Hello Paul

Thanks @DH2; I disconnected the battery for a few hours, but when I reconnected it, the situation was exactly the same. The driver's door will lock, but not unlock. Maybe I'll take off some panels and have a rummage around this weekend.

Hello, The other day I discovered (after not much use) that my battery was almost flat (doors unlocked OK, but not enough juice to start the engine), so I popped it on charge for a few days. Battery charged, car can start, but instrument cluster displayed nothing apart from the yellow cog+! symbol, so I disconnected the battery for ~1 minute, reconnected, and everything seemed fine (this was about 3 days ago). Today, I went to unlock the car - pressed the key fob, the indicator lights flashed once as per usual, but nothing unlocked. I pressed unlock again, and (as is usual on the second press) the passenger door unlocked. No matter how many times I locked/unlocked the car, the driver's door would not unlock - my passenger got in and pulled up the silver locky-knob-thing to unlock the driver's door manually - which is obviously not ideal if I don't happen to have a convenient passenger with me! Has anyone else experienced this issue? I'm hoping it's something simpler than a dead central locking actuator. Any advice or ideas would be most welcome, thanks! It's an English (RHD) Elise S (Series 3) 2013.

On Friday 13th October at maybe noon-ish, I spotted an Esprit S1 (probably black) heading along the A14 then A11. It was an L-reg (old L-reg, in the format of "AAA 41L") which is 1972-73, but the Esprit didn't exist until '76. I'm assuming someone transferred the plate...unless this was some super-special pre-production model or something?!

Sorry! (I edited that video. Maybe I should've just used shots of it parked or something! 🤣).

I spotted a handsome metallic grey Elise S2 in the car park of the UEA sportspark in Norwich on Thursday evening - it matched my metallic grey Elise beautifully (I should have taken a photo of them both together!).

LOL! Let's add this to the list (below) of made-up press articles on non-existent "EU rules"! It's amusing how gullible the UK public is - it must be hilarious working for The Sun/Daily Fail/etc, getting drunk over lunch while making up these ridiculous "laws" and putting it in a story, only to hear irate, tory-voting, brexshit-supporting readers phoning in to Jeremy Vine the next day, getting all hot under their xenophobic, Boris-loving, gammony collars about the "EU banning same-sex flats" or "EU funding for African trapeze artists"! I would say "you couldn't make it up!" but that's exactly what the UK press does on a daily basis! 🤣

The butyric acid that is created during whatever process American "chocolate" manufacturers use on the milk is what gives it the vomit smell - it is exactly the same acid that is found in vomit and parmesan cheese. From Wikipedia: It is found in animal fat and plant oils, bovine milk, breast milk, butter, parmesan cheese, body odor, vomit, and as a product of anaerobic fermentation (including in the colon). mmmmm lovely! Bizarrely, some American "chocolate" manufacturers, trying to replicate that delicious Hershey's vomit-taste actually add butyric acid deliberately. I'm not sure what the exact process is - maybe they just ensure some of the factory workers are perpetually unwell and get them to puke into the vats of "chocolate".

Yes - I used to regularly consume one of those massive bars of Whole Nut over the course of a few days, but since Mondelez (the company who own Kraft) changed the recipe, Cadbury's "chocolate" now tastes almost as bad as American "chocolate", with that unmistakable tang of vomit, caused by the addition of butyric acid. I lived in the US for a few years, and had the misfortune of occasionally tasting the foul toxin known as "chocolate" over there. I'd challenge any Brit to eat a whole bar of the stuff without puking. https://chocolateclass.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/american-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit/

Hello, I'm hoping someone might know the exact size/type of screw that holds the three heater knobs on, on an Elise S3. The fan speed knob has fallen off, and the screw that holds it in place is missing. I could take one of the other knobs off and try to measure the tiny screw, but if anyone knows the exact spec then I'd be very grateful to know so I can try to get a new screw. Thanks in advance for any help! ~ Paul

I'm planning to pop along to Stratton Motors next Friday to take a peek at the Evija. I have a theory about cars in photos and real life: Dull cars look better in photos/on video than in real life. Exciting cars look better in real life and photos/video just can't capture the drama.

Nope, that's just a wide angle lens on a crappy phone distorting the back end. I have some gorgeous 8K(!) RED camera footage here showing that exact yellow car looking nicely proportioned at the back. And no, I'm not going to post any of it here!

I said there would be a yellow one appearing soon! I worked on that video 😁!

This colour scheme might be making an appearance in a video soon.

One thing that baffles me about the development of the Evija is the complete absence of any spy shots or similar anywhere on t'internet. It's quite normal to see photos pop up of forthcoming models, usually disguised with lumpy bodywork, being tested in varied conditions around the world. Are we to assume that the Evija either hasn't been tested on the open road at all, or is so well disguised that people think they're looking at some other car? Is Lotus just gong to rely on its customers to do the testing? As much as I love my Elise, the niggles do bother me occasionally, but I can live with them. If I paid £1.7 million for a car, it'd need to have zero defects. How can a manufacturer produce such a vehicle if it hasn't been through rigorous testing? Maybe someone here will prove me wrong - perhaps there has been a lot of testing, and I just don't know about it. I read about some testing in December: "Following extensive simulations, plus initial on-track sessions in the UK and Italy, Lotus has now rolled out the most complete version of the car built to date" (from this article). But driving on a couple of tracks is very different from driving thousands of miles in arctic or desert conditions. A large percentage of these cars will, no doubt, spend some of their lives being thrashed along baking-hot middle-eastern highways.

My Ctek MXS3.8 arrived today. I've connected the adapter cable to the battery, and saw that a previous owner had presumably done something similar...when I thought "how shall I feed the cable out through the battery box?" I noticed a perfectly-sized square hole cut into it to feed the cable through! I tested out the mains cable routing, and it appears that the rear lid will close perfectly with the cable fed out through the seal, thanks in part to those Lotus panel gaps! The next job is to route some mains power so I don't have to have an extension lead sprawling all over the place.