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Hi, You can see in elise lights section I have had a faulty LED DRL due to circuit board failure that required replacement with new headlight assembly. This means I have the spare parts from old unit that can be used. happy to send all of it or individual components The main bulbs work fine, the lens is ok, there is some lacquer peeling and some minor scuffs/stone chips so could do with refurbishing. see pictures. Will keep this on forum for sale for a good while before putting on ebay please pm me if interested, I suspect the lens is most likely item to sell so would be wanting, let's say, 200 for that kr ross

Hi Miles, sorry for late reply I'm afraid I don't know enough in depth about car circuits to help. It really is a ridiculous expense and hope you get resolution as prices of these are going up since elise has ended production.

South west lotus had a more acceptable price of about 1300 for a new one Main RRP was 2700!!! Please make sure you never get water inside your light

Thanks machine for your advice I didn't notice your post till now so update is it took a long time to find some refurb companies who agree to look at it. https://www.ieruk.com/ https://www.clusterrepairsuk.co.uk/ I sent it the ieruk who have repaired lotus parts before, unfortunately it just came back unfixed. I don't have a lot of info in the box but apparently no replacement parts to fix it, I'm guessing the whole PCB was goosed. Worth a try if someone else has a similar problem and they email back pretty quick once I found them. So this has dragged on long enough I will have to hold back the tears and buy an entire other unit over 2000, almost makes me wish I had a pre- LED lotus as it's so wasteful as well as expensive. Incidentally I now have all the other parts ready to be cannibalised so will see about posting it for sale in case anyone needs the main shroud or bulb assembly within

Hi this is a recent problem. Managed to figure out how to use diode function on my mutlimeter and all of them work when powered individually with a weak current, the broken clear/yellow "bulbs" don't mean anything just focuses the lights Any advice on how to test the PCB or all of them together would be great Looking elsewhere I think evoras have a DRL "module" but I am unaware of anything in elise @C8RKH which company do you mean by silverstone? guessing an indy garage? kr ross

here is an even better view of what I found

Hi all, Noticed my left front indicator was not working correctly, very brief flashing only, then noticed the daytime running lights on same side also not working at all. I had some water ingress which I assume when I forgot to place rubber cap back over dipped bulb cover +/- my headlight seal was failing during this pissy Scottish winter Steps to remove for anyone interested - 1. removed wheel and wheel liner, the plastic bolts are rubbish so will likely need prised out and replaced, do the forward facing section first and pull downwards as metal tab here slots behind the larger rear portion. 2. Disconnect headlight assembly connector(careful with the plastic tab securing the unit as very fragile) 3. Remove 3 bolts holding unit to body, all 8mm. The inbound one has a bracket with 10mm nuts that you will need to remove to gain access. careful to not lose the washers and plastic spacers. This was only way I could then pull the entire assembly backwards and out of the car. 4. Reading others misfortune I put it in the oven for about 15 mins at 90c and worked a treat at softening the seal. Again be careful separating the lens from the housing as plastic tags are typically fragile and I broke a couple. 5. need some security torx bolts , T-15 I think, to remove the shroud in the way and similar bolts attaching LED strip and its heatsink off for access to the PCB so water damage seen with faded plastic and some corrosion. Cleaned the LED connectors I could access and the PCB. Tested it and DRL still nada. The indicators work properly for a brief time then revert to blinking as per attached video. Looking again I missed that 2/5 of the DRL LEDs are separated from their individual boards. Don't know why, presumably some heat/impact damage. I am not an expert at LEDs. I am not spending 2K on replacing the entire assembly for 2 sodding LEDs. I am guessing these 2 need replaced at the very least but entire strip if cost effective is an alternative. Any tips for similar problems or know of any good source of harvesting these damn things, be it standalone or scrap? Anyone good with electronics be able to tell me if I remove the DRL LED wires that the indicator will work? Don't really care for them anyway and apparently not an MOT failure like the indicator would be. Even if not hope this post helps others Ross 20230103_135506.mp4

Solved -- under this section there are 2 holes in sill where bolts for bottom of this panel are located. one had loosened out and other very rusty. bought new bolts and was able to shimmy the section forward slightly before tightening the new bolts. Hopefully no more scraping

Hello everyone, long time lurker and have found your tips quite useful. I wonder if anyone can suggest anything or anyone to help with this? Things are a bit thin on ground in Scotland just now with Leven shut. My passenger door is rubbing against the panel overlying the door hinge and this is wearing the paint away. Not sure how this happened, i don't recall bottoming out and smacking it but I do track it a lot. Comparison to driver side on pics. I was hoping I could adjust this to be a 1mm or 2mm more forward to help Kr ross