Lotus Emira Key Fob cases - initial run

[Emira2222]

I'd be up for 1 in leather with yellow stitch. Thanks!

I'll second that!

 

[Roland]

Hi,
Thanks for organising,

I would like to get 2 leather with red stitching for the Emira
and if possible
I would like to get 2 leather with red stitching (or not) for the Eletre

Many Thanks

Roland

Editing my list from seeing the available Eletre ones, Ill go with Black x 2

 

[Time2Fly]

Here you go!

Leather Keycover - compatible with Lotus Eletre Pebble Key | Bancho

Leather keycover compatible with Lotus Eletre Pebble Key.Allows you to keep your Key on your keyring and protects the key at the same time!These are available in 6 colours:BlackGreyYellowGreenRedOrange/TanNote last two pictures shows the keycover with the Pebble Key inserted. Key not included...

banctech.square.site

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That red is gorgeous. @73JPS

@robrmon I'd like to add two in green leather with yellow stitch. So four total for me.

 

[KJD]

Here you go!

Leather Keycover - compatible with Lotus Eletre Pebble Key | Bancho

Leather keycover compatible with Lotus Eletre Pebble Key.Allows you to keep your Key on your keyring and protects the key at the same time!These are available in 6 colours:BlackGreyYellowGreenRedOrange/TanNote last two pictures shows the keycover with the Pebble Key inserted. Key not included...

banctech.square.site

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Excellent. Thank you.

 

[Kimmax]

alcantara / yellow for me

 

[robrmon]

Thanks everyone for the feedback today.
I’ve relayed relatively equal interest in Alcantara and leather, yellow stitching in general stands out, but there will be interested in all the other colours.

Initial batch will be around 125 units, I’ll let you know when the website is up.

@Time2Fly, I agree the bespoke leather colours would look incredible. Perhaps something you can discuss with the seller after this run. I can imagine from his point of view, It’s harder to quantify the interest in the individual leather colors, noting he is on the hook for whatever doesn’t sell. Black leather/Alcantara is probably a safe bet for him initially, but at least you can see what’s doable.

 

[robrmon]

Ps i’ll ask him if he can join the forum to make communication easier

 

[73JPS]

As I mentioned a while back, I collaborated with a guy in the UK who made key cases for the Eletre. He is in touch with a manufacturer in China and we have the first batch of samples!

I’m really impressed, leather and Alcantara are the options with different stitching colours. Black, Yellow, Green, Black, Blue are suggested.

He will setup a website, we think pricing will be £35 each (£15 international postage and £7.50 per each additional one) think that makes 1 piece around 63usd delivered.

Please don’t consider these orders, but can I get indications of interest that I can relay to the guy who is producing these.

Personally, I think I would buy two one in Alcantara, and one in leather

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If you’re still gauging interest or trying to predict production I would take one in leather and one in Alcantara, red stitching for each.

 

[robrmon]

If you’re still gauging interest or trying to predict production I would take one in leather and one in Alcantara, red stitching for each.

He’s already put in an initial order. I think everyone should be happy.

 

[107US]

Hey thank you! I’m in alcantara yellow stitch

 

[Time2Fly]

Thanks everyone for the feedback today.
I’ve relayed relatively equal interest in Alcantara and leather, yellow stitching in general stands out, but there will be interested in all the other colours.

Initial batch will be around 125 units, I’ll let you know when the website is up.

@Time2Fly, I agree the bespoke leather colours would look incredible. Perhaps something you can discuss with the seller after this run. I can imagine from his point of view, It’s harder to quantify the interest in the individual leather colors, noting he is on the hook for whatever doesn’t sell. Black leather/Alcantara is probably a safe bet for him initially, but at least you can see what’s doable.

Hopefully he can. Strange to have the nicer colors only for a car with a smaller adopter base.

 

[MIGZ]

These Look very similar to these from china

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806295613621.html?src=google&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=708-803-3821&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&albagn=888888&isSmbAutoCall=false&needSmbHouyi=false&albcp=20292293647&albag=&trgt=&crea=en3256806295613621&netw=x&device=m&albpg=&albpd=en3256806295613621&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD6I-hH41-1oLLX0dKHiFEqL-HTxP&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsNKknoKThQMVHXJ_AB1HGAA-EAQYASABEgJa7_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&aff_fcid=3337e1ec88ca43a59a6874aa68c11470-1711493531915-09953-UneMJZVf&aff_fsk=UneMJZVf&aff_platform=aaf&sk=UneMJZVf&aff_trace_key=3337e1ec88ca43a59a6874aa68c11470-1711493531915-09953-UneMJZVf&terminal_id=e436c2841c394825975ac9d5781bce4c&afSmartRedirect=y&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

 

[robrmon]

These Look very similar to these from china

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806295613621.html?src=google&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=708-803-3821&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&albagn=888888&isSmbAutoCall=false&needSmbHouyi=false&albcp=20292293647&albag=&trgt=&crea=en3256806295613621&netw=x&device=m&albpg=&albpd=en3256806295613621&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD6I-hH41-1oLLX0dKHiFEqL-HTxP&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsNKknoKThQMVHXJ_AB1HGAA-EAQYASABEgJa7_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&aff_fcid=3337e1ec88ca43a59a6874aa68c11470-1711493531915-09953-UneMJZVf&aff_fsk=UneMJZVf&aff_platform=aaf&sk=UneMJZVf&aff_trace_key=3337e1ec88ca43a59a6874aa68c11470-1711493531915-09953-UneMJZVf&terminal_id=e436c2841c394825975ac9d5781bce4c&afSmartRedirect=y&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

Yes similar but not surprising given the mandate.

I had tried to reach that supplier a month or so ago but they had zero interest in customization (stitching or Alcantara)

 

[robrmon]

Hopefully he can. Strange to have the nicer colors only for a car with a smaller adopter base.

Yeah I thought the same, but perhaps he decided it was hard to predict what sells and what won’t and learnt from it so opted on less customization. Anyhow he has the link to this page and is reading the posts so I’m sure all feedback is welcome.

 

[Nick in Sydney]

If you're still gauging interest, Id be in for two

 

[Bancho]

Hi all,

Hope you are well! Many thanks to robrmon for the introduction to this forum.

Think its worth me giving an introduction and a bit of background, as this is not my day job, im just a Lotus owner that fell into doing something to help the community.

I am a Lotus Eletre owner and was one of the early customers in the UK. I am part of a Facebook forum and we quite quickly realised we needed a solution to a problem we had with our key. Unlike the Emira key, that one has no way at all to attach to anything, people nearly lost them and often dropped them with significant damage.

Having seen some pretty poor quality attempts at chinese sellers selling covers via aliexpress, i started researching and talking to a number of factories to produce a custom keycover.

The other forum members jumped at this when i discussed what i was doing and fortunately supported me by paying in advance of me placing the order with the factory. It has since grown considerably, i initially took orders via email, then a google forms and now put together a small e-commerce site. I am also now supplying directly to some Lotus dealers.

As i need to buy and stock the variations (dont like telling people i am out of stock, but at same time i cant afford to have lots of stock sitting in my house!), i want to keep the number of variations down.

At the moment i have placed an initial order for black leather or alcantara with a choice of stitching:
- Black
- Yellow
- Blue
- Red
- Green

Based on feedback, thinking of changing to:
- Black Leather with yellow or red stitching
- Alcantara with yellow or red stitching
- Red Leather with Red Stitching
- Yellow Leather with Yellow Stitching
- Green Leather with Yellow Stitching
- Can also see if i can get a leather similar to Seneca Blue

In terms of pricing, it mirrors the Eletre pricing (despite this one actually costing a bit more due to larger size and needing a new custom mould):
£35 per piece
£5 UK shipping (£2.50 additional)
£15 International shipping (£7.50 additional)

Hope this helps, apologies for the long post! Let me know your thoughts.

Thank you

 

[Time2Fly]

Thanks for doing these! They look great. I'm still in for four whenever you can get them produced. Two black leather and yellow stitching, two green leather with yellow stitching.

 

[robrmon]

Hi all,

Hope you are well! Many thanks to robrmon for the introduction to this forum.

Think its worth me giving an introduction and a bit of background, as this is not my day job, im just a Lotus owner that fell into doing something to help the community.

I am a Lotus Eletre owner and was one of the early customers in the UK. I am part of a Facebook forum and we quite quickly realised we needed a solution to a problem we had with our key. Unlike the Emira key, that one has no way at all to attach to anything, people nearly lost them and often dropped them with significant damage.

Having seen some pretty poor quality attempts at chinese sellers selling covers via aliexpress, i started researching and talking to a number of factories to produce a custom keycover.

The other forum members jumped at this when i discussed what i was doing and fortunately supported me by paying in advance of me placing the order with the factory. It has since grown considerably, i initially took orders via email, then a google forms and now put together a small e-commerce site. I am also now supplying directly to some Lotus dealers.

As i need to buy and stock the variations (dont like telling people i am out of stock, but at same time i cant afford to have lots of stock sitting in my house!), i want to keep the number of variations down.

At the moment i have placed an initial order for black leather or alcantara with a choice of stitching:
- Black
- Yellow
- Blue
- Red
- Green

Based on feedback, thinking of changing to:
- Black Leather with yellow or red stitching
- Alcantara with yellow or red stitching
- Red Leather with Red Stitching
- Yellow Leather with Yellow Stitching
- Green Leather with Yellow Stitching
- Can also see if i can get a leather similar to Seneca Blue

In terms of pricing, it mirrors the Eletre pricing (despite this one actually costing a bit more due to larger size and needing a new custom mould):
£35 per piece
£5 UK shipping (£2.50 additional)
£15 International shipping (£7.50 additional)

Hope this helps, apologies for the long post! Let me know your thoughts.

Thank you

Welcome to the forum @Bancho !
And thanks for the collaboration on this…

 

[LuckysDad]

Hi all,

Hope you are well! Many thanks to robrmon for the introduction to this forum.

Think its worth me giving an introduction and a bit of background, as this is not my day job, im just a Lotus owner that fell into doing something to help the community.

I am a Lotus Eletre owner and was one of the early customers in the UK. I am part of a Facebook forum and we quite quickly realised we needed a solution to a problem we had with our key. Unlike the Emira key, that one has no way at all to attach to anything, people nearly lost them and often dropped them with significant damage.

Having seen some pretty poor quality attempts at chinese sellers selling covers via aliexpress, i started researching and talking to a number of factories to produce a custom keycover.

The other forum members jumped at this when i discussed what i was doing and fortunately supported me by paying in advance of me placing the order with the factory. It has since grown considerably, i initially took orders via email, then a google forms and now put together a small e-commerce site. I am also now supplying directly to some Lotus dealers.

As i need to buy and stock the variations (dont like telling people i am out of stock, but at same time i cant afford to have lots of stock sitting in my house!), i want to keep the number of variations down.

At the moment i have placed an initial order for black leather or alcantara with a choice of stitching:
- Black
- Yellow
- Blue
- Red
- Green

Based on feedback, thinking of changing to:
- Black Leather with yellow or red stitching
- Alcantara with yellow or red stitching
- Red Leather with Red Stitching
- Yellow Leather with Yellow Stitching
- Green Leather with Yellow Stitching
- Can also see if i can get a leather similar to Seneca Blue

In terms of pricing, it mirrors the Eletre pricing (despite this one actually costing a bit more due to larger size and needing a new custom mould):
£35 per piece
£5 UK shipping (£2.50 additional)
£15 International shipping (£7.50 additional)

Hope this helps, apologies for the long post! Let me know your thoughts.

Thank you

For those of us whose cars don't match the above options, might I suggest and all black alcantara alternative?

 

[Bancho]

For those of us whose cars don't match the above options, might I suggest and all black alcantara alternative?

Out of interest what is your car configuration? Just thinking if theres a popular configuration i have missed i can try and do something for it.

Worst case yes I could add an option for Alcantara with black stitching