# Service bulletin SB\-2012\-15

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10047599
- Published by NHTSA: 2012\-12\-05
- Manufacturer's number: SB\-2012\-15
- Manufacturer's date: 2012\-10\-19
- NHTSA component: ENGINE

## NHTSA's summary

LOTUS: THE RETAINING CLIP IS RETROFITTED FOR RH CYLINDER BANK VARIABLE VALVE TIMING \(VVT\) PIPE TO INCREASE DURABILITY AND TO RETAIN ENGINE ASSEMBLY. MODELS 2012\-2013 EVORA S AND S\-IPS. \*PE

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Engine

## Vehicles listed

- 2012 to 2013 LOTUS EVORA

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2012341](/recalls/tc/2012341.md), 2012-10-10: Engine

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [sb\_2021\_06\_DTC](/bulletins/10198785.md), 2021-07-05, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING. There is often inconsistent or insufficient information received from dealers when reporting ECU and TCU related faults. This bulletin aims to standardise the information when filing a claim to After Sales.
- [sb\_2020\_01](/bulletins/10175849.md), 2020-06-01, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL; ENGINE. Any unauthorised modifications, including fitment of non\-approved after\-market air filter resulting in generation of diagnostic trouble codes \(DTC’s\) P0101 \& P1109. We have had several instances where DTC’s P0101 \& P1109 had been set and the car recovered into the dealer, only for them to find that the original equipment engine air intake filter had been substituted for a non\-approved after\-market type \(applicable to both dry and oil coated types\).
- [2012\-15](/bulletins/10143115.md), 2018-07-23, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL; ENGINE. To increase it?s durability, the single piece steel VVT pipe originally fitted as a production running change to all Evora ?S? and ?S\-IPS? models from ?12MY VIN CH\_10159 is now further retained to the engine assembly by the use of an additional fixing.

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