An update on team Army Landrovers

Granny suck eggs or not, Nick - the advice is great.

The support that Gareth & Stuart have been offered is amazing; and much from people who don't even them them. 10/10 to all who have offered.

Re the 'book'. Perhaps 2 parts (for sure there is enough to fill 2 books!);

1. 'The 101 saga' then,
2. 'Give us a Brake'

Awe Nick you are so helpful, good luck you guys everything crossed for you

General Confusion wrote:

Garethep wrote:

It turns out I got the recipe wrong for cooking satnavs......It needs 4 hrs in the oven not 3!

Depends on the make. Some need a little more cooking than others

Also depends if its fan assisted or not.

I'm thinking of "A voyage of Discovery" as a title.

Stuart , I've sent you a private message about some Disco bits i can post up, Neil

chopper_gray wrote:

I'm thinking of "A voyage of Discovery" as a title.

There's more coffee on the screen

Nice one.

Hey All,
Stuart's wifey here, thought I would get in on the act and say

I'm Stuarts agent, after all he signed his life away when he married me and to be honest with the hassall and drama I've gone through over the past 8 months since he signed up for the rally I deserve to make something out of it ... so any requests for appearances, books, merchandise etc through me please!

and a quick update on the Disco - sump plug is out and so is all the water n crap, 3 buckets in all before the oil came out apparantly. Carpets are out and the sound proofing will be soon. Dehumidifer going ten to the dozen and everything behind the front seats is now dry!

Stuart and Gareth are working a late shift on it tonight, along with a volunteer from our local 4x4 club so no doubt there'll be another update later tonight

Managed to get a fab article in the local rag too - all PR is good PR or so they say

Hi Helen , if your really are his agent ( I'm sure you are ) if he is not too busy between TV appearances and interviews could you ask him to sign this book.

He may want a copy himself , stop any mishaps

Helen here hijacking Stuarts laptop - I'll get him to circle "the spot"

It runs!!!

Fuel system now drained and a temp connection made to a jerry can of fresh fuel. Turbo pipes are disconnected to blow through the intercooler. Next job is to refill all the drained fluids from gearbox axles etc so wo can move it.

Even better news is that some of the electrical still work so we are making slow but steady progress.

Cheers

Gareth

excellent keep up the good work ,see you on the big day

good stuff. Looks like your luck might be changing

Brill news and positive news Stuart; great to hear.

I see you've also got your laptop back Ha.

Good news

suck eggs and all that ,,,make sure when you clean out the intercooler you make sure its free and well dried out from any combustibles fluids or you’ll get engine run away

Wooo hooo.... nice work, let's hope this good luck keeps going for you guys (and of course your hard efforts)

Good news guys, you've got your hands full for sure.

See you at the start.

A good couple of days this weekend. While I was tinkering with the engine yesterday, Stuart and Helen were out rattling tins. I'll let Stuart break the news on how much was collected but it was well worth it.

This morning we combined our efforts and the truck has now driven around the yard under it's own power.
The next big hurdle is the visit of the insurance assessor...don't know what his attitude will be but we've done our best to ensure that he has no objections to it being kept on the road. (advice on the best "lines to take" would be well received as I've no real experience in thus area.)

Cheers

Gareth

What ever you do don't tell them you drove it into a canal,,,,hope that helps

The insurance assessor will base his assessment on total loss or not on rougly 75-80% of the market value of the vehicle.

It will depend on how much you are going to claim value wise.

If he writes it off, then you'll have to buy the vehicle back from the insurers, and possibly have it VOSA inspected and re-mot'd to prove road worthyness. In this case, a lot will depend on which category of write off he determines it to be.

If you're not going to make a claim, you may only need to prove road worhtyness with an MOT.

It really is going to depend on the assesment.

Alot will have to do with the damage to the environment:roll: through the dunking in the lake, and the clean up etc.

A bit of an update from my half of the team. Insurance assessor coming out tomorrow. A good day collecting last Saturday where I recon we probably filled our cans to region of £1000 we will find out on Friday for definate after we have the cans counted by our auditor. Dumfries and Galloway has very harsh collecting rules. Sunday loads of work done on the car. Most of what is left is putting bits back together inside. We are amazed at how much stuff seams to be unaffected but we are waiting for it to bight us. This Saturday we are collecting on two fronts. My cadets are bag packing in Tesco Lockerbie and we are tin rattling at the doors of the main Tesco in Dumfries.

I would like to thank people for all the offers of help we have had. The good news is I think we raised our publicity by a notch by getting us featured on land rover owners website and three local papers.

Good luck guys.

Hope the insurance assessment goes well. Keep us posted.

You got publicity from dunking a Disco in a canal; I'm surprised!

Great news on the car progress - as well the tin shakin' -