FFS.
My opinion has swayed, with the black RS16 spoiler and the coilover it sits really well. I quite like it!
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Liquid Yellow 220 Trophy
- Thread starter DaveL485
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My opinion has swayed, with the black RS16 spoiler and the coilover it sits really well. I quite like it!
nday.
Drove Cov to Verdun, via Reims. No issues, all went swimmingly.
Monday, Reims to Monza, through Switzerland. We wanted to take a break through Switzerland and pulled in to some services a few miles after border control (where we were waived through without stopping). I took a slight wrong turn and ended up in some sort of passport/border area for trucks, fine no probs we just go throunh and into the service area.
But no. Oh no, the passport control people started pointing and waving at the cars (4 cars). Turns out we were missing a Swiss vignette sticker. You have to pay this for the pleasure of driving on Swiss highways...apparently. Nothing at passport control or whatever. They also got the arse about me not having my V5 document which I have never carried with me in the car on any euro jaunt.
CHF 40 for the Vignette and CHF 200 fine
as soon as the fines were paid, they didnt seem that bothered about the V5. Funny that.
Then we had the pleasure of three hours of traffic through the tunnels turning an 8 hour drive into a 11 hour drive. FFS. Got to the hotel late, missed dinner reservations but fotunately the hotel had a decent restaurant so we ate there and had a beer or 3.
Tuesday, up early and over to Monza. Briefing done and away we went on the morning session.
I paid £600 for the full day. Six hundred english pounds to spend the day tearing around the temple of speed. Bucket list. Excited.
5 laps in and just getting warmed up it lost some power and throttle pickup but no errors on the dash so was wondering if I was imagining it. Came in, checked everything looked good under the hood - and it did - so decided to go back out. Started the car and it caught then died...thats odd, never done that before. Restarted it and SMOKE out the back. Its never puffed even the tiniest bit of smoke before. Few mins later I had the inlet pipe and...
View attachment 227447
Dead turbo. Fuming much? Car was freshly serviced before we left, always serviced early. Inlet system was all good, no holes or debris. Air filter intact. No idea why it failed even now. I'd never even taken this pipe off before in 30k miles, all I have done is change the air filter a few times, last time maybe 3k ago.
Called European breakdown, as car is obviously toast. AA said 90mins, that would mean they arrive at 3pm.....
...so at 7pm we get kicked out of the circuit as they are closing, and recovery still havent shown up. Fuming x 2. I bought a ratchet strap of Nigel Pinder as he had a spare and we towed it with my mates Alpina D3S out of the circuit and dumped it unceremoniously in a layby. He then took us 40mins north to out overnight on lake como, we were late for food (again) and made him late getting to Maranello too.
Nice digs though!
Drove Cov to Verdun, via Reims. No issues, all went swimmingly.
Monday, Reims to Monza, through Switzerland. We wanted to take a break through Switzerland and pulled in to some services a few miles after border control (where we were waived through without stopping). I took a slight wrong turn and ended up in some sort of passport/border area for trucks, fine no probs we just go throunh and into the service area.
But no. Oh no, the passport control people started pointing and waving at the cars (4 cars). Turns out we were missing a Swiss vignette sticker. You have to pay this for the pleasure of driving on Swiss highways...apparently. Nothing at passport control or whatever. They also got the arse about me not having my V5 document which I have never carried with me in the car on any euro jaunt.
CHF 40 for the Vignette and CHF 200 fine
as soon as the fines were paid, they didnt seem that bothered about the V5. Funny that. Then we had the pleasure of three hours of traffic through the tunnels turning an 8 hour drive into a 11 hour drive. FFS. Got to the hotel late, missed dinner reservations but fotunately the hotel had a decent restaurant so we ate there and had a beer or 3.
Tuesday, up early and over to Monza. Briefing done and away we went on the morning session.
I paid £600 for the full day. Six hundred english pounds to spend the day tearing around the temple of speed. Bucket list. Excited.
5 laps in and just getting warmed up it lost some power and throttle pickup but no errors on the dash so was wondering if I was imagining it. Came in, checked everything looked good under the hood - and it did - so decided to go back out. Started the car and it caught then died...thats odd, never done that before. Restarted it and SMOKE out the back. Its never puffed even the tiniest bit of smoke before. Few mins later I had the inlet pipe and...
View attachment 227447
Dead turbo. Fuming much? Car was freshly serviced before we left, always serviced early. Inlet system was all good, no holes or debris. Air filter intact. No idea why it failed even now. I'd never even taken this pipe off before in 30k miles, all I have done is change the air filter a few times, last time maybe 3k ago.
Called European breakdown, as car is obviously toast. AA said 90mins, that would mean they arrive at 3pm.....
...so at 7pm we get kicked out of the circuit as they are closing, and recovery still havent shown up. Fuming x 2. I bought a ratchet strap of Nigel Pinder as he had a spare and we towed it with my mates Alpina D3S out of the circuit and dumped it unceremoniously in a layby. He then took us 40mins north to out overnight on lake como, we were late for food (again) and made him late getting to Maranello too.
Nice digs though!
Wednesday. Woke up, had food, the plan for the day was a boat trip on the lake but that went out the window. TR chat group were helping trying to find a solution. Andy Bond found a use turbo 2 hours east, so messaged the ebay seller and said I wanted to collect today. They said OK and Roger H agreed to run me to get it. We were about to leave and the seller messaged me NOT to some and the unit was U/S, no good. Gimme a break man.
The auction listing for this unit had the manufacturers p/n on it so searching with that, Rog found a new unit with that p/n from a Nissan Juke an hour away also on ebay. Messaged the seller and arranged to go, the car was enroute so we stopped by to remove the old unit first. Went to the shop, bought the new turbo after comparing it. Looked right so we went for it. Drove back to the car and fitted it in a thunderstorm, rain, thunder, the works! Fired it up and it worked! Phew.
Drove up to lake como, seemed fine. Relief.
Thursday. Today was another bucket list item, Stelvio Pass. However I decided to bin this and take my Mrs for the promised boat trip on Como, as she had been amazing and patient with the car issues and had been very much looking forward to a lake touristy day. I will go back for Stelvio!
We got to Como and the boat routes were basically shut save for the bottom left leg of the lake. Huge rainfall the 2 days before had caused landslides and the lake was full of debris. Not twigs and stuff, I mean big trees ripped out. Load of places closed from flooding and mud. Lots of workers at various places dragging stuff like this out of the water.
Not ideal but we walked around a bit, took the boats we could, had lunch and went up to a nice high viewpoint - grateful I suppose that the car was at least working to do that! We didnt take pics of the mud swamped places, as that would have been distasteful. Nice to see though, lots of community spirit in the clean up operation. the Maranello guys rejoined us Thursday evening and we consumed more food and beverage.
Fridays plan was to drive west, to visit a pass called Colle De Nivolet, with its amazing views. Of course though, it was snowing and closed 12km from the summit - amazing.
Then we headed back down the pass, to the temples of humankind, a collection of subterranean temples buried 30 metres (100 ft) underground built by the Federation of Damanhur. You'll have to settle for google images pictures as, predictably on this trip, they wouldnt let us in as the guided tours were full - but what they dont tell you on the website is that YOU CANT GO IN WITHOUT BEING ON A GUIDED TOUR. Fab-u-f**king-lous.
We just drove to the hotel, which was close and spent the time in the bar instead. Ate at the hotel also which was wonderful.
Saturday, we headed over the alps to some phenomenal scenery, toward Troyes, via Montreaux to visit the Freddie Mercury statue. The scenery from here was outrageous also. Stunning.
Sunday the final leg home. We razzed up to the chunnel, who were of course running late. We arrived together and they managed to get us all on different trains. Well done Chunnel people! The other guys went the other way around the M25 and got nailed in major traffic, and got home 2 hours after us. A fitting end to the saga of disasters.
Still. Had a great time. Hope the swiss passport control choke on the 800 quids worth of fines. Already planning next years trip!
The auction listing for this unit had the manufacturers p/n on it so searching with that, Rog found a new unit with that p/n from a Nissan Juke an hour away also on ebay. Messaged the seller and arranged to go, the car was enroute so we stopped by to remove the old unit first. Went to the shop, bought the new turbo after comparing it. Looked right so we went for it. Drove back to the car and fitted it in a thunderstorm, rain, thunder, the works! Fired it up and it worked! Phew.
Drove up to lake como, seemed fine. Relief.
Thursday. Today was another bucket list item, Stelvio Pass. However I decided to bin this and take my Mrs for the promised boat trip on Como, as she had been amazing and patient with the car issues and had been very much looking forward to a lake touristy day. I will go back for Stelvio!
We got to Como and the boat routes were basically shut save for the bottom left leg of the lake. Huge rainfall the 2 days before had caused landslides and the lake was full of debris. Not twigs and stuff, I mean big trees ripped out. Load of places closed from flooding and mud. Lots of workers at various places dragging stuff like this out of the water.
Not ideal but we walked around a bit, took the boats we could, had lunch and went up to a nice high viewpoint - grateful I suppose that the car was at least working to do that! We didnt take pics of the mud swamped places, as that would have been distasteful. Nice to see though, lots of community spirit in the clean up operation. the Maranello guys rejoined us Thursday evening and we consumed more food and beverage.
Fridays plan was to drive west, to visit a pass called Colle De Nivolet, with its amazing views. Of course though, it was snowing and closed 12km from the summit - amazing.
Then we headed back down the pass, to the temples of humankind, a collection of subterranean temples buried 30 metres (100 ft) underground built by the Federation of Damanhur. You'll have to settle for google images pictures as, predictably on this trip, they wouldnt let us in as the guided tours were full - but what they dont tell you on the website is that YOU CANT GO IN WITHOUT BEING ON A GUIDED TOUR. Fab-u-f**king-lous.
We just drove to the hotel, which was close and spent the time in the bar instead. Ate at the hotel also which was wonderful.
Saturday, we headed over the alps to some phenomenal scenery, toward Troyes, via Montreaux to visit the Freddie Mercury statue. The scenery from here was outrageous also. Stunning.
Sunday the final leg home. We razzed up to the chunnel, who were of course running late. We arrived together and they managed to get us all on different trains. Well done Chunnel people! The other guys went the other way around the M25 and got nailed in major traffic, and got home 2 hours after us. A fitting end to the saga of disasters.
Still. Had a great time. Hope the swiss passport control choke on the 800 quids worth of fines. Already planning next years trip!
Incidentally, on the turbo, since fitting the replacement I have done well over a thousand miles home plus given it a kicking after i got back and its fine...so the failure wasnt the car (oil feed, overheating core or whatever). It just...let go.
My enormous gratitude to Matt, for taking me and my Mrs to our Hotel Tuesday night, and to Roger for taking me to get the turbo and assisting in fitting it. And of course to Andy for finding the spare that gave me the p/n which found me the new unit close by enough to go fetch it.
I did consider shipping one out to Italy from the UK, shout out to Pete at K-Tec for having one ready to go same day even if not needed in the end.
And finally to Alex at Courtney vehicle logistics who was prepared to divert and pick my car up to transport it home if needed, at a vastly reduced rate.
As much as I was let down by the AA, the TR community was there to catch me. This is why we run clubs like this. The family we choose and cherish 🥰
My enormous gratitude to Matt, for taking me and my Mrs to our Hotel Tuesday night, and to Roger for taking me to get the turbo and assisting in fitting it. And of course to Andy for finding the spare that gave me the p/n which found me the new unit close by enough to go fetch it.
I did consider shipping one out to Italy from the UK, shout out to Pete at K-Tec for having one ready to go same day even if not needed in the end.
And finally to Alex at Courtney vehicle logistics who was prepared to divert and pick my car up to transport it home if needed, at a vastly reduced rate.
As much as I was let down by the AA, the TR community was there to catch me. This is why we run clubs like this. The family we choose and cherish 🥰
Adey.
ClioSport Club Member
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