So, when you collect a new Elise, everything shine's brightly and you are a happy person when leaving the showroom..
When you buy a used Elise, you'll start seeing the mistakes made by Lotus! One of these mistakes are called zink nuts, bolts, screws and washers. What a shame! A two year old Elise carries around a lot of nice brown corroded pieces of zink... For instance... have a look at the driving light washers...

Penny wise, pound foolish that is!

One of the first actions I've started was replacing every nut, bolt, screw, washer etc. that I could find. As it is quite hard to source the parts, I can give you a hint on the supplier.. Have a look at a German company called Online Schrauben.
One disadvantage; you'll have to understand the German language to get around with these guys. No English website!

To my experience, these people are relatively cheap, you can order any quantity you'd like and they accept credit card orders through Internet.
When I was browsing at the Internet, I did find lot's of lists. I combined most of them and took another night browsing through the Lotus Elise Service Parts List. The result was put in an pdf document and have been sent to Online Schrauben as a purchase order.

Be aware, there are several items on the list which you cannot reach when the car is just there, standing in the driveway. You will have to duck under the car, if you want to do the good job, you'll have to remove at least the front clam etc!

For those that want to do the full job, here's the full list in acrobat reader format. If your computer tells you that it doesn't understand this document, go here and get yourself the reader!

Oh.. the description of the material is in German, in case the people of Online Schrauben wouldn't understand.. Prices are what I bought them for, could change over time for sure..

Again... no liability, this is just my helping hand.