Elise variants with Big miles
Elise variants with Big miles
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foz01

Original Poster:

774 posts

294 months

Tuesday 11th December 2007
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How do elises cope with big miles, ie 100k+ I know they eat consumables but is there issues with the chassis flexing and or the bonding becoming unstable?

Presumably any engine changed cars will have suffered greater stresses on the chassis- anyone aware of any problems on older higher mileage cars, or is it if the consumables are repaced then they will go on forever wink

Cheers

bogie

17,104 posts

303 months

Tuesday 11th December 2007
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just fine - the Lotus demo car has over 200K miles on it and theres quite a few people on SELOC with +100K miles

mine is a 2002 with 80K on it - although Lotus originally specced and simulated ageing on the chassis glue at 8 years it appears to be holding up much better than that with no reported failures so far

TIPPER

2,955 posts

250 months

Tuesday 11th December 2007
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I've not heard of any chassis issues. To be honest the thing falling apart was the last thing I thought about after all aircraft are glued aluminium!
Bogie, I thought Lotus did accelerated aging for 25 years on the chassis?