UK deposit to order checkout to delivery process

Ooh, you're going to love that... which car, the base model?
Hewn from granite without a single flaw. A 911 I can desire.. a Cayman I do not.
C4S -2 t0 2.5 degrees so took a lot of care! Roads slippery. Great car, but I still am not a PDK fan. the 4 tugs the steering at times and the car can skip even at normal speeds. My last 911 was a 997 and its amazing how they have grown. I understand why people like them. I have a deposit on a 911T with manual and that may scratch an itch but wont rule out a GTS or GT4 Boxster/cayman. Definitely smaller and more agile. Probably will take the Emira then drive the above well before my spec date and see which is the keeper.
 
C4S -2 t0 2.5 degrees so took a lot of care! Roads slippery. Great car, but I still am not a PDK fan. the 4 tugs the steering at times and the car can skip even at normal speeds. My last 911 was a 997 and its amazing how they have grown. I understand why people like them. I have a deposit on a 911T with manual and that may scratch an itch but wont rule out a GTS or GT4 Boxster/cayman. Definitely smaller and more agile. Probably will take the Emira thdrive the above well before my spec date and see which is the keeper.
I’ve been looking at 992 C4s , not tested yet but they say the steering isn’t as good as the C2 because of the drive through the front wheels. Don’t hear that criticism on the new M3/4 though.
 
Just to say, and I dont always complain, despite reservations to the contrary...funnily enough by people who also complain.. haha.
I got my invoice today..... now I could complain, as its an invoice, and no one wants an invoice... BUT...my point is, I got it 20 days before my car is due.
This bucks the potential trend for Lotus to be sending them basically a day or few before delivery and potentially delaying delivery due to none payment. I on the other hand have plenty of time to pay ....what I dont have plenty of...is the money to make the payment haha.
 
Just to say, and I dont always complain, despite reservations to the contrary...funnily enough by people who also complain.. haha.
I got my invoice today..... now I could complain, as its an invoice, and no one wants an invoice... BUT...my point is, I got it 20 days before my car is due.
This bucks the potential trend for Lotus to be sending them basically a day or few before delivery and potentially delaying delivery due to none payment. I on the other hand have plenty of time to pay ....what I dont have plenty of...is the money to make the payment haha.
I had my invoice last Friday
Just to say, and I dont always complain, despite reservations to the contrary...funnily enough by people who also complain.. haha.
I got my invoice today..... now I could complain, as its an invoice, and no one wants an invoice... BUT...my point is, I got it 20 days before my car is due.
This bucks the potential trend for Lotus to be sending them basically a day or few before delivery and potentially delaying delivery due to none payment. I on the other hand have plenty of time to pay ....what I dont have plenty of...is the money to make the payment haha.
I received my invoice last Friday, paid on Monday, collecting tomorrow.
 
I’ve been looking at 992 C4s , not tested yet but they say the steering isn’t as good as the C2 because of the drive through the front wheels. Don’t hear that criticism on the new M3/4 though.
It felt grabby to me in comparison to the C2 Cab I drove recently. The Emira does give more feel and confidence than either though.
 
How long after the protect email would you expect to receive the checkout email ?
Noticed on the protect email you can protect the paint for £399 - 18 claims . Why would you bother with PPF ?
Dealers tell me that when reselling they often have to peel the front ppf off and re paint and polish the paint work. Have the car derailed and pay for the paint protect looks best option to me
 
How long after the protect email would you expect to receive the checkout email ?
Noticed on the protect email you can protect the paint for £399 - 18 claims . Why would you bother with PPF ?
Dealers tell me that when reselling they often have to peel the front ppf off and re paint and polish the paint work. Have the car derailed and pay for the paint protect looks best option to me
That sounds like very old or poorly applied ppf.
 
My 2014 Evora had PPF from new. When I sold it last year it didn’t have a mark on it. Will be PPFing the Emira.

(Sorry, there is a thread on PPF. I will get a black mark for posting this here. :))
 
Wait, is that right? I've a couple of marks on my F80's PPF but thought the self healing properties were falsely advertised.
not all ppf will self heal.. but if they sold it this way, it should do so.... Sun or Heat Gun can do the trick also.....
only one way to find out ;)
 
not all ppf will self heal.. but if they sold it this way, it should do so.... Sun or Heat Gun can do the trick also.....
only one way to find out ;)
Oh boy...i shall try carefully. Kettle at its max 😂 . XPEL self healing as per the docs I got.
 
Delivery due this Friday!!!

So things have turned around very quickly. I had the checkout email on Nov 5th… nothing much happened for over 6 weeks except to find out some trim was missing. That eventually was sorted then out of the blue I was called yesterday to be told I can have THIS FRIDAY as a delivery date - IE 3 days away - but only if I paid the invoice first thing this morning… no pressure!!! And if I couldn’t pay that quick then the delivery would be made in the New Year!!!

I used my HSBC work account as my Nationwide personal account doesn’t have a high enough payment limit and the local branch wasn’t open when I could get there.

But getting the actual payment approved behind the scenes was rather painful as HSBC fraud got involved and insisted the payment was fraudulent! I’d already double-checked all the bank details with Lotus on the phone then paid the full amount online. I had to spend 45 mins trying to convince HSBC that it was all ok. Once they found out that I needed to get the money paid ASAP they thought I was being pressurised to paying it! They were also less than impressed when I said that I hadn’t physically seen the car! I tried explaining that they are a main car dealership and that the car is brand new, but they were still sceptical. When he asked if the purchase was for business or personal I lied and said business - as I felt that was the only way to get him to approve it! I insisted I want being pressurised but I had to get the transfer approved before lunchtime and then get to my sons birthday party or the car wouldn’t have been arriving sometime in Jan…

After much wrangling and accepting full responsibility so if it goes wrong I’ve lost all my money the payment was made!

Received an update shortly (2 hours) afterwards from Lotus confirming all was good with the payment and I can have the car delivered on the 23rd….

Stressful but it all went though ok and I’m super pleased as it will be a fantastic Xmas present - invoice number 85 which I guess means the 85th car.

What made this bit stressful is that the invoice from Lotus says the bank they are using (Stripe) doesn’t accept CHAPS payments - hence why I was using HSBC and a bacs payment in the first place.

Further making life hard, when you try to pay the account name online that they give you “Lotus Cars Limited” you are told that it doesn’t match and is incorrect… it’s because they use a funky system at Stripe that means everyone has a different account number - so the validation doesn’t work.

For reference when anyone else gets to this stage the correct sort code I was given is 23-68-02 - rest assured that’s the correct one - at least it was for me.

A bit of a ramble but half celebration and half trying to prepare future UK invoice payers for some of the stresses to come!!!
 
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