exeterjeep Posted November 25, 2022 Report Share Posted November 25, 2022 About £131k (+ govt charges. ) Think I'd sell mine for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM C8RKH Posted November 25, 2022 Gold FFM Report Share Posted November 25, 2022 On 28/10/2022 at 18:13, blindside said: Or a Porsche GT2/3 or 4! Agree Jimmy. Those are special cars. 1 Quote I came into this world screaming and covered in someone elses blood. I'll probably leave it in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Spinney Posted November 27, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 On 28/10/2022 at 17:07, C8RKH said: Probably the only thing to really rival it for driving pleasure is a Caterham or a McLaren. Maybe it's because I've already done the Caterham thing (twice) but in terms of overall driving pleasure, I found a Lotus knocks the Seven into a cocked hat. Yes they are great driving cars at certain times of the year and in good weather, or unless you are a masochist, but they are just too flawed and impractical for much use on todays roads. This used to be my regular procedure whenever I fancied driving the Caterham:- 1) Disconnect the battery conditioner which was necessary since the car was so rarely used. 2) Climb in and slide into the seat. 3) Climb back out again having realised I'd left the steering wheel on the bench in the garage. 4) Climb back into the car, sliding into the seat and fit the steering wheel on its splines. 5) Try doing up the 4 point harness, only to realise you are sitting on one of the webs and can't pull it out. 6) Remove steering wheel and lift yourself up in the seat whilst trying to retrieve the errant harness web. 7) Drop back into the seat and refit the steering wheel. 8)Pull the harness webs into position, plug into buckle and pull the webs tight so you feel snuggly held in place. 9) Look around for the ignition key, only to realise the sodding thing is in your trouser pocket and can't be reached whilst strapped in the car. 10) Repeat steps 6, 7 and 8 before finally putting the key in the ignition to start the car. 11) Reverse out of the garage, only to find it starting to rain By this point, having almost lost the will to live, I would usually put it back in the garage and take the daily instead! Anybody who has ever owned a Caterham will recognise the above palaver. Trust me, a Lotus, especially an Evora, is better and more pleasurable in every way you can imagine. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM Popular Post C8RKH Posted November 27, 2022 Gold FFM Popular Post Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 Lol @Spinney but once you'd stopped making an arse of yourself and where three miles down the road, i bet you had a smile on! I get the ownership experience of the Caterham is flawed, but for sheer driving joy, on UK roads, hmmmm. By the way, your entry procedure for the Caterham is very much mine for the VX220. Once I slide in, put the steering wheel on and the harness, I ain't getting out for anything. I was on my drive once, ready to go, and realised I'd left my sunnies in the house (it was a very sunny day and like the Elise, no sunnies you go blind) so instead of going through all the palaver of getting out/in again I just phoned the wife and asked her to bring them out. She did it. But with a look that said "you're a lazy chancing son of a bitch [email protected] and why did I ever marry you" kind of look. But then anyone whose been married a long time will have had that look so many times it makes no impact anymore 4 Quote I came into this world screaming and covered in someone elses blood. I'll probably leave it in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Spinney Posted November 27, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 I see your chancing your arm with wife story and raise you one very highly pissed off wife who didn’t speak to me for days. My last Caterham didn’t have an ignition key. It had an immobiliser dongle thingie you had to wave around under the dash to turn off the immobiliser. Once that was done, noted by a flashing red LED going out, you then flipped up a red switch guard and switched on the toggle ignition switch before pressing the adjacent big red starter button. Now that’s all well and good until the time you start the car, reverse out of the garage and leave the engine running while you nip back inside to pick up something you’ve forgotten and put the dongle down on the table while you look for it. Then returning to the still idling car, you jump in and after buckling up, drive off to the pub about 10 miles away where you are meeting some mates in their Caterhams. Once at the pub, you turn the engine off, climb out of the car, look for the dongle and immediately realise you haven’t got it about your person! You then run back through your mind, remembering you must have put it down on the hall table when you went back indoors. 🤦 Now of course, without said dongle you can’t start the bloody car, so you pluck up the courage to phone the wife and ask if she could very kindly drive out to the pub with your mislaid dongle. I’ll leave the ensuing bile, invective and stream of swear words (some I didn’t even think she knew) to your imagination! 🤷♂️ 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM C8RKH Posted November 28, 2022 Gold FFM Report Share Posted November 28, 2022 I was thinking of getting into a GT430, can any owner confirm how the lacquer on the wing withstands the heat from a steam iron? That extra utility would probably get me the acceptance needed from the missus! My attempt to keep on topic before another mod decides to whip my ass again. 😜 1 Quote I came into this world screaming and covered in someone elses blood. I'll probably leave it in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM Popular Post blindside Posted November 28, 2022 Gold FFM Popular Post Report Share Posted November 28, 2022 @C8RKH You’ve already got a rarer car than a 430 Andy. All you need is to take advantage of the Black Friday sales to get one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/VEVOR-Universal-Lightweight-Aluminum-Adjustable/dp/B08JPVKRC3/ref=asc_df_B08JPVKRC3/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=570408479708&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3758919004477837350&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045180&hvtargid=pla-1648340626505&psc=1&th=1&psc=1 You are probably a dab hand with a Dremel. Good value & would sit well on the carbon boot lid. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DDubya Posted December 1, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 1, 2022 On 28/11/2022 at 17:17, C8RKH said: I was thinking of getting into a GT430, can any owner confirm how the lacquer on the wing withstands the heat from a steam iron? That extra utility would probably get me the acceptance needed from the missus! My attempt to keep on topic before another mod decides to whip my ass again. 😜 Not sure about the ironing, but comes in handy for a quick picnic pit stop👍 5 2 Quote Out for a Blat or on the Allotment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaiDai Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 Hi all, Thinking of part-exchanging my GT430 against a 720S. Car has 8.000 miles. Any thoughts on part-exchange value? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruss Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 The two front wheels? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeterjeep Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 Not seen 1 for sale in UK for a couple of months. @TomE posted a few weeks ago to see if any were coming up for sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Fox Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 (edited) As suggested below, please advertise your car (for free) on www.lotusforsale.com Edited February 19 by Bravo73 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeterjeep Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Cars for sale are usually put on the TLF free adds on https://www.lotusforsale.com rather than being imbedded in forum threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM Popular Post blindside Posted February 24 Gold FFM Popular Post Report Share Posted February 24 I want to take every opportunity to experience everything great about ICE sports cars before we all get revved off into the net zero world of hypocrisy. The GT430 is epic; flawed in some areas, but always great fun to drive. I wouldn’t part with it! However, the 2 year ownership experience with a 718 Cayman GT4 created an obsession around naturally aspirated engines. And no manufacturer does race derived high revving n/a engines as well as Porsche. I really wanted to find out first hand what all the fuss is about around the GT3 engine. After a great deal of research, (and an early raid on the private pension pot before Starmer & Co arrive on the scene to steal more of my hard earned), I finally took the plunge. I reckon the sweet spot is the 991.2 GT3 RS and acquired one yesterday and drove it back from Leicester. A 400 mile trip on a variety of roads in good sunny spring weather. All the hype is well deserved! It is a breathtakingly fast thing and absolutely epic to drive on open bends. It’s built like a brick shithouse and there’s a very reassuring sense of being firmly planted to terra firm when you push it on. The engine sounds like a tractor until 4000 revs and then it turns into a complete rocket ship, with a noise that makes your hair stand on end. You can’t get the car without the PDK double clutch system and I can see why. There is no way you would ever be able to get the best from the car without it. Enormous fun to be had with it over the summer. Porsche haters will never be convinced but these are very special cars. 😍 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerzybondov Posted February 24 Report Share Posted February 24 Congrats! Lovely car. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jep Posted February 24 Report Share Posted February 24 Congratulations. I drove a GT3 touring for a few days last year, manual. It left me cold. Just not my thing. Justin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM Popular Post blindside Posted February 24 Gold FFM Popular Post Report Share Posted February 24 And yes Andy @C8RKH the picnic bench, cum ironing board, cum Halfords bragging rights wing on the back is even bigger than a 430’s 😎 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jep Posted February 24 Report Share Posted February 24 If you have the opportunity, it is absolutely correct to try as many different sports cars as you can. Be it buy, beg, steal or borrow. That way, you are able to give a more experienced view of your preferences. Good on ya. Justin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty435 Posted February 24 Report Share Posted February 24 Congratulations Jimmy. Looks stunning 😍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM blindside Posted February 24 Gold FFM Report Share Posted February 24 I think we’ve both got an obsession with orange or yellow Scotty; the brighter the better! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM Popular Post blindside Posted February 24 Gold FFM Popular Post Report Share Posted February 24 1 hour ago, jep said: If you have the opportunity, it is absolutely correct to try as many different sports cars as you can. Be it buy, beg, steal or borrow. That way, you are able to give a more experienced view of your preferences. Good on ya. Justin My Mrs would say it is an obsession. But if you work hard, don’t play golf, don’t do drugs in any shape or form and don’t have or want a mistress; it’s probably quite a healthy one! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RP420 Posted February 24 Report Share Posted February 24 Congratulations Jimmy @blindside - fantastic machine! Colour matching to the 430 too!! Hope to see it out on the NI roads soon! Health to drive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM C8RKH Posted February 24 Gold FFM Report Share Posted February 24 @blindside that's a fine looking car there Jimmy. I'm not a run of the mill Porsche fan but the GT cars in all their guises are really special. Look forward to hearing about your adventures in the car and seeing some great pictures. The good news is if you bring it up to Scotland, I'll have somewhere for the picnic I bring for us! 😜 1 Quote I came into this world screaming and covered in someone elses blood. I'll probably leave it in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold FFM blindside Posted February 24 Gold FFM Report Share Posted February 24 Haggis, neeps & tatties please Andy. 😎 Oh and a few of these: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo Posted February 24 Report Share Posted February 24 Nah, ye dinnae want that pish. Youse wants this pish instead. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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