Five hours into Emira ownership

[seventen]

I've been looking at Emira's for months having owned Elises's for the past 20 years.

I finally managed to get my hands on the right spec last week. However this is 5 hours into ownership :-(

Edit: SC belt failure following AC compressor seizure. Anyone had a similar issue?

 

[eriegz]

So what happened??

 

[Time2Fly]

Did you park in the red zone?

 

[EZcheezy]

when someone posts a highly provocative post then disappears

 

[seventen]

Edited the post now I know the problem. Keen to see if anyone has had a similar issue: SC belt failure after AC compressor seizure. Thanks.

 

[JonFuller]

So what happened??

He says... A/C compressor seized, causing SC belt to fail.

Bad luck fella, I have heard of AC issues, but don't know if it's resulted in a seized ac pump.

At least this isn't actually a lotus part, incredibly, a Japanese part (I assume) has failed you :-/

Where in Hampshire are you?

Jon

 

[Eagle7]

Unreal. That should be covered by the warranty, but not the way you want to start ownership!

 

[Andy H]

Gutted for you mate. This takes me back to the early days where stuff like this was happening every week. I don't know when yours was manufactured but I'm assuming it's out of the initial bathtub curve.

 

[Gprodigy]

Something similar happened to this guy

 

[ADC]

Something similar happened to this guy View attachment 38839

"... Hopefully that was the only issue with the AC"

Narrator: "It wasn't..."

(PS: ballsy move posting publicly that you've whipped it up above 90mph on the way home 🤨 )

 

[Pugwash]

Clearly he was on a private road at the time.

 

[Speedy Emira]

So what’s the update for getting it fixed?

 

[VL3X]

when someone posts a highly provocative post then disappears

Reminds me of the infamous reddit locked safe post. 😂

 

[Nick in Sydney]

Bugger. Sorry to hear that. Hopefully it's a straight forward part failure.

 

[Andy H]

reddit locked safe post

That took me down a 15 minute rabbit hole. Never came across that story before. Can't believe it was finally "resolved" after 10 years!

 

[seventen]

Apologies for the ambiguous post. When I wrote it the issue had not been diagnosed. I've updated with what happened.

The car is now back at the dealership and is being fixed as a warranty claim.

It's having a replacement AC compressor, new SC belt, and a recall done for the fan module resistor (in front of car I believe). The dealership are waiting for Lotus to authorise the claim and then provide the relevant parts. It's been hinted that this could be done next week and the car back with me shortly after. Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[VL3X]

Apologies for the ambiguous post. When I wrote it the issue had not been diagnosed. I've updated with what happened.

The car is now back at the dealership and is being fixed as a warranty claim.

It's having a replacement AC compressor, new SC belt, and a recall done for the fan module resistor (in front of car I believe). The dealership are waiting for Lotus to authorise the claim and then provide the relevant parts. It's been hinted that this could be done next week and the car back with me shortly after. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Glad it's being covered. Thanks for the update!

 

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[seventen]

Update: Lotus have approved the claim, but they don't have the parts in stock. There's currently no time on when these will be available :-(

 

[seventen]

Six weeks later and I have just have the car returned to me.

Running nicely so far. Looking forward to getting into Emira ownership properly now.