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revsRus wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:20 pm [

There you fucking go, sorted

That garage photo Is the only one I’ve really taken apart from in Peterborough when we had a mishap with the golf support car. My friend was driving and not being used to the vulnerability of low profile tyres he absent mindedly drove through a pothole a few miles from the seller’s house, damaging the sidewall beyond a gloopy stuff repair. Obvs no spare wheel, disaster!

Solution - get the seller to pick us up (10 min drive from his house), grab the 600lt and both drive back in it sans golf. Phone the AA and get the golf transported back to Glasgow. Far from ideal and a few hours wait for a transporter but no other option.

Or was there?! When we got back to the golf the AA chap had already arrived and upon hearing we had no spare wheel he asked “what about those wheels you’re putting into the boot”. Hot damn he was onto something! The trofeo shod mclaren front spare wheels fit perfectly onto the golf! He quickly fitted them and off we went back to Glasgow as if nothing had happened!

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Better without all the imgur bumf, but a good first effort!

Looks wonderful!

You need to invest some money in making that garage look befitting such a beauty I reckon!

revsRus wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:20 pm [

You need to surround the link with img... hit the quote button to see what I has done.

Cup of tea sir?

It looks a smidge better in this shot, but there is time for some good highlands-backdrop shots when the weather gets better....

Result! How did the Golf handle?

duncs500 wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:34 pm

Result! How did the Golf handle?

I dunno tbh, probably terribly around 8pm in Scotland on the M74 when the rain came hammering down. I was really nervous for my pal in the golf behind me despite repeatedly warning him about the perils of trofeos on anything other than a warm dry surface. He got home fine though

Not bad, not bad at all

duncs500 wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:34 pm

Result! How did the Golf handle?

I should really weight the “super special, ultra lightweight, forged specialness” mclaren wheel/tyre to see how it compares to the aftermarket and 10mm wider OZ ultraleggera. The OZ wheels were about £500 each from memory, I guess the mclaren wheels would retail at 3 or 4 times that. I bet they weight the same

revsRus wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 7:51 pm

ZedLeg wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:49 am @revsRus

Small thread diversion but are you the guy who runs a moving company in Glasgow?

Are you moving house?

Yeah, Mik sent me the link for your company.

Looks like a spaceship in that garage, love it

A great story about the Golf wheels on the Macca

Another few photos from today.

Taken my by friend’s Dad outside my friend’s (pictured) house. There’s a young lad in the driver’s seat having his photo taken by his mum.

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This was in a nice back road near Callander

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This is Penny my dog, she doesn’t like being driven fast unfortunately

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And snuggled up with Mik’s lotus whilst I’m away for a couple of nights

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Only golf in the world with mclaren wheels

The chances of the fitment being the same , who’d have thunk it

Lol at your dog sat in the passenger seat.

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Crazy the wheels fitted on the Golf!

So yeah - I have two extraordinary house guests this evening that both belong to Pete....

One has very nice steering - have only piloted it for about 5 miles but it has lovely weighting with detailed feedback available even at low speeds - really similar to the helm of the Evora. No idea how it feels under proper cornering loads, but I suspect it maintains transparent communication.

When the ‘chargers spool up and fill its lungs it properly shifts. Unfortunately on damp tarmac at only 3 DegC there is rather more urgency than the rears can transfer to the surface - spinning up easily even in 4th. I will therefore need to wait for spring to be a little more sprung before I get to experience its full accelerative capabilities, which are clearly mighty....

The other is a prolific ball chaser and returner, and almost as hairy as the Macca.

Nice 2 car garage. Practical 2+2 and less practical weekend car

Macca looks about a foot and half wider than the Evora, it looks quite small in every other picture I've seen