Lotus Exige — repair costs
2006–2006
Use the estimator for a specific car's year, mileage and state. Below it, every repair job we price for the systems this vehicle's complaints involve — book labor hours plus parts — with the ones that match its reported problems listed first.
Cost estimator
Enter the car you're looking at. We'll show which of this vehicle's known problems typically show up in your next 3 years of driving, what each costs to fix at your state's labor rates, which ones it's already past (ask the seller about those), and routine maintenance to budget for.
Heating and A/C
1 complaint on this vehicle · median 16,000 milesRepairs that match problems reported on this vehicle are listed first and tagged. Other heating and a/c jobs in our cost table follow for reference — not every one applies to every engine or trim.
Blend door actuator replacement
Matches reported problem: Blower motor and blend-door actuators
2.0h at $107/h (independent) + $40–$150 parts, range widened for low-confidence pricing
$150–$460
Blower motor replacement
Matches reported problem: Blower motor and blend-door actuators
1.2h at $107/h (independent) + $90–$300 parts, range widened for medium-confidence pricing
$220–$430
A/C compressor replacement
3.0h at $107/h (independent) + $400–$1,100 parts, range widened for medium-confidence pricing
$720–$1,420
Heater core replacement
8.0h at $107/h (independent) + $120–$620 parts, range widened for medium-confidence pricing
$860–$1,590
Costs are national estimates built from book labor hours × a shop door rate (from BLS metro technician wages, national median since no buyer location is collected on this site today) plus a parts-price range. They are not this vehicle's actual repair history and don't account for your location, shop type, or mileage. A system with more complaints on this vehicle isn't necessarily the one that will cost more to fix — this shows what repairs in that system typically run, not which one you'll need. See Methodology for the full model.