Great scottish driving roads

[soc]

Drove from Dublin to Glasgow last weekend - up through belfast and across to stranraer. I've done this route a good few times but no matter how often the road is a joy to drive - amazing road surface added to a combination of twists and turns and some long overtaking straights. It was the first time I'd really been able to cut loose in the TT on some roads where you had the visibility to safely use the car since I had the remap. And, now, in my mind the TT is even better than ever. The ease at which I blew past slower traffic astounded me - even when zipping along at 100kmh 5th gear was enough to jump 2 or 3 cars and get you up to 150kmh in no time - absolutely amazing car - and this was with 3 up (2 kid in the back) and a bootful of gear. Probably a tad too much body roll but I'm not sure I'd sacrifice comfort for to fit uprated shocks or arb's - all in a great package. Also had a drive in an M-sport 525 (a '03) - very nice car and even with the auto box it had a good lot of grunt.

The only downside of the weekend was the 2 nice people in Glasgow (Xscape centre in Braehead) who were kind enough to (1) badly scuff my passenger side front bumber and headlight and (2) cover the bonnet in hair like scratches (dunno how they hell they did this) - unfortunately it looks like a new headlight lense plus a bonnet respray - I could probably get the bumper touched up but with the usual stone chips I may use this an opportunity to get a V6 bumper on there and a complete respray of the front end (every cloud and all that....)

[Muad_dib77]

Hi soc sound like a nice drive that A real shame you TT wasn't shown more respect. Did you try polishing the bonnet?

[soc]

Hi soc sound like a nice drive that A real shame you TT wasn't shown more respect. Did you try polishing the bonnet?

Yea, a great drive - lovely smooth winding roads all the way from Stranraer to Ayr and if you take the coast road via Irvine to Glasgow you can go winding roads all the way....

As for the scratches I think some might come out but the majority are down to bare metal - looks kinda like someone ran wire wool across the bonnet - very annoying - I might drop down to carcraft tomorrow and get a quote....

[CJ]

Yea, a great drive - lovely smooth winding roads all the way from Stranraer to Ayr and if you take the coast road via Irvine to Glasgow you can go winding roads all the way....

I've done this drive before - in a Transit. Not as much fun let me tell you!

CJ

[Bernard]

I've done this drive before - in a Transit. Not as much fun let me tell you!
CJ

Was it a white one?

[d_andrews78]

Great drive, Views are great too, and for mostly being the back end of no where you'd be hard to find a pothole.
Done it a few times in a number of different cars, but never again in a Zafira, on the way to Glasgow it was like being still on the boat round the corners, but on the way back it was alot better with half of ikea in the car/van the body role was cured.