3. B - U.S. California standard, includes U.S. green states
  4. C - Canada
  5. D - China
  6. E - European Community (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom)
  7. F - European Extended Community (E plus Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Yugoslavia)
  8. G - Gulf Cooperative Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE)
  9. H - Hong Kong
  10. J - Japan
  11. K - Korea
  12. L - Malaysia
  13. M - Mexico
  14. N - New Zealand
  15. P - Australia
  16. Q - South America (Brazil)
  17. S - Singapore
  18. T - Taiwan
  19. U - South America (unleaded fuel regions)
  20. V - Vietnam
  21. X - Rest of World (ROW)
  22. Y - Military
  23. Z - Israel

Revision Level (not printed on label)

  1. 91-99 - Hardware and certification levels
  2. 01-04 - Preliminary levels
  3. 00 - Job 1 production (initial certification)
  4. 05-09 - Pre-job 1 revisions to calibrations
  5. 10-89 - Post-job 1 revisions to calibrations
  6. 0B - Durability test level
  7. BD - On-board diagnostics (OBD) intermediate level (pre-05)

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