Another week, another service

[speedy 32]

Hey everybody,Bit of an eventful week this week. Monday morning the car was gently tagged from behind in rush hour traffic. Left a tiny impression on the rear bumper (on the black plastic) nothing too bad.Went for another service on Friday at Toyota in Guildford - (I think it might be the 4th service the car has now had? losing track already ) since the car now has ~29k on the clock. All clear, no damage from the incident on Monday and nothing else wrong at all. 14 months in, still loving it. 2 days at Anglesey, 1 & 1/2 days at the ring and driven to Italy and back.. and a couple of miles done around the UK. Still on the original tyres (5/4/4 at the front, 4/3/3 at the back) and original brakes (fronts 75% worn, rears 50% worn). Just awesome :+:

[Keethos 842]

Wow....those are some miles dude, glad you're still enjoying it! When we guna see you at a meet mate?

[speedy 32]

Good question - Would have been at JAE, but had a conflict with a wedding instead. I was just looking at the events section to see what is coming up :+:

[Lauren 2259]

Alex, see if you can make the karting on the 9th November, that will be a good meet. How have you managed to make the rears last nearly 30K? I only managed 14K which did have two trackdays in it I guess, but even so, you've arguably done more than that!Still glad you are still enjoying it. :+: I'm a bit over 22K now and still :lover: it.

[speedy 32]

which did have two trackdays in it I guess, but even so, you've arguably done more than that!

Well yeah, 2 days at Angersea + Many laps around the ring :+:I think there was already a reason I couldn't make the 9th, but Google seems to have deleted the calendar where I had everything stored. So NFC now..

[speedy 32]

Just to follow up on this one, i'm busy clearing out a house that weekend

[rob275 1817]

The elusive speedy will never show his face, but is an Admin. I can think of a name or two for you! 

[speedy 32]

So it ticked over somewhere up the M3 this morning.. 

 

 

[Special K 442]

At that rate of mileage I hope you've got shares in Toyota Servicing...

 

Spec K

[GT86Jay 202]

Awesome mileage! I thought mine was high! 

 

But amazed at the wear you've got out of the tyres! I managed 14000 miles and a track day and my tyres were on the limit! 

[speedy 32]

Yeah, it's done pretty good on the tyres. TBH, lots and lots of that mileage has been done on Motorways, which would seem to be pretty easy on the rears.

 

It's been driven sideways on track a bit, but the time it spent at Anglesea (2 days) were really to see how the brakes stood up to abuse and also for my other half to get used to driving it on track in preparation for the day and a half at the ring.

 

End of the month soon, then it'll get some new boots :+:

[Lauren 2259]

Maybe a good time to switch to winter tyres? Mine went on last weekend.

 

Need it to be cold though to get the most out of them. It will be soon.

[speedy 32]

I found last winter that the standard tyres were ok once you got some warmth into them - the rears more so than the fronts. One reasonably quick get away seemed to do the trick.

 

I'm not going down the route of winter tyres, they were ok last winter apart from in heavy snow where anything else would have struggled equally. Plus I don't have a spare set of wheels.