Scottish Elises

CLCM, Bankhead Drive, Sighthill - 0131-458 5559 - ask for Willie.

Dropped the Golf in today with suspect lost wheel weight. Just £9 later for two wheel balances, the car is perfect again (fronts were "a long way out").

Been going to CLCM on and off for a few years, had generally switched to Jim Dickson in Cumbernauld due to keen Toyo pricing, but it's a bit of a trek and last couple of balances have been poor. Also forgot to order our tyres last time, Lisa trailed all the way through with the sproglets to discover no-go. Hurrumph.

So welcome back Willie, all is forgiven. He can't generally supply Toyos, by the way, but recommends mytyres.net if you want some (largest wholesaler in Europe?) and he'll fit em. And I can vouch for Mytyres, their prices are pretty good. All you need to do is drop the tyres off at CLCM - with the car! - small price to pay for a quality job.

Campbell

does he do lotus tracking and suspension geo??

sure does - did a magic job on mine & has a very accurate machine to do things with. Just round the corner from MMC....

He does do geo, but you need to know what you want and how you want it done - i.e. with weights in the car/with driver in the car/what settings. You also need to understand just a little about what you're asking for as usually the geo requires some compromises (especially if you don't supply a pack of various shims to set the camber just-so).

Cheers,
Robin

I believe MMC use/used him as they didn't have the necessary equipment in house.

Willy is brilliant - a guy who charges far too little for giving up so much of his time!

GregR wrote:Willy is brilliant!

robin wrote:He does do geo, but you need to know what you want and how you want it done - i.e. with weights in the car/with driver in the car/what settings. You also need to understand just a little about what you're asking for as usually the geo requires some compromises (especially if you don't supply a pack of various shims to set the camber just-so).

Cheers,
Robin

Probably good advice, but from my point of view......I'm a complete simpleton and i went to Willie and said could he set up my new exige set up (no adjustment but it rides a bit higher than std on the front). He asked how long i'd had the car, what i used it for etc.

He then set it up with no more input from me. A while later he finshed and told me that he'd dialled out some of the understeer to make it more neutral and if i didnt like it i could come back and change it back no probs.

Gets a big thumbs up from me.

Lazydonkey wrote:

robin wrote:He does do geo, but you need to know what you want and how you want it done - i.e. with weights in the car/with driver in the car/what settings. You also need to understand just a little about what you're asking for as usually the geo requires some compromises (especially if you don't supply a pack of various shims to set the camber just-so).

Cheers,
Robin

Probably good advice, but from my point of view......I'm a complete simpleton and i went to Willie and said could he set up my new exige set up (no adjustment but it rides a bit higher than std on the front). He asked how long i'd had the car, what i used it for etc.

He then set it up with no more input from me. A while later he finshed and told me that he'd dialled out some of the understeer to make it more neutral and if i didnt like it i could come back and change it back no probs.

Gets a big thumbs up from me.

Impressive. That's just what we need.

Lisa loves him too - he's great with the kids when she treks in with them to retrieve our car!

Campbell