lotusracer
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Moline, IL
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Re: death of a Lotus Elise
said by seaquake  :Death? No. Significant body damage? Hell yeah. I'm sure Goodyear will pay out the nose for that one. If you read the Elise forum thread, you will see that the general consensus is that the car should be written off. The fact that they used the wrecker to winch it down and used the front suspension to hook onto is not good..... the hole in the floor is another bad thing... the floor panel is part of the chassis and not replaceable. |
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Atlanta, GA
1 edit | said by lotusracer :said by seaquake :Death? No. Significant body damage? Hell yeah. I'm sure Goodyear will pay out the nose for that one. If you read the Elise forum thread, you will see that the general consensus is that the car should be written off. The fact that they used the wrecker to winch it down and used the front suspension to hook onto is not good..... the hole in the floor is another bad thing... the floor panel is part of the chassis and not replaceable. That type of thing done to the front suspension is not good at all and I'll put money on the fact the mount points are just plain fracked. I've done P L E N T Y of work with getting cars out of weird spots and onto tow vehicles, and can tell you NO car will take kindly to what is in the pictures.
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| While I agree that what happened to that car isn't a good thing in any way shape or form, I dont see the straps on the frt suspension as the worst idea in the world.
If the car is really that light in the frt end (as evidenced by rolling backward off the hoist), then there wouldn't be that much force on the straps.
I dare say that 3 strong people could support the car in that position while the hoist is lowered, then "roll" the frt end down toward the ground.
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