Lotus Elise, Lotus Exige, model years 2007 to 2008. Filed by Lotus Cars USA, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 5 February 2013. 451 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Lotus is recalling certain model year 2007-2008 Elise and Exige vehicles manufactured from December 1, 2006, through October 31, 2007. The oil cooler line may become detached from its fitting.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Lotus's own number for this recall: 2013/01R. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 13V041 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 13V041 cover?
- Lotus Elise, Lotus Exige, model years 2007-2008.
- What is wrong with them?
- Lotus is recalling certain model year 2007-2008 Elise and Exige vehicles manufactured from December 1, 2006, through October 31, 2007. The oil cooler line may become detached from its fitting.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A detached oil line could spray oil on a tire, increasing the risk of a crash, or it could spray oil throughout the engine compartment increasing the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Lotus will notify owners, and dealers will replace the oil cooler hose fittings and the entire lateral oil cooler hose, free of charge. The safety recall began on March 4, 2013. Owners may contact Lotus at 1-800-245-6887.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Lotus calls this recall 2013/01R, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A detached oil line could spray oil on a tire, increasing the risk of a crash, or it could spray oil throughout the engine compartment increasing the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13V041 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Lotus Cars USA, Inc. |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 February 2013 |
| Model years | 2007-2008 |
| Vehicles named | LOTUS ELISE, LOTUS EXIGE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A detached oil line could spray oil on a tire, increasing the risk of a crash, or it could spray oil throughout the engine compartment increasing the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Lotus will notify owners, and dealers will replace the oil cooler hose fittings and the entire lateral oil cooler hose, free of charge. The safety recall began on March 4, 2013. Owners may contact Lotus at 1-800-245-6887.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 13V041, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v041/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Lotus notices we hold
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- 12V477: model year 2011 Evora supercharged
- 11V541: MODEL YEAR 2011 ELISE
- 11V510: MODEL YEAR 2005-2007 ELISE AND EXIGE
All 7 Lotus campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 13V041 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f671f4b3 - Consequence
eed56134 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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