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In my case the Infotainment screen appeared completely dead - but actually seemed to be tied to the ambient light sensor turning off the back-light on the tablet (100% off). Going from Bright light into a dark underground garage, it suddenlty came on again with an audible relay sound, after...

Hi @Bancho, thank you for the kind offer and as the others have said a very classy response. :) Given the effort you have gone to to get these organised, not to mention the costs involved I would not want to see you out of pocket. While it is a different colour to that expected, it is still a...

Yes just literally got mine in the mail this morning and similar to @DriverMod above it appears to be the darker of the two tan options discussed earlier (the camera is trying to even out the colours and it is even darker in reality compared to the leather Interior) So unfortunately while it...

I had raised similar concerns with the local dealer. The rendering of folders and the files within them is problematic. Folders appear to be in read order rather than alphabetic, while file order within the folder is alphabetic (I have added the number as a prefix to the filename). I haven't...

Thanks for organising this! It was great to put some faces to names :-) and to get some insight into people's experience with the car so far.

Any news on a Tan leather fob? Were they able to give an idea how close it is to the OEM leather colour?

This was an unusual one and would be interested if anyone else has had something similar. Backing out of the garage this morning and the Infotainment screen suddenly went black - on close inspection the screen image was still there and it appears that the backlight had turned off - adjusting...

Given he is able to do the Electre fob in the Tan leather any chance of a Tan Emira Key fob rather than the Black leather? [update] Sorry posted this before seeing the subsequent posts about the possibility of a later batch. Would be interested in a couple of Tan ones if it was close to the OEM

Yes the bottom is definitely wider (by about 2-3 cm) as shown in these less than scientific measurements

Unfortunately our APAC user manual is different than the UK/European manual so would need to see if we can get it printed locally. This might be a dumb question, but is there any copy-write issues with mass printing a published work from PDF?

Cool will be there! BTW When is the next Lotus Club Australia event? Conversely a simple "Emira Owners & Fans" get-together would also be a go-er drill into each others experience to date, especially for us new to the brand. (based on the thread so far, Northern Sydney would be the...

Is that going to be Sunday 4th of Feb? If so let me know the details (St Ives Show ground, starting when? - Is there a cafe there or it's bring your own coffee, in a LOTUS travel mug of course).

You are correct the Android Automative settings does specify the ability to disable the wireless connection in Android Auto. However when I toggled the option, it physically unpaired the phone - hence could not use it for the native phone app or for music etc from my phone. Conversely as soon...

Yes unfortunately LOTUS decided to remove the Nav from the Australian spec, even after demoing a car with the functionality. Hence a number of us only found out either after the fact or just before taking delivery. The subsequent feedback was that the NAV was only to be available in the UK...

Given its the new year and there is starting to be a few of us here in Sydney and surrounds, it might be a nice idea to follow in our UK brethren's steps, and start having a monthly social Coffee & Chin-wag Anyone up for it? Suggestions for location? (Somewhere with a good Cafe and carpark)...

If only we had the navigation in the Australian Spec :) I'm hoping we get some OTA update that will fix the usability of the Infotainment system (simple things like folders in alphabetical order, or remembering the mp3 you are playing would be nice...)

I have had issues with the infotainment system since picking up the car, with one of the most annoying being the inability for the native phone app to sync my contacts from the phone - attempting to synch the phone simply resulted in a "synch error" message. I had tried numerous times over the...

I was concerned seeing those videos, but in reality it has not been a problem. After drives of 3-4 hours, the boot is not hot by any means. Having had tote-bags and briefcase/laptop in the boot, they have been mildly warm on the surface after a long drive, but nothing sufficient to heat up...

When I had the PPF done on the car pre-delivery, the place that did it was now using a newer PPF that came with a ceramic layer on the PPF itself and they subsequently talked me out of doing the separate ceramic coat over the PPF - which is what I had originally intended. So while you can get a...

Sorry might be a dumb question, but the Emira is the first car I've ever bothered to get PPF (full car). Is it OK to still do the the Snow-Foam thing and subsequent rinse with a pressure washer (lowest setting) or is it back to hand-washing with a bucket? Also any thoughts on the appropriate...

I am trying to understand the reported TARE weight of the car (Road Tax) and based on my initial registration form, there does appear to be a typo - which had pushed the car significantly into the next tax bracket. Based on the Manual the unladen weight of the car = 1493 Kgs As such I was...

Any idea what that distance might be? The car is in the garage the other side of the wall to my home office so kicking off the electrics because I happen to be at my desk 2 metres away sounds like a good way to run down the battery

Begs the question of what is too fast? I would normally unlock the car as I come up to it and subsequently open the door. Also in this case the fan was running at absolute max and would not react to any HVAC controls. Thankfully it does not appear to have happened again, though as you say...

I had a similar issue the day I picked up the car last week from the dealership. That is, having driven it home I opened the car door several hours later and the fans kicked in at typhoon strength (it did not respond to any buttons presses to turn them off). I eventually had to turn the car...

On a completely orthogonal topic. I am trying to load my contacts into the phone app in the infotainment system and the synch continually fails with the message to enable contact synch on my phone. Unfortunately the slim Infotainment guide does not actually cover getting contacts into the...

Very interesting! Thanks for doing the research! There are certainly several GPS systems for Android Automotive, but obviously it would needed to be skinned etc. It sounded from the response from Hethel that it was technically possible, they just screwed up with the contract and kept it...

Excellent Thank you so much! The local dealer was adamant it could not be done. In truth the only documentation they gave us was a quick start guide (50 Pages in total) so I have been struggling through the interface (envy the folks who got the entire 280+ page user guide - I'm going to...

For those who have cars (outside Australia) could you let me know what is the Tare Weight (Kerb weight) of your car? I am struggling to find the official declared weight of the V6 FE. The various global reviews have it between 1430-1485 Kg, while local dealers are claiming 1586kg (ie...

I actually raised the Android Automotive angle with the local dealer and to their credit they took it up the chain. LOTUS HQ came back and stated that it would cost to much to re-contract and have it put back in (and passed the buck to Android Auto). Virtually everyone so far on the forum that...

DAB is readily available here so difficult to understand why, when other low volume sales cars have it (and budget cars), they removed it. Unless they are using very old DAB hardware (ie not DAB+) then it would be compatible here. From a GPS data perspective, Geospatial data is made...

DAB is becoming more widely available here in Sydney and the fact that the car has it physically available as a feature, and importantly it was presented as a feature in the sales material (as was the GPS) makes it removal bizarre.

No we are not comparing the Lotus to a Kia! Only that these come with these functions, while in the Australian Spec Emira these have actively been removed (even the Oz data is readily available so that is not an excuse). It is one thing to not have the functionality at all in the model...

While I can't complain about the quality of sound coming from the KEFs there has been a number of changes to the Infotainment features - ie they have simply been removed from the Australian Spec. Without going into details of the somewhat astounding responses by the HQ team, I'd be...

I had the whole car PPF'd pre-delivery and it was organised by SSC. The firm that did it was "ProtectMyCar" and they were happy to show me around their workshop in Sydney and go over the film they use. Overall ( and take into account this is the first car I have had PPF'd) they seem to have...

I'm coming from a manual TT so it is definitely more notchy than that, but something I'll get used to. It feels more stiff than the various Emiras I've driven so far (test drives, driving academy), but I would put this down to the running in period. If you like driving "stick" it is rewarding...

Unfortunately the drive way is centered between the garage doors and tapers inwards from the edge of the garage doors to the road, with 50cm high hedges on both sides. Also the mirrors only miss the brickwork by about 10-15cm on both sides I'm not sure I trust my reversing around the curve in...