# Service bulletin 2012/15

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- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10096474
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-03\-27
- Manufacturer's number: 2012/15
- Manufacturer's date: 2012\-10\-19
- NHTSA component: EQUIPMENT

## NHTSA's summary

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.

## 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

Equipment and accessories

## Vehicles listed

- 2012 LOTUS EVORA

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [TSB\_2020\_03](/bulletins/10180671.md), 2020-10-05, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:APPLIANCE:AIR CONDITIONER; EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY. Air conditioning compressors failing due to oil starvation. TSB reminds dealers of correct replacement and running\-in procedures.
- [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 \(applicable to both dry and oil coated types\).
- [2014\-11](/bulletins/10143128.md), 2018-07-23, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:APPLIANCE:AIR CONDITIONER; EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL. Confirmation of updates to the Heating, Ventilation \& Air Conditioning \(HVAC\) sections of the Technical Service Notes concerning the necessary procedures required to ensure that that the air conditioning compressor is correctly ?run in? after any major HVAC repairs/replacements have been carried out.
- [2014\-08](/bulletins/10143127.md), 2018-07-23, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY; EQUIPMENT:APPLIANCE:AIR CONDITIONER. Clarification of air conditioning compressor ?Running\-In? Procedure. Insufficient lubrication will result in compressor failure due to seizure, reducing air conditioning performance and also generate diagnostic trouble codes.
- [2012\-18](/bulletins/10143117.md), 2018-07-23, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Because of CARB legislation requirements, the most recent version updates of Lotus Techcentre have changed the fault code look up screen to describe the fault type by one of 3 terms.
- [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.
- [2012/15](/bulletins/10096383.md), 2017-03-25, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT. 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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