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Service bulletin QN-18-0045

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.

The communication, as NHTSA indexes it (as of 2026-10-19)
TypeService bulletin
NHTSA id10108956
Published by NHTSA2017-07-31
Manufacturer's numberQN-18-0045
Manufacturer's date2016-07-22
NHTSA componentELECTRICAL SYSTEM

NHTSA's summary

A quantity of Rapide, Rapide S and Lagonda Taraf vehicles have been released from the factory with fuses of an incorrect rating installed at two locations in the boot fuse box. Please do the Workshop Procedure that follows to replace the fuses with items of the correct rating.

The document

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it. NHTSA files a document at one of these two addresses; we have not asked NHTSA which.

Components

Electrical system

Vehicles listed
ASTON MARTIN RAPIDE2016
ASTON MARTIN RAPIDE S2016 (the catalog's model; the bulletin names a series or trim of it)
ASTON MARTIN TARAF2016

Listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned: the document says which.

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