HOWDY ALL!
I'm fairly new to the site and this is my 1st post, so forgive me if I'm asking questions already answered.
This is my 2nd week of having the beast after taking delivery of it last friday (Silver/19"/Half Leather/AirCon/ and can I just say that Its a far better car than the cooper s/cabrio & R32 all of which I have had vast experiences of.
1st - I was wondering if anyone now or when they got theirs think that the engine sounded awful? how should I say? Tappety? Sort of loud ticking/tapping sound! Very diesel engine like!
2nd - Did anyone get offered the oppertunity of a re-tune @ 1000 miles? where they take the car back to lotus (i think) and re-tune the engine and change the oils to a better oil (as the one put in at manufacturing is a lot thinner than most available @ retail.
3rd - I was wondering if anyone has or know if you can change the silver looking dash. The part that surrounds the CD player/aircon unit to a much better looking black or carbon fibre one?
4th - Does anyone else think that the only thing that looks to have been rushed on this car is the dashboard lights? They have put in a nice speedometer/tachometer light (nice bright white color) and they have the CD display in a horribe orange thats the same as the standard astras (looks pretty cheap) Do you know if you can change these cheap orange lights to a white colored one to match the speedo and any ideas where and costs.
6th - what cleaning products to most of you use for the dash board?
I know you'll probably have stopped reading by now
but hopefully you can all give me the benifit of your experience and answer my Questions.
Cheers the noo
Ian
I'm fairly new to the site and this is my 1st post, so forgive me if I'm asking questions already answered.
This is my 2nd week of having the beast after taking delivery of it last friday (Silver/19"/Half Leather/AirCon/ and can I just say that Its a far better car than the cooper s/cabrio & R32 all of which I have had vast experiences of.

1st - I was wondering if anyone now or when they got theirs think that the engine sounded awful? how should I say? Tappety? Sort of loud ticking/tapping sound! Very diesel engine like!
2nd - Did anyone get offered the oppertunity of a re-tune @ 1000 miles? where they take the car back to lotus (i think) and re-tune the engine and change the oils to a better oil (as the one put in at manufacturing is a lot thinner than most available @ retail.
3rd - I was wondering if anyone has or know if you can change the silver looking dash. The part that surrounds the CD player/aircon unit to a much better looking black or carbon fibre one?
4th - Does anyone else think that the only thing that looks to have been rushed on this car is the dashboard lights? They have put in a nice speedometer/tachometer light (nice bright white color) and they have the CD display in a horribe orange thats the same as the standard astras (looks pretty cheap) Do you know if you can change these cheap orange lights to a white colored one to match the speedo and any ideas where and costs.
6th - what cleaning products to most of you use for the dash board?
I know you'll probably have stopped reading by now

Cheers the noo
Ian
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