An eventful day today.  Yesterday had decided that I would go to Stirling Audi myself to collect my newly refurbished A5 with it’s newly smoken alloys.  So awake bright and early, and on the road by 7.30.  Up by 8.30, car on road at 9.30 and back in Motherwell by 11.00 in time to start work, I thought.  Driving up the M80, and just passed the roadworks, the road started to clear out and open back up to 3 lanes.  I was so intent on getting into a faster moving lane that I didn’t see the massive brick in the road.

Thing is with debris- you only know you’ve hit it when you hear the sound, and at that point it’s already too late.  Pulled onto hard shoulder, and an hour wait till RAC got to me and changed the demo car onto a space saver.

Upshot is got to the garage around 10.00 and collected car – the alloys look great, see below:

Car is booked in with Robert at Prism detailing on Saturday to get brought to it’s sparkling best.  Some people (mainly girls) have pet names for their cars, others think they’re car looks macho.  My car  says “I’ve got a serious attitude problem ” – it’s probably why we get on so well

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Well we now have, new theme, twitter and flikr.

A photoset from flikr of the car (the old one)

The Audi’s in the shop.  My detailer- Robert, from Prism designs noticed that the alloy was perforating and coming away from the rim when he began to clean them at it’s first colour correction session.  Called the folks at Stirling Audi where I bought the car from – and as always their service was impecable.  Car is in there this morning, and as a nice bonus getting the wheels darkened down.

Honestly, if women picking shows has to be reflected in any man behaviour try choosing a colour for your pride and joy’s wheels from a colour chart from Audi.  Was around the showroom looking at all the different shades.  Finally settled on a dark grey colour- almost gunmetal, and breathed a sigh of relief , only for the guy to say “ok so that’s the colour, now for the finish” – after much fettling and digging out of tyres have gone for a matt grey finish – in line with my idea to make the car as dark and stealthed out as possible.  Will post pictures ASAP – but for the moment does anyone know any places that decrome cars?