Daveb99

Congrats and best of luck with it. Certainly a lot of car for the money. Did you manage to speak to the previous owner to find out more about the history including the Komotec upgrade and the supposed colour change / wrap thing?

A very keenly priced Evora Launch Edition has popped up on PH. Heck of a lot of car for under £22k! Mileage wouldn’t put me off at all because it’s been properly maintained and seems very well sorted. So cheap! Suspect it won’t be around long at that price. Used LOTUS EVORA (122) V6 4 2009...Used LOTUS EVORA (122) V6 4...

@shaunw Did you know that it is still on Autotrader at £52,850 ? May be worth contacting the seller that way, it could be that he has placed it with Targa Florio on a sale or return basis, in other words he could still be up for doing a deal privately if he still has the car…..

@Piratepete Congrats! The NA is a great car - especially the one you’ve bought! I owned 3 of them before I went to the dark side for a couple of years. Nothing drives like an Evora, so, lo and behold this year bought an Evora 400. It happens to be the one that Tony parked next to at Hethel in September too! Enjoy it, great car. The Michelin PS4S will indeed transform the car, I’ve done it twice now on NAs. @Kimbers It’s a shame we didn’t get to meet at the Reunion. I did meet your Dad though……that really did make the day, he absolutely loves Evoras doesn’t he, not surprisingly. I gave him a lift back round to the main car park to pick up his Merc. Great day, great man.

I could be wrong, but I have a theory that Harry’s Emira probably spent more time at the dealers having things fixed than we will ever know. The early cars like Harry’s seem to be the most problematic. So maybe this, combined with the depreciation, led him to think “sod this, I’m getting rid”….

Ah sorry to hear that Bibs, it’s sad to hear Lotus are making people redundant again 😕 I’ve got it all now, and it was only a few quid, but thanks for the offer. Having taken half the interior out to replace the amp and sub I’ve already had my value for money!

Thanks very much. I now finally have all of it, no thanks to Lotus who took my money but ignored all my emails….

Hehe love it - don’t forget the following additional opportunities: - Going through a forest (or any moderately tree lined roads) - Passing primary schools at kicking out time (lots of pointing and cries of “corrrrr” guaranteed) - When finally passing a group of 40-something road-owning cyclists, all in matching Lycra, who eventually reluctantly move over (a bit) and think they are Team Sky, but in reality most of them belong to Team Pie - When passing a single cyclist, who you happen to know owns a Tesla or Porsche Takeaway thing, just to remind them what proper cars sound like - At pedestrian crossings, when there’s a 90 year old crossing with a walking frame* I’m well aware of the raised rev limit in Sport mode too (couldn’t be bothered to quote your previous reply. *OK, I lied about that one. I couldn’t bring myself to do that….!

Where did you get the multi view rear camera and how does the multi view work? I’ve recently bought an ILX-705D too, and simply bought an adapter lead to connect to the yellow rear cable RCA plug. Presume with a multi view camera you needed to fit a new cable all the way to the rear cam ? Which front camera did you go for? I might have a go at that, seems the cable routing is straightforward. And finally, did you manage to get the speed sensitive volume working - there’s a speed pulse wire on the 705, I connected mine to the right cable in the car but it doesn’t work (I have the GPS antenna connected too).

Try this place for discs. Proper Motorsport supplier and they even have the correct rotors for the 400…….available in J hook too! Way cheaper than buying from Lotus or other suppliers I believe. http://www.reyland.co.uk/discs/ The screenshot is for the 400 size (fronts).

Hi Trev, just sent you a message, I have a stainless decat pipe that I don’t need…..

Cheers - it opens at about 4500rpm, in any engine mode, but I quite like burbling around with it open all the time. I said to myself when I bought the car “I won’t open it until I leave the village” but I find myself reaching for that little button every time I start the car now 😊

Yeah I’ve got the rest of the service notes (from Lotus) but need the HVAC section. Even that website says they are missing !

Cheers Bibs, yes, that’s what I thought - it’s always fully warmed up before I open the tin of beans, I just wanted to check that opening the valve when the engine is cold isn’t going to cause any issues.

I’ve recently upgraded my head unit (and speakers) in the 400. Focal 130AS and lots of sound deadening in the doors etc. Sounds really superb and I haven’t even got the sub working yet. One thing that doesn’t seem to work is the speed sensitive volume. So when you speed up it doesn’t get any louder, and of course doesn’t the volume doesn’t decrease when you slow down either. My head unit is the Alpine ILX-705D, and whilst there’s no mention of speed sensitive volume in the Alpine manual, it does have a speed pulse wire in the harness. So I’ve plugged in both the GPS antenna and connected the speed pulse wire to the yellow and pink wire in the OEM white connector block (on the car side) which is the speed wire according to research - but it still doesn’t work. Has anyone got an Alpine (other than the OEM INE 990BT) and managed to get this to work?

I’ve noticed that Lotus call the valve in the 400 exhaust an ‘Engine protection valve’. Does that mean you’re supposed to wait for it to be fully warmed up before you open the valve or something? Can’t imagine that’s the case - I guess it’s just more free flowing with less back pressure with the valve open?

@Bibs Cheers @SZ I’ve checked my Inbox and haven’t received anything (not in my junk folder either) - so I’ll PM you again with a different email address to send it to…….

Hi - sent you a message on here a few weeks ago but I’m not sure if you saw it….

It’s the HVAC section. The download fails every time before it completes….do you have that section by any chance?

I paid for an hour’s access and downloaded all the service notes for the 400 recently. There is one section that fails to download properly though. I’ve emailed Lotus (technical) and chased them too, but no reply. I’ll have to chase them again - @Bibs do you have any contacts at Hethel who could have a word with them to actually get a response, by any chance?

Thanks - will check the fuse 👍🏻

Yes, turned on and connected via the RCA leads. Have you actually put your hand over the sub when you’re playing music? It’s easy to think it’s working when actually it’s the amp boosting the bass from the woofers in the doors….

Anybody?

So Lotus in their infinite wisdom fitted 5.25” speakers to the doors in the 400, compared to the 6.5” in the Evora S1. Gee, thanks….. I’m looking to upgrade mine as part of an overhaul of the audio, and have come across a couple of US forum posts where 400 owners have successfully fitted 6.5”. Has anyone on here done it? Clearly it would be way better than replacing with the same size. The first guy mentions that he had to dremel a little out of the door to get them to fit but I can live with that I think (depends how much!). Mentioned in this thread here: https://www.lotustalk.com/threads/evora-400-stock-crossover-location.541240/ And also here, with a couple of photos: https://www.lotustalk.com/posts/5990860/

Nice one - how is it for comfort now that some of the foam has been removed?