castle coombe track day+ roof repair

[nellie116]

Hi guys,
Any elise owners going to castle coombe on may 27th for the club lotus track day? The last few years i've racked up at whatever time and found myself in with a load of ageing elans/elites etc. Might be a good idea to get together with other elise owners and book in on the day together so at least we are all at roughly the same speed on track.

Also can anybody help me out with my elise s2 roof. (the one with the rear "wings" The rear cable has snapped and there does not appear to be anybody interested in repairing it or responding to my enquiries. The roof itself is in good nick so don't really want to spend £400+ on a complete new one.

[hbaumhardt]

Tell me more, my Club lotus membership is still current ... how much cost vs how much track time ?

[nellie116]

The cost is £70 or £75 i think. They guarantee two sessions, 1 in the morning 1 in the afternoon consisting of about 6/7 laps. Having said that, every year i have gone, after the allocated sessions have taken place it turns into a bit of a free for all and i have always done at least 4 sessions. The organisation of the day is not up to much but they do limit the amount of cars on track so there's never a problem with traffic stopping you getting a good ol lick of speed going.
If you have never driven coombe i would thoroughly recommend it. Quarry corner can be a real widowmaker.

[hbaumhardt]

Ok many thanks. I know and appreciate combe and thats low cost, but cant invest a family_comittment_awayday_pass on less than 2 hrs track time.

[Sam_68]

nellie116 said:

...can anybody help me out with my elise s2 roof. (the one with the rear "wings" The rear cable has snapped and there does not appear to be anybody interested in repairing it or responding to my enquiries. The roof itself is in good nick so don't really want to spend £400+ on a complete new one.

I called in at Nick Whale Sportscars at Bromsgrove a couple of weeks ago and asked the same question on my S1 softop. I was told that the Lotus trim shop do a refurb service for a fixed cost of £45+postage+packing and that if I dropped the hood in to Nick Whale they would make the arrangements to send it off for me. Downside is that the hood would be away for a few weeks.

I haven't got round to taking mine in, yet, but it sounded quite starightforward and Nick Whale were very helpful in explaining the service.

I guess that any official Lotus dealer should be able to do the same thing?

[nellie116]

Sam_68 said:

nellie116 said: ...can anybody help me out with my elise s2 roof. (the one with the rear "wings" The rear cable has snapped and there does not appear to be anybody interested in repairing it or responding to my enquiries. The roof itself is in good nick so don't really want to spend £400+ on a complete new one. I called in at Nick Whale Sportscars at Bromsgrove a couple of weeks ago and asked the same question on my S1 softop. I was told that the Lotus trim shop do a refurb service for a fixed cost of £45+postage+packing and that if I dropped the hood in to Nick Whale they would make the arrangements to send it off for me. Downside is that the hood would be away for a few weeks. I haven't got round to taking mine in, yet, but it sounded quite starightforward and Nick Whale were very helpful in explaining the service. I guess that any official Lotus dealer should be able to do the same thing?

Thanks for that. Mine was supplied by nick whale so i'll give em a ring.