Scottish Elises

I don't really want to take the car to Murrays for its MOT anyone know anyone who's MOTd their liz before and not jacked it up on the fibre glass or asked if it was a diesel?

How about near Edinburgh?

When I was at Uni in edinburgh, I used to take my smart to Thistle Motors on the Gorgie Road.

But only cos they did a voucher thing in the free paper that made MOT's 19.95.

Does Brunty do MOT's ?

Maybe he could recommend someone.

Manor Garage in West Linton (15 minutes down the A702 from the bypass) are worth a try. They have done my Elise and Westfield in the past, and regularly service older Loti including Elans and Esprits, and the odd VX220. I use them for servicing/MOT work on my sensible car too (Ford Focus). They are a father and son outfit - good, reliable guys to deal with.

Mark

Excellent, I'll give them a call - I remember somebody else recommending them for a service too. Cheers.

Took it to Manor garage car passed first time. Friendly and helpful guys. Little further away that expected but was a good drive!

ryallm wrote:Manor Garage in West Linton (15 minutes down the A702 from the bypass) are worth a try. They have done my Elise and Westfield in the past, and regularly service older Loti including Elans and Esprits, and the odd VX220. I use them for servicing/MOT work on my sensible car too (Ford Focus). They are a father and son outfit - good, reliable guys to deal with.

Mark

Anyone else taken their elise to them ? I am in need of a service soon and with Brunty concentrating on track days ...

Ewan Rutherford @ Monktonhall garage, 2 minutes outside Edinburgh near Musselburgh. He does Ferrari, BMW, Lotus, everything nice.

Fully recommend him.

Or a bit further afield, Chris Allen @ Linton Services, East Linton (20 mins down the A1).

Again, fully recommend him.

ewan

PS what decat ?

Any indication of pricing on work you had done ?

When I had my MGF, Monktonhall Garage did the headgasket and 48k service (inc. cambelts) for £700ish which I thought was a fair price.

Had a C service and general check over (to notify of anything that might need doing soon) by Linton Services done a couple of weeks ago for £140ish.

ewan

ewanrw wrote:

PS what decat ?

It's what French cars have between de manifold and de tail pipe and helps to remove toxic gasses from de exhaust


Mac


PS: It's the process of removing the catalitic converter, for track days only

ryallm wrote:Manor Garage in West Linton ... regularly service older Loti including Elans and Esprits, and the odd VX220. Mark

Mark, are you calling my car odd?

Just registered to add some feedback for Manor Garage. They've been servicing and maintaining my VX for the last 5 years (2.2 and now VXT). I'm back next month getting the balljoints replaced, nylatron bushes and adjustable ARB fitted, and the geometry reset since fitting 2-way adjustable Nitrons.

What sort of prices you getting as I got a massive quote for what is essentially very little work so I am led to believe. Matrix change and brake fluid change.

SP

Gordon mentioned somewhere else a friend of his with a garage(grangemouth i think). sounds like it might be worth a shot.