I had the email & phone call today.

My SM will be ready for collection tomorrow at 11am.

Will I be able to sleep tonight?

Mike

Delighted for you Mike

I had the email & phone call today.

My SM will be ready for collection tomorrow at 11am.

Will I be able to sleep tonight?

Mike

Congratulations. Have a fun day.

Should be collecting my more modest 1.2 from Allams on Saturday.

Hope you sleep well - you wouldn't want to nod off on the way back and prang it would you.

Fred

Thanks all.

I will sleep well tonight. I collect my SM then straight to see a client

Mike

Great to hear your collecting tomorrow Mike

Hopefully you will find time for some pics :yes:

TP

I should have enough time. I hope to take some underneath for you as well, if I can get down that low as I ordered the RRP amongst many other options. Too many according to my wife. Well I live in my car, she doesn't, is my justification.

Mike

Less than an hour to go!!!!! Enjoy!!!

good luck on collecting the beast..plenty o pics mindst

Congratulations! I'll bet your snows gone though....

James collected me in 'Pat'.

Now just doing the paperwork.

Nearly time to drive off......

Yes, most of the snow has gone, but the Metro is saying that it will be back.

Mike

Glad you've got it Mike, enjoy it mate!

What can I say that hasn't already been said. This is one awesome beast.

I have been driving it around South London all afternoon and early evening took it to Biggin Hill, all in the line of work. I had to (OK, I could have gone the long way round on main boring roads) use some not very nice roads, very icy with compacted snow etc, used the off road button a few times. It was so stable planted etc.

The DSG gearbox is so much better than in my 5 year old Octavia.

I love the high driving position.

I love the car. I have only done 45 miles today.

I will post some pictures in the official thread.

Mike

Good to hear you like it! I'd love to know how the DSG has become better?

Good to hear you like it! I'd love to know how the DSG has become better?

Hill Hold control, smoother gear changes, changes up to 5th at 30ish. It's only done 50 miles, not 100,000

Mike

Hill Hold control, smoother gear changes, changes up to 5th at 30ish. It's only done 50 miles, not 100,000

Mike

Ahh... I've never had an automatic before, let alone a DSG, so interesting to hear how much better ours is!!! I'm happy!

Looks great Mike,

and thanks for including my old Monster in the photos Role on March and the arrival of the new PBM (Pedestrian Bílá Monster)

Regards as always,

TP

Edited 8 December, 201015 yr by The Plumber

Thanks, and it was a pleasure. James collected me from the station in Pat. Great car.

Now, what do I call it?

The Monster,

Her out doors,

Snow White and the 8 wheels?

Mike

Thanks, and it was a pleasure. James collected me from the station in Pat. Great car.

Now, what do I call it?

The Monster,

Her out doors,

Snow White and the 8 wheels?

Mike

Surly you haven't forgotten the poor spare

TP

Surly you haven't forgotten the poor spare

TP

But of course not. I hope it is there, but I haven't seen it, as the boot was rather full of wheels and mats etc.

So may be Snow White and the nine wheels

I have also bought the boot floor and the polystyrene filler, and 2 rubber mats, so I can use the internal bike rack. As my mtb.'s replacement value is almost as much as I sold my '06 octavia for, I don't really want to leave it outside the car. So I will have to put the spare in the boot, loose.

Mike

Edited 8 December, 201015 yr by rockhopper

She has to be called " Elsie".......

She has to be called " Elsie".......

So obvious I missed that one

Mike

I guess mine would also be called that !

Edited 9 December, 201015 yr by loadswine

I guess mine would also be called that !

I think ours will end up being called Pat because of postman Pat in the front, or possibly Pat Monster Jr (red, also an SE, one year younger than The Pedestrian's The Plumber's and only 2WD).

Did a bit of a double take on the registration - its only one letter different from the one allocated to ours and ours is an X not a Y - but we haven't got it yet!

Belated congratulations Mike.

I've just managed to pass the 1000 mile mark this weekend in mine and spotted my first Yeti since I took delivery. I parked next to it in Morrisons Guiseley on Tuesday.

Can't get over how great these SM's are

Can't get over how great these SM's are

I can't agree more. I've only done 150 miles since I collected Elsie on Wednesday, but I can't stop smiling to myself when driving her. I keep on wanting to use her off road.

I had to reverse down a road today because there was a large White van man van on it's side in Oxted on the way to Woldingham.

It was quite steep and still icy. I used the off road button and the light was flashing as I crept backwards down the hill. It was amazing. I am really, really impressed with this car. Nothing I have driven compares with the way it drives and inspires confidence. Not even my brace of BMW's I had previously!

Mike

Edited 11 December, 201015 yr by rockhopper