Skoda Rally Blog

… so I thought the drive would go smoothly – go to Abingdon on the Saturday and get scrutineered, come back and then drive up on the Sunday. So, we set off in plenty of time, and it’s all going well then suddenly, it’s not! There was a massive whistle/whining sound that appeared, and obviously I thought it was trouble straight away. I slowed down and then changed into fourth, and it went, so it looked like a problem with 5th only. Changing back to 5th showed that the problem was getting worse very quickly – the speed/load that it would happen at got lower each time, so I decided to stick it in fourth, take it easy and get scrutineered.

Got to Abingdon and watched the first half of England vs Paraguay in the World Cup, but gave up on the second half because I’d rather get the car scrutineered, which went OK. Once Paul had finished, got everything done and then went home to change the box. An hour and a half later all was well again, apart from having waterproofed the drive with EP80. So, on to tomorrow, then, with some luck!