Lauras Damage

A little 'on the huh' upon her return!

Back at Threeways Garage being checked over, with her friend. Beauty and the Beast!?

Examination time...

You can just see the brake pipe in this picture.... Guess we were pretty lucky!

Check out that bend! And this is far from soft metal!

Morrocan rocks move for no-one! (or no-2cv!) ...Ouch!

Lauras damage

Seems it was good that we had a very strong fuel tank guard! You can see it took alot of punishment!

Covered in red African dust! The re-enforced front arms stood up really well to the rough terrain. Now we know what to do to the rear arms!

The memory of Lauras first big ditch!

We are unsure exactly when this dent was incurred! Mali or Togo? It just seemed to appear one day! :)

Evidence of many 'jacking' moments! and one time when she fell off the jack!!

Norwich Castle Mall Display with Autotest and Bosch Car Services

Until now, there has not been much to report lately, Laura has been covered up since she arrived home, in an attempt to keep her dirty! Also so she could be shown in the same state she returned in.

So a big Thank you is due to our Sponsor, Autotest, with Bosch car services for organising for us to show Laura the Tourer and talk about our amazing adventure in the Norwich Castle Mall. We were also very proud to promote them as our sponsors and assist in handing out some giveaway goodies!

It took quite sometime to compile the information, map, pictures and videos, to project onto a big screen. All of this hard work was worthwhile in the end, as there were so many people genuinely interested with some great questions. Dad and I thoroughly enjoyed talking though our memories of the Touareg Trail hardcore edition!

Thanks to everyone who came along and made the weekend so special

Also the local newspaper came along and took some great pictures to enable another article to be published

Norwich Castle Mall Display with Autotest and Bosch Car Services

BREAKING NEWS...

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Laura the Tourer is home safe and sound!

We left Norfolk at 3am on 28th and arrived at the collection point in Antwerp at 2.30pm. It was fantastic to be reunited with our fellow adventurers! It was a shame it was such a short visit, but a vist none the less :)

Laura had a flat tyre!! but this was ok as we were expecting 4!! Also the tyre which was on the bent arm was badly warn and illegal for Europe and England so this was also changed. We had taken some spare wheels with us and changed these before leaving. These are the only repairs we have made so far. We then changed another wheel at Dunkirk as it had a slow puncture.

We travelled over in Dads vehicle and I drove Laura home, I had forgotten how much fun she is to drive! She runs ok, and was very grateful for some proper petrol! Laura, like me, much prefers the African heat!! she starts ok but takes a while to warm up!!
We arrived home to Dads at 3am and I continued (without Laura) back to my home.

To Belgium and back in 24 hours! all on just 5 hours sleep, then I had another 5 hours sleep before going to work on the 29th!! .... Hardcore!

Laura the Tourer has a busy time ahead of her now, so now the winner is home continue to watch this space! I will post some pics asap!

Check out this fantactic video...
Created by the lovely Joris!

We are the Champions!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X6sJym9bbY

Winners! ... collecting our 'Most Hardcore Team' Award