Tuesday, Jul 31, 2012 at 22:23
Gidday Heather MG and Sue/Shaun,
I have a 2011 Lotus Sprint 19' full ensuite, mine was a Demo Model so had sat in the yard for most of the year before i bought it, The reason i went for Lotus after 7 months of searching, was the constant reports,, of the after sales care offered by the factory, This was put to the
test, when i went to
Mildura in the hot weather, to find out That the Air/Cond was out of Gas, The Lotus dealer arranged for a Gasfitter to come to his yard and re-gas it, But he could not find ''the leak''
We only had 5 days up our sleeves before we had to go away again, so the dealer contacted Lotus Factory, who then contacted Dometic' and the sent a brand new Air.Con from Queensland within two days, and the 3rd day the Gasfitter came to the dealers yard and fitted it and it was ready to roll 2 days before we were to take off again
The rest of the Van has given No PROBLEMS at all after around 5-6000 klms
Only 2 things i would like to point out to you ??
1/ The Tare wieght on the plate, stated 1900 Kgs, we put Empty van over the public Wieghbridge, and Actual Tare was 1960 kGS
2/ On our 2011 model, the filler for the water tanks, was only by a Hose connnection at bottom of tank ??? so if No mains pressure you had no way of filling the tanks, if freecamping etc ??? we overcame this problem by carrying some collapsable 25 litre water containers and we have a little water pump that we use to refill the tanks,[ i think Lotus has remedied this problem on newer models, Other than those 2 items we are Very Very happy with our choice of van, If you want to
check out the Lotus Owners
Forum ??? here is the link to the site, [ it's free to join ]
http://lotuscaravanownersgroup.freeforums.org/lotus-caravans-f1.html
Regards Dazren
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