's' Suspension Rebuild

[david000]

Hi, 

 

My 07 Elise  'S' is coming upto 70k miles and I'd like to refresh the suspension.  Does anyone have suggestions for the best bet on new bushes or kits for this ?

 

Ideally I'd like to keep things close to standard as the original car rode very nicely, 

 

Cheers

 

 

David

[Phil S1]

Various places like Eliseparts, Elise-shop and Seriously Lotus do kits for this:-

http://www.seriouslylotus.com/suspension-steering/bushes-bearings/suspension-refresh-kit

[DeanB]

Jody knows where you can get some of this stuff cheaper I think.

[jonnyfox]

I've just used Seriously Lotus mostly and Elise-parts to do mine. JW Rudge did the Zinc coating and Marcote Lichfield the shot blasting. I would highly recommend the POR 15 method!

[david000]

Cheers.  There seems to be a lot of aftermarket bushes - is it possible to get the oem lotus ones ?

[Phil S1]

Cheers.  There seems to be a lot of aftermarket bushes - is it possible to get the oem lotus ones ?

Eliseparts definitely do them, that's where I had mine from:-

https://www.eliseparts.com/products/show/70/460/lotus-original-wishbone-bushes/

[david000]

Time to start making a shopping list !