Rolling Road Day 07/10/2007, Newport, South Wales

[Salem]

Hi all

Some of you may know me from my pervious meets....

http://sharkyuk.com/wr/gallery.php

I'm pleased to announce the next meet which will be held on the Sunday 7th October 10am at Westec Performance in Newport, South Wales.

Please see the website for all details

http://sharkyuk.com/wr/routes/20071007_run5/

Please note a deposit must be paid to secure your place, to be paid no later than Tuesday 25th September 2007.

If you wish to pay by cheque please contact me for further details and note your cheque most be posted well in advance of closing date to avoid disappointment (must receive and be cashed before closing date) if you require a receipt please send a self addressed envelope, (those paying via paypal will automatically receive a written receipt in post)

5-10 vehicles - £35
11-20 vehicles - £30
21+ vehicles - £25


Many Thanks

Lynda

[Mikey G]

Couldnt you organise it elsewhere? would like a good chance of a more accurate figure.

[sorrento205]

agreed, westec is not good in my experience

[IanZ]

Id be interested but not at westec

[Salem]

Well its all booked now and I had asked awhile ago where was the best place to go however had little to no feedback!..

As with all things its as good as your make it.. Of course there is nothing stopping you folks from arranging your own rolling road day

[Mikey G]

Expect wildly optimistic outputs, coupled with runs that have little sympathy for the car and tie down methods you'd never dream of including a ratchet strap accross the struts and down the wings, i kid you not!

[Salem]

Mikey G said:

Expect wildly optimistic outputs, coupled with runs that have little sympathy for the car and tie down methods you'd never dream of including a ratchet strap accross the struts and down the wings, i kid you not!

Well as mentioned above I asked sometime back for feedback on rolling road days when asked to set this up.. Westec were recommended to me by a few pple so went with it..

Thank you all for your comments shame they have come now and not when I have asked before.. but then its funny how pple always slag things off when someone else has done the ground work.. Also a shame how pple are willing to slag this off but cant recommend somewhere else to go very helpful folks!!

Maybe pple could also tell me what
http://www.powerstation.org.uk/
are like seeing as I am planning on booking with them soon too...

Its booked and I have a few pple attending if we are not happy with the methods or service we will leave it really is that simple.. I put it on here to see if anyone else wished to join us on this event or possible future runs.

Edited by Salem on Thursday 6th September 22:50

Edited by Salem on Thursday 6th September 22:55

[Mikey G]

Salem said:

Well as mentioned above I asked sometime back for feedback on rolling road days when asked to set this up.. Westec were recommended to me by a few pple so went with it..

Reading your profile mentions no thread asking about recomendations for a rolling road in south wales. I know many people who have had bad experiences there, but also a lot of people who are happy to go back. Personaly there is only one set of rollers i will visit down here and thats Tommy's, unfortunatly it is getting on a bit now (aswell as Tommy) and is only 2wd and i wouldnt recommend him for a turbo car (small fans) but what he has in experience puts any other rollers in South Wales to shame.

You may very well have a good day, but dont be too surprised if there are a few cars that dont meet/exceed expectations and clearly show it in the results.

[Mikey G]

Powerstation is well worth the effort and one place i will take any car i own

[sorrento205]

my experience was that they checked my oil, water and tyre pressures before the run which was good.

The run itself seemed ok although the operator seemed a bit too happy to bounce my car off the rev limiter to get the max power.

The power figures were out, we know this because it was recorded at an impossible rpm (beyond the rev limiter). This was due to the timesaving methods they employ of the RR software learning your wheelspeed at certain rpm and then calculating your rpms from your wheelspeed thereafter. For accurate rpm readings the RR software needs to get a feed from the cars ignition source.

After the run one of the employees parked my car and left my keys on the desk for me to find.


Ive been to powerstation and whilst not experienced the rolling road there it does appear to be a very proffesional outift.


But anyway, who are you Salem and what do you get out of this?

[Salem]

sorrento205 said:

But anyway, who are you Salem and what do you get out of this?

Thanks for you report if I and my friends are unhappy with the service we will stop it.. It really is that simple I don’t let anyone do something to my car I am not happy with only a fool would..

As for who am I, what the hell is that all about? Why do I feel like I'm getting attacked on here? I’m no one special I don’t work for Westec or anything although now people are getting suspicious of me I’m getting very suspicious on here too! Is this what this site is like? Rival companies slagging each other off is this what this is all about?

Who am I? Just Joe public. Someone who likes to get out and drive their car not sits behind a computer and talk about. Because of this I started organising little runs around Wales with like minded people a few of which asked me to do a rolling road day.

As for what I get out of the events I organise.. Well a lot a stress, and a lot of grief but also a lot of joy. I don’t make any money doing my trips out in fact they cost me, as I do dummy runs to make sure the route is ok and no road works going on etc (£40+ fuel) and make pack lunches for everyone and bring soft drinks for stop off points (£30- £40+). We take photographs of the cars and never ask a penny for the high res versions either.. and my time which is priceless

So you might think why I do it. Because I enjoy meeting new and old friends, getting people together enjoying their cars and the British roads and countryside.

Sadly I am beginning to understand why less people organise things now a days. Will it stop me unlikely, I have a good bunch of friends and people that enjoy them which makes it all worthwhile.

Many thanks
Lynda

Edited by Salem on Friday 7th September 07:53

[WWESTY]

And......relax.......


Fair points made I think on both sides....in all fairness I think people were merely trying to help by offering their experience of Westec....

As MikeyG said, there's no evidence of you posting a query about RR locations which doesnt stack up with what you say.....if you had, then I think you would have received the same advice.

Good luck with your day!

[Salem]

I think as its been pointed out to me the problem is someone feels I treading on their toes (which isnt the case)

I quote from a profile

"Im the guy behind most of the meets in the south wales section!"

I'm not out to steel your thunder or anything like that and I'm sure South Wales is big enough for us all to enjoy.

Many thanks

[neil_bolton]

I might also point out that you are a fairly new and infrequent member of the PH family - thus popping up and organising something at a place which seems to attract some critisism does raise some eyebrows.

I would suggest that it would have been polite to integrate with the South Wales PHers first, and then suggest whether they'd like to do a RR day; rather than have a moan when the people explain why they don't want to go!

Edited by neil_bolton on Friday 7th September 15:44

[sorrento205]

no attack, just an enquiry. come and say hello on the 16th

[atomfun]

Salem said:

Well its all booked now and I had asked awhile ago where was the best place to go however had little to no feedback!..

Where is the original post you refer to Salem?

I read all the posts to PH South Wales but must have missed it or it never existed in the first place. Which is it?

[Scoobaro]

Group hug anyone??

[2DOGS]

I'll give you a hug Huw. Ohh sorry it's meant to be group (ooeer), I'm not gonna get involved in this thread.
BTW - new wheels per chance.

[Scoobaro]

2DOGS said:

I'll give you a hug Huw. Ohh sorry it's meant to be group (ooeer), I'm not gonna get involved in this thread.
BTW - new wheels per chance.

Thats the spirit

No new wheels, the Monaro is my pride and joy..

As a direct results or hearing your car though have just rushed out and bought myself a shiny new exhaust to make it sound like a V8 should

Its still no TVR but sounds a lot nicer

[Mikey G]

Salem said:

I think as its been pointed out to me the problem is someone feels I treading on their toes (which isnt the case)

I quote from a profile

"Im the guy behind most of the meets in the south wales section!"

I'm not out to steel your thunder or anything like that and I'm sure South Wales is big enough for us all to enjoy.

Many thanks

You are not treading on anyones toes, we welcome more people here that are willing to organise more events just like you are doing. Ben has been at the forfront to organising a lot of the Sunday Brecon runs and his opinion is valued and justified on these forums. Pistonheads has become an entity of its own, we tend to work alongside other forums and welcome new members of all sorts, we are not all Ferrari, Lamborghini or TVR owners and apreciate all sorts of vehicles in the ranks.

My opinion of Westec is exactly that, MY OPINION, please do not take that as gospel as others as i have said have been happy to continue using there facilities.