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Originally Posted by British_Marques
You really do not need to turn your Elise up-side-down.
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Not the car, just the calipers.
The front calipers have two pistons/cylinders. The fluid enters at the top of the inside piston/cylinder, flows through the cylinder and out the bottom via a tube to the bottom of the outside half of the caliper. Then through the cylinder and out the bleed tube on the top outside half. If there is air in the calipers, it can remain in the inside half no matter how much bleeding you do.
To vent any air trapped in the inside half, you have to remove the caliper, flip it upside down so that the "cross-over tube" is now at the top. Then bleed some fluid through the caliper - which should move the air to the outside half. Then flip it back upright (re-mount it) and continue to bleed it - since the air is now in the outside half, it should come out the bleed screw.
As to the original post - if the dealer is bleeding the system, did they use the Lotus Scan Tool to put the ABS into "bleed mode" - if they didn't and you have air trapped in the ABS, you could still be getting problems.