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2017 Bentley Bentayga Engine problems

Owners have filed 2 complaints about the 2017 Bentley Bentayga's engine & cooling with NHTSA - 22% of all its complaints, most recently on September 2, 2017. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.

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Engine complaints

Engine & cooling

The auto start on this bentley bentagya most of the time does not work properly, but as I am now over 12,000 miles it has started to cause the car to call at odd times. For example coming out of a parking space the car stalled leaving me half in and half out the space. It also stalled at a traffic light 3 days ago. Then the warnings common and then go off, finally I captured this warning on camera. Annoyingly the bentley system does not seem to log the warnings and all the failures as every time I take this car...

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to the dealer they claim they cant find the problem, despite having evidence in hand, such as a photo like this. You could call this car a lemon but you would be better to call to badly designed - there are some sever issues with this model most going directly to safety.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11021157
SteeringAirbagsEngine & cooling

1 The car will slip into neutral when you take your foot off the gas, even in terrible weather. This means no gear is actually engaged, and if an emergency occurs it has to first find a gear before you can utilise power. I can send attach a video to show the point in full, in very bad weather, but it will tno let me attach it here 2 we have done a cyber assessment on the car snd it is terrible, we tested a hospital chain in virginia and this single car was worse that over 10 hospitals combined. Systems can...

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potentially be turned off cyberly. One vulnerability was first identified in 1999, and it was patched in 1999 and on this bentley it still exists. Both make this car extremely unsafe.

Filed Incident Steering · Air bags · EngineNHTSA 11020690

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