Wehave been called to pPre-Purchase inspect a large number of Lotus Elise, and saw this 2002 car, offered for£16,000, with under 6,000 miles, in London in 2007. Our client did not buy this poor car, despite it looking so attractive initially.

‘This vehicle displays evidence of body and paintwork repairs which have been carried out [...]

We were asked to perform a pre-purchase inspection on a Lotus Elise (1996), offered at £8,500, in London. Upon our investigations, we found that despite a £5,000 engine rebuild, this car exhibited multiple resprayed wings, scuffed wheels, worn pads, heavily chipped screen, a dropped n/s door and bent o/s rear tie bar. Plus a few [...]

You won’t need us to tell you that these are often hard-driven cars, regularly purchased by people with little mechanical knowledge, on a budget, who can scrimp on maintenance. Many are accident damaged, and we’ve found a number of vendors have been economical with the truth regarding previous knocks.

Our Lotus inspectors are deeply experienced [...]