{"nhtsa_id":10237573,"type":"service_bulletin","type_name":"Service bulletin","date_added":"2023-06-07","date":"2023-05-24","document_id":"2060432/6","mfr_campaign":null,"replaces":null,"component":"ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; 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 within the Driver Instrument Panel (DIP) -Drive system fault. Contact your Bentley dealer- 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 exhaust flap control unit DTCs are stored when the respective Control Unit does not move through its full range of motion.","document":{"url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2023/MC-10237573-0001.pdf","alternate_url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2023/MC-10237573-9999.pdf","confirmed":false},"url":"https://open.wenmarpro.com/bulletins/10237573","components":[{"id":"electrical","name":"Electrical system","parent":null},{"id":"engine","name":"Engine","parent":null}],"codes":[],"topics":[],"vehicles":[{"make":"BENTLEY","model":"CONTINENTAL GT","year_from":2018,"year_to":2022,"match":"base","vehicle_ids":["2018_bentley_continental","2019_bentley_continental","2020_bentley_continental","2021_bentley_continental","2022_bentley_continental"]},{"make":"BENTLEY","model":"CONTINENTAL GT CABRIO","year_from":2019,"year_to":2023,"match":"base","vehicle_ids":["2019_bentley_continental","2020_bentley_continental","2021_bentley_continental","2022_bentley_continental","2023_bentley_continental"]},{"make":"BENTLEY","model":"FLYING SPUR","year_from":2020,"year_to":2023,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2020_bentley_flying-spur","2021_bentley_flying-spur","2022_bentley_flying-spur","2023_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":[]}