Hey guys, as a daily G driver I'm always adding miles to the G but this week was a long one.
Plan: Go and enjoy the swiss countryside for a week with the Mrs.
First day was a long one, starting at three in the morning and ending at 8 at night; 800 miles in one day from home to switzerland; G did very well, 38mpg on one tank and 42mpg on the next (had to thrash the first tank to get to dover in time) only had to top the oil up on the drive as it had 5-30w in it and it should have 10-40w. It was great fun on the autobahns but I generally kept to 75-80ish for fuel usage, had one thrash with a Mk3 GTi and pulled away from her up to 120mph.
Next day was good weather and got to enjoy some swiss countryside:
After that though the shit started to happen. Rain, and lots of it! I decided to use a rainy day to do some swiss mountain passes. So I went and enjoyed the Susten - Furka and the Grimsel passes:
I mean a lot of rain!:
G was great on them but I still had a load of camping shit in her so she was sluggish up the shorter straights. Supercharged engine is great out of hairpins (NOTE: My girlfriend did not enjoy this.) Then the sun came out as we enjoyed dinner:
As we had the shittest tent in the world that didnt ventilate any of the air inside; the next night was a choice of open the door and get wet in the rain, or stay dry and die of oxygen starvation. so we moved to the car to sleep (G saved us!)
This was followed by another good day of weather, some good views, a little bit of mountain climbing one bad night in a hostel and some bike riding (yes, we fittest 2 bikes and all of our stuff in the back):
Drove past hockenheim and some comedy milage (the G is on 20k more than that due to changed clocks though):
The drive home was spread over two days, me and the mrs slept in the car the first + second night on the way home and had over 48 hours in the G (we had to sleep in her cause the tent was seriously, the shittest tent in the world. dont buy asda £20 tents and expect them to function as anything but a pile of shit)
Stopped at a 'nice village' in germany for the last night:
Track was closed though due to a private track day and i 'wasn't allowed' to wait until 5:30PM to get on it as a member of the public.
Overall clocked up 2087 miles in the week and averaged 40mpg throughout!
The tanks where:
1: 384 Miles
2: 425 Miles
3: 437 Miles
4: 418 Miles
5: 383 Miles (and 40 miles home after that)
Things that broke:
key for fuel tank snapped in the lock on the last tank, but if i pushed hard enough it would still open with half the key broken off in the lock and the other jammed in it.
AND thats it. G saved us several nights; performed well throughout and gave us many many fun times.
(sorry for a long thread)
THANK YOU G40!