{"nhtsa_id":10182406,"type":"service_bulletin","type_name":"Service bulletin","date_added":"2020-11-07","date":"2020-10-15","document_id":"2060432/2","mfr_campaign":null,"replaces":null,"component":"ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM","mfr_system":null,"summary":"New Continental GT/GTC and New Flying Spur - Exhaust Flap - Diagnostic Trouble Code. Customer statement/workshop findings: Warning lamp illuminated on Driver Instrument Panel (DIP) Drive system fault. Contact your Bentley dealer displayed on DIP Technical background: The root cause of Exhaust Flap Control Unit malfunction is electrical shorting of the commutator segments, this is caused by an accumulation of Sludge within the Control Unit. A DTC is stored when the respective Control Unit does not move through its full range of motion.","document":{"url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10182406-0001.pdf","alternate_url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10182406-9999.pdf","confirmed":false},"url":"https://open.wenmarpro.com/bulletins/10182406","components":[{"id":"electrical","name":"Electrical system","parent":null},{"id":"engine","name":"Engine","parent":null},{"id":"equipment","name":"Equipment and accessories","parent":null}],"codes":[],"topics":[],"vehicles":[{"make":"BENTLEY","model":"CONTINENTAL GT","year_from":2018,"year_to":2020,"match":"base","vehicle_ids":["2018_bentley_continental","2019_bentley_continental","2020_bentley_continental"]},{"make":"BENTLEY","model":"CONTINENTAL GT CABRIO","year_from":2019,"year_to":2020,"match":"base","vehicle_ids":["2019_bentley_continental","2020_bentley_continental"]},{"make":"BENTLEY","model":"FLYING SPUR","year_from":2020,"year_to":2020,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2020_bentley_flying-spur"]}],"as_of":"2026-10-19","note":"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.","attribution":[]}