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Hope you like spag boll for the look of it😁
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Not sure many use an Esprit as a daily driver in the same way you can use the TT.
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58 minutes ago, Bibs said:
Downs Mail is reporting there's a case in Maidstone now too @mdw!
Ooooh good, 1/2 a mile away!!!
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Turned up to a job this morning to be told by the neighbour that the customer is trapped on a cruse ship in the West Indies thats not allowed to dock anywhere. Think I might wait 2-3 weeks after their return before rebooking the appointment.😷
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8th Feb Quarry wood shoppng complex outside Halfords. Sure stands ot amongst all the black, silver and grey euro boxes.
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They are listing a lot of nice kit in good nick from various trades which looks dodgy. I think the serial nos should be registered with Festool as nicked. Seem to rememer my son saying they hold onto them if they ever come back for repair and have been listed as nicked.
We engrave post codes or phone nos deep into the plastic or ally on our kit. They are used and serviced until dead so doesnt matter what they look like. Oh and sharpie details all over the boxes as well.
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21 hours ago, Lotusfab said:
Filling with coolant and bleedin the air out??.
Well, why we are getting to the bottom of some of the issues on this car has anyone come up with a full proof method of filling the coolant up. I will have to do it again and last time it took ages tomget all the air out. Yes I jacked it on it nose squished the front pipes etc. I can believe Lotus went through this with every car they made. Do we know anyone who worked in the factory to ask them what the secret is?
Mine was an 88 Stevens but I do seem to remember having to blead air out at the heater matrix pipes as well.
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By upper rear panel do you mean above the fuel tank. From memory you only have the tank sender and purge pump in that area.
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Brake lines.
Hand brake cables.
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Mk1 Vauxhall Astra 1.3 L
Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0
Triumph Spitfire 1500 x 2
Triumph Stag
Vauxhall Omega 3ltr elite estate
MGB GT
Lotus Excel SE
Peugeot 205
Vauxhall Cavalier Mk2
Daewoo Matiz
Mk4 Ford Escort
Mondeo Estate x2
Skoda Superb
Lotus Esprit n/a
Skoda Fabia Mk1
GTM K3
Skoda Fabia Mk2
VW passat tdi estate
Skoda Yeti
Peugeot 107
Mr2 roadster x 2
Moves about a bit depending on what we need at the time.
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On 25/10/2016 at 11:41, roy walker said:gary Rhodes had a Norfolk mustard esprit s4s.........just seen it at paul matty workshop
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Cheers for all your help. Replaced them and still no go so new combustion control unit fitted. Not quite as bad as first feared but £381 on a 3.5 year old boiler is not on. Thanks once again. Turns out its now got an upgraded version so they obviously use customers to road test the boiler🤬.
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On 19/07/2019 at 22:08, mdw said:Eldest son graduated on Wednesday and Thursday gets confirmation of job he really wanted after a long interview process. Chuffed to bits for him.
The follow on from this was today his mum and I helped drop his kit of at Cranwell to start training, going to be quite an intense but exciting year for him. Needless to say very proud parents but tinged with a bit of sadness that we wont see much of him going forwards.-
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Many thanks have ordered 5 . Its worth a gamble, the worse that can happen is its US just like it is now. Ive got more pics it does look like grey band to me.
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It looks like red, brown, black, black, grey or silver, brown. I will photograph it in sunlight tomorrow and hopefully get a better picture.
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Yes sorry they are tiny. Those 2 little f%^&ers are going to cost me £500 if I cant find some and replace them. Its a baxi fan control board only 3 years old but out of guarantee. The gas fitter has had them go on 3 of this model boiler. Its half the cost of the boiler. Not happy.
If I can find the surface mount ones is there a problem fitting the through board ones?
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Can any one advise me what component these are the burnt out one and the one to the left please.
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2 hours ago, Barrykearley said:
seeing this on the BBC. When you understand the management behind this young girl and the way she is being played to an audience - frankly it’s vile
Once the fame has gone and with the aspergers it would not suprise me if she ends up with a whole bunch of mental health issues and none of todays hangers on to help her through it.
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27 minutes ago, oneshot said:Modern Classics magazine have an edition out now with my Sport 350 featured alongside a TVR Tuscan and Aston Martin DB7.
They have the following prices quoted for the Esprit Sport 350:
Concours - £65,000
Good - £60,000
Usable - £55,000
I bet it costs a lot more that £10k to go from usable to concourse.
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Somebody will have a lot of explaining to do looking at that photo.
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I agree. I put mapped iginition with a lotusbits stage 1 engine and a full alunox manifold and exhaust and it heads well on the way to carb turbo performance not the same but not to far off. There is a thread on here some where with my print out from it being mapped. I imagine £10k would get you all the way to efi etc.
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1 hour ago, DaKa said:
Would circa £10k on refurb be a reasonable estimate assuming 80 percent of the work done by professionals?
Depends what standard you want. I put well over £10k in parts only plus a £5k engine into my old n/a and didnt touch the body. These cars really really dont like being dumped in a barn and left.
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On 25/08/2019 at 13:07, Bibs said:
Why does the Senna one have the black JPS at the bottom rather than yellow?
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Wonder if it will last as long as the 86-88 lozenge logos which reallly were quite nasty.
Incredibly smart or totally dumb?
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Closing speed should be 120 as according to my recent speed awareness course no central barrier means single carageway not duel. Like thats going to make a differance!!!