Lotus Elise, Exige, 211 and Evora S

The risk

The oil cooler pipes may detach from their fittings and deposit oil in the engine compartment and on the road/tyres which can lead to an increased risk of fire and loss of vehicle control.

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: 05/06/2014

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Lotus Elise
• Lotus Evora
• Lotus Exige

Other fire, injuries alerts in 2014

3 of the 198 motor vehicle alerts published in 2014 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2014

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2014

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Lotus Elise

More Lotus alerts

7 EU Safety Gate alerts for Lotus since 2012; the most were issued in 2012 (1).

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