New lotus owner from the midlands

[vikz]

Hello everyone. I have just today paid a deposit on and secured my first ever lotus. 2018 exige 410 sport. Picture of it in the showroom attached.

 

i cant wait to get it. I will be planning on tracking the car and understand the factory exhaust is too loud. Any advice on how to overcome this problem?

[C8RKH]

Lovely looking car in that blue and yellow, congratulations and hope you have a load of fun.

There is an Exige specific section on here and a good search facility so I'm sure in no time at all you'll find one of the several threads on the exhaust noise issue.  Solution range from a "decibel reducer" from Komotech to a new back box/exhaust from 2Bular that is very track friendly and does not reduce the power.

[Bibs]

Welcome to TLF and congratulations, car looks epic! 

As Andy said, you're not the first to want to track their Exige so there are a few topics already that you can see some of the options in

[stephenwhyte]

That’s very pretty indeed! Is that Voodoo Blue? Always liked that shade.....

[scotty435]

Stunning and what a great first Lotus, where in the Midlands are you if you don’t mind me asking?

[Bravo73]

Welcome to TLF. 👋

[vikz]

3 hours ago, stephenwhyte said:

That’s very pretty indeed! Is that Voodoo Blue? Always liked that shade.....

Riveria blue (Porsche colour) I was told by dealer.

 

2 hours ago, scotty435 said:

Stunning and what a great first Lotus, where in the Midlands are you if you don’t mind me asking?

im in Leicestershire 

[scotty435]

1 hour ago, vikz said:

Riveria blue (Porsche colour) I was told by dealer.

 

im in Leicestershire 

Would highly recommend you join MLOC we have some great Sunday morning runs in the Peak District and Rutland not that far for you. A great bunch of fellow lotus enthusiast. It’s free to join and would be great to have you aboard and see you out on some runs this Year👍

[Bibs]

@scotty435, you're welcome to post details of those runs on TLF once they're back up and 'running' 👍

[vikz]

10 hours ago, scotty435 said:

Would highly recommend you join MLOC we have some great Sunday morning runs in the Peak District and Rutland not that far for you. A great bunch of fellow lotus enthusiast. It’s free to join and would be great to have you aboard and see you out on some runs this Year👍

That sounds gret, thank you.... i will look into joining.  
 

i am a long term Porsche customer and one of the lovely things about the brand was the clubs and meets etc...

 

i was considering another premium brand before buying the exige, Lamborghini...but they didn’t really have any clubs or enthusiasts meets,....hence i went for a brand with following and hopefully no pretentious ar*eholes...

[Bibs]

You're in the right place

[ChrisJ]

8 hours ago, vikz said:

any clubs or enthusiasts meets,

They used to (in the 1990s)

Club Lotus Surry used to hire Goodwood for the day, and joined up with Lamborghini UK a couple of times

Supercar Test Day 1990 - Esprit content (PBB St Tropez) - General Chat - The Lotus Forums

 

[theelanman]

congrats and welcome........a lovely colour......

hope you get to enjoy it very much over the coming months.........and the aching jaw is through grinning all the time......

[Jimmy_]

On 04/01/2021 at 23:49, vikz said:

Riveria blue (Porsche colour) I was told by dealer.

 

im in Leicestershire 

Nice, me too! Well I'm on the borders between Derbyshire and Leicestershire. Lovely choice of colour!

[Cdm2018]

Hi and welcome Vikz

i am over in Ratby area be nice to see another lotus around , there’s a couple in this area who own S2 Elise but not seen Exige around ? 

[Paul_D]

Hi Vikz,

Did you pull out of buying this car? It seems to have recently gone up for sale on Pistonheads. (Both as a Private advert and also through a dealer)

[ramjet]

Welcome to TLF.

To combat the noise @vikz, I was going to say 'Drive slowly' and then I washed my mouth out with soap. some of the guys on here have the same issues. There will be a solution floating around somewhere.

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