Warranty

[Steve B]

How important, in terms of re-sale value, do you think a FSH eveidenced by owners handbook is. I tend to be quite dismissive as given the nature of the car most of them will have been serviced/maintained by the owner.

 

Any thoughts

[charlie_pank]

Depends on the car - if the owner built it himself surely it seems a bit academic to worry about whether or not he changed the oil regularly enough?

[Steve B]

That's pretty much the way I was thinking

[Davidmatthews]

While we are on this subject what about values/after sales of getting the car serviced at main dealers Caterham or at a lotus specialist garage ?

 

As cc midland in a fair drive for me and I have a lotus garage called Paul Marty sports cars near me who restore cars and maintain all sorts or lotus cars

 

 

[John Vine]

Quoting Steve B: 

FSH

Interesting question. I built both my 7s from a kit, but although I do a lot of regular spannerwork myself, I also take (took) them to a Caterham-approved agent for an annual service. This is more to obtain a qualified second opinion on condition, wear etc for peace of mind, rather than to enhance value.

 

JV

[Johnty Lyons]

Hard to tell Steve when I put my 1900k on the market I got asked if I had a full service history and who I took the car to in order to have work done. I as a result ignored prospective purchasers as more trouble than they would be worth. In my case I felt anyone buying a balls out 1900 k who asked those questions had no idea what they where getting into.