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Good evening! I just purchased my first lotus today, a 2005 saffron yellow elise with the touring package, and I am 1/3 the way back to maryland driving it from Albuquerque. The car is a hard 8, touching 9 on the exterior, and a solid 8 on the interior. I bought it for $24500 with 99k miles and a freshly rebuilt engine, but with anything that's gone close to a hundred thousand miles it's going to show some wear.
I've been lurking here for a while, and now that I finally have the car and have driven it for some time, I had a few questions. Normally I would use the search functionality, but because I'm currently in BFE driving it cross country, I am limited to using my cell phone on edge network which is painful. So I'll ask.
So, the shift lever feels like all of the bushing are shot. It feels like a 20 year old manual civic. What's involved with replacing the shift lever bushings? I haven't had a chance to peel back the (loose) center bezel to investigate.
The passenger's door only opens from the inside, and the outside button won't open it. What's involved with fixing this?
The accelerator pedal sometimes feels sticky when coming from zero throttle. Any suggestions? I know this was the one year of the manual throttle body, and my old 1st gen MR2 did the same thing.
Finally, the previous previous owner of the car was in Phoenix and had rebuilt the motor. I think they may have installed a low temp thermostat when they did this since as I was cruising across the Texas panhandle tonight and the temp was dipping into the 50s, when I was above 70 mph for more than a minute, the temp read out would drop to the 150s then disappear. And if I remember correctly, the low coolant temp would prevent the motor from going to the second cam and set the redline at 6200 if the coolant wasn't up to temp. Is this a likely scenario, or is there something else besides the thermostat I should look at.
Thank you for bearing with me and my easily answered with a search questions were I not on dial up speeds typing into a cell phone. And hello again!
Rich
I've been lurking here for a while, and now that I finally have the car and have driven it for some time, I had a few questions. Normally I would use the search functionality, but because I'm currently in BFE driving it cross country, I am limited to using my cell phone on edge network which is painful. So I'll ask.
So, the shift lever feels like all of the bushing are shot. It feels like a 20 year old manual civic. What's involved with replacing the shift lever bushings? I haven't had a chance to peel back the (loose) center bezel to investigate.
The passenger's door only opens from the inside, and the outside button won't open it. What's involved with fixing this?
The accelerator pedal sometimes feels sticky when coming from zero throttle. Any suggestions? I know this was the one year of the manual throttle body, and my old 1st gen MR2 did the same thing.
Finally, the previous previous owner of the car was in Phoenix and had rebuilt the motor. I think they may have installed a low temp thermostat when they did this since as I was cruising across the Texas panhandle tonight and the temp was dipping into the 50s, when I was above 70 mph for more than a minute, the temp read out would drop to the 150s then disappear. And if I remember correctly, the low coolant temp would prevent the motor from going to the second cam and set the redline at 6200 if the coolant wasn't up to temp. Is this a likely scenario, or is there something else besides the thermostat I should look at.
Thank you for bearing with me and my easily answered with a search questions were I not on dial up speeds typing into a cell phone. And hello again!
Rich