Still - the first long run in the UAZ is now complete - it drove down to W&P the long way due to Operation Stack and home the short way today. Tomorrow it's get the pressure washer out and get the mud off of it, the Landie, the Rangie and the Citroen.
One of the good things about a wet W&P is that it shuts up the tree huggers who moan about a garden full of 4x4's in an Outer London Borough.
The UAZ behaved well at the show - especially after I worked out with instruction the method of engaging low ratio 4WD.
It spent the week trundling around in the dust and then the mud quite happily. A few lesson were learnt though:
- * In future I won't unbolt the roof from the front of the windscreen but will just fold it on top of the dropped windscreen. The book says the holes in the hood should just fit over the securing bolts apart from the outermost one on each side. We had to remove every bolt to get it off so when it decided to rain heavily it took a while to get it back on.
* Need to find some way of water proofing the seats. Every time after it rained anyone sitting inside the vehicle got soaked - from below (which I admit is most unusual!!)
* Still need to work on the front brakes - hard braking gets a severe pull to the right, so severe you wind up facing oncoming traffic!
* The speedo has a plus or minus 10 kph reading when cruising along!! Its impossible to hold a set speed because you have no idea how fast you are going. I got bawled at by a new show marshal for not going at 5 mph - which turned into an apology after I sat him in the passenger seat and let him see the needle jumping from 0 to 25 kph irrespective of actual speed. I will be fitting a 12v power socket so a sat nav can be plugged in and I can get an accurate speed reading off of that.
* I will be glad when the new doors arrive from Tarmot - the drivers door flew open a few times on the way home because the door is basically falling apart from rot.