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Are you intentionally linking through goskimresources - or are you unaware of this?

I kerbed my front near-side wheel pretty badly several months ago whilst parking on a kerb stone that stuck out that I didn't notice; that horrible sound it makes when you do this, ouch! I also then managed to kerb my rear near-side wheel with some "spirited" driving - oops! I had Prestige...

That link takes me through to buttons that look like the touch sensitive buttons as fitted as standard to the Emira?

Welcome to the gang. Your car looks great!

Hopefully, I'm speaking for everyone given the spirit of this meet-up, we would be happy to postpone until you do have your car back. It almost seems fitting that we would have to delay due to your Emira ;)

According to the user manual it may not be a good idea to use a power washer on the vents.

Welcome to the gang! Any pics?

See this thread.

Thanks very much for this. I had been trying exactly as you state here to add stops on the route but it never worked, either it would replace the destination with the stop or just lose the stop. II thought it was bugged. But after you confirmed here you could do it this way I tried it again and...

Yes, it came to around £160 altogether. Worth it as the touch sensitive controls were just so annoying.

Flip a coin and in the split second before it lands you'll know what side you're hoping it will land on... ;)

That's doesn't look like the normal bubbling issue - with that it does just look like bubbles or round blisters under the paint. This looks like someone has hit your car and bent up the plastic behind the paint lifting it. Also looks like it is on the bumper itself - isn't that plastic and not...

Obviously I can't speak for everyone in the UK and EU but to try and capture the general feeling it goes something like this: The EVs made in China aren't really Lotus cars; EVs aren't the "same" as ICE cars and are "made by robots" so buying them from China is OK (also Chinese manufacturers...

If it helps - I doubled checked this with my Lotus dealer (Lotus - Essex) before I bought mine. They confirmed that If the paint-bubbling occurs that Lotus will replace the PPF too under warranty.

I'll give Waze a try. On my Google maps I can enter multiple way-points to a destination but it always annoyingly collapses it down to just direct to the destination through Android Auto - I'm not sure why it always does this I must be missing a setting but it is very frustrating.

You don't need to run a cable from that phone holding compartment back past the shifter and seats. There's another USB (charging only) under that compartment and there's a hole in the front, bottom of it you can thread the cable up through.

Very helpful as we'll be on a driving trip in Europe shortly. 1. I've not yet taken the Emira overseas but I have been to France several time with the Elise. The French loved it and were not reticent about coming forward to ask about the car - a lot less reserved than in the UK. I've always had...

Welcome to the gang - so does that mean you now have a V6 - or are you still looking? Nice username too :LOL:

Agreed with the rest. But thankful that no-one has seen the recent Lotus advertisements (here), they are painfully classless; "Are you a driver or wot!?!", makes me cringe, I asked one of my sons about them too - just to check it's not just because I am too old. There was another post on this...

I was thinking about this announcement. All they needed to say was the reports in the press were incorrect and they have no plans to stop manufacturing at Hethel. Instead they have taken the time to express how important the UK is to the brand. Maybe there are people there in management who do...

They are.

Yeah, I was thinking that too? I don't know if that's a base coat or the raw fiberglass - it's similar to the colour of the composite on my Elise but I don't know what the raw colour on Emira doors is. If there is bubbling then, if done properly, the whole door or panel is replaced, resprayed...

Not sure if this helps but here are some photos of (what I think are) the same areas on my Hethel Yellow Emira (needs a bit of a wash) for your comparison. Mine does also has PPF on it, so you can see a few edges of that.

I wonder if this car had the bubbling issues from new and the dealer or someone has tried to cover that up with a respray - doors and rear engine cover? If so it looks like the respray has been done without removing the panels from the car making it difficult to get round the edges. It's...

That's not a common paint issue - I've not seen anything like that on an Emira before. This is very different from the bubbling issue many users have had. Did you get this car as new? It almost looks like a bad respray attempt?

Nice, welcome to the gang.

My guess is that most enthusiasts in the UK and EU would not buy a Lotus built in the US. At that point the heritage is lost. Probably the same as they would not want a Porsche built outside of Germany or a Ferrari built outside of Italy - or even a Mustang built outside the US (looking at the...

A bit of a more balanced report from the Telegraph (yeah?). Mentions closure is just an option under consideration and mentions the huge investment Geely have already made to Hethel. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/27/lotuss-uk-factory-threatened-with-closure-by-chinese-owner/

Whilst the FT got the information from an "insider" and neither Lotus nor Geely have stated anything and "refuse to comment on rumours". Reported by the Guardian too but they just say they got the info from the FT. Also the Guardian mentions car building to move to the US - that sounds...

Reported by the Guardian too https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/27/lotus-uk-production-jobs-carmaker-geely-norfolk#:~:text=Lotus is planning an end,to the British car industry. Although the FT got the information from an "insider" and neither Lotus nor Geely have stated anything and...

Nice - the black under the spoiler is quite subtle but looks really good. I think it would look even better on a Nimbus Emira.

Zeekr is a one of the Geely brands in China. Their new Zeekr 9X has this "900V electric architecture". The 9x is an enomous (truly huge) SUV with a 2L 275hp turbo engine and 255HP + 470hp eletric engines front and rear. Electromagnetic dampers sound interesting. 0-60 in 3.0 seconds and top speed...

Link (https://www.emiraforum.com/threads/lotus-technology-announces-hybrid-technology.5487/) back to post from Lotus CEO about the 900V hybrid tech in case anyone is interested.