ITS FCKD AGAIN!!

[lotustuart]

MIL Light came on the other night, it drove fine all the way home. Got there, checked the usuals oil water etc, and oil was a bit low well when I say a bit it took 2litres to top it up (its only supposed to have 4 to start with!!!) Mrs LS took the car to work the next day and it just coughed and spluttered. AA called, no ideas, so its sat in the in laws garage wait to be trailered up to Sportomotive on Wednesday!

Seriously concidering getting rid of it now!**

• For another one obviously!!

[TIPPER]

Sorry to hear mate. 0nly two litres of oil in the sump

[Pied Piper]

I know your pain, mine had a replacement secondhand engine in September due to HGF ing up the old one, less than 700 miles later head gasket gone on this one.

Testing my patience and my bank balance at this time.

[Gooby]

Pah - HGF!?
You guys want a real engine, then you can have some real issues.


Mumble fekkin mumble

[cheekymonkey]

Sorry to hear the news Stu... hope it's nothing too major & gets resovled quickly!

[boobles]

Its such a shame that we all seem to have problems from time to time with our Elises/Exiges & im seriously hoping that most of theses problems have been ironed out on later models! If not then shame on you Lotus!!!!!!!!!!

[Jez49]

Arse!

Bad luck Stuart - when you drop it off you can park it next to mine - the one that had a missfire and now has a new engine in! Come to think of it you can collect it for me and drive it to Bournemouth - I'll be easy to spot when you get there, I'm the bloke in thread bare clothes, living on the streets with an empty wallet!

Jez (Oh the sound of the violins!)

[NathanE]

boobles said:

Its such a shame that we all seem to have problems from time to time with our Elises/Exiges & im seriously hoping that most of theses problems have been ironed out on later models! If not then shame on you Lotus!!!!!!!!!!

They have... they use japanese engines nowadays. So now when the engine goes it goes out with a bang! None of this hairy fairy rubbish!

[lotustuart]

Jez49 said:

Arse!

Bad luck Stuart - when you drop it off you can park it next to mine - the one that had a missfire and now has a new engine in! Come to think of it you can collect it for me and drive it to Bournemouth - I'll be easy to spot when you get there, I'm the bloke in thread bare clothes, living on the streets with an empty wallet!

Jez (Oh the sound of the violins!)

No probs mate. I promise not to drive it too hard on the way home!

[Philygumbo]

Bad news mate! The problem with selling it is you get all the problems sorted, sell it to someone else, who then has trouble free motoring, and you get another and start again.

[MiniDiva]

Bugger! Not good news. I'm with Phil though, you could bet your bottom dollar (proabably all you'll have left) that as soon as you sell it, it doesn't have any other problems.
Maybe this issue is related to the last one - hopefully it will be sorted once and for all this time.

[lotustuart]

MiniDiva said:

Bugger! Not good news. I'm with Phil though, you could bet your bottom dollar (proabably all you'll have left) that as soon as you sell it, it doesn't have any other problems.
Maybe this issue is related to the last one - hopefully it will be sorted once and for all this time.

yeah I know your right its just really annoying! I hate not having it. Going in in the morning, but a mates looked at it and its burning lots of oil, possible split piston ring!? and still don`t know what the electrical problem is!?! This could get expensive, just before xmas! Handy!!

[Jez49]

Unfortunately mate that does sound a lot like broken compression rings, I had it on a tuned mini once. Is it pumping oil outta the engine breather pipes and chuffing out big clouds of oily smoke when driving along?

If it is the rings it could have been caused by prolongued very high revs, whatever the cause its head and sump off to replace them, the bores may well be fine tho - you'll have to run the engine in t bed in the new rings tho :-(

Jez

[lotustuart]

Jez49 said:

Unfortunately mate that does sound a lot like broken compression rings, I had it on a tuned mini once. Is it pumping oil outta the engine breather pipes and chuffing out big clouds of oily smoke when driving along?

If it is the rings it could have been caused by prolongued very high revs, whatever the cause its head and sump off to replace them, the bores may well be fine tho - you'll have to run the engine in t bed in the new rings tho :-(

Jez

great! Any clues to cost of the job?

[fatwomble]

bad luck, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

[Jez49]

Well Sportmotive quoted me £500 to do a head gasket change ang £650-750 for an engine change - thats why ive opted to dump the troublesome old engine.

I'd allow £500 for a HGF plus 2 - 3 extra hours @ £50 per hour to drop the sump, pop the pistons & con rods outta the top of the engine, change the rings, check the bores and pop them back in!

Jez

[ptp170]

lotustuart said:

Jez49 said:

Unfortunately mate that does sound a lot like broken compression rings, I had it on a tuned mini once. Is it pumping oil outta the engine breather pipes and chuffing out big clouds of oily smoke when driving along?

If it is the rings it could have been caused by prolongued very high revs, whatever the cause its head and sump off to replace them, the bores may well be fine tho - you'll have to run the engine in t bed in the new rings tho :-(

Jez

great! Any clues to cost of the job?

Do they still do the option of stepped top rings these days??

[MiniDiva]

Jez49 said:

I had it on a tuned mini once. Is it pumping oil outta the engine breather pipes and chuffing out big clouds of oily smoke when driving along?

Hmmm, sounds familiar....

[M7RT V]

Stu, buy a new lump and we'll have a engine fitting weekend round yours

[ptp170]

MiniDiva said:

Jez49 said:

I had it on a tuned mini once. Is it pumping oil outta the engine breather pipes and chuffing out big clouds of oily smoke when driving along?

Hmmm, sounds familiar....

/reminisces over the good old days.....thrown pistons, broken diff, broken diff casing, broken gearboxes, brake drums that needed adjusting every week, the brake drum adjuster tool that would never fit, leaking wheel cylinders, the exhaust manifold clamp blowing all the time, radiator leaks, HGF, valve seat failure, heater matrix leaking on the carpets, petrol tank corroding and filling the boot full of fuel, bend carb needle where the engine used to clip the bulkhead....

....like I said, the good old days