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  1. Yeah, I assumed that comment was in relation to full aftermarket alternative bumpers vs OEM, as opposed to something "bolt onto existing", but fair enough.
  2. I assume you've considered other options to make the front (a little) more agressive? I've never seen on in the flesh, but I was thinking of something like the hethelsport splitter ?
  3. It's almost certainly a bit pedantic, but why TF would you push it along facing backwards? 😐
  4. @BigTed I would estimate it took 5 miles running before they all showed up on the dash. After I had the wheels refurbed, nothing was showing on the dash. I wanted to ensure they were good before I left, so I sat still for a few minutes. Still nothing showing, so I decided to drive approx 1 mile, and return. Still nothing showing. I went back into the refurb place and asked if this was normal - he came out with his TPMS coder and checked (whilst showing me the screen) that they were all transmitting correctly - and reassured me they should appear on my drive home. "Come back if there are any issues and I will sort it". I left a little reluctantly, but he was absolutely correct......
  5. Everything @exeterjeep said. If you are just looking for a single item, bibs may well be your best bet. I bought 4 of these from TPMS Warehouse a couple of years back when I refurbed the wheels on my 2014 car. (And - obviously - they fit and work).
  6. Black doesn't look bad, but I also (surprised myself a little that I) prefer oem.
  7. @PeterHD I haven't tried the Conti7's (mrs mik's e-tron is on Conti 6's) but there are a lot of comments on their performance vs PS4S on line. FWIW this was one from 911UK "PS4S last longer, imo still better in standing water, in fact hitting deep water with a conti takes the wheel out your hand the PS4S ride though deep puddles, this is back to back driving same cars same weather." , so maybe it is a negative characteristic vs their other strengths?
  8. That was for the OEM-fit Pirelli’s though remember. Significantly lower pressures quoted for the 400 which had Michelin as OEM fitment. The original owner of my car had ditched the Pirelli’s - it was on MPSS originally and now MPS4S. I run them at 31.5F, 34.5R. Putting them at book pressure makes the car skip around excessively.
  9. Fair point - although unless they do similar, you'll miss out on the lit up marker dot 😐(which is so subtle I didn't notice it for about the first 4 yrs of ownership 😆).
  10. Very weird that it's not recognising this. As someone stated previously - chargers are pretty dumb so if the car recognises there is something plugged in - it should take a charge. It'll only add about 4 miles range per hour, but if the car isn't moving for 12hrs that's still a useful boost. What sort of 7kw charger do you have? On our Zappi I can go into the installation menu and throttle the max current it will use from 32A (which it needs in order to provide 7.4kw) to a lower number - in case it needs to be installed on a lower-rated supply. If you can do the same with your charger you can throttle it down to 13A and see if the car still charges at that, or if it stops "recognising" the charger when currents are so (relatively) low?
  11. It’s not true though. Its like having two ICE cars : Car A does 50mpg and has a 10 gallon tank. Range is 500 miles Car B does only 10mpg and also has a 10 gallon tank. Range is 100 miles. Both cars take 6 minutes to fill up at the petrol station. The pump fill rate is 100 gallons per hour. The fact that car A gets 500 miles of range in 6 minutes (a fill rate of 5000 miles per hour), whereas car B gets 100 miles of range in the same timeframe (a full rate of 1000 miles per hour) has absolutely nothing to do with the fill rate, and absolutely everything to do with the efficiency of the vehicle once the tank is filled.
  12. mik

    v6 manifolds

    Yeah Craig tends to have some sitting around. Mine lived in my shed ‘til I moved - at which point I just binned them.
  13. Mrs mik’s original E-Tron 55 charges at around 15 miles per hour on a std 7kw charger. After losses the car is probably charging at around 6.5kw, so after an hour you’ve increased your charge by (ta-dah) 6.5kw. If your car is providing an efficiency of around 2.4 miles per kWh (perfectly feasible in this colder weather) then that 6.5kw charge will carry you 15.6 miles, so - everything adds up. A smaller, lighter, more efficient EV can drive further on that same 6.5kw, so will report a higher mph figure when charging. So nothing wrong with your car or 7kw charger. No idea why it’s not working on a 13a trickle charge though.
  14. @MatB Nice - another in the vicinity..... good that you have the red mirrors so no-one blames you for my bad driving 😉
  15. I have a decent set of tools - some purchased, others inherited. My dad always did everything he could and I learned from/with him. In the past I've single-handedly swapped over a Fiat Superstrada gearbox in 4hrs start to finish (having removed one from a car balanced on top of another - whilst dodging guard dog 5h1t - old school scrap yard shizzle), and I occasionally help out some mates with their race cars). I still get the tools out for simple jobs (and to work on my son's car in particular) but I have less time to do so these days, and I'm conscious that many (who tend to be in DH2's "don't" and "shouldn't" categories above would be spooked by a car that had been owner-maintained, so Craig Moncrieff does the majority of any work on the Evora.
  16. I see your car has the black rear arch protector "flashes" from the GT430. Do you know if these are stuck over the top of the clear factory-fit PPF in this area, or has that been removed first? (Factory-fit "clear" PPF for the sills and rear arches is a large single piece as shown (kinda badly!) in the image below. Like all clear PPF - it yellows over time, so some folks remove it).
  17. Congrats on the purchase. I like the gold leaf colour scheme on the Elan, but I don't personally think it works on the Evora. My opinion on that doesn't matter much though, as it's your car 🙂 I got my car at 2yrs old and the first owner had already ditched the OEM Pirelli's in favour of Supersports (in Evora 400 sizes - so 285/30 on the rear). They are fabulous road tyres in warmer weather (even when wet), but have properties similar to bars of soap when the temperature drops below 5 DegC. 4S appear to be their equal in the warmer conditions (wet or dry) but still work at lower temperatures. When I was transitioning over I had the opposite "setup" to you - 4S on the front and older Supersports on the rear - made for a couple of "interesting" moments in cold conditions... 😮 Haven't tried those Conti's on it, but they get great reviews too.
  18. @kabre Don't have an Eletre, but mrs mik has run an E-Tron for 3yrs now. Regen on that can be set to a "1 pedal driving" type mode, or you can set it to coast when you are off the accelerator and introduce regen manually with the paddles. In both instances however full regen isn't introduced until you are using the brake pedal. Under most normal driving conditions it's slowing the car using regen exclusively - only when you brake harder do the conventional brakes come into play, but it's really pretty seamlessly integrated and unless you are watching the power meter it is very difficult to sense the point at which this occurs. I imagine the Eletre has to have a similar setup. I only drive it once a week or so, but make a point of slipping it into Neutral (which disables regen completely) and braking fairly heavily 60-ish mph down to walking pace in order to clean the (very large and very expensive looking) discs. The local Lotus Driving Club organised a trip to the Tesla service centre in Edinburgh a few years back - before we had an EV - and the techs were advising they replaced more brake discs for corrosion than they did for wear, as many drivers don't brake hard enough to give the mechanical stoppers any use.....
  19. Some sites like Toyo provide a range of wheel rim widths that they recommend for any specific tyre size. You'll see from that link that a 285/30/20 (which my Sports Racer has always run on since I had it - the original owner replacing the OEM 275/30/20 Pirelli's with the slightly wider Michelins that Lotus fitted to the 400 and beyond) will fit on a 10" or a 10.5" wheel, but you could go to a 295/30/20 too. Lotus fitted a 295/30/20 on a 10" rear for the GT430.
  20. Are your boot lights working? From memory the same connector as shown on this thread supplies the power for the rear screen demister (?)
  21. Sorry - can't edit the above post to add - I realised that a better way to clean the inside splined faces of the bolts was to pop the threaded part into my drill chuck and hold my wire brush in the vice. Using the drill to spin the bolt whilst "dipping" it onto the wire brush worked well.
  22. Tried a set of tuner bolts as per the link above. Geometry is right, but the bolt heads are much smaller, so the contact surface on the wheel is around 50% of the OEM bolts. They’d probably be fine, but I know I’d think about that every time I threw the car into a bend…. So they are going back. I decided to do some “home chemistry inspired by @steamdriven “ tonight. Bought a cold blackening kit off eBay (approx £9 for 100ml of the 3 liquids used in the process) and did 1 wheel to see how it looked. Cleaned the bolt heads up using small flat bladed screwdrivers, wire brush drill attachments, wire brushes and sandpaper. Not perfect - it’s never easy to clean out blind holes. Before & after starring particularly scabby black paint. Alkaline clean for 10mins, rinse, blackening solution for 10mins, rinse, dewetting solution for 5 mins. Pretty pleased with the final result. Far from flawless perfection, but they no longer look awful from any closer than 5m away. I’ll get the others done over Christmas. Alternative approaches? a/ Save a whole lot of work by buying 16 new bolts (£2.95 each from Eliseparts) and blacken them from new before fitting. You’d still have to clean up the lock nuts. b/ Save even more time by buying 20 new bolts, and just ditch the locknuts that you fear breaking every time you go near them. I’m sure any determined thief has a set of keys or a removal tool anyway….
  23. @steamdriven interesting - is the finish more robust than painting? (which isn't very robust at all).
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