Scottish Elises

My tensioning cable has broken in my soft top..... got a quote for a new one - £115

Anyone replaced theirs for significantly cheaper?

Mone has been broken for some time. Learnt to live with it. Pretty sure someone did a DIY fix though.

I thought that was one of the the things they replaced when the softtop got refurbed

Sanjoy wrote:Mone has been broken for some time. Learnt to live with it. Pretty sure someone did a DIY fix though.

To be honest it's been broken for ages and I've DIY fixed it a few times - hardtop has been on over the winter but it has been removed for the rest of the year (hopefully) - so I thought I'd do it properly.... not for £115 though.

Don't they do that with the Lotus refurb anyway?

I should be getting my softtop back on Wednesday, it's been down to Lotus for a refurb, at a cost of less than 70 quid. If you can live without the roof for 4-6 weeks it's probably worth a shout.

I'll report back on what mine is like when I get it / I reckon someone has already put up pics of theres after a refurb.

Seen the cable on flee-bay a few times. Not for anywhere near that much.
Elise-shop http://www.elise-shop.com/index.php?mai ... cts_id=474

Mikie711 wrote:Seen the cable on flee-bay a few times. Not for anywhere near that much.
Elise-shop http://www.elise-shop.com/index.php?mai ... cts_id=474

That's a wee bit more like it - cheers (prob still make do with DIY job for now though)

DIY it and keep an eye on flea bay have definitely seen them on there from time to time

Lotus only change the tensioner cable to order, for £209 all-in as part of a refurb.

They only tidy up the stitching, replace the front header bar and the elastic retainers for the tails, for the £70 version of the service.

However the tensioner is a tricky job, I believe, and for what your roof gives you, I'd say it's worth the money to get it done right when it does let go. A new roof is several hundred pounds, if you were to screw it up