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Unfortunately not as I didn’t pay for it and formed part of the deal with my car at their cost. It was the first warranty set up. Sharing for anyone that wants to talk to a dealer that is is confirmed to be selling them

I now officially have an extended warranty for 2 years from the date the factory one expires. I’m not sure which dealers can offer it but I know Lotus Endeavour can for anyone interested.

As far as I’m aware, dealerships were being trained on how to sell the warranty last week. I’ll be chasing tomorrow as mine was going to be the first they produced but not heard anything yet. Will post if I get an update

I wish that had worked on mine but the key was not communicating with the car and so it would unlock, but would not perform any other functions. When I called lotus for help, they never even mentioned an “ignition mode” but I did try holding the button (along with every other combination I could...

I recently had to get mine towed after a non-start. There is no way of disengaging the park break without power. I had to get the recovery guy to take the back wheels off and “hotwire” the park break motors to release them - they just need a bit of power in either direction to wind in or out...

My story is posted on here elsewhere. I bought from Lotus Colchester a few weeks back. Similar experience. Among other things, the mileage was over the stated miles but only by 400 or so, and the services history was not up to date/on time. I had to negotiate a discount after paying for it...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/18/king-charles-buys-electric-lotus-eletre-160000/

Exactly this. I used to work with a CEO/Founder who later in the game would just pass all customer emails he received on to me (as head of product) to deal with. The trouble was, I was usually swamped and getting back to all of them was near impossible and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t...

That’s sounds great.. I’ll try to attend the next one. Oddly, I’ve only ever seen another Emira on the road in Colchester which was where I went to buy my car.

I managed to get 16 plants in it, plus a passenger. I was quite impressed… as were quite a few passer-bys.

Their corporate structure may not have given him as much choice/control over some of those things as it may appear. No doubt there was a higher level strategic plan coming down from Geely that he had to work towards that constrained his personal vision. Perhaps he was shouting about doing it...

If you're thinking of buying from them, based on my experience I would say that they are a decent bunch but you are going to get the "Lotus" experience - maybe a little slow and not everything is as polished as you'd get from a bigger player. They seem to have a lot of stock compared to other...

So finally got it back today. Not as quick as I’d have liked but given some of the stories I feel lucky at just over 2 weeks. Was trailered the 70 miles back to me at lotus’ cost, 2 year extended warranty added, plus some money back on the purchase price - happy days. Lotus HQ have also said...

Are you considering keeping it now?