Scottish Elises

Working windows again then [emoji41]

Great recovery, Victor! [emoji41]

Some of us have a while to wait … [emoji15]

Love the LoT days.

Need to wait til James is 21 unfortunately. Boo. [emoji22]

Good luck Julien!

We fixed a broken wire for our VW T5 camper in a similar situation [emoji1303]

Still tell stories of that trip

Legendary

In the diary.

Thanks John. 27th year organising these?!

I’m finding it depends more on the age of your vehicle.

And whether it’s a Lotus or not [emoji1787]

Uncle Craig will know

a) what’s failed
b) how to open the car without WMDs
c) what needs done to fix

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lol Andy

Just love the Anglesey vibe. Probably will arrange to join an alternative day there some time and get James along too.

Not in my case, no. I’ve gone with upgraded bulbs from the Osram Nightbreaker range. Not sure if available in France? They are not higher power (watts), just slightly whiter I think. On my Elise - “S3” from 2013 - the light clusters are a little different, but altering the height / alignment of the ...

Couldn’t bring myself to mention the Cuuntyman … but Ian, you do make good points. And a positive user report too!

Great shortlist Ignore 4wd as a criterion And all-season tyres (eg Michelin CrossClimate) are a fine compromise for cold / wet / snow if you don’t want to juggle a set is spare rims for full winters. You’re nearly there! You may notice the space diffs between Polo-Golf, Swift-Yeti. And Clubman is go...

These are good additions.

Drawn up your test drive list yet, then?!

Super shout, Ross

My Mum had a Swift (prev gen I think) with some lovely fake carbon bits, gangsta glass, CarPlay, peppy engine and great chassis.

1.2 dualjet I think.

Yeti - had two, good shout, but brothers has been more troublesome than others MINI - clubman is a good shout. Reliable enough ? Budget ? £5k ? Ours was super. Sadly the (same type of) Peugeot-sourced engine in our more recent Cooper hatch let us down badly but there are prob checks you can do on t...