New arrival. Exige 410 Sport

[ecain63]

st33ly said:

Can I just say I’ve started reading your thread and reading your adventure with your son in your car made me well up. Just epic sir. Truly epic. What a dad.

Thank you, I love taking him on our adventures and he definitely loves coming along. We're off to the Ring again in September so there's lots more to come

[st33ly]

On Sunday I’m about to join the lotus fold. Bought an Elise 220sport and if I like it and enjoy it I’m thinking exige. I’ve been drooling over the 350 v6 cup car in green down south. A bit above my budget but man it just looks so dam cool. I understand I’ve not even got my new car yet and I’m looking at its replacement but after reading 80% of your thread and what you do with your son I know my young daughter is the same and I’d love to do adventures like you have with your son with her. Anyway, epic thread mate and here’s hoping Sunday will be a blast when we collect the little Orange Elise.

[ecain63]

st33ly said:

On Sunday I’m about to join the lotus fold. Bought an Elise 220sport and if I like it and enjoy it I’m thinking exige. I’ve been drooling over the 350 v6 cup car in green down south. A bit above my budget but man it just looks so dam cool. I understand I’ve not even got my new car yet and I’m looking at its replacement but after reading 80% of your thread and what you do with your son I know my young daughter is the same and I’d love to do adventures like you have with your son with her. Anyway, epic thread mate and here’s hoping Sunday will be a blast when we collect the little Orange Elise.

Hopefully the Elise will be everything you want it to be, and that your daughter shares and enjoys the magic. Keep us posted on your adventures

[st33ly]

On an entirely different note. Do you or did you use a booster seat when your son was on the car? We obviously use an isofix booster seat but it won’t fit in the Elise. I can’t fully retract the isofix mechanism.

[Beaver]

Have my 6 year old in my 410 in this seat:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07ZG7GJSP/ref...

Fits like a glove.

[ecain63]

st33ly said:

On an entirely different note. Do you or did you use a booster seat when your son was on the car? We obviously use an isofix booster seat but it won’t fit in the Elise. I can’t fully retract the isofix mechanism.

Early on he was in a recaro young sport but now he's just got a booster seat (soon to be redundant). You need one that's narrow enough for the bucket seats. Argos actually do a cheap narrow one.

[st33ly]

Thanks for the responses guys. I really appreciate it.

[GaryF]

You must be excited about tomorrow. Stick some photos up on the picture thread

[st33ly]

So we have been on a few short journeys but she loves it. Especially the colour and when driving with the roof off. Lol.

[ecain63]

st33ly said:

So we have been on a few short journeys but she loves it. Especially the colour and when driving with the roof off. Lol.

Very nice. She looks very excited about the whole thing

Maybe start a thread telling us about your adventures together

[GaryF]

Congrats. Great colour. Enjoy it to the full

[custardkid]

Is the car still going ok?

[ecain63]

custardkid said:

Is the car still going ok?

Yeah, fantastic buddy. Got a squeaky / clicky rear clam to pad out but otherwise absolutely sound. At the end of the month we're off to the Ring again but in the meantime I'm trying to squeeze in a uk road trip to push the annual miles up

[ecain63]

Not sure why I didn't add it here, but we did Silverstone last month. It was a bit warm and quite busy, but a really cracking day out .........

[custardkid]

Are you getting away with the standard exhaust on track or using the quieter exhaust or a stick out silencer?

[custardkid]

ecain63 said:

Great picture!

[ecain63]

custardkid said:

Are you getting away with the standard exhaust on track or using the quieter exhaust or a stick out silencer?

I seem to be getting away with it at the moment. Silverstone was absolutely fine and yesterday morning I did over 60 laps of Combe with no noise issues

[ecain63]

Talking of Castle Combe......

BHP were running their last ever trackday so I decided to brave the bumps and head over for a morning of fun. I've done Combe before and if I'm honest I didn't really like it. Yesterday changed that!. We had perfect weather, quiet laps and great company. Unfortunately there was no tog on site but I did get some vids

Last lap of the day was a nice one: https://youtu.be/u3UqE5pxfjM

Had some fun with a GT3RS: https://youtu.be/RQt0jvBQ4nk

We'll be at Claysemore Supercars on Sunday if anyone is going, otherwise our next trip is to the Ring again in 3 weeks

[custardkid]

ecain63 said:

Talking of Castle Combe......

BHP were running their last ever trackday so I decided to brave the bumps and head over for a morning of fun. I've done Combe before and if I'm honest I didn't really like it. Yesterday changed that!. We had perfect weather, quiet laps and great company. Unfortunately there was no tog on site but I did get some vids

Last lap of the day was a nice one: https://youtu.be/u3UqE5pxfjM

Had some fun with a GT3RS: https://youtu.be/RQt0jvBQ4nk

We'll be at Claysemore Supercars on Sunday if anyone is going, otherwise our next trip is to the Ring again in 3 weeks

Combe is great, would have joined you. My usual group are too frightened of its reputation

[keo]

Good to know you passed the noise test at CC I was asked to do a td there but I thought I’d fail the noise test. So never bothered to book, it’s full now apparently! Oh well.