Beginning to have a mild panic develop now over all this. Lack of time and funds to sort the car out is the main issue. At the MOT a few months back it failed on a few brake issues which should be easily solved with some new pads all round and maybe a bleed of the system and some fresh fluid.
The other failure was on the O/S track rod arm, too much play. Never had that one before on a car so a little bit foxed by it. The MOT chap told me to take the gaiter off and check to see if there was a washer on the inner side, peen it over and that should fix it.
I'm thinking the fact there was very little PAS fluid in there didn't help either.
I'm slowly putting bits of the interior back in after stripping it all out. It won't be a complete interior but comfortable enough. I also have to wire in a head unit and some speakers of some sort. Oh and get the car out of the back garden (by removing the 6ft fence that is in the way) before I can work on the MOT stuff.
We have also decided not to bring the car back, it's either going to a "recycling" place in Helsinki or a chap from the Finnish Saab Club forums will hopefully be taking the car off us so it will live on in one piece.
We've also decided to drive up to Copenhagen, so we're doing the Dover to Dunkirk ferry to keep costs down.
The Valhalla Run
In Norse mythology, those who fell gloriously in battle passed on to a magnificent place called Valhalla. In bangerese we call that a scrapyard. If Valhalla has a car park, we're sure to be adding to it before this route is run.
Valhalla Run is StreetSafari's 5th European Banger Rally.
We've gone in every other direction: East through Europe; South to Africa; West to America.
Nowhere to go now but North...
The event starts in Copenhagen on the 18th of August.
We cross into Sweden, and then on to Norway to do the impressive Trollstigen (Troll Ladder), before a night in Kristiansund.
For anyone dipping their toes in the various seas and oceans around the world, this is your chance to see the Arctic Ocean.
From Kristiansund we travel all the way to Umea on the Baltic Sea, cross by ferry to Korsholm and then head towards Helsinki for the final night, 22nd August.
The distance is around 1,700 miles, through terrain unlike most people have ever seen before.
This is more different than any other StreetSafari event to date. You can also bet it's more desolate than the other European countries we visit. Norway has less than 5m people in a country nearly 50% bigger than the UK!
Valhalla Run is StreetSafari's 5th European Banger Rally.
We've gone in every other direction: East through Europe; South to Africa; West to America.
Nowhere to go now but North...
The event starts in Copenhagen on the 18th of August.
We cross into Sweden, and then on to Norway to do the impressive Trollstigen (Troll Ladder), before a night in Kristiansund.
For anyone dipping their toes in the various seas and oceans around the world, this is your chance to see the Arctic Ocean.
From Kristiansund we travel all the way to Umea on the Baltic Sea, cross by ferry to Korsholm and then head towards Helsinki for the final night, 22nd August.
The distance is around 1,700 miles, through terrain unlike most people have ever seen before.
This is more different than any other StreetSafari event to date. You can also bet it's more desolate than the other European countries we visit. Norway has less than 5m people in a country nearly 50% bigger than the UK!
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