Haydon Daytune - Bust
Discussion
Yes they have gone into Liquidation as far as I tell from the letter I recieved yestruday - I think more than likely this is Lotus' doing as they have pulled all orders from underneath them, I for one am now thinking - why should I give even more money to Lotus? I will most likely lose some of my deposit in the liquidation and then have to pay it again to Lotus if I want a sodding M250- Well I think Lotus can get knotted I want my money back I am going else where.... I hope they go bust as their customer relations are going down hill extremly rapidly.....
Hmmm.. from what I hear the problem started at Haydon - I believe that the
deposits for cars were not being tracked (spent?) so when Lotus reduced
their allocation of cars, they suddenly had a cash flow problem.
The creditors meeting is on the 10th,
so we should hopefully find out more then.
This is very sad. Haydon gave such excellent service, where am I going to take my elise when it needs servicing/sticking back together?
If anyone knows a good dealer that can look after the car please get in touch.
It is surprising that it is Lotus's biggest UK dealers that are going bust. Haydon's dealership was always busy. How are Lotus' other dealers going to survive?
Haydon in Sals - can now get most proper Lotus parts much cheaper by going to the offical Manufacturer of the part. Eg. driving lamps for an Exige/elise are around a third of the normal dealer price!.
I need to correct myself I believe they are around £70 each as opposed to 120 - which is still a good saving.
Edited by guysh on Thursday 14th June 09:27
I don't think Ted likes people advertising on his site without previous permission - anyway you fail to see my point I was meerly pointing out that if anyone wants parts for their cars they can probably get them cheaper there than any Offical Lotus dealership as they are bound by contract get over priced parts from Lotus...
Voicing our opinons of dealerships etc is one thing but dealerships advertsing themselves in an owners forum is completly another....
p.s. slightly more seriously...give the guy a break - probably doesnt realise its bad etiquette! Lotus appear to have been suckered into making the VX220 on the promise that they would get a nicy shiny GBP40m manufacturing facility for making their cars, i.e. they would have somewhere to make the Elise S2 etc. GM got their cars (some of them anyway) and Lotus got apparently nothing appart from a lot of bad press and speculation as to their future.
The brand still has considerable value and their is a lot if expertise at Hethel that the Automotive Corporates would like to have. If Lotus do fall over it may not be GM given previous history, it could be Ford, who knows, time will tell.
Given the relative silence out of Lotus maybe even an MBO. The management and board structures appear to be all over the place so perhaps an MBO might be opportune as no one seems to have their eye on the ball.
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