milano_chris said:
Excellent! Did you have a bung in for the drive over? Think I may have to purchase one soon!
Errr... Not quite. Long(ish) story, but it deserves to be told so here goes...
I started getting paranoid that I might not be let on the ring with my setup (nurburgring.org mentioned that they are very strict on enforcing the 95db limit :? )
Cue lots of ringing around Spoon stockists Friday morning to see if someone would deliver a silencer on Saturday for a reasonable price (everyone who I spoke that had one in stock uses Business Post who charge £32 for Saturday delivery :shock:
In the end I rang Spoon direct, and after explaining my predicament they very kindly took a silencer off the shelf, packaged it, & took it down to the post office for me for next day delivery (cost about £5).
Spoon weren't 100% sure whether Royal Mail would deliver it on Saturday morning, so I then rang Royal Mail cust service who confirmed that "they do deliver parcels to residential properties on Saturday". They also advised that if for any reason it wasn't delivered, to pop down to my local collection office to check whether it was waiting there. I then rang the local collection office to arrange a local backup plan...
Anyway Saturday morning came, and I had a nice white Spoon box waiting for me at my postal address!!!
So :smt038 :smt038 :smt038 to both Spoon & Royal Mail - Spoon for going out of their way to help me, and Royal Mail for... just doing what they're supposed to do (I've read enough complaints about them) It meant it was 1 less thing to worry about on my busy day before the Ring (was also at a wedding all day)
For the drive over, I went bung free as the noise helped kept me alert, and on the way back, It did the same back in the UK (although was regularly changing between stereo & spoon)
Incidentally the silencer is still in its white spoon box in my boot, as Nurburg weren't interested in my exhaust, and I am still in the early infatuation days with it :twisted: