Engine & cooling

Bentley Continental GT Engine problems by year

3 complaints filed with NHTSA about the Bentley Continental GT's engine & cooling. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.

Engine complaints by model year

'04 1'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '18 '20 '21 '22 '23

Year	Engine complaints	Crashes	Injuries	Recalls
2023	1	0	0	0
2007	1	0	0	0
2005	1	0	0	0

Latest Continental GT engine complaints

2023 Bentley Continental GT Electrical system Engine & cooling Fuel system

On Monday December 4, 2023, at about 1:30pm, it was a normal sunny day, I was headed eastbound on [[redacted]] . I was coming to a stop at the intersection of Airport Rd. I was in the turn lane to go north on Airport Rd. No one was in front of me. As I was almost stopped, only going one or two mph, the car suddenly lurched forward. Since my right foot was already on the brake I quickly pushed the brake down with full force and was able to stop the car. If there had been another car in front of me, or a person...

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crossing the intersection I would of hit the car or person. Two days before I had heard about the 2022 Bentley Flying Spur crashing in Niagara Falls. When I heard of this crash I immediately thought the car took off on its own and the driver couldn't stop it as this happened to my wife in her 2006 BMW M6 when it was about 2-3 years old. I immediately contacted the CEO of Bentley via email and he responded and had the President of the North America operation call me. He had an engineer come from Germany to take the "black box" out of the car and back to Germany to examine it. Three weeks later they said there was nothing wrong with the car. I then sold the car immediately and took a huge loss on it. After this happened in my Bentley I contacted Bentley in Crewe, England via email on 12/7/23 and they told me to call the local dealer and have them pick up the car so I did but they refused to do it when I told them I didn't want the car back. I then notified Bentley again and they wrote back on 12/7/23 and said they are reviewing my info and they said they would have their North American people call me. On Monday 12/10/23 they had not responded so I wrote them again. After no response I emailed the CEO Adrian Hallmark and he responded and said they would like to pick up the car and look at it. Then his Consumer Affairs Manager for the Americas called and I told him I am not giving them the car without the US Government being involved. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)

2005 Bentley Continental GT Engine & cooling

2004-2005 Bentley GT models have been designed with plastic vacuum lines that runs over the transmission that feeds runs also in the inside bay and up to the intake manifold that over time and excessive heat do crack which requires a drive train, engine and transmission out to remedy the situation. In event if the vacuum lines over the transmission suffers a major failure while driving it will result in the vehicle stalling immediately which can result in causing immediate harm to drivers and dependant on the...

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situation grave harm or death can result. Many owners have decided to remedy issue before it gets to the point of catastrophic failure as symptoms such as misfires, cel light and other issues. Bentley motors have ignored this issue for years and a thorough investigation needs to be conducted to hold bentley motors accountable. Bentley has made changes to design in recent times but any independent Bentley specialists would support what I am stating.

2007 Bentley Continental GT Engine & cooling Fuel system

I had to replace the whole left side of the exhaust because it was making a loud rattling noise when the car is on. There is a some sort of flap in there that becomes loose and it is not possible just to replace that flap so the whole exhaust had to be replaced on the left side at a cost of $2,000. The bentley service mechanic said that this is a very common problem for a bentley continental gt made before 2009 and that I should replace the right side exhaust now because the same rattling will start on the right...

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side as well. I didn't spend the extra $2,000 to replace the right side exhaust at this time. Bentley made that part replaceable from the year 2009, so that the just the flap part can be replaced and no need to replace the whole exhaust. This shows that bentley knows that this is a common problem, but no recall? *Tr

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