Whitey

My car is on 4k miles V6 manual, and is due it’s first service mid Sept but I wanted a couple of warranty issues sorted prior to this. I called into the dealership a couple of weeks ago to discuss the issues and get the car booked in. One of the issues was a constant interior fizzing sound near the glove box area and the workshop controller agreed that I should take the service Tech, Nick, out in the car to demo it. Last Wednesday I arrived at the dealership and within 10 minutes, Nick came out in the car, took a video of the sound and located the source. They were also going to replace the hvac resistor pack and sort out the drivers seat electric motors and said they needed the car for a few days. The service manager, Darren, gave me a lift back home, pre organised, in a Maserati Grecale, which was rather nice! Dealer phoned yesterday to say, all fixed, so it only took 4 working days, and I nipped over and picked it up, and everything all works, esp the fan speed which was always a bit intermittent. They also fitted the rubber cover under the front service compartment which should stop future electrical issues from water ingress, hopefully. They also did 3 software updates as I wanted them done sooner rather than later to ensure there are no issues. Car now booked in for service mid Sept with courtesy car booked, prior to a Northern Spain touring holiday. Overall a good experience from their service dept esp Matt the workshop controller and Nick the Service Tech who seems very knowledgeable on the cars and has also worked on Macs.

I replaced my rear PS4S tyres with PS5s mainly due to price difference and availability, and wish I hadn’t! Grip and handling are fine but the 5s have hardly any curb protection and visually you can see that the rims stick out more than the tyres making them very vulnerable to pot hole edges etc. I’ll be changing back to 4S or possibly try the Goodyears.

Also, GT410 has door cards with door pockets, GT410 Sport has no door pockets.

Well I’ve still got my 2010 Evora after 12+ great years with it. I’ve had an Emira for a year (well 2 actually after the first one was replaced due to faults) and it’s a great car which I intend to keep. The Evora, being an NA one, is quite different in many ways and I still love driving it. If I’d had a 410 Evora then I’d either settle with that or swap it for an Emira, wouldn’t have both.

When I upgraded my speakers to Focal ones, doors and tweeters, I didn’t need to cut anything. My head unit was already upgraded from the 505 unit, that had the horrible detachable nav unit, to the Alpine 920r which the later Evoras had. Mine is also a 2010 car.

Are you thinking of replacing with RRR ones, assuming they are now available, or just go oem ones?

If you’ve already had arb bushes done, then I would say it was the lower wishbone ball joint. I had this at 35k miles. There’s a thread on here about it but you basically have to buy a new wishbone which comes with the ball joint and the 2 bushes already fitted. You can not just replace the ball joint unfortunately, like a lot of cars now.

I take it yr talking front lower wishbones. It is not possible to replace just the ball joints unfortunately, as with a lot of cars now. The only solution is to buy a new or sh wishbone which will come complete with ball joint and bushes, at a price, as you have found out. I replaced my nsf at about 35k miles due to ball joint knocking which was picked up on the mot, although I knew something was worn due to the noise. you can try ES motorsport as I bought a used one from them from a new car for £200. otherwise, it’s an expensive job!

Agreed, it has door pockets which the Sport never had, unless they were swapped by po.

A very nice 410 Sport has just appeared on seloc classifieds. £55k, 12k miles. https://classifieds.seloc.org/ads/lotus-evora-410-sport/

I put MPS5 on the rear of mine, previously had 4S, but 5s were a fair bit cheaper. However the 5s do not offer as much rim protection as the 4S, so I will either revert to 4S next time or look at the Contis. Certainly don’t fit cheap budget tyres on it. My car is still on all 4 original tpms sensors after numerous tyre changes over the past 13 years, so unless yours have been damaged, they should be ok.

Welcome to the forum, you may find your answer in the Market watch thread just below. I expect the mods will merge your post with that thread anyway. Good luck with your search.

The yellow is called Solar yellow and is a pearl / metallic paint which is clear to see ……….. when the sun comes out!

Not heard of a abs ring, where about is it located?

When I have had this fault, it is intermittent and the first that happens is that it drops out of Sport mode and you get the TC and AB’s lights on. I have normally found that this happens if you are just using the car lightly and hardly touching the brakes. Mine will normally clear itself after the first restart. If using the car harder, incl the brakes, it doesn’t seem to happen on my car. I bought a new sensor a few years ago and have never fitted it as the fault quickly clears and I make habit of using the brakes harder than normal periodically and that keeps it away. I would try a few restarts, if it clears, take it for a decent run and hit the brakes a few times. Works for me anyway 😀