I recently bought an Elise 111R from a recognised seller of many of these cars. The thing is that the car has aircon (1st mistake possibly) and it doesn't work. It has also always had chatter from the front end so, after getting a bit inquisitive about this I sent it to a Lotus dealer.
Truth is I need to fix the condenser as it is banging around under the clam creating the chatter and has damaged the radiator where it has corroded.
The aircon radiator/condenser has corroded but also corroded the engine's radiator where it attaches to it so to replace the condenser only - front clam off job,
Cooling radiator only - £798+VAT = £1000
But also the sill pipes have corroded (obviously - this does happen on Lotus') so I can replace these too with the main corroded radiator also (with a race one - aluminium) which will fix the aircon totally -
Main radiator, Sill pipes = £993+VAT = £1240
Total job to fix aircon on a plastic car £2240.
What actually sounds right about this if anything?
Not overly happy - what would you all do apart from set fire to it?
