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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
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23/01/2020 00:12
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Rosso
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In a 20v n/a I'd tackle that section of roads heading down from the North, going up the altitude will mean you'll be having to work that engine hard and if you have any electrical gremlins you'll find them, DaveG knows this from experience. Oh how lucky then Joe it looks like we will be heading up the hairpins working that 20v but hopefully not having any electrical gremlins. Anything in particular I should check before?
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Rosso]
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23/01/2020 00:22
23/01/2020 00:22
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Make sure your brakes don't squeak, the pads/discs have plenty of life, your brake fluid is fresh, and your handbrake works! I could be wrong, but approaching the top from either side still means you have reach the same elevation The rubbish turning circle in a 20vt means that oncoming traffic might cause you a problem, but you should be OK in the 20v.
1996 Portofino 20vt & 2000 Pearl White Plus 1985½ & 2016 2017 Fiat 124 Spider + XF Sportbrake
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Rosso]
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23/01/2020 18:16
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bayliss
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I feel I need to apologise to Rosso, at start of thread I thought the tour was a club tour and asked a couple of inappropriate questions. Now of course realise it’s a personal tour, apologies. Newbi error.
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Rosso]
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23/01/2020 21:31
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bayliss
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Cheers, onward and upwards.
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Rosso]
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28/06/2020 10:00
28/06/2020 10:00
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Ballypete
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I hope it takes place and goes smoothly for you Brian. No Italian road trip for me this year but am thinking of taking Doris when I am working for a month in Gibraltar in September. Probably get the ferry from Plymouth to Roscoff and then down the west coast of France, or to Santander and then straight through middle of Spain. No aircon in Doris so time to roast again...
Doris the 1998 Portofino Blue 20V and Zoe the 1999 Alfa Romeo 916 Spider Bog standard needn't be boring...
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Rosso]
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28/06/2020 10:27
28/06/2020 10:27
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That will be awesome run and I hope you get the go ahead. How are the roads in France to drive in comparison? There's certainly hope that it will and we are sticking with all the bookings and to keep updated with border crossing changes. It will no doubt be a different experience in many ways and I expect it will be less busy too which cant be a bad thing. Well I tried to get the aircon up and running on the 20vt before the trip in 2018 but it just wasn't happening and I don't have that worry on the 20v as hasn't got any so it will be windows down and sunroof open...still trying to find something that could help with keeping the dogs as cool as possible
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Rosso]
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28/06/2020 10:35
28/06/2020 10:35
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Ballypete
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The roads in France were excellent, but expensive if using the toll roads. Will be interesting to see if any difference between the east and west of the country. I have never driven in Spain so that will be an experience to report back on. I would get a couple of the JML chillmax gel pillows for your dogs, around a tenner each. They work really well and you don't need to put them in the freezer etc
Doris the 1998 Portofino Blue 20V and Zoe the 1999 Alfa Romeo 916 Spider Bog standard needn't be boring...
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Rosso]
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28/06/2020 11:19
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bayliss
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That will be awesome run and I hope you get the go ahead. How are the roads in France to drive in comparison? There's certainly hope that it will and we are sticking with all the bookings and to keep updated with border crossing changes. It will no doubt be a different experience in many ways and I expect it will be less busy too which cant be a bad thing. Well I tried to get the aircon up and running on the 20vt before the trip in 2018 but it just wasn't happening and I don't have that worry on the 20v as hasn't got any so it will be windows down and sunroof open...still trying to find something that could help with keeping the dogs as cool as possible Ex FI drivers iced waistcoat should do the trick, at least for. few hours.
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Ballypete]
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28/06/2020 16:58
28/06/2020 16:58
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The roads in France were excellent, but expensive if using the toll roads. Drove back from the 20th anniversary in Turin through France to Calais; didn't touch a toll road all the way. A bit slower perhaps, but so what? I was on holiday, not commuting! Neil
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
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28/06/2020 21:25
28/06/2020 21:25
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Rosso
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The roads in France were excellent, but expensive if using the toll roads. Will be interesting to see if any difference between the east and west of the country. I have never driven in Spain so that will be an experience to report back on. I would get a couple of the JML chillmax gel pillows for your dogs, around a tenner each. They work really well and you don't need to put them in the freezer etc As a plan B if the ferry to Ijmuiden is not going we are looking at that Euro tunnel route through France and Brussels and stopping overnight just outside of Frankfurt. Ill check the gel pillows out anything to make there journey couped up in the coupe will make life easier.
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Rosso]
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12/07/2020 17:43
12/07/2020 17:43
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Here you go boys......and girls https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TravelJohn-Disposable-Sick-Wee-Bag-Emergency-Paper-Camping-Travel-Toilet-Vomit/402287307601?epid=1704156351&hash=item5daa312b51:g:B40AAOSwMTde8N20
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Re: Italian Road Trip 2020
[Re: Rosso]
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13/07/2020 19:41
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barnacle
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Taking the Bravo - the coupe is sorn until the move is sorted out, then we'll see what to do with it. There's a form available from the eurotunnel site which is required if you're arriving from the UK, and arriving back in the UK you need to do an online form, linked from the same place: https://www.eurotunnel.com/uk/travelling-with-us/latest/covid-19/
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