Lotus Elan Central

by **Specky** » Thu 18.11.2010, 22:57

Tried a different way tonight...

fill with a bit of warm water...

fill a syringe with water and jet it in the hole, but then you can sqidge it back and forth

keep adding water as and when required

It seemed to work well...

by **Specky** » Wed 09.02.2011, 17:25

Yesterday I was a phesual boy...

Let me set the seen...

Ovlov V70

The petrol cap access door seems slightly a jar, the bloomin thing is unlocked.

One blip on the key fob and the car locks itself, but the petrol cap access door remains open.

I went on to remove the trim and panels and gained access to this elusive solenoid locking beast, quick as a flash nipped over to the 850 and did the same again ( I know that one works)

Put it all back together..... And nothing...

I then Decided to read the manual... Turns out there's a 10 minute delay so you can lock your car and undertake a refuel. It also locks the moment you turn the ignition key... Bloody clever the Sweedish....

TTFN

by **BFG in the BRG** » Fri 04.03.2011, 22:24

OK, I feel the urge to join this club so I have a couple.

1) having spent 4 abortive attempts at changing the timing belt (due to having to acquire the correct size sockets, spammers and Allen keys, I finally got to the last two bolts, the one which clamp the cam belt tensioner, funny star- shaped bolts, which I assumed (wrongly) were Torx bolts, - they weren't they were normal bolts which apparently Lotus Lotus put extra teeth on because they needed to be tightened up so much, imagine my glee when I rounded off the bolt at goes through the idler pulley. After a quick question on LEC, I was given the option of weld a nut on the bolt ( no welder) or Grind it off with a Dremmel.

Stupidity rating 8/10
Cost £85.00 ( Dremmel + bolts-well it was atop of range one)

2) whilst replacing the weather strips I decided to replace the screws with SS, , as I tightened the screws up I heard a crack, and assumed this to be OK, imagine my joy when I realised I had used too- long screws and I now had 5 screw ends protruding through the door skin.

Stupidity rating 100/10
Cost £10 - paint kit plus 3 days work filling, painting and lacquering in the winter, plus the screw holes still show if you know where to look ( which I do)

hey hum, we live and learn ;-)