Guides

Blat Maps

Driving routes for Sevens including SatNav files and places to stop. This section has been replaced by MyRouteApp which can be found here https://www.lotus7.club/blatmaps

Getting started guides

Interested in a Lotus 7? Here's what you need to know.

Maintenance

Here's how to do (almost anything) on your Lotus 7.

Technical Guides

Technical subjects, parts lists and sources.

Members documents

Useful documents for club members

Popular guides

Welcome to Get To Know Your 7. This is a downloadable series of articles looking at the essentials of routine maintenance for your Seven. These first appeared in the Lotus Seven Club magazine ‘Lowflying’ between August 2010 and May 2011.

Hints and tips on buying a 7

Budget

Caterham Sevens are not excessively expensive cars, though over the years the search for higher and higher performance derivatives has pushed prices correspondingly higher.

New

Regular maintenance tasks as per the Caterham service schedule

Using a Scissor or Bottle Jack (eg to change a wheel)

 

One of the important items that should be checked when trying to optimise the handling characteristics of your Seven are the corner weights in order to ensure that each tyre is carrying its proper share of the overall weight of the car.

List of brake and pedal parts for de-dion cars

The following is the NGK UK Website which list the appropriate Spark Plug for several different engines fitted to 7's:-

The Following Applies to ALL ROVER K SERIES VARIANTS, 2001 ONWARDS (EU2 AND EU3)

Here's a list of tools and equipment owned by members and available for loan to other members.