Good morning yall, what's crackin OPPO?

"EL_ULY" (uly)
08/11/2017 at 08:44 • Filed to: None

Friday fukin finally! Here early at work. 6:30am sweating my nads off. Sunshine, feels like temp of 87 and 94% humidity already.

DISCUSSION (52)

pip bip - choose Corrour > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 08:52

Kinja'd!!!

want to swap?

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 08:58

It’s a cool 70 ish here which is great

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/11/2017 at 09:01

From El Paso, TX, that looks glorious.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2017 at 09:02

it’s cold old winter here.

carcrazydan738 > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:05

I love those Lotuses!

DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:07

I was sad when I walked out this morning and realized early morning humidity was back.

shop-teacher > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/11/2017 at 09:11

That’s shorts and convertible weather around here come March.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:14

That’s a fantastic view you have there, my friend.

fintail > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:29

I’ll take the smoky cool 61F and inflated housing/living costs here rather than suffer heat exhaustion before breakfast. Thanks!

JeepJeremy > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:30

Kinja'd!!!

Here’s our current conditions. It’s a nice morning.

That’s a super cool Lotus, Uly! What’s your lunch plan today? Anything tasty?

EL_ULY > JeepJeremy
08/11/2017 at 09:37

the finest chicken maruchan you’ve ever seen!

Chinny Raccoon > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:37

Went to the dentist and for a jet wash and T-cut service. Not been for a while, which is dumb as I’m paying the insurance for it.

EL_ULY > fintail
08/11/2017 at 09:38

i was literally dripping with sweat....ugh, way too early for that sheeeeet. Can’t wait til February when it gets down to 61

EL_ULY > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/11/2017 at 09:38

niiiice!!! Comfy :]

EL_ULY > Chinny Raccoon
08/11/2017 at 09:39

I’m going next Wednesday. Paying for insurance, might as well use it

EL_ULY > DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back
08/11/2017 at 09:39

it’s like walking into someones mouth

fintail > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:40

Reminds me of the last time I was in Jacksonville, and it was that temperature at 730am. You live from AC unit to AC unit.

I’ll take the miserable winters here in exchange for maybe the best summers in the world.

EL_ULY > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2017 at 09:40

thanx bud. That’s our used car/CPO sales office. Bunch of rad cars come and go..... except that Esprit, been in our inventory for 5 years lol.

EL_ULY > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
08/11/2017 at 09:41

niiiicie!

EL_ULY > carcrazydan738
08/11/2017 at 09:42

come buy this one! Been for for many years. They want $40k but will probably take $25 for it by now :]

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:43

Not a bad showpiece! That’s one you’d never own, right? Same with the Evora?

JeepJeremy > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:44

That’s disappointing sir!

I changed how I eat. I don’t eat fast food anymore (unless I have a “cheat meal” from time to time).

EL_ULY > fintail
08/11/2017 at 09:45

Lol it really is like that. Hopping from on a/c to another.

I’m probably the only human in the south that doesn’t like cold temps. If the humidity stays under 50%, gimmie mid to upper 90's all year boooiii!!!!

Once it goes under 50, i’m ded :(

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:47

I’ve been saying that it’s felt pretty Houston-y here in Dallas all summer.

Thanks for the reminder that as bad as it can be here we’re still playing amateur ball when it comes to god-awful humidity.

EL_ULY > JeepJeremy
08/11/2017 at 09:47

just go a notification from my bank at - $157.08. That’s the norm lol. Once I get promoted here or find something else, i’ll make the right changes to be able to not eat mostly cheap junk all the time. I’ve stayed clear of fast food for 6 months, personal record!

JeepJeremy > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:49

Congrats amigo! Best of luck with everything

fintail > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:55

That’s an alien idea west of the mountains here, although AC is becoming more common - but this still has to be one of the few places in the world where an existing 1MM+ house likely won’t have it. My little AC unit is beginning to have issues, but should make it through the current warm and dry spell (warm here is above 80-85 or so).

I like cooler temps. I didn’t turn the heat on once last winter.

punkgoose17 > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 09:55

I would but I dont even have 1k of disposable money. You said the Esprit is a pain to work on. Is it just the newer ones or are the S2 and S1 also a pain?

EL_ULY > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2017 at 10:00

14 and up Evora and 400 are rad, especially the 400. Early Evora were just a modern Esprit as far as quality. I like how the Esprit looks, sounds and it is FLIPPIN INCREDIBLE to drive like all Lotus once the R compound tires warm up. NOTHING drives like a Lotus period. They are THE best driving cars...... but

If I had to choose a car that I can definitely say is the worst quality vehicle ever made from my 15+ years of wrenching, it would be the Esprit followed by Lagonda. It’s not the things failing, it’s the absolute battle to mend things. Everything is an absolute war to try and mend. I’m talking the process all together.

Diag without destroying something else in the process.’

Asking HQ for help when HQ doesn’t even know what the hell could be wrong.

HQ not following up on specific technical questions.

HQ saying that parts are available when they are secretly finding a 3rd party to make them.

Waiting for HQ 7 months to finally ship a simple item.

Finding out that Lotus engineers designed the car assuming nothing was going to break aka making things impossible to reach.

Having to take more things than common to remove a part simultaneously breaking other sheeet. Impossible not to break something.

HQ not having the special tools that their tech bulletin says you need

And so on forever and always!

carcrazydan738 > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 10:09

I wish I could! the only Esprits I can afford are in 1:64 size

EL_ULY > punkgoose17
08/11/2017 at 10:10

not sure how the aftermarket parts world is on S1 but OEM is pretty much impossible to get anything, even factory diagrams/ special tools from Lotus HQ in Michigan or England lol

EL_ULY > fintail
08/11/2017 at 10:12

still no rain due in the next couple days?

EL_ULY > JeepJeremy
08/11/2017 at 10:12

thx buddy :]

sooooon!

EL_ULY > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
08/11/2017 at 10:15

I was in Dallas last Saturday, it was still insanely HOT! Just a couple more months duuude! When I lived in San Antonio, it got pretty hot too but way less humidity helped and not as many mosquitoes. With that rain we got earlier in the week, we are out numbered 80 bazillion mosquitoes per citizen.

DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 10:15

Yo, that is the most disgusting and accurate way I’ve ever heard Houston summers described.

punkgoose17 > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 10:15

From my short experience in the automotive industry I bet they don’t have most or any of the factory diagrams and special tools anymore.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 10:16

Glad the later Evoras are good cars!

That all does sound like a complete nightmare...

New Elises/Exiges coming back to US soon, right?

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/11/2017 at 10:20

That actually isn’t too different from much of our winter here. I am, however, impressed by how close your high and low temperatures are. For us, there is a 20-30 degree difference between high and low temperatures.

EL_ULY > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2017 at 10:21

Heck, now that Volvo and Lotus are PWNED by the same debt collector, they could share safety tech to finally have Exige pass US safety specs to be able to be sold here :]

EL_ULY > punkgoose17
08/11/2017 at 10:22

Same with our Aston side when dealing with older cars. England man, wtf?

EL_ULY > DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back
08/11/2017 at 10:24

lol so tru doe

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 10:27

Yes, please! If they come back in the next couple years, they may depreciate enough the years after that just in time for me to finally be able to be irresponsible enough to get into a two-seater!

EL_ULY > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2017 at 10:31

2-seaters are fun :] Especially out in the open away from the city

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 10:55

Yes...

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > EL_ULY
08/11/2017 at 10:59

Yeah, all summer the temperatures have actually been reasonable but we get a spritz of rain 3-4 days a week which has kept the humidity sky high.

On the plus side I don’t think we’ve been above 95 in two weeks and the evenings have been downright pleasant, which is huge success for August.

EL_ULY > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
08/11/2017 at 11:11

we had one morning last week were it was not bad, crisp :]

I personally am not a fan of the cold (sub 50) but this heat is over the limit