Maroc Challenge

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vilguy said:
volvo xc90 d5 - chipped

would make a great un!
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Yeah, it would, though do they have diff lock or just TC? though I guess you just have to go faster so you don't get stuck!

I have seen a problem with Subaru imprezas:
before 1999, rusting badly by now or chavvy and ruined, between 1999 and 2002 ugly, after 2002 too new.
 
Much more practical than the impreza but (I think) better looking.
Doesnt look to have been "done up" either which is a bonus. Seller has pointed out some negatives which is good too.
I wouldnt worry about the headlights and grill.... what about lifting it a smidge so it doesnt tear the bodykit off in the dunes?
 
james6546 said:
What you think of this? Yeah I know the headlights and grille are ugly but I can fix that.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1996-SUBARU-LEGACY-GTB-twin-turbo-/281781876453?hash=item419b8236e5
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Vulgar, drug dealer, too low, low profile tyres. James, you already have the perfect car for this trip on your drive ( now it's stopped loosing oil). Failing that, my ultra reliable Disco may be for sale shortly if I find a good Delica. And I maybe able to join you on the Maroc challenge if I can get 3 weeks off work. Are you thinking about the spring 2017 one?
 
Vincemcdonald said:
Vulgar, drug dealer, too low, low profile tyres. James, you already have the perfect car for this trip on your drive ( now it's stopped loosing oil). Failing that, my ultra reliable Disco may be for sale shortly if I find a good Delica. And I maybe able to join you on the Maroc challenge if I can get 3 weeks off work. Are you thinking about the spring 2017 one?
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Whilst it is a bit of a drug dealer car, its cheap and fast! I've gone off it now anyway due to fuel costs, but it would have had different wheels that aren't low profile, higher suspension, a load of underguards and a snorkel if I could work one out.

I think a lot of people do them in Land Rovers and 4x4s and kind of wanted to be a bit different. I would like a bit more power than my 90 has for sand dunes etc., it would make it more fun.

At the moment I am thinking the Spring 2017 one, although it depends on whether I can get enough funds and time off together as I'm hoping to go to the USA for a few months in the summer.

What you decided on the delica? Looked at one yet?
 
A real shame, I could just see you with some loud music on doing the drunken munkey across the desert.... UH UG UG UG UG!

We have settled on the rexton, (mainly cos we already have it and its just sat there...)

I have struggled to find any bits to make it more suitable so I think there is a bit of a niche we are going to explore with our side business. I just wish the thing wasnt £400+ a year to sodding tax!

What about an L200 james? That was our other thought, plenty of room, plenty fast enough, and easy to work on.
 
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vilguy said:
A real shame, I could just see you with some loud music on doing the drunken munkey across the desert.... UH UG UG UG UG!

We have settled on the rexton, (mainly cos we already have it and its just sat there...)

I have struggled to find any bits to make it more suitable so I think there is a bit of a niche we are going to explore with our side business. I just wish the thing wasnt £400+ a year to sodding tax!

What about an L200 james? That was our other thought, plenty of room, plenty fast enough, and easy to work on.
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Aren't L200s unreliable and not that good offroad?!

Another shortage of parts are shogun/trooper/pathfinder. No real companies make winch bumpers, wheel carriers etc..

Just a heads up, I might have to pull out of this endeavour as I am doing the Mongol Rally next year so will be short on time off/money. I'll start a thread on that at some point.
 
lame...

whats the mongol rally (cant be arsed to google....)
Loads make bits for shoguns etc.

As for theL200... well we have had 4... and all have had engine problems and rot.......
 
vilguy said:
lame...

whats the mongol rally (cant be arsed to google....)
Loads make bits for shoguns etc.

As for theL200... well we have had 4... and all have had engine problems and rot.......
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Haha, def not one of those then!

Sorry, I know it is lame, the Maroc challenge looks epic.

The Mongol rally is essentially 10,000 miles from London to Mongolia in a 1 litre car or less. All for charity (we are doing it for alzheimer's). If you get bored watch some youtube vids, there are some good ones.
 
One big change to the mongol rally in recent years has been the filling up of mongolia with crap small beaten up cars. Now the importation of old cars is very very costly, to the point of activity discouraging it. You MUST remove the car all the way back to europe before you can scrap / sell it. Even if the car breaks down and becomes nothing more than a ton of scrap metal, it must still be removed from the country. Budget for this! It will kill you financially if it goes wrong.

I have just towed three cars out of the county into russia where they were looking at putting their semi-destroyed cars onto trains and scrapping them in Europe. Only just got the last one out before their visa expired too.
 
Yeah. It stops being a kind of all out 'wacky races'. Now you have to make an informed decision on what kind of car and how you drive it. Effectively it's doubled the length of the trip and the budget. You have to make sure you're wallet is ready for the shock.

It's a recent change (1 or 2 years ago) and the organisers haven't made it too well known, a paragraph on the website well down the description. If you decide to do the race after hearing someone's stories from before the change. You're in for a shock later on.

It's a shame too as an old Fiat Panda I was towing out to the boarder was generating some real interest. Clearly the car had died but families were offering 300 - 500 euros for it in every village we stopped in. So the demand is still there.
 
NiallRussell said:
Yeah. It stops being a kind of all out 'wacky races'. Now you have to make an informed decision on what kind of car and how you drive it. Effectively it's doubled the length of the trip and the budget. You have to make sure you're wallet is ready for the shock.

It's a recent change (1 or 2 years ago) and the organisers haven't made it too well known, a paragraph on the website well down the description. If you decide to do the race after hearing someone's stories from before the change. You're in for a shock later on.

It's a shame too as an old Fiat Panda I was towing out to the boarder was generating some real interest. Clearly the car had died but families were offering 300 - 500 euros for it in every village we stopped in. So the demand is still there.
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Yeah, I know you have to take them out with you. It does suck a bit and ruins the idea slightly. Adds about £800 onto the trip I think. They make you pay a £1000 deposit to ensure your car is not abandoned, and they now use that to ship the car back, so it essentially isn't a deposit now.

I think the plan is to try and drive it back to the UK, unless it obviously breaks terminally in which case it will have to be shipped.
 
I would rather give the car away and fly home, I could not bring myself to spend a grand shipping a piece of crap back to Europe. There was a run to Russia I saw online I read about in Jan, and they gave the cars away and flew back.
 
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