[FEDERAL MOGUL LOGO]                               August 12, 2002


Jonathan G. Katz
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20549

I, Frank E. Macher, the Chief Executive Officer of Federal-Mogul Corporation
("Company"), state and attest that:

     (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports
         of the Company and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent
         covered report:

         .  no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact
            as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case
            of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the
            date on which it was filed); and

         .  no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make
            the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances
            under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the
            period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form
            8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was
            filed).

     (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's Audit
         Committee.

     (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
         before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

         .  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001

         .  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2002

         .  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2002

         .  Definitive Proxy Statement dated April 15, 2002

         .  Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 25, 2002

         .  Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 29, 2002


 Federal-Mogul Corporation . World Headquarters . 26555 Northwestern Highway .
                Southfield, Michigan 48034 . Tel. (248) 354-7700



Frank E. Macher
- -------------------------------          Subscribed and sworn to
Frank E. Macher                          before me this 12th of
Chief Executive Officer                  August, 2002.
August 12, 2002

                                         Patricia S. Finney
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                                         Notary Public

                                         My commission expires:




                                                   PATRICIA S. FINNEY
                                         Notary Public, Oakland County, Michigan
                                         My commission expires on July 17, 2003