New supplier for the Lotus Elan Hood

[johnbenk]

Hi

See Below BAS in Wales. web site from Monty lot of different colours. Click on the picture of the Lotus Elan to get the colours and prices.
telephone 01633873664.

Bas International Ltd,10-13 Llatarnan Park Industrial Estate, CWMBRAM
South Wales, NP 443AX

Hope this is of use to someone rather than TRIM TECH. Cost is £358 any colour including VAT. They are made in MOHAIR

[Monty]

http://www.bas-international.com/content.php?nID=2&cID=24&pID=289

always good to have an alternative

[Sy V]

This is where I got my green hood from a few years back when Trim Technology we're out of the picture:

http://www.autohoods.co.uk/list_lotus.htm

[johnbenk]

Hi

Where did you have it fitted? Also did you have to have fitted a new header rail seal. BAS only seem to supply S2 Hoods, Your car appears
to be an SE not S2. I have just replaced the header rail seal in mine. Hood at moment is in good condition, but for anyone wanting to change their hood to a different colour and are a "newbie" your advices would be very much appreciated.

Cheers

JBK

[Sy V]

They use a sub-contractor to fit their hoods. All seals came from Trim Technology.

Esher Sunroof and Autohoods
34 Wellington Crescent
New Malden
Surrey KT3 3NE

[kmckmc]

Can we change the hood without replacing new seals, especially the header seal? Will taking off the old hood damage the seals?

Cheers,

[Neil D.]

Nobody notice the black LHD in the advert ???

These hoods actually reach Greece ?

Neil

[Gary]

John,
I expect you can no longer get SE hoods. S2 hoods are a fine replacement. They are just an improved version of the SE one. Should fit no problems.

I can't comment about the seals.

[Monty]

Can we change the hood without replacing new seals, especially the header seal? Will taking off the old hood damage the seals?

Cheers,

I changed the roof on Pinky 1 (pig of a job) and u have to destroy the header seal to remove the old fabric, the other seals are fine.

The weird thing is the previous owner of Pinky II had the roof replaced (not Trim tec) and they never replaced the header seal Don`t know how they managed that.

[PaulN]

Hi

See Below BAS in Wales. web site from Monty lot of different colours. Click on the picture of the Lotus Elan to get the colours and prices.
telephone 01633873664.

Bas International Ltd,10-13 Llatarnan Park Industrial Estate, CWMBRAM
South Wales, NP 443AX

Hope this is of use to someone rather than TRIM TECH. Cost is £358 any colour including VAT. They are made in MOHAIR

Just for info,

This Company does Boxster Hoods, with alot of very good feed back, i believe there is a few companys around the uk that do Bas hoods too.

Cheers

PaulN

[philip_sloper]

I tried contacting BAS www.bas-international.com , they quoted £358 excluding seals and fitting.

Seals are £352 from Trim Technologies.

I also tried Aldridge Trimming www.aldridge.co.uk who quoted £629 supply and fit but again without seals.

So I ended up buying the hood & seals from Trim Technology for £500: www.lotuselancentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8172

[Ekapol]

Just so we could have a more complete list. CabrioWorld.

Many colour from this company in 2 types of fabric to choose from, Stayfast and Sonnendecke ($493) (Original)
MORE HOODs

Anybody know the difference between each type of fabric? Is Mohair better than Sonnendecke?