1st Week Niggles

During the 1st week we had the car we noticed that it had a couple of niggles - nothing too major. The passenger side window would stick if you wound it all the way down and the backlight for the LCD screen that showed you how much petrol you had left was not working. Not a problem in the day time as you could see it perfectly, but a bit of a pain at night as you had no idea how much fuel you had left.

I didn't notice this on the test drive as it was a lovely sunny day and looking back through the service history it had not worked for some time. We had been invited to a track day by Christopher Neil Lotus when we purchased the car (more of this later) so thought we would mention it to them when we went.

Popped into Christopher Neil on the way home from the track day to let the service guys have a look at the window and the LCD in the dash. Much to the annoyance of my g/f Caz who wasn't too happy spending an hour of our day off sat in a garage. The window* was fixed easily but they could not find out was was wrong with dash as it didn't appear to be a loose connection.

*The windows of the elise (as I found out later) would be one of my major DIY tasks in my attempts to get the elise water tight.