Ron and Myself had a day out at RCM yesterday.

We met at Wych Cross yesterday morning at 5.30am for the drive to Hinckley arriving at 8.20am.





From the moment we got there, we were looked after so well. The whole team there are such friendly and helpful people. As for Olly Clark, what a top man he is, such a friendly bloke.

We went through what we wanted doing with Olly then he went over the cars. On mine, he picked up a few extra things that needed attention, considering I was just there for a geo set up, he went over and above my expectations and I took him up on getting the other bits done at the same time.

I mentioned that I had developed a rattle to the rear, so Olly took the car out to try and find the problem. That in itself was quite surreal, sitting in your car with Olly Clark driving it. He found the problem quite quickly, which has led to me making the decision that we are going to change the whole set up for new coilovers and do the full geo set up in about a months time.

They started on Rons car at about 9.00am and we retired to the bog and then the local bacon bap van! Even the RCM bogs get the RCM treatment...



Although some people don't actually use the RCM bog roll when they go there

I won't go into what was done to Rons car, as that's his story, not mine. Suffice to say it was all done superbly

My car had it's new bits started at about 5.00pm and also had a tidy up on the geo. The pic below is from the showroom looking out into the workshop, the SLaG is on the ramp next to a mint Evo VI, lurking in the background is the Gobstopper.



After standing and chewing the fat, talking about the gobstopper, the "red snotter" and the new RCM car etc, we finally left at 8.30pm for a long, wet & windy journey home. Both extremely happy chaps.

I honestly can't tell you just how good an experience that is from start to finish, the guys up there are genuinely interested in your car and what you are doing with it. You can tell that they all absolutely love their jobs too. Olly even mentioned this, that he enjoys going into work everyday and never really sees it as what we would call "work". He just loves what he does there. The passion they all displayed for their jobs was brilliant.

Roll on the next trip up there