Recent content by rich64

Hampton Downs race track, Auckland New Zealand

First drive on track

Congrats; What spec do you have on order?

I took my car in for the A/C not working. Had not used the A/C for the first six months of ownership. Updated the local service centre of the parking brake issue being still there. Collected car and both problems were resolved. This was over a month ago and the Hillstart issue has not been seen...

I have a Seneca Blue Emira, if I could have chosen one of the newer colours, I would still choose Seneca Blue. :)

My previous Lotus was an S3 Elise SC, had the car for around 4 years (around 20K kms), front end on NZ roads was heavily paint chipped. My new Emira arrived in July this year, after around 90 days shipping. We had PPF applied to the following area's. Full front including lights. Windshield frame...

looks great on a dull day too...

My hill start issue has come back again. Was 2 second delay, now back to 5 seconds. I am going to leave it as it is and get it looked at on first service. By then hopefully the problem will be addressed. In the interim, finding alternative routes to try and miss the hill starts. This is the...

I collected mine around 6 weeks ago here in Auckland. Mine exhibited the same noise under load under 2000rpm. My car has done 1400km's now and the noise has diminished quite a lot. Read on here others stating it seems to go away over time. Pretty sure it is gearbox related.

Love those Evija seats. Pity those were not an option for the Emira.

Thanks for this, I will have to visit Hethel one day.