What did you do to your Lotus today...

[alanr]

Well I painted my Knob and Connolised my steering wheel!!

Just wondering what you painted your Knob with?

Thanks,

Alan.

[TBG]

Three coats Ronseal outdoor waterproof clear varnish. Ace stuff! After about 200k miles and 35 years my knob was looking very tired..................

[alanr]

Yes my knob is also very tired and certainly needs some rejuvenating so giving it likewise treatment should improve things.

Alan

[baileyman]

It is six hours to install a Tillett seat.

John

[Spyder fan]

It is six hours to install a Tillett seat.

John

A toilet seat in your Lotus

Is this a modification or an original feature?

[Barney]

It is six hours to install a Tillett seat.

John

A toilet seat in your Lotus

Is this a modification or an original feature?

Most probably bog standard (sorry but had to!)

[Spyder fan]

Is this it?

[Mazzini]

You're just taking the p*ss.

[mbell]

Fixed my low fuel warning light. One of the connections had failed so had solder in a length of wire to replace a rivet.

Hopefully I won't run it out if fuel again now...

[Quart Meg Miles]

Rediscovered the power of T-Cut! Weeks ago I dropped brake fluid on the bonnet and it dribbled before I noticed it. Nothing seemed to touch the scar until, today, I tried some 30 year old T-Cut and it's gone!

I was so chuffed that I tried it on a tar stain which hadn't shifted for years and that dissolved instantly, as did all the heavy gouges from hedges on the passenger side! I can't believe how clean it looks.

MoT is due so I checked all the lights and found that the reversing lamp was dead (which isn't a test failure); it's not standard and had blown the fuse I'd fitted. I couldn't find a reason with a meter so replaced it and it works, but the switch and fuse are under the gear lever gaiter and I'd removed the centre console for better access. Finding the corner of the console was splitting I taped the outside in position and fibre-glassed the inside and the 2017 resin dried perfectly. Result!

[billwill]

You have noticed the gel coat star crack in the photo, I hope?

[TBG]

If it has not got gel star cracks it isn't an Elan - at least one that is used and not a queen.............

[david.g.chapman]

I tracked down an irritating noise on my +2 - an intermittent hooting noise I could hear behind the dash when the engine was idling. There were no owls around and the sound was not linked to engine speed.

After weeks of looking and tightening everything up I happened to touch the rubber fuel pipe to my Profuel regulator. The pipe would vibrate for every hoot! As soon as I touched the pressure setting knob the noise stopped I stripped down the regulator but could find nothing wrong - I think the adjustment knob was not seated correctly on the pressure setting. The Profuel regulator has knob detent settings every 0.5 psi from 0.5 to 5, and you push it in to change the setting. The knob then pops out like a gas hob tap for each setting.

So don't give up if you have an peculiar noise issue - it's in there somewhere!

Dave Chapman.

[Spyder fan]

You have noticed the gel coat star crack in the photo, I hope?

That’s nothing....normal sort of stuff on an Elan

This is a proper Gel crack and perhaps reason for concern

[TBG]

Love it!!