We own a 2024 V6 manual, as do close friends whom live nearby. A northern state dwelling relative recently visited our Florida home to compare our Emira driving experience vs. the C8 he was considering buying. After comparing both drives he bought a new I4 First Edition, wanting the auto gearbox so his wife could also drive it, and left it in our garage for now until the weather warms enough to take it home.
When he made the original test drive at the dealer he noticed the yellow triangle/exclamation point displayed but not being familiar with the car thought nothing of it, even though the salesman briefly fussed with the controls to source the problem.
Upon taking delivery the triangle was still there, he had the service department look at it and they declared there was a telematics issue and replaced an antenna and declared it fixed. The owner drive it for an hour before putting it in our garage before going home.
As directed by the owner I started the car several days later and the telematics alarm went off again then shut off, so I drove the car a couple of miles and got a brief fault warning that the left rear blinker had failed. Not long after that another warning about the right blinker failing came up then dissapeared. Over the next three times driving the car the telematics warning came up then disappeared the same with a blinker failure warning. On one of those trips the telematics light stayed on for the whole trip.
I made an appointment at the dealer to fix the problem and dutifully notified the owner.
Enroute to the dealer the taillight warning indicated two times then vanished.
The dealer eventually told us that there had been no codes recorded in the ecu, and they couldn’t figure out the problem and had to contact Lotus ( the taillight warnings popped up irregularly for them as well. Now we’ve been told that there are 40 other cars, all I4s, that have the same problem, and it has not yet been sorted yet- the hope is that it’s a software problem but nothing has fixed it so far. I suspect that the owner of this car might choose to return it and go for the safer bet, the C8. He drove his car once during his ownership, the rest of the time it’s been in the shop with no known resolution. Anyone else had this issue?
When he made the original test drive at the dealer he noticed the yellow triangle/exclamation point displayed but not being familiar with the car thought nothing of it, even though the salesman briefly fussed with the controls to source the problem.
Upon taking delivery the triangle was still there, he had the service department look at it and they declared there was a telematics issue and replaced an antenna and declared it fixed. The owner drive it for an hour before putting it in our garage before going home.
As directed by the owner I started the car several days later and the telematics alarm went off again then shut off, so I drove the car a couple of miles and got a brief fault warning that the left rear blinker had failed. Not long after that another warning about the right blinker failing came up then dissapeared. Over the next three times driving the car the telematics warning came up then disappeared the same with a blinker failure warning. On one of those trips the telematics light stayed on for the whole trip.
I made an appointment at the dealer to fix the problem and dutifully notified the owner.
Enroute to the dealer the taillight warning indicated two times then vanished.
The dealer eventually told us that there had been no codes recorded in the ecu, and they couldn’t figure out the problem and had to contact Lotus ( the taillight warnings popped up irregularly for them as well. Now we’ve been told that there are 40 other cars, all I4s, that have the same problem, and it has not yet been sorted yet- the hope is that it’s a software problem but nothing has fixed it so far. I suspect that the owner of this car might choose to return it and go for the safer bet, the C8. He drove his car once during his ownership, the rest of the time it’s been in the shop with no known resolution. Anyone else had this issue?
