Early morning drive into work today

drewf

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Into my second month of QP DS ownership now, and it's all starting to come together.

Shiltech serviced the car, and after a second visit sorted the wheel geometry, which was truly shocking - one of the rears was miles out. The difference in how the car drove was night and day after that!

Matt at D2 refurbished the wheels properly, producing a truly stunning result. Most impressed, and can heartily recommend his work. Thoroughly nice chap too, as are the Shiltech team.

A visit to their workshops is always a visual treat, with so many automotive icons casually parked around, awaiting some attention. Some of them I recognise from people on here...


But today - today was the first time I've actually been able to drive the car on my own on empty dry country roads. Roads that I know very well, and with the V8 noise rising through R4's 'Farming Today' and the first 30 minutes of 'Today', it was a superb start to the day. Arrived in the car park with a huge smile on my face, and the usual appreciative comments from staff and contractors who haven't already seen the car. I'm yet to hear anyone utter a bad word about the QP - not the experience with other high-end cars, where in the UK they seem to attract an envy bordering on hatred for the driver.


It's definitely a car which responds to being 'driven', rather than pootling around.

Very happy today. Shame it's going to be wet tonight...
 
TridentTested

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It took me a while to gel with mine too. Getting it out onto a proper road was an important part of that as well, and I agree with your geometry point. Bill McGraths removed the toe-out from the fronts on mine and the car is transformed: it has lost its nervousness and skittishness, now it tracks straight as an arrow. I'm also hoping the new Pirellis won't be eaten up on the inner edges like the previous ones were.

I find it's taken me a while to adapt my driving to the Duo Select too. I can now read the traffic and how to use the gears better so, for example, I don't get caught where the traffic starts moving and I'm almost stationary in 2nd, I read it better and flick into 1st before it's needed. Little things like that make the car flow better for me.

I'm loving it more and more and finding silly little excuses to take it out for a spin, even in London traffic.

They are addictive :)
 
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You got ta love it when a plan comes together...

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drewf

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hodroyd said:
We hear you Drew..!!
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:)

I'm amazed at how many people on here are living in and around Holmfirth - I lived in Honley for 14 years, and in fact still own the house there, although I don't live in it myself any longer.
Some of the roads around there provide superb driving experiences.
 
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TridentTested said:
It took me a while to gel with mine too. Getting it out onto a proper road was an important part of that as well, and I agree with your geometry point. Bill McGraths removed the toe-out from the fronts on mine and the car is transformed: it has lost its nervousness and skittishness, now it tracks straight as an arrow. I'm also hoping the new Pirellis won't be eaten up on the inner edges like the previous ones were.
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Shiltech did the same on the fronts for me, but the main problem was positive camber on one of the rears. Sorting that was absolutely key. It's still pretty lively, and reacts to white lines and poor road surfaces, but it's so much better. I do have one problem remaining though - the MSP active warning comes on for some right corners, but never for similar left corners. Nothing particularly fast, and I'm leaning towards it being worse on a trailing throttle than under a small amount of power. I can't see it being a bad sensor as such, as it would then appear much more often; similarly I'm struggling to imagine a bad connection only showing up on right corners. Any ideas?
 
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