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My car lived outside for over a year and I've had no issues with the doors as of yet. It's one of the first UK i4s and going by the first service reminder I think it was built late 2023 (before the type approval delay). It has now transitioned to living in the garage as of a couple of months...

The How Many Left website has recently been updated, UK Emira figures as of the end of 2024: Emira FE Auto (i4): 370 all time registered 370 newly registered in 2024 350 Licensed 9 on SORN (11 unaccounted for) Emira V6 FE: 1096 all time registered 121 newly registered in 2024 927 Licensed 94...

Blackcircles has the LTS tyres available in both Goodyear & Michelin flavours: Front: link Rear: link Asda tyres has the LTS tyres available in Michelins Front: link Rear: link With respect to the Michelins they seem to be Cup 2s from Asda and Cup 2 Connects from Blackcircles. In both cases...

Had my car on display amongst other Lotus models at Locomotion in Shildon today.

A nice photo of my car has been posted on Facebook by Croft Circuit, taken during the track parade at the car show they had there just under a month ago. Heard lots of compliments about the colour during the day, love how it pops on a sunny day! (the track parade might only have reached a...

Usually the quickest way to tell is to look at the side vents, if you see the mesh covering part of them then its an i4, a lot easier than peering through the privacy glass on the rear!

Welcome! Good to hear of another i4 in the North East (I'm in the Durham area), think the official term is Turbo these days, but I've referred to it as the i4 for so long it's a hard habit to break (sorry BMW... ;) ) I'd agree some sort of NE dealership would be helpful, or even just a service...

The DV car was mine. The HY one is indeed a V6, but mine's an i4.

Took the car out for a post winter blast up into Northumberland and got a few pics at a vantage point overlooking Kielder Water.

Overlooking Kielder Water in Northumberland

Keeping it in Tour only for the first 1000 miles has been present in the manual for all i4 cars (it was added in to the manual at the same time as the i4). It wasn't present in the manual when the manual just covered the V6 (where there was no drive mode restriction). I believe it was added in...

There's still no exemplar fixed price service costs for the i4 on the Lotus website Like Andy I also qualified for the free service plan and this will likely be the case for most if not all the early cars so it may be a while still before there is any indication of how individual service costs...

It has been mentioned before that Lotus have been referring to the 4cyl car internally as the Emira Turbo for quite some time now, essentially since they stopped using the i4 designation following complaints from BMW.

Not in the central panel, but it is possible to get some navigation directions fed through from Android Auto as a small icon on the right hand side of the drivers display. (Carplay may be the same, but don't have experience to say either way) I can't remember exactly how you get to it (and...

The Eletre is certainly helping Lotus out here, as per DVLA registration figures (which I posted here) there were more Eletres (322) registered in the first half of 2024 than Emiras (280). Neither of which are huge numbers of course, but at least there shouldn't be an additional whammy of...

You can use the phone app to use your phone instead of the physical tag, could be worth trying that instead to see if it stops the alerts.

Not really much to show, nothing too obvious except at the corner of the door.

The 4k rev limit is in both versions of the running in procedure (in the UK owners manual). However, it's not a hard limit, it just says the engine shouldn't be run continuously over 4k rpm and indeed in both variants says that short bursts at higher throttle will be beneficial. I'm guessing...

Yes, on my car the sections do butt up to one another, see below.

I had mine PPF'd at the Leeds branch of Topaz (there will be other branches closer to you but still a bit of a trek), was happy with the job they did and they gave me the option to take the car back in after a month so they could check for any issues with the install. They also warranty the...

Sorry to ruin your excitement but it's actually dark verdant.

If it helps, although I don't have definitive information my UK i4 was built a similar time last year (MY23 VIN, service indicator came on in August), but due to the UK type approval delays I didn't get my car until end of March this year. 4k miles in and I've not had any major issues so far.

I've not had any recall work done on my car, but I've not checked to see if anything is due as it is 2h to the dealer for me so not exactly the work of a moment to take it in. I'm pretty sure there was indeed a pause in manufacture, mine has a MY23 VIN whereas others with March cars have a MY24...

I'd guess some of them could be but also probably could be due to things like eg. 2nd hand cars in showrooms, cars that have been written off etc.