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  1. dont you need to drop a coupel K down as first payment ? i think we will do this next time.. back in the day owning a car car was a sense of achivement, saving up , it was yours .. something to be proud off.. all that goes out the window with a car thats never yours .. its taking me a while to get my head around that .. always been a save up buy person.. but at least i have my classics , but as new cars get more unreliable and expensive fix even the small things like hedlight bulbs run into thousands . 1 headlamp on some cars is 6 months payments ! on a deal like this . its a no brainer ,, i feel sorry for those that have to buy these cars second hand ... and foot the bill for the parts when they fail tho.. their choices for cars cheap to fix are dissapearing
  2. I can spell btw , just not with a small phone and big fingers sitting in a slow moving traffic jam it seems...... and now I can not edit the post , 🙈
  3. we have a ev for local town use, local journeys.. its a bmw i3s its utterly brilliant for that purposde .. its also an interesting deisgn (carbon fibre , plastic and aluminum with weight at just over 1200 kg .. i like the way it drives to.. .just what an EV shoudl be .. . .. we dont and would not want to even entertain using public chargers , nasty places and expensive .. for our use and as a local car.comute its perfect.. it has a range of 140-170 miles winter to summer . it gets charged overnight or a mains trickle charger at british gas off peak 9p kw .. we average around 3.7 m/kwh .. currently free road tax although we may get charged the standard rate from 2025 , god only know why our cluess gov changing that retrospectivly...... we average 7k mles which costs us just £170 in leccy .. insurance was £335 just re done it. servicing is cheap.. yes there are a few things to go wrong that are more expensive and its always a main dealer return .(my volvo v90 needs two rear lighst at 1k Effin LED lights so its all realtive ) . it feels so right just sitting in a traffic jamb or at the lights . .. .. EV is totally flawed tho for the masses it just does not work , i guess 90% off all new EVS are company cars and purcased with incentives .. no sane person would spend huge amounts of personal money for these new they just loose too much money .. 2nd hand market is very odd.. the big expensive cars are limited life 10 years IMO ,, at best ,, they will just be too expensive to fix compared to an iCE car .. the masses just will not be abe to afford to fix them hence teh bottom falling out of the second hand EV market .on big cars . . the smaller cars a little different , they have to be fixable.. our little i3 has enough 2nd hand parts and is reasonble straight forward to work on and swap battery should it need it.. some have already hit 300km with stll 85% life left.. plus there are couple specalist for half the main dealer rates.... i would hope i could do most my self .. it has a brilloting i drive entertain,net system with no touch screen in site ,, truth be told thsi was 80% of the reason we purcased it.. cant stand the bloody touch screen The UK charging net work is just a total mess, typical british uncordinated bodge.. half dont work, you dont know. what your paying hafl the time ,, in colchester i would need 7 different apps on my phone to use athe different charges. supposedly fast charges dont fast charge if there is too much grid demand think cold dark non windy times between 5-8pm.. Electric 100% isnt a future in any shape or form ,its a total mess , but it does have a place along side ICE .. it saves us £90 month like for like on running cost over previous merc diesel , servicing aside this would make the savings even more greater .. as soon as the salary sacrafice / tax incentives / and road tax incentives stop ther is zero reason to buy an EV over an ICE car .. you cant even say they save teh planet. the carbon footprint to create a ev is huge .. you have to travel at least 40-50k miles just for that to break even with a ICE car .. I will give tesla a pat on teh back tho if forced this is what id relctantly have as a big car whilst the cars are bland they do have a fanatstic charging network.. investing in infrustructure first was a genius move ..
  4. @C8RKH relating to the CR BOX "The numbers involved are a tiny fraction of the tiny number of Evora's sold. " FYI My information is not from internet but from conversations I had with the technical director at Lotus a few years back, therefore as i was informed it effects All CR boxes that were manufactured form the third party engineer company that was appointed to manufacture the revised gearsets approx 2010-2012/13 I agree the internet is not a great source for some items things .. take porsche IMS bearings , blown way out of proportion Aj
  5. if your still looking, in my opinion having owned a 2010. the CR box is nicer to drive if you like sunday morning drives on the b roads at legal speeds.. its nice to use some gears (2nd will get you to the speed limit) .. in the LR box 3rd from memory of my test drives was much longer and took away from the event. - it was a big difference for to me , The car is almost too fast for Sunday morning blats /thrill and i much preferred my elise/ elan or europa for this, but for long drives . or as a daily the Evora was fantastic, i just didnt use it enough or had the need to use it , preferring the smaller classic cars that were more of an event to drive. If i was to buy again id buy the standard long version.. (unless the CR box had been rebuilt) the CR Box WILL fail at some point and cost big £££ 8k plus . confirmed manufacturing issues with the CR gears which they manufactured by a third party up to about 2012 MY - somewheer is a gearbox list you can check when the problem gears should not be a problem ..this was another the reason i got rid of mine , It started to feel like Russian roulette once i had read about the failures it really stopped my enjoyment.. My clutch was lovely and light, and the gear change lovely and positive. 27k miles and still original .. get the rear camber checked if the rear tyres burn out in less than 4000 miles, from factory some early cars had some aggressive camber .. eating tyres . The air bag cover and dash lifts and comes apart in strong sunlight , look carefully especially at the join in the centre by the window-screen , it starts to split here.. the dash repair is awkward and expensive. .. i couldnt live with the passenger cover that lifted so repaired it, .. check the headlights and side indicator LEDs, expensive to fix too or the headlights are is an mot failure if one of the LED is out .. unless you have a friendly MOT man nothing broke on mine (bar 1 front led lights and side indicator ) , it was as pretty reliable.. if it still has the 3rd cat in the exhaust its worth removing and adding a better back box and it will sound as well as it goes.. . Personally i think the early cars gave the nicest drive position in the recaro CS seats and the supplest ride . Great cars many fond memories of mine ..
  6. 100% agree with this kind sums it up pretty good.. .. heat pumps ONLY work well and provide a benifit to energy use saving and the home comfort envirmonent,, when all the factors align.. its near impossible for factors to align to anything other than new be spoke housing, an definately not the mass produced new housing stock built by the uk housebuilder, to current regulation standards which are dismal. They are not fit and forget systems , and will require significant knowledge to set up, monitor and ajust to maximise the efficiency and therfore cost to run. if these systems are forced by legisltion into the existing housing stock and even new built mass volume bogo developer spec homes, then indeed you will be seeing much more of "have you been miss sold a heat pump" That being said fitting into a new carefully designed and considered home , incorporating other factors, solar PV, solar thermal, Heat revovery ventilation, underfloor heating, & batteries they can be made to work very very well.. .. but its is not straight forward,, and not something that normal pete teh plumber along with Eddie the elcetrician think they can suddenluy start installing with a bit of training.. taking a standard house semi detached house, with average insulation. currently the heat pumps will cost more to heat your house and water than a system running off gas or oil.. .. ans significantly so on average twice as much .. its shocking just how much of a problem this is going cause.. and just cannot understand where the information the gov;t uses to make its decision..
  7. interesting thanks..my originak shocks are shot.... car wallows and generally now feels unsafe at speed.. your posyt is given me some woryy about getting new shocks... althioujgh they cantg be as bad as the originaks i have still have fitted
  8. this issue of CR gearboxs failing was a desciding factor in offloading my 2010 N/A .. which everytime i drove it i kept thinking it was going to go pop.. the combination of 6-7k to remove rebuild/ replace , new clutch whilst your in, but the when not if scenario of it failing leaving me strandard.. the final nail in the coffin was speaking with a engineer manager at lotus in person during a factory visit, who 'off the record' ( a few years have passed so im guessing its ok now) said the issue was with that their normal engineer suplier of lotus specific ratio gearsets could not keep up so they outsourced to another company and these were not hardened correctly.. .. hence the when not if failure. FYI all the original lotus evora press reports and road tests were carried out in CR ratio boxes, it was/is a cracking set of ratios .. OP coudl you not just get a replacement toyota gearbox , although this would be the long ratio version .. not as good to drive IMO but pretty solid and available ..
  9. https://www.autoevolution.com/news/lotus-type-132-electric-suv-leaked-might-be-called-lotus-eletra-185168.html#agal_0
  10. so what i did on 2014 was I dropped that 30k onto a 3 bed terraced house that cost me 130k. 100k repayment mortgage over 15 years.. gave it striaght the council who were gurantee to pay £750 month at that time . to rent it . used that to pay the mortgage . house now worth 260k and pays me £975 month as over paid as mortgae was abouot 650.. so should be paid off end next year.. yes i have had to spend a coupel of k on it over tthe years. i then did this twice more after i saved up enough deposit to reduce the mortgage payments & inusrance so the rent covered it (although the next 2 aill not be paid off for another 4 & 7 years respectively unless i pay off early.) relise i cant sell them as capital gains and are second homes, but in future , rents go up as do house values.. wa sthat better than a pension? i have no idea. but it worked for me , and someone else was paying off the mortgage,, and money just seem exceptional cheap to borrow .. having been around people in 91 who were giving keys to banks, i fixed my mortgaes to reduce risk.. Yes we have had to pay tax , but between Mrs J & myself we combine tax allowances so its was pretty small & manageable with the rent income . im sure an accoutant could make it more benificial and some point may take some advice.. it was drummed into me from young age, money safe in bricks and mortar.. if that turns out to be true or not only time will tell ...
  11. I never understood pensions and still dont tbh.. i took one out at 16 with the co op and spent the first year paying his fees, stopped paying that one two years later, , self employed for a number of years , then was employed for 10 years which by the time i left was getting a reasonable decent pension paid in , but had enough of carrying other directors.. went back self employed.. after year 2 of not paying anything into that pension an IFA advised to star again so i dropped in 5k 2008 i think (rather than do it monthly .. 1 year later that was worth less than 5k i remember being angry and gutted tbh . no way was i ever doing that again, against the IFA advice i never paid another penny into that fund.. instead i did my own thing with my money.. so I saved 5k a year for 6 years , into a bogo standard current account lol . , and then invested 30k my own way , i not sure what that 30k invested back then would be worth today - would be fun to know, i suppose i could check what the pension did return over since then to date Im confident (hope) im min 5x + better off .. retiring to me means giving up the main job that has become taxing on my mental health and doing something that just fun, for a few £ to allow buying parts for my cars I cant offer you advice, but i can send you good luck in what ever you decide ..
  12. since when did a meets start becoming a pay thing? is it a meet or an event ? confused
  13. why thank you gents, ive been away so not checked in on here, sadly Bibs I missed the special delivery too.... damn some say with age comes maturity, but not with me, im still spending recklessy on cars , lotus namely
  14. cant help the OP..... i didnt know that about the s2 seats being more reclined , being 6ft and quite long legs i fit in an s2 and its very comfy, where as a twin cam my head hit the ceiling.. i couldn't work out why as they were suppose to offer more room.. i suppose you could always raise the front of the seat in a twin cam to give mire recline but then your knees would hit the steering wheel.. one thing i do know, once in the car the seats and position are just incredibly comfy
  15. I parted with my N/a coupke years back now.. pulled at my heart as took lad to prom in it.. thought it be nice to have the money.. and a extra garage space truth be told every time i drove it i thought the cr gearbox was going to implode ..and as some take ages to shift if needed the cash liquidating it might have taken a while.. it sold after 3 months via silverstones .. and it didnt last long.. the money that is.. i now have westfield, a lotus elan sprint, and lotus europa s2 (69) dont miss the evora one bit.. just look back on it fondly.. at the time.. and always pop back to look at all your cars on here... i now have 3 cars that i enjoy very much , the two classics have no road tax - not mot and cost 80 quid each a year to insure .. All or individualy can be offloaded quickly if an emergency came up. and cash nedeed . i tried to buy them carefully pouncing when the right one came up.. so the current return is significantly better than i would have got in the bank..anyhow.. basically i still have cars , but have spread the exposure and have options if needed to release cash. 30k from a dealer is really excellent.. the market has moved upwards considerably in teh last two years it appears.. godd luck whatever you do... but my saying is .. once the poison is in (the thought of selling) theres no turning back.. Lovely car yours.. was actually the inspiration for my re trim .. R andy
  16. I agree with the comments or the corporate backgrounds, i noticed this change about 3 montsh ago at silverstone.. it does not show the cars in a good way.. looks very amaturish job of a photoshop back ground.. natural light is all in needs.. big company syndrome.. promost likely 10 management meetings to come up with that too .. wouldnt stop me buying a gt 430 if i had the cash tho
  17. woser thats like philipe island in auustrailia i think.. its getting that sunny say tho
  18. awesome photos... that track looks epic..... its the only one my trackday insurance will not cover! .. what do you prefer cadwell or oulton park
  19. i have a set of strombergs and head in good running order removed from my elan that i would sell seperatly if needed .
  20. hey NC greg sorted a car in the end so no longer looking , i guess
  21. 600 pounds to take that dash our recover it and put it back , is an absolute steel... no brainer to get the air bag clips fixed at same time.. that is a ball ache of a job taking that dash apart..
  22. is this right? bell and covil are saying spring delivery for v6 & summer for amg give or take a couple of months , thats 8 months.. any evora sitting at 50-80k is in the firing line for a comparison purchase. 30-45k cars are a different price point. it has always amazed me at how tricky evoras can be to shift on vdespite being awesome.. .. perhaps the depreciation in order to shift on 5 year cars will be quite steep now . youve got to really want an evora over an emira to buy one at the same or more price point. and there was always a limited market on evoras anyway.. this just reduces that pool does it not? , whilst it does bring in new blood, i can see that new blood wanting the emira creature comforts.. an dteh latest and greatest? for instance the lovely smurf blue 410 gt on sale for 68k on auto100.co.uk is a direct choice between the new emira v6 .. the emira amg at under 60k is a no brainer..for new blood purchase , exige and elise offer a different experience to the gt evora so have a different market.. but for me a 50k elise or 58k emira ... no brainer emira ,, but ive done the evora & elise so im biased The emira looks even better today that it did yesterday .. looking forward to seeing it tomorrow & friday at FOS any dealer with stock other than SOR is going to be rethinking i guess, but i imagine that as they knew this was coming they made adjustments to what they purchased to sell on
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