Before I get bogged down with the results of the detail, I thought I would let you know my second experience of driving Pav’s Rover (and my third Rover driving experience of all time). I had the drivers seat to tight up against the steering wheel but did not really notice. Sure the pedals were quite close together, but I still kept over revving the car to 3000rpm (and beyond) when pulling off at roundabouts. The Honda engine took a bit of a pounding, until I got onto the by-pass and was effectively on the home stretch, by then I had got used to the car a little. I was glad I would not be driving it anywhere over the weekend. Ultimately I drove it to the petrol station around the corner to get some fuel, into town centre when I picked up pizza with my sister and then back to Pav’s house. I was hoping to get some photographs taken over the weekend but never got around to it. The detail was once again excellent from Crystal Detail (link to be provided once site is online). You can look at all 137, yes 137 photographs in the write up over at Detailing World. Those of you on a slow connection, be warned, it will take a while for all those jpegs to come down the pipe. I have to say, I think Pav surpassed himself from the previous detail last year. Not just because he is a year wise and has a better polisher. I think it is just the attention for detail, plus I have been trying to wash the car a bit more regularly myself. He also has gone through quite a few products over that time so knows what is good and worth applying and what is not suitable. All the results you can clearly see from the photographs and this was not the perfect sunshine to be carrying out a full spring detail. I am most impressed with removing the bobbling from the driver’s seat. It was really starting to annoy me. Secondly I must at the Carlack 68 sealant is just amazing. As I drove into work yesterday morning there was no need to use the wipers, accelerate up to 50mph and beyond the water just few off the screen and you could clearly see the road ahead. I am actually looking forward to washing the car but maybe this weekend will be too soon. I am going to order some Victoria Wax which will be applied to keep the car to this high standard. It will be hard and the car will not look perfect until the dents are removed from the passenger side door but it does look much better than Friday afternoon 5pm when I pulled up outside Pav’s drive. After I collected my car, I drove into Reading, parking in the Oracle. Everyone was in the Oakford, having had lunch and I said I would join them for a while. The T was there, along with his girlfriend Becky, Stu and Anika (whom I had never met before but heard of from the forum), Pav, Em, Phil, Kev and Anika’s friend. We discussed many thing but mainly plans for next weekend. I am sure I mentioned before but we were hoping to pop down to Looe again on the South West coast. However as many people couldn’t make that weekend it has been moved to mid May. Instead we are going to head over into Reading on Friday for the beer festival. My plan is to hopefully catch Ironman at Vue at lunchtime before grabbing some food in the Oracle and then heading across to the festival. Other events in the pipeline are a trip down to Brighton for a club night and a Eurovision night (to be honest at Pav’s new pad, hopefully). This I am particularly looking forward to as I’ve always wanted to either host or go to a party on Eurovision night. Bring on the nil point! Not that much going on at the moment, I managed to get myself to the gym yesterday after work but the rest of the week is going to be a struggle. I am over in Milton Keynes all day tomorrow, so may not get back to this side of the county. I know I could always go over to Castle Royle after dinner but will I have the motivation and the energy. Thursday is a much more likely prospect as I am over in Newbury seeing a client and should be done around 4pm and driving past the Bath Road exit around 5pm, so no excuses. I will of course let you know if I pass or fail these tests. Plans for the weekend are nonexistent to be honest, I am hoping to make amends for last Sunday and get myself in the gym on Sunday morning if I can. Apart from that not much planned. I think I need the rest, May is going to be an extremely busy month. We may even see the return of the infamous Friday Night Terry Project.