I really do hate waiting for MOT results. I usually drop the car off and then wait for a few hours before getting the Yes/No phone call from my local garage.
So last night I fitted a good battery that a friend donated for the use of the trip. Car started up fine, so turned it off and forgot about it. I didn't take his advice and put it on charge overnight, I should have done.
This morning, filled the power steering reservoir and set off the long way around to the MOT garage - so I could at least do some braking and clean up the discs a bit. I also stopped to fill up the car with some fuel. Bad idea, it would not start when I got back in so had to push the car out of the petrol station and bump start it. Joy!
9:15am Got the car to the garage and left it, had a word with one of the chaps there to say what has been done since last MOT test.
Got myself to work on time (just) and had a huge twinge in my back, just as I got out of the car so I'm slightly in pain now.
11.51am Get call from the garage, been expecting a call around this time as it's usually when I get the good or bad news, except I got asked the question "Is it ok form me to leave the car there?"
Yeah fine, I can't pick it up until tomorrow anyway as I'm in work today. Seems their printer has broke so can't print out. Not sure if its another fail or proper MOT certificate.
Will update further when I have info. (which I guess will be tomorow at the earliest as I'm pretty sure they shut up shop around this time of day)
Note:
Fuel gauge doesn’t work - could be an issue on such a long trip.
Need to get some of those headlight stickers to divert the beams the other way.
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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