Well, had a pm from Mark ( MFGF) a week or so ago, saying he was in the Edinburgh area w/c 13th May for a day or so and would I like to meet up?
Of course I was happy to meet and put a face to the name of a long time regular, so said yes.
I actually put out a pm to a few of the local regulars to see if they were available, I thought we could make it a small VWAudi forum get together, unfortunately most couldn't make it.
However, Aly was up for it so it ended up being a trio of Audi's in the Edinburgh sunshine for a catch up chat, some forum talk, discussing all things Audi and some cool VCDS upgrades courtesy of Mark....All good.
As Mark was staying in Edinburgh city centre, I identified the Bridge Inn at Ratho as a good meeting place with a big enough car park ( no door dings ) & good food. It was probably around 7 or 8 miles out the city centre for Mark and around 30-40 miles for Aly and I to run from Cumbernauld / Stirling so a good compromise that seemed to work well.
It didn't turn out to be the best day for it ( although you wouldn't guess from the pics below ). It had been cloudy and overcast in the morning with serious rain, a little sleet later....Aly had said there was some snow fell in Stirling, bright sunshine, really gusty with more rain, followed by some sunshine later.....typical Scottish weather...lol
I ran through to Stirling and hooked up with Aly around 5.30 and we headed for the Bridge Inn arriving at 6pm, Mark arrived around 10 mins later and all cars parked up in a nice little line up.
Mark was kind enough to bring his laptop / cable and enabled horn chirp for Aly ( nice one ) and did a quick fault scan of the car
Mark's C7 was lovely and the 20" rotors were awesome, I was amazed at how well it soaked up the lumps n bumps even on Sline suspension.....beautiful car and a credit to its owner.
Aly's grille blacked out using plastidip looks awesome I think, especially on the gray / silver and looked quite menacing in my rear view. Its something I keep coming back to but don't think it would work on my Stratos blue somehow?
Had a good meal at the Bridge Inn and blethered for a few hours, then had a little run.
I keep thinking to myself how I want to go to an Auto box and Aly's car confirmed that. At that point Aly had to head home, Mark and I spent another 20 mins or so before heading off back our separate ways.
All in all a very pleasant 3 hours and great to actually "meet" forum friends.
Maybe the next time we can arrange a slightly bigger get together?
Hopefully Aly may jump in as I know he took some pics with his all singing all dancing camera as opposed to my phone pics.
Cheers
