Vulcan Grey Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Interesting how the brain can know it's not right but still can't create the correct sounds. 1 Quote Travis Vulcan Grey 89SE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon350S Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Glad your ok mate! 1 Quote Chunky Lover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket63 Posted April 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Be well big man. Wishing you the very best mate. 1 Quote Caught between a rock and a hard place in a catch 22 situation, So its 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. Your damned if you do, but your damned if you don't so shut your cock!!!!!!!!!!! Lotus Espirt Turbo S3 Lotus Esprit S4 Lotus Elise S2 Sport 130 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibs Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Whoa, sorry to hear mate. Glad there's nothing lasting though 1 Quote 88 Esprit NA, 89 Esprit Turbo SE, Evora, Evora S, Evora IPS, Evora S IPS, Evora S IPS SR, Evora 400, Elise S1, Elise S1 111s, Evora GT410 Sport Evora NA For forum issues, please contact the Moderators. I will aim to respond to emails/PM's Mon-Fri 9-6 GMT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbers Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Crikey, Just caught up with this Ian. Hope you are ok mate. My Wife deals with a lot of TIA's and she calls them a "Shot across the bows". Hopefully they can find the cause and you can get back to driving! Big hugs big man! 1 Quote Possibly save your life. Check out this website.http://everyman-campaign.org/ Distributor for 'Every Male' grooming products. (Discounts for any TLF members hairier than I am!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molemot Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Crikey, Ian....like Kimbers I've just caught up with this. Glad you've recovered....scary stuff. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine, and he drove himself to hospital. They told him that most people die of what happened to him....he's fine, now!! Look after yourself..... 1 Quote Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM mayevora Posted April 11, 2014 Gold FFM Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Thanks chaps. Honestly I am and feel 100% again right now - especially as the results came back good and am driving again now - it's as if nothing at all had happened. The only one little niggle is, what caused it, and will it happen again, neither of which are questions I have got answers to. Quote Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk - that will teach us to keep mouth shut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon350S Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 My dad fully recovered within a few hours although ended up in hospital for weeks trying to actually find a reason for it happening for which they didn't ever find anything. The single biggest ongoing problem my dads TIA had caused is meeting the ex-wife, his nurse!!! Now that problem has hung around like a bad smell for years!!!!!! Quote Chunky Lover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advantage Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Oooh. Awkward! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Blanchard Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Serious stuff Ian, sorry to hear that. Glad you're ok. Just read up on it, sounds like stress and diet are factors. Quote Mark www.lotusespritturbo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyteck9 Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 My dog of 8 years is ill and the vet can't figure it out... might not end well tomorrow during the tests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisJ Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 I should be at Goodwood right now on a trackday. BUT - when topping off the oil this morning (at 5:30) I forgot to put the oil cap back on .... so blasting down the first A road - what's that cloud of smoke behind me. I don't think I've done any harm - only had to top up with 1 1/2 litres, but thought best to return home rather that thrash around a track. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andydclements Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 I've followed a Turbo Esprit where that happened, not pretty inside the engine bay but it's not spurting the oil directly out, it's just the spray from the cams slapping in the oil, I doubt you've done any harm other than cause a bit of clean-up work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisJ Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 I think I've probably burnt it all off I certainly was stinking of oil from where I was mopping it up - glad I had a roll of kitchen paper in the car. I also think I might have done it once before as I remember telling myself to put the bl00dy cap back on -although why I didn;t do it this morning ............. Oh well, Duxford tomorrow. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 been there Quote hindsight: the science that is never wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molemot Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 CHANGE THE CAMBELT!!!!!!!!! I did the same thing, leaving off the oil cap, and it ended badly. I thought I had cleaned all the oil off the cambelt....but it resulted in the belt slipping teeth around the toothed pulleys and altering the cam timing until the inlet valves hit the pistons. SO I would recommend a new cambelt and a very, very careful cleanup. Quote Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loose Cannon Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 Feel like firebombing the Met office, or whoever interprets their info for BBC weather. After days of being told it would pee down all day weekend I didn't go to a classic car show at Ripon, usually quite a nice event. The "forecast" changed from big rainclouds yesterday to little fluffy clouds today, and we actually had bright sinshine. I fear the weather people are erring on the pessimistic side deliberately so they can't be blamed for bad weather, but what they do is dissuade you from planning anything! How these people expect us to believe they can predict global warming decades hence when they can't get tomorrow right is beyond me. Quote In the garage no-one can hear you scream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM mayevora Posted May 5, 2014 Gold FFM Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 I'm 10 miles from the National Met office. If somebody looked out of their window, it would be more correct than some of their forecasts we get. Quote Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk - that will teach us to keep mouth shut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Blanchard Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 They should just report the weather that's already been, then they'd be 100% accurate. Quote Mark www.lotusespritturbo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintaylor Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 the power steering rack on my alfa has gone .. again! Quote Vin Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisJ Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 Not my week again with the Esprit. Stopped to make a phone call. When I set off, 1/2 mile down the road, the brakes suddenly became stuck on. Pulled off asap and called the RAC, They arrived an hour later, by which time he brake had unstuck itself. However, he could see where the disk had been binding, so gave it a good seeing to. He decided to follow me home as I was only 10 miles or so away. Going onto the A10, changing up to 4th, the handbrake stuck on again - I hadn't touched the handbrake in the mile or so since restarting He had never seen this before. Again he freed it off, and a I carried on cautiously home, which I made with no problem. Can back to Newmarket next weekend. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molemot Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 That's the handrake self adjusting mechanism. It can do really weird stuff...... Quote Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisJ Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Weird is right. However, was only the offside that was sticking, which has a "new" (December) refurbished calliper in it. It had to go back to the refurbishers about 5 times before it worked. Guess it's going back a sixth time now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molemot Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 The handbrake cables can cause the brakes to do daft things too... Quote Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stirling_Villeneuve Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 Today I sat in an MP4 12C and pressed 'Start'.... It wasn't my car hence the lack of exuberance... it also made my Evora's 'Vanity start' sound VERY inadequate! Quote Currently having an illicit affair with another marque, be back in the fold one day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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