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Pretty underwhelming. Think I would pass.

In good company...

Nice

Whos carbon stuff is that?

The owner of Bell & Colvill is retaining ownership of the Horsely site, and renting it out on short ish term contracts. Apparently hopeful that things change, and at a later date they can resume the sales side there. I think they're hoping that Lotus China (EV tanks) and Hethel (sports stuff)...

If you were there for servce work, you were at the Guildford Lotus / McLaren service centre on the Slyfield Industrial Estate, not the historic site at West Horsely. They're continuing the Parts & Service at Guildford, it's 'Sales' that have been given the elbow. When I had my first Esprit, 42...

You can rent the site if you like... https://www.owenisherwood.com/property/bell-and-colvill-epsom-road-west-horsley-leatherhead-surrey-kt24-6dg/1102 J

That is EXACTLY the issue. I'm told, they were told that to be a dealer of the new Lotus sales method, they needed to hold 'X' £ worth of stock (several million£ worth), and something like 80% of that mandatory stock level, had to be the unwanted Chinese EV stuff. B&C said thanks, but no...

Interestingly, mine is set to Celcius, being UK/Euro, but it's reading varies quite a bit, usually around 83c-85c, but occasionally it'll peak at as much as 90c. (200F is 93C) Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when it fluctuates, but it's been this way since the day I collected from...

Maybe not best choice, It'll have had it's neck wrung, daily, since it left the line.

Well that's weird, and V bad. Customer service eh! Bell & Colvill are well pissed off with the whole sales thing with Lotus (oldest Lotus dealer in the world). They've just ditched the sales contract with Lotus, only Spares / Service now.

Well if it does go that way, at least you should be able to save potentially £20k

Surely the thing to do now is find a stock vehicle at a dealer that matches your spec, and save a shed load of dosh? What was your spec??

Interesting, as I thought the V6 was only going to be made until 2027 anyways, so surprised they'd re-start just for a few months. Time will tell I guess.

Are they not currently producing V6's then?? Only 4 Bangers

You're preaching to the converted.... :) https://www.emiraforum.com/threads/my-dv-emira-and-modifications.3798/ They (Emira) look fabulous in that bright red by the way!

*Notice anything different? Wheel centre caps?

Car shown on dollies in the first pics

Thanks again for the help, saved me a lot of grief. Jon

OK thanks, I have a rivnut kit, so can sort that. ta

It's not just me being an Arse then? The CF stuff from them so far has cost £3k (that was with a bit of discount that they offered for ordering it all at once), so expensive enough to want it to be right. At the point I was ordering, they weren't offering the Sills (hadn't tooled up yet), or I...

You can see here that the weave is not symmetrical on the two vents (I know, I'm being anal, but everything else has been done with great attention to detail from this point of view) and of course these two vents can be seen simultaneously from behind the car, unlike the side vents, where a...

They tell me, they (the 'factory', whoever that is) now have the tooling, and sent me some images of std shaped sills, in matt, forged style carbon fibre (I want gloss twill weave, the same as the rest of my stuff). That was a couple of weeks ago, but still no answer as to how much they'll...

Piggy bank isn't the issue (on this occasion), it's Aerie Performance. Trying to communicate with them is mind numbing!

Black Sill now looks out of place, vs all the CF....

I'm surprised this revision / recal isn't a more urgent thing for Lotus, you'd think it could save them SOOO much money, aggro, reputation-damage etc, to get this sorted on every car ASAP, before they turn into an expensive PR nightmare....After all, a lump of sheet rubber is hardly a costly...

Fortunately, mine was all dry, shiney & clean, but prevention is WAY better than cure, so.... I made my own version of the Lotus recal 'fix' for this issue, which is a large rubber sheet that's fitted below the offending plastic guttering, and above all this delicate wiring & fuse box etc...