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Very excited to join this very exclusive club today.  Many thanks to Ali for looking after the car so carefully for the last two years.  I took the long way home and am looking forward to many more mi

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Very big day for me today. This is now in the garage. Really special car. Looks very low and compact. Didn't take up the garage space I was expecting. It has massive presence with those win

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Guilty m'lud! Motorsport Green. Carbon race seats, sound deadening, air con, no stereo, black diamond cut wheels with black wingstays. Impossible to believe but it should be sitting in

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Are any of the GT430s going to LM24hr or Classic this year if so maybe arrange a meet up there with some of the European ones ones just picked up my Purple one on Monday its very nice :-) taking it to France on Sunday for a long drive after the runing in service headlight beam seem a bit lower than the 400 or its my eyesight 

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Congrats and welcome to TLF. I think we’re up to seven GT430 owners here now which must be some kind of record.

Looks stunning in purple, would love to know the story behind that and what inspired it.

No plans for Le Mans classic at the moment but sounds like as good an idea for a trip. Enjoy!

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Are any of the GT430s going to LM24hr or Classic this year if so maybe arrange a meet up there with some of the European ones ones just picked up my Purple one on Monday its very nice :-) taking it to France on Sunday for a long drive after the runing in service headlight beam seem a bit lower than the 400 or its my eyesight 

Trevor

There is quite a lot of adjustment in the 400 headlights.  Mine were originally very low.  The kind people at Stratton adjusted them up to the max allowed for an MOT test and they are much better - brilliant in fact.  I do occasionally get flashed though by oncoming traffic.

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Nah. It's because he is in an Evora and people recognise class from afar!

I came into this world screaming and covered in someone elses blood. I'll probably leave it in the same way. 

 

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On 10/01/2018 at 09:17, Trevleg said:

Are any of the GT430s going to LM24hr or Classic this year if so maybe arrange a meet up there with some of the European ones ones just picked up my Purple one on Monday its very nice :-) taking it to France on Sunday for a long drive after the runing in service headlight beam seem a bit lower than the 400 or its my eyesight 

Hello Trevor and welcome to TLF !

Where are you planning to travel across France this WE ?

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On 11/01/2018 at 10:56, rallyesax said:

Hello Trevor and welcome to TLF !

Where are you planning to travel across France this WE ?

I got home last night my mate arrived at Dieppe 1530 I arrived Calais 1630 he was in a new transit I arrived in France 2 hours behind him in the Lotus I had an 800km journey ahead as opposed to his 600km I arrived at our destination 5 minutes after him. 

I would have beatenn him had it not been for 4 fuel stops ! Less than 300 km on average from a tank it was like riding a bike arrived home with 4th tank 3/4 full. 

Except it was so comfortable much more so than my mclaren.or even the 400 

And Fast very it’s perfect in every way. I am in love with a purple car. nothing past me 180-220 kph most of the way it’s still a fantastic GT aswel as a capable track day car the sound system is still crap but never mind. 

Mad always it gets a thumbs up with a big smile everywhere and no jealous snarls the French Love my number plate SU11VRE 

The last section on B roads the D939 one of my favourite roads an AMG merc fancies his chances as soon as it got twisty it was bye bye. 

 

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Once in RACE mode, hold RACE down again to turn the DPM system off. All safety systems will be off apart from ABS brakes. You will have now have TC set to level 1 which allows up to 1% rear wheel slip before it cuts the ignition. From here you use the + and - buttons to increase or decrease slip, with level 5 being the most sideways at 12% slip. This is a lot! Press again to turn everything off or RACE or SPORT to go back to Lotus DPM (Dynamic Performance Management).

Its a track thing really, I can’t think of a sensible use for it on the road.

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Can a 430 owner with the wider rear wheels do me a favour please?

can you measure the distance between the tyre and the diffuser at the rear, bottom inside edge to diffuser. Also the  distance between the tyre and the wheel arch liner at the rear, top outside edge to wheel arch.

TIA

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2 hours ago, The Pits said:

Once in RACE mode, hold RACE down again to turn the DPM system off. All safety systems will be off apart from ABS brakes. You will have now have TC set to level 1 which allows up to 1% rear wheel slip before it cuts the ignition. From here you use the + and - buttons to increase or decrease slip, with level 5 being the most sideways at 12% slip. This is a lot! Press again to turn everything off or RACE or SPORT to go back to Lotus DPM (Dynamic Performance Management).

Its a track thing really, I can’t think of a sensible use for it on the road.

Thanks for that I’ll give it go tomorrow now it use less fuel when not in Race mode and below 4500rpm ! 

I went to the shops and back in normal mode it was showing 9-10 l per 100kms instead of 16-18 l so maybe it’s possible to get 400 km from the 50 litre

I loved my 400 even after 2 years sad to see it go very good car. This is a great car as it should be for the price it feels like the chassis could take another 100hp easy 

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33 minutes ago, LotusLeftLotusRight said:

Did you go in a standard Shuttle carriage, or is that a wider one for larger vehicles? Any ground clearance issues?

Was just wondering the same thing. Planning for lemans classic already and a little concerned about the gte wheels on the channel!

Cheers Gav 

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Use the high load shuttle carriage otherwise you risk damaging the rims in the car one. The 'kerbs' are higher than the low profile tyre depth. Same cost but you need book to get the right boarding hanger.

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19 hours ago, 21gg said:

Was just wondering the same thing. Planning for lemans classic already and a little concerned about the gte wheels on the channel!

Cheers Gav 

I went in wide lorry bit always do Eurotunnel metal curbs are dangerous Always do this after a few years ago I damaged Diamond cut wheels on my RS6 I have been through last year with DB11 and Mclaren and they put all sports cars in wide carriage now as they have been in trouble with clients.

Brittany Ferries also put expensive sports cars alone away from fat people opening doors and squeezing in denting your door or wing  

Trev

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