ovalandrover
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I left the UK on 6th May and made my way slowly across europe visiting friends and doing some sightseeing and had a couple of problems with my 12 v hot water jug and had to renew some wiring on the cigarette lighter extension as the thin Chinese stuff burnt out. Then after about 2000 miles into the trip the suspension christmas tree lit up and the 35 MPH sign came up. Pump was not working so checked all around and found a burnt out connection in the EAS box so bypassed that.
The day before I was due to enter Russia i had a quiet morning by a lake in Latvia and then thought I would move a little closer to the boarder to get over early next day so started moving all was going well for about 50 km then all of a sudden the temp went up to the red so pulled up immediately and when i got out there was a pool of water running from under the car so thought a hose had blown. On further inspection I found that a fan blade had parted company from the fan and put 3 holes in my radiator.The nearest town was Daugavpils about 20 KM away and the was about 1 car an hour on this road. To get at the leak I had to remove the fan and shield to get at the leaks and patch them up with some epoxy resin.the next day i got into the town and managed to a fan ordered to arrive the next day for 150 euros.
Spent the day sight seeing and next day at 9am the fan arrived and fitted it and then went to the boarder and entered Russia.
Have spent the last 2 day sightseeing in St Petersberg and will move on tomorrow
The Annoying part about this is the fan was renewed last November and the car was laid up until april so it only did about 3000 miles.
Only about 15000 miles to go this trip
The day before I was due to enter Russia i had a quiet morning by a lake in Latvia and then thought I would move a little closer to the boarder to get over early next day so started moving all was going well for about 50 km then all of a sudden the temp went up to the red so pulled up immediately and when i got out there was a pool of water running from under the car so thought a hose had blown. On further inspection I found that a fan blade had parted company from the fan and put 3 holes in my radiator.The nearest town was Daugavpils about 20 KM away and the was about 1 car an hour on this road. To get at the leak I had to remove the fan and shield to get at the leaks and patch them up with some epoxy resin.the next day i got into the town and managed to a fan ordered to arrive the next day for 150 euros.
Spent the day sight seeing and next day at 9am the fan arrived and fitted it and then went to the boarder and entered Russia.
Have spent the last 2 day sightseeing in St Petersberg and will move on tomorrow
The Annoying part about this is the fan was renewed last November and the car was laid up until april so it only did about 3000 miles.
Only about 15000 miles to go this trip
