I bet the bridge is closed, and then it gives up in Alloa….so close yet so annoyingly far…at least some Hill Foots resident will save you the bother and Nick it….

I promise to post some updates from the road. Thanks for the offers on mechanical support.

Place your bets here….. 😆

If you’re going to breakdown make it somewhere nice like Tebay, good food, nice views etc. I had to overnight in Knutsford services once due to a knackered alternator. Knustford is many things but enjoyable is not one of them.

Enjoy the road trip.

So where did you breakdown ?

mcmoonter
I bought an ebay Passat in Exeter from a gynecologist

Had he welded the doors shut like the Dukes of Hazard?

nah, but you have to reach through from the boot to unlock the driver’s door.

Pea soup at Edinburgh airport. Tannoy announcement, our plane has just been diverted to Glasgow. It’s going to be a long day.

/weekend

Cock! Bus to Glasgow

its cold down here too. Bring your woolies.
hope you get your flight ok.

Getting gradually foggier on Glasgow too!

Well the south coast is totally clear and sunny but ferkin freezing!

Well the south coast is totally clear and sunny but ferkin freezing!

Is that about 6c then? 😉

I think MM will cope.

*wonders whether this landrover has a working heater

Currently reading -1. 6 would be lovely as I could get the kids digging instead of being unable to break ground!

wonders whether this landrover has a working heater

back in the early 90’s a young lad at work was desperate to impress one of the girls working on the checkouts so.. he checked out a renault feugo in autotrader about 70 miles away by the seaside.. invited said young lady on their day off to take the train to the seaside to pick up his new car.. car picked up.. and young lady is mighty impressed to the point where young boys and young ladies did what comes naturally on a secluded dirt track high up on the moors.. sadly in uphoria on the way back down this track he hit a rock and tore a big hole in the gearbox.. a long walk to civilisation, a recovery vehicle.. trip to garage and a bill for 500 quid for repairs ( for a Lad earning 75 quid a week a disaster..) sadly the blossoming relationship did not flourish with the young lady… until… a couple of months later when said young lady and her father come knocking at his door to announce the imminent arrival of a new family member!

Done this myself – bought a ’71 lightweight with a low compression V8 in it off ebay (drunk bidding, didn’t expect to win). Train to Saltford, drove it back to Glos. Broke down 5 times on the way (wet ECU), by the time I came off the M5 I would have happily set fire to it. Had a new MOT from the garage that sold it, but bit dodgy I think as 11m later it failed due to major chassis rail rust. Been sitting in garage for last 5 years, mainly used as an anchor to lock bikes to and a frame to keep paddle board on.

Sad stuff, would never buy another unseen. Just do it the old fashioned way and go look, haggle etc. Too late now though for you mcmoonter! if you get stuck on the M5 nr Stroud yell!

Clear as a bell on the west coast so flight should be a go-er.

good luck. Bought an aircooled T25 from Cumbria, drove it straight back to London (broke down at Sandbach but got it going, then it did the last 100 miles on the back of an AA lorry). Got it working again then drove it to Spain at a flat-out 55mph with all my worldly possessions inside, and two cats. Think I aged 10 years on that journey.

Incidentally, it backfired to a halt on the hottest day of the year in Tours. When the smoke settled, I realised it had stopped right outside an aircooled VW specialist garage. Owner got us going again for free. Weird.

Let me know if you need a hand with anything, I live 10 mins from Exeter airport have a good toolbox and pretty handy with landrovers.

Arrived in Glasgow to chaos. No flight listing on the departures board. Folks are getting ratty

By pure chance I bumped into a fellow lost passenger who recognised me from the bus trip. Apparently Glasgow can’t list Edinburgh’s diverted flights on their departures board.

Our plane has. Even here since before ten and hasn’t been refuelled

Flybe’s customer services dept are going to have a busy Monday morning

Trusting that the rest of my day will be less stressful

sounds like your return journey will be a piece of cake compared to your outward one

Flymaybe….

I use them for work, sometimes every week & I can probably count on one hand the number of on time flights I’ve had last year

its ominously quiet.. its either holding steady at legal maximum speeds and just south of bristol heading north or still sitting at Edinburgh waiting to travel..

Trusting that the rest of my day will be less stressful

Such positivity in the face of overwhelming odds.

I have visions of mcmoonter pulling onto a dual carriageway and his new purchase making broken Millenium Falcon hyperdrive noises as he puts his foot down.

The consolation of owning a LandRiver is that wherever you are, it has just got you there. Where you want to go may be a different matter…

Flybe are clearly lowering his expectations to a more realistic level….

(Fwiw, I fly about 8x a year Edinburgh-Southampton with Flybe and yet to have an issue other than weather)

Lets say McM is in the air now . Its 1800 on a cold ,dark saturday night.
By the time he lands, gets met or gets taxi to find the LR in question it will most likely be 1930.
Leave Exeter area at 2000, give or take. All will be fine for 3hrs or 150 miles, then , on the Birmingham M5/M6 interchange a huge ploom of white smoke will make an appearence. Its now 11pm , on a cold dark saturday night.
While McM waits on the hard shoulder for the AA man to confirm the lower rad hose has split and funnily enough he cannot fix it, it suddenly turns into a ‘ I dont care what it costs , get me a hotel asap and I will fix it myself tomorrow’

£79 later its a desperate search for a Halfrauds with a “universal” hose, a screwdriver and a pair of jubilee clips. To arrive home 36hrs after leaving with a dodgy LR product

I reckon it’ll be fine, it might stink like a cats toilet inside, but it’ll run like clockwork and he’ll be so bored he will turn left at Carlisle for a pootle amongst the Lakes before doing a bit of “awfrowd” near Keilder Water..

Loving this one! Go McMoonter!!!!

I reckon it’ll die just as he gets back home, then in a couple of years it’ll turn up on a thread here where’s he’s turned it into some kind of garden feature.

There really should be a Vendee Globe style tracker for this adventure, a fantast LR delivery game wouldn’t go amiss either!

Dang, my posting skills are poorer than the Land Rover

I did the deal with the vendor, a posh Somerset carpenter, think High Fearnley Whittingstall with a plane and chisel. His friend Walter has done much of the servicing on the Discovery.

Walter has overlooked the self parking function on the wipers. I’d mastered a deft self cancel move before leaving the airport car park.

I was less (totally) unsuccessfull at stopping the wireless’s self seeking operation. I can get all the channels, but only ten seconds of each before they switch

It only has a cassette player, I’ll have a search in the boot for a CD player. It’s going to a long road trip without sounds

A quarter of a tank and I’m a junction short of the M6 below Birmingham

So far so good.

My td5 defender is kind to me in some ways. If it starts first thing it’s fine for the rest of the day. And it seems to choose to only break down on my drive so at least I don’t get stranded.

Only time I got stuck road side was after letting a garage near it.

Sorry can’t help with the radio as I don’t have one in the 110

Are you doing the trip in a ‘one er’?

You need to turn the autoscan off for it to stick to one station, usually buried in the menu somewhere. If that doesn’t work pull over in a layby on a dual carriageway and you’ll probably find an old, discarded cassette.

Musical lottery 😆

Pie stop at Tebay services. 150 miles to home. Holy cow I think he’s going to make it