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Hello, I'm asking advice from the central TX folks.
I've only been driving the new (to me!) elise for a week, only to have it start to overheat on the way to work. Found the coolant filler tank empty and it's leaking somewhere in the engine bay.
Do you all know of a shop? I've searched and found one people here keep mentioning and there's also the lotus dealer. Both are in Austin (I'm in Temple/Ft Hood/Killeen, BTW). I'm a little skittish on ponying up what i'd assume a couple hundred bucks just to tow the car 70 miles. But I may be more so by leaving it to a local shop that's never seen a lotus (not so much because of the coolant system repair/diagnose, but the smiple stuff like damaging the clam). What do you all suggest?
I was thinking of removing the clam myself to see whatsup because I was initially confident the issue isn't that big...maybe a loose hose or something because the leak seems to be in the engine bay, not up front. But I fear I'll spend a couple days just to figure out how to remve clam, etc, only to find something I can't begin to fix or diagnose.
Oh, I'm also running rich (code thrown and MIL was off when delivered, on sporadically last week, and constant on now). Fixed one code (cam thing solved by replacing fuses). But running rich code had popped up and now remains. I'd also want the cat replaced as the prev. owner put in a test pipe...
Shame, I think the car is great, but I think I got caught with a lot of recent bad luck. I've had friends like this(know a guy who's car has been in the shop for years--literally. Initial issue popped up, fixed, other issue pops up, fixed. A year or so passes of this cycle. When it's finally all done, drives it home, only for it to go down on the way home because shop forgot to fill something up--back to the shop. We've gone to and from Iraq in between all of this). Never thought i'd be in the same boat. What we do for what we love...
So, long rambling post...question is can yall point me in the right direction? Advice? Thank you all very much beforehand! The forum has already helped out a lot the last week by just me lurking...
I've only been driving the new (to me!) elise for a week, only to have it start to overheat on the way to work. Found the coolant filler tank empty and it's leaking somewhere in the engine bay.
Do you all know of a shop? I've searched and found one people here keep mentioning and there's also the lotus dealer. Both are in Austin (I'm in Temple/Ft Hood/Killeen, BTW). I'm a little skittish on ponying up what i'd assume a couple hundred bucks just to tow the car 70 miles. But I may be more so by leaving it to a local shop that's never seen a lotus (not so much because of the coolant system repair/diagnose, but the smiple stuff like damaging the clam). What do you all suggest?
I was thinking of removing the clam myself to see whatsup because I was initially confident the issue isn't that big...maybe a loose hose or something because the leak seems to be in the engine bay, not up front. But I fear I'll spend a couple days just to figure out how to remve clam, etc, only to find something I can't begin to fix or diagnose.
Oh, I'm also running rich (code thrown and MIL was off when delivered, on sporadically last week, and constant on now). Fixed one code (cam thing solved by replacing fuses). But running rich code had popped up and now remains. I'd also want the cat replaced as the prev. owner put in a test pipe...
Shame, I think the car is great, but I think I got caught with a lot of recent bad luck. I've had friends like this(know a guy who's car has been in the shop for years--literally. Initial issue popped up, fixed, other issue pops up, fixed. A year or so passes of this cycle. When it's finally all done, drives it home, only for it to go down on the way home because shop forgot to fill something up--back to the shop. We've gone to and from Iraq in between all of this). Never thought i'd be in the same boat. What we do for what we love...
So, long rambling post...question is can yall point me in the right direction? Advice? Thank you all very much beforehand! The forum has already helped out a lot the last week by just me lurking...
