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If your dealer did that deletion, do them a favor and don't publish that information on a public forum. Nuff said.

I’ve had it happen on track to my Emira as well as other cars with street pads. I’ve heard that it’s due to uneven pad material transferring to disk. It goes away after it’s cooled down but unsettling when it happens. I’ve never had it happen when I’ve run a more aggressive pad. So must...

Sounds like a master fuse (or mega fuse as lotus calls them)

Be careful running the Goodyears that cold! They really aren’t designed to run near freezing. You can easily get a shoulder crack and a catastrophic deflation. Summer performance tires usually get pretty slick anyway below 45!

In my area, they'll spread some chemicals before a snow. Car comes off road at that point. It'll normally rain shortly afterwards and wash the chemicals off. Car goes back out for fun! We are right in that zone that can go weeks without a snow/chemicals so I don't want to miss out on a...

I'll drive through the winter, but not in snow or heavily salted roads. I'll do all-seasons on a second set of wheels in November and keep them on until April.

@Sandalwood I just noticed you're from Chattanooga. I grew up there. There are some great roads for day trips. I remember driving by the Ocoee up to Ducktown, Turtletown, Murphy, Tellico, etc. Good Lotus roads for sure!!

Excellent "B" driving!

I'm the same, the sound is the worth the extra gas. BUT, I went out today in the beautiful weather and tried both ways. A) Country roads between 60-70, higher gears and not pushing it I was around 22-24mpg. B) Went back to my normal driving on twistier roads between 3.5k and 5k rpm and...

This is totally normal and is common on most cars. Speedo error is allowable as long as it overstates speed and not understates. My Emira speedo is 2 mph higher than GPS AT 80 mph.

Mine used to come on every time. Now it can last a week. I found a little trick that helped a lot. Just like some other car functions like radio, SOS will receive power when the ignition is in the lowest convenience setting. So, if my car was sitting on the battery tender, I would just...

The first few times I clicked back into place, but I like to drive with the windows open and the wind pulls them off after a while.

They’ve fallen off every lotus I’ve owned, including the Emira. I just threw them in the glovebox and don’t use them since they aren’t too visible.

I had powder coated some wheels for another car in that color. I used Prismatic Powders Forged Charcoal UMB-6578 and the color looked great. These wheels are painted, but Greg worked with me to paint match that color and it's very close!! They didn't charge any extra for that custom color...

Yeah, I'm stupid! I copied the sizes from their web site and the standard is now -10. My offsets are F: ET52 and R: ET49 Thanks for the catch! I'll correct my original reply.

Thanks! F: ET52 R: ET49 It only pushes it out by 5mm. *** I originally wrote the wrong offsets and have corrected ***

Poof - brake dust is gone. Or is it? Just bringing a little mystery back into how long it's been between washes.

I got my GRP wheels mounted today at Gator and they are perfect. I love the look of the wheel and the color works great with Nimbus. Pics don’t completely do it justice since Nimbus is hard to photograph. Anyway, here are a few pics. OEM silver vs. new color (Forged Charcoal, but I call it...

Looking at my post I meant I’ll repaint oems for winter use. The guys at GRP were very accommodating for a special color.

No. I specified a color I’ve had on another car. Technically it’s called Forged Charcoal, and it’s pretty much the color of brake dust. You can drive the car hard all weekend and barely notice the dust. If I like it on the Emira I’ll repaint the silver Oem wheels forever use.

Here are more of his shots from the Artomobilia / Lotus Palooza event. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPq2IpYckaZB1egha44_T2YtPjlzDdSEV0drmzH7L-ZCpDOOIvw-kLQa6s4g13ymg?key=VGRzTlUwQVNwdld3ZFl2UmoySTRrOURGVjJpMnB3

I was just browsing through some pictures of Lotus Palooza in Carmel, IN and found my car on the website. Credit to the photographer Sean Grove. Probably the most artistic shot of my car I'll ever have. And possibly the cleanest it will be for a long time.

I ordered a set of Y-10's from GRP in brake dust color. They've just arrived and I'll get mounted next week.

Pops and burbles don’t need to happen with a modern street computerized engine. Injector cutoff is instantaneous. It’s added back in to some cars to bring back the overrun sound and when done reasonably, the tiny amount of additional unburned fuel they let pass into the hot exhaust to make...

I really like the burbles that Lotus allows a lot more than my M2C which had a lot of pops and sometimes was a bit much. If you play around with it, there is a throttle sweet spot where you're off the throttle enough to get the burble but not completely off. You can get a looong series of nice...

My pressure switched to BAR randomly a few days ago. Everything else stayed the same. Probably some engineer at Hethel laughing about his random BAR switch generator code he slipped in the program.

No, I think you’ve got it. Outside of the electronics world, analogue typically means something similar or comparable.

I think they are introducing the Fix it Yourself program. Next picture will have the hand holding a socket driver.

I agree the douchebaggery comes from the driver, not the car. So, I have mixed feelings regarding the Corvette. Definitely not the car for me, except maybe a C5, which is a decent track car. Jorts and white leather New Balances aside, the drivers are a pretty harmless bunch. They stick to...

The importance of that sensor lies in it’s strength in it’s ability to sense. And by sense, recognize things that are important that should be sensed.

2500. Only happened once. Never a problem before or after.

I had it happen for the first time this weekend. Started fine at home and then I filled up at the corner gas station before the engine got warm. Fired back up and it immediately died. Started again and it stumbled. Put it in track mode which boosted the revs and solved the problem. After a...

Drove 325 miles on my favorite forest 2-lanes. Put it up covered in bugs and brake dust, but happy.

I guess I do, but it's not analysis, it's just a quick glance at the coolant gauge to see if the car is warmed up. Where I live, before I get to anywhere that would need hard throttle, it's warmed up. On track, yes I do make sure it's warmed up in grid before going full out, even if it means...

Ok, obviously I am a proponent of rev-matching (including heel and toeing while braking), however I do agree it is not necessary. And I apologize if I’ve implied that it is a required skill. The vast majority of people drive their manuals successfully and have never even heard of either one...