Morning All,
I thought I would share a thought process I had this morning, and see anyone else has observed similar. I am yet to take the wheel off and arch liner out, so this is all speculative.
On my Evora 400 I had 2 air conditioning compressors fail in quick succession many years ago, and ever since then based on recommendations from Lotus (as my car is not a daily driver) I start the car up every two weeks with the aircon on and let the car get up to temp. This is to ensure the aircon gas and oils get around the system to make sure its all working.
Despite doing this, I have had the aircon stop working and only way to sort was a trip to the dealers to get them to reset something (apparently I have the revised software that used to prematurely stop the AC kicking in due to detected belt slippage or similar).
Anyway ... when I went out to the car this weekend I noticed the aircon has stopped working ... it probably stopped working a while ago (perhaps since the service in December), but I don't sit in the car, just fire it up, turn on aircon, do some other stuff and turn off once upto temp.
Whilst I was then giving the car a clean as was dusty from no winter use, I noticed the drivers side (UK) mudflap was loose, and what sounds like rusty crumbly metal behind. Searching online shows this is somewhat common for them to deteriate, but the passenger side is fine. I have ordered new brackets and plan to fit these in the coming months.
However, this morning I was researching refilling the gas yourself, and realised the refiller for the aircon is on the drivers side, above where the mud flap is.
Now I wonder ... is the aircon leaking from the filler points, and that drips down onto the mudflap bracket, making it fail prematurely?
What are peoples thoughts on this? Also any idea if those filler ports can be easily changed (part number), as might be worth doing if I attempt a DIY aircon recharge.