Irritating niggles-again

[simpo555]

Is this what Lotus ownership is all about. Huge pleasure for short periods of time interrupted by stupid and possibly costly niggles. Today the cooling fans started to make a noise like a leaf or piece of paper has got stuck between the fan and radiator. In addition the drivers side window gets stuck having closed 80%. Something blocking the mechanism but couldnt identify the source with my untrained eye. More than irritating, particularly as I still have the steering rack to replace. This having spent the most pleasant of afternoons out and about on a nice sunny day, blasting through the French countryside on roads to be enjoyed.

[Exige77]

Welcome to Lotus Ownership.

Hopefully the good times will outweigh the problems.

Ex77

[The Pits]

sorry to hear you have gremlins in France too

my experience was that there were a few annoying things to sort but once done (properly) it has been faultless. Long may it continue.

I guess the major annoyance for you is the distance to your nearest dealer, who I hope are good. Not being able to fix a niggle is far more irritating than the niggle in the first place.

I can only imagine you've had an amazing few months over there. Great roads, uncongested roads, hardly any police or speed cameras - bliss!

[zippyprorider]

open all the vents, mine did what u describe and it was leaves caught behind the closed vents, crazy but sound bloody dreadful.

Andy

[simpo555]

zippyprorider said:

open all the vents, mine did what u describe and it was leaves caught behind the closed vents, crazy but sound bloody dreadful.

Andy

Thanks for that one, Ill give it a try. Its should be something really silly like that.

[Cotty]

simpo555 said:

Is this what Lotus ownership is all about. Huge pleasure for short periods of time interrupted by stupid and possibly costly niggles.

I hope not. Hope you sort your niggles.

[Handbag]

The window sticking is nearly always a loose screw interfering with the window guide. The screw can usually be accessed with the window fully down without removing the door card etc:
http://wiki.seloc.org/a/Window_Problems

[simpo555]

Handbag said:

The window sticking is nearly always a loose screw interfering with the window guide. The screw can usually be accessed with the window fully down without removing the door card etc:
http://wiki.seloc.org/a/Window_Problems

Fixed the window in two minutes once I found the offending screw. Amazing as I got charged £35 the last time it happened! Radiator cooling fan still noisyish despite opening the vents but I'll bide my time for the moment.