Evora reliability

[elise2000]

bordseye said:

stuno1 said:

Clutch... Ouch! What's the mileage?

A clutch is a consumeable just like brake pads - depends on useage and user. A starter motor is a couple of hundred unless you are daft enough to buy official parts.

Yep it's a consumable, and the part is cheap, it's just the 22 odd hours of labour to fit that aren't! Bit of a bugger that it went after only 4K of motorway miles under my ownership but that's life. The garage I bought the car from went 50/50 on the cost which seemed fair enough to me.

The starter motor for the Evora I believe (I'm sure someone will correct me) is an adapted version of a motor from another car and is only available as a genuine part. Either way it was covered under my warrantee so not a problem.

[Spathodus77]

As TVR owner for the last 8 years I can say that the amount of back up that appears when the manufacturer goes under is incredible. The independents keep going. The big main dealers start developing more, and bigger upgrades. They also start remanufacturing hard to get parts - often unrated and at reasonable cost. It would n't put me off buying a Lotus.

That said I hope we see Lotus return to profitability soon - the signs are promising.

[Havoc856-S]

2016 Overview including the faults i've had:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9qo32pqOTc

Window not sealing correctly and eating the seals as a result and gearbox weeping oil from two seals in c.8000 miles. Recently had an ARB replaced complete due to a wear patch from track days - drop links are a consumable on this car.

Overall it's had about 2 weeks downtime at Lotus since 31st March this year. Not bad for a hand built high performance car.