Help !!! car problems

Edin430 · Post by **Edin430** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:41 pm

j2 lot wrote:if its a Lotus warranty you get AA cover with it, should also cover hire car for 48 hours. Keith

This the one i have which is Abraxus i think??

meatball · Post by **meatball** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:56 pm

The warranty is 2yrs but only AA cover for 1........unless I'm wrong!

I usually am!

j2 lot · Post by **j2 lot** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:37 pm

AA cover for 2 years on mine used last month at 18 months and got hire car. Extended cover put on by MMC also has breakdown cover ( think AA too). Keith

Jamie84 · Post by **Jamie84** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:40 pm

based in barrhead , glasgow.

Went for quick spin tonight(no more than 1 mile) and no more oil is coming from underneath (prob cause most is on my garage floor ) everything seems fine , brake, clutch . Got the car booked in to lotus on friday . Probably a good thing this has happened cause i promised myself i would get the car a check over by lotus as soon as i got it ,then extend the warrenty , but to be honest having so much fun i prob wouldnt have wanted to give them it for few months yet !

anyway turns out i aint covered for AA....so i need a low loader for friday barrhead to edinburgh anyone recommend someone ?

also on another note , passed by the old lotus garage at kinning park glasgow today ..noticed 2 lotus elises parked outside(not for sale) does this crysler garage by anychance still do work on lotus ?

thaks guys !

j2 lot · Post by **j2 lot** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:47 pm

No afraid they don't - edinburgh only. Absolute pain cos it was so easy to drop car off in the mornin - subway into work and collect at end of day. Last time I was htere they did still have a Lotus for sale but that was prob best part of a year ago.Keith

meatball · Post by **meatball** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:52 am

j33ama wrote:based in barrhead , glasgow.

Went for quick spin tonight(no more than 1 mile) and no more oil is coming from underneath (prob cause most is on my garage floor ) everything seems fine , brake, clutch . Got the car booked in to lotus on friday . Probably a good thing this has happened cause i promised myself i would get the car a check over by lotus as soon as i got it ,then extend the warrenty , but to be honest having so much fun i prob wouldnt have wanted to give them it for few months yet !

anyway turns out i aint covered for AA....so i need a low loader for friday barrhead to edinburgh anyone recommend someone ?

also on another note , passed by the old lotus garage at kinning park glasgow today ..noticed 2 lotus elises parked outside(not for sale) does this crysler garage by anychance still do work on lotus ?

thaks guys !

Think officially they do still do work on Lotus.....but I'd rather stick my genitals into a beehive......take it to MMC Edinburgh, SLS or JPS.....the choice is yours!

I will need to check up on the recovery thingy for a 16month old car!

jj · Post by jj » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:55 am

meatball wrote: Think officially they do still do work on Lotus.....but I'd rather stick my genitals into a beehive......take it to MMC Edinburgh, SLS or JPS.....the choice is yours!

I will need to check up on the recovery thingy for a 16month old car!

Campbell, they dont touch them now - I went down last week whilst trying to find this elusive bolt and thats what the guy told me. Handy for us weegies, eh?

meatball · Post by **meatball** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:59 am

For all the good they were anyway!
But I won't go back into that.....woooo saaahhhhh!!!

JJ....any ideas whether my car still gets uplifted FOC or whether that expired after a year?

jj · Post by jj » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:02 pm

meatball wrote:For all the good they were anyway!
But I won't go back into that.....woooo saaahhhhh!!!

JJ....any ideas whether my car still gets uplifted FOC or whether that expired after a year?

No idea squire - I never had cause to use it and didnt even know that you got breakdown cover free!

meatball · Post by **meatball** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:03 pm

cheers anyway....

Jamie84 · Post by **Jamie84** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:44 pm

had someone with bit more knowledge look at my car today , just incase it was somthing silly to save me sending it to edinburgh . Guy said car is losing gearbox oil and that gearbox will prob have to come out . So its off to lotus monday morning ....costing me 150 quid to hire lowloader

you would think MMC could pick me car up or summit

robin · Post by **robin** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:33 pm

You really should join either AA or RAC - then "breakdown" outside ASDA's or something, saying "I came back to my car and discovered a pool of oil under it". Then they'll tow it to the nearest sensible garage - in this case, MMC Edinburgh.

Cheers,
Robin