Recent content by JimH

Posted today on LinkedIn - confirmed by the man himself now....

I had a similar issue on my Evora IPS - turned out to be water ingress/corrosion in the wiring loom connector between the main car loom and the gearbox loom.......

Lotus Norwich (Stratton Motor Company) are still great - Used sales and service only though - they didn't shell out to be a new car dealer when the world changed back and forth with the centralised ordering from the factory only and back again and huge payments were asked for to update showrooms...

There's more of a crossover with Lynk & Co software but there was a video years ago that featured a test rig at Hethel with all of the Emira screens and buttons installed in a flight case and UK-based engineers describing it - I can't find it now but there was probably some UK-based involvement...

My Dealer/Service agent has just advised that "plans to launch an extended warranty program have been put on hold" by Lotus......

I still have 10 months left on my new car warranty but my Dealer/Service agent has just advised that "plans to launch an extended warranty program have been put on hold" by Lotus...... Not only is their eye off the ball it now appears to have been kicked into touch (at least) for a while....

Just been advised (following my 2-year service) by my (somewhat embarrassed-sounding) UK dealer/service agent that "Lotus have advised that there is no update available or planned for the SatNav"! I know most of us will be using our favourite navigation app via Apple Carplay/Android Auto...

2014 Evora S IPS Sports Racer

Are they LED? If so they probably only work when connected with the correct polarity - haven’t had my Emira ones out but have seen this in other cars…… Assuming the connectors are the same try swapping them round!

Apparently there's plenty of capacity in the US-based Polestar (also owned by Geely) factory......

P*rs*he Monthly - sorry - EVO - magazine is both notoriously and historically anti-Lotus....