Mongol Adventure

Just now we are traveling from Moscow to Camapa. Hopefully today we will make it to Kazakhstan. The distance is only about 400 miles, but the roads are single lane, very poor and full of crazy truck drivers. This has made to going slow. Russia is a strange place and im looking forward to Kazakhstan.

The picture is taken in no mans land between Estonia and Russia. It took 4 hours to cross the border with 8 different bits of paper to be stamped. Got to St Petersburg and now heading to Moscow, the roads are so bad and the drivers are mental. Have now slepted in the car for three day and i stink. Tonight we stay in a hotel, i need a wash and a proper sleep! Lol.

A guy we meet at the russian border.

As you can see we have done a Blue Peter special on the distributor. We have added a heat sink, and a water cooler (modified back window washer). The car seems to be working fineish again and we have made it to Estonia. We have also just passed some guys in a red Panda, so have made up some time. A shower next and them Russia!

The mileage is now 44557. And the car is still holding out. After having to wait for between 8 and 10 days for parts we decided to botch it. We are now near the LT border and although Poland is a cool place we will be glad to see the back of it. Well it was never going to be easy in an 18 year old Panda. We also got a good mention on Talk Radio last night after we sent them a SMS.

We have to wait in the very south of Poland for a new distributor to be posted from Warszawa. It will arrive on Wednesday morning. It turns out that we are staying in a health resort town called Polencia, so we are going to relax and enjoy our time here. People in this part of Poland seem very nice and helpful.

Just. The little panda keeps cutting out and back firing. Its been quite eventful getting here. Was glad to see the border. Seemingly there are lots of fiat garages here! Lol.

Got to prague, the car is not to happy, its miss firing. Now at a service station about to see if we can see whats wrong. Oh the joys!

Well the last two nights have been crazy with the heat and running about getting all the last minute preparations together. We finally made it out of Hyde Park, down to the Euro Tunnel and are now in Luxembourg. We arrived here about 2 this morning. The car is over packed, so this morning before we go we have decided to off load some things here in Luxembourg.

Want to say a big thank you to Kenny and John for helping sort out the electrics and the radiator. And sorry it’s taken so long to blog this.

Then it broke down, problem with the inline fuel filter....... But it's now sorted :-) and he is on his way to London. Thanks to Alex from helping sort it out.

Martin is ready to go, with 42409 miles on the clock.

On Monday Martin took the car to get tuned, turns out the gasket was broken and was only firing on 3 cylinders. Dave Tennant pulled out all the stops and got it back running in 1 day. Thank you so much Dave. http://www.bitzmotorsport.com

Starting to get the car together, we were kindly donated from a Nairnshire Telegraph reader a rear window rack which we have adapted for the Jerry Cans and a roof rack which will carry the spare tyres.

Alfie from Highland Radiators has kindly donated us a fab new radiator for the car that should help further cool the engine. Below are a few pics.