What are the common problems on Elise?

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Hi, Everyone

My name is Soo fr Malaysia. The reason why i have this thot is becoz i like would to buy an elise but i would like to know izit hard to maintain the car?
FYI, now i’m only driving a BMW ALPINA 318(M)

What are the problems on an Elise?

Your advice is appreciates


Thank you

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Hi Soo.

I haven’t had my Lotus long enough to advise.

Just thought I’d say what a wonderful country you live in.

I’ve been to Malaysia a lot on business and holiday and love the country.

Mainly stay in KL but have also been up to Pangkor Laut.
Also went to the F1 at Sepang a few years back. Amazing circuit. Schumacher won as usual.

Have you got the roads to do a Lotus justice? Lots of motorway out of town, lots of traffic jams in town?

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Hi, Black240

Thanks for your replied.

Do u come here often. Maybe i can bring u where we normally speed. In terms of town drive is very heavy traffic jams in morning & evening but at nite is not tat bad.
There are a lot of Lotus here but they don’t have a forum/club. So i can’t do my research on the car. whenever come to track day at Sepang there will be a lot of Lotus but not like UK. On the track day everyone is busy preparing for their car no time for me to do research. Well i would said the car is very fast and is really built for TRACK. Love it so much

At last founded this forum I hope i can get more information on the car so that in future i can manage/maintain the car well…

Thank you

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I think you’ll find an Elise quite easy to look after, as there’s lots of books and advice on the Internet.

However, whilst we’re a friendly helpful bunch, I think you’d probably get better advice talking to a more general Lotus site, whose focus is less on one or two types of high-performance Elise variant (i.e. the Exige).

Ian

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Thank you, IAN

Do u have anys website so tat i can browse on the Net

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www.seloc.org has some very knowledgeable people on Elises but they can be a bit rude some times. Searching its pages is bound to give LOADS of information though (much like there I suppose, just we’re more about the Exige).

Ian

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If you’re looking for S2/Toyota information, elisetalk is a good place for info, although the cars we get here in the States have some minor differences to meet our reg.s.

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There is a thriving Asian Elise community at http://elise.pinkcore.com/.

Good luck!

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Thank you everyone…thanks for all your advice and info

Everyone here are very friendly…GOOD FORUM…

APPRECIATED