S2 indicator module "Monza Part"
S2 indicator module "Monza Part"
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Stu_00

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1,529 posts

242 months

Tuesday 1st June 2010
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Help Required.

Well in the last three months my Elise (S2 111R 06MY Elise)has started an indication of eating indicator modules - Basically a crap design in the first place - small plastic clip holiding the thing into the clam keeps breaking.

Really bad design and hear it is a really common problem. Seloc have a solution http://wiki.seloc.org/a/Indicators but would like to know what people have done to solve it. Really cannot understand why Lotus have not done a recall on this in some ways!

Your thoughts would be appreciated....

Hazmat

10 posts

194 months

Tuesday 1st June 2010
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My n/s indicator failed, but for the life of me, couldn't work out how to get to the unit to replace the bulb. Tried the SELOC thread & pics, but to no avail. Ended up going in through the wheelarch and all I could manage to do was follow the cables back to the unit and have a feel around. Seemed to do the trick though as the indicator now works!
Any pointers as to how you get the damn thing out in the first place?

Stu_00

Original Poster:

1,529 posts

242 months

Tuesday 1st June 2010
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Hazmat said:
My n/s indicator failed, but for the life of me, couldn't work out how to get to the unit to replace the bulb. Tried the SELOC thread & pics, but to no avail. Ended up going in through the wheelarch and all I could manage to do was follow the cables back to the unit and have a feel around. Seemed to do the trick though as the indicator now works!
Any pointers as to how you get the damn thing out in the first place?
According to this wonderful Lotus design, most people say if you take it out of the clam it breaks !

So that does not help you but hopefully someone will enlight us all with some helpful hints. The person at Lotus that designed this should be held to ransom - They must of been asleep during the lectures of headlamp design!

dgr

289 posts

257 months

Tuesday 1st June 2010
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To remove them, there is a small hole in the clam which allows a screwdriver the push the clip back holding the unit in.

I have been through 4 in the first 12 months I had this car, in the end the Lotus field engineer sorted it by shaving the clam a bit. Since then they have stayed put. Ended up sticking them in with Sikaflex on my old car which was a lot simpler and cheaper than buying new light units.

Lotus have fixed them on the new model by integrating the indicator in the headlight unit!

Justin S

3,658 posts

284 months

Tuesday 1st June 2010
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you might find the indicator is hitting the crash box and that is breaking the catch. If you take the headlights out ( only 3 bolts and then there is a socket bolt in there.) Undo and put a washer under the clam to lift the body up a bit away from the box.