With fresh snow on the ground and a sunny day, I went for a spin in the old girl to try out her winter tyres...touch wood, all went well.
The last few weeks I'm getting a very high temp reading after about 5mins of driving, and as it hits melting point the temp gauge levels out and then seems to read a normal temp...I'll have to investigate this slightly odd behaviour soon.
- posted Jan 5, 2010 (2 months ago)
At last I have some new winter tyres for the car, well snow is on the way and you can't be too careful.
The tyres seem very skinny, but they do at least have some tread on them.
- posted Dec 3, 2009 (3 months ago)
I took the car for a drive in the mountains behind the apartment today.
Took a few photos of the car in it's element...just wish it were still summer though:
- posted Nov 14, 2009 (4 months ago)
Snow is on the way here in the Swiss Alps...
- posted Nov 10, 2009 (4 months ago)
So I've had the car over in Switzerland for a couple of months and everything has been fine, apart from the passenger window that a friend (who's not used to the ways of the older car) wound down the wrong way and the glass dropped into the door...so for a month or so I've had a bit of brown cardboard wedge in to hold it up. Which was fine in the warmer weather, but now it's getting colder isn't ideal. So as the car was booked in to have the heater looked at (leaking into the passenger floor-well), I thought ...read more
- posted Oct 21, 2009 (4 months ago)
The time has come...to drive the car to Switzerland at long last. Did a few bits that needed doing to the car, like putting the door cards back in, adding some sound proofing for the long journey ahead, checking the fluids...stuff like that. Then down to the storage garage to sort through my stuff to drive over (mainly books and records). Wake up on Sunday morning at 3.30am, drive the car to Dover to catch the 5.10am ferry to Calais. Arrived at 1.5hrs later at 7.45am (1 hour ahead), drove off the ferry about 8am and headed for Switzerland. It ...read more
- posted Aug 24, 2009 (6 months ago)