Arctic Cerbera

[SporttiJanne]

Hi all!
Got home monday morning with the Cerbera I bought from Lester.

Journey started Friday morning from my friends garage near London. The first drive was to Harwich and went in a sunny weather. See photo:
http://jannenr1.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Projektit/TVR%20Cer...

Denmark at Saturday was cloudy and around zero Celsius. Storebält bridge is nearing in this photo:
http://jannenr1.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Projektit/TVR%20Cer...

Morning check in Sweden Sunday morning. Minus 4 Celsius, I am glad it was not snowing...
http://jannenr1.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Projektit/TVR+Cerbe...

550 kms thru Sweden. Sunday evening in Stockholm waiting for the ferry:
http://jannenr1.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Projektit/TVR+Cerbe...

Last ferry to Finland:
http://jannenr1.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Projektit/TVR+Cerbe...

Only couple of kms to drive. Outside temperature -13 Celsius. MIL lamp started to flash without any obvious reason.
http://jannenr1.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Projektit/TVR+Cerbe...

Home garage at last:
http://jannenr1.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Projektit/TVR+Cerbe...

Edited by SporttiJanne on Monday 30th January 12:54

[Bigadz]

Hi and welcome!

What a trip that must have been, great to see her making it with no problems. Plenty of cold air to keep the temps down!

[SporttiJanne]

No worries with the engine temps. Gauge showed 85 degrees on the road, +100 on queues.
But my feet were freezing, the heater is a joke at +80km/h. It blows allright but I would not call the breeze warm. City crawling inside temp is actually pretty hot, but again - nothing to my feet.

I will write more as soon as I have recovered from the stress of this journey...

[lestershaw]

Jean, if you are a Tvr legend after that epic journey, in my eyes anyway!!
the picture looking out of the cerbera windscreen into the snow is awesome, i would be scared s*******s lol.
did you share the driving?
Lester

[SporttiJanne]

Driving to Harwich took a couple of hours, thru Denmark (330km) was around three hours and thru Sweden(550km) five hours (had to fill up fuel once). At home I had only 50 kms to drive.
I was driving alone - no one did want to share this journey with me. I wonder why

[lestershaw]

i am really pleased for you, glad you had no problems.
did you sort out the mil light?
i did try phoning you saturday and texting you.
the cerbera has been replaced by subaru impreza sti 555 and porsche boxster 3.2. seems like we are both happy :-)

[Pursyluv]

Excellent photo

http://jannenr1.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Projektit/TVR+Cerbe...

[lestershaw]

how many miles was the trip?

[FUBAR]

Pursyluv said:

Excellent photo

http://jannenr1.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Projektit/TVR+Cerbe...

You know, that is, by far, the REDDEST I've ever seen the snowflake. I wonder why?

[Mr Cerbera]

SporttiJanne said:

Driving to Harwich took a couple of hours, thru Denmark (330km) was around three hours and thru Sweden(550km) five hours (had to fill up fuel once). At home I had only 50 kms to drive.
I was driving alone - no one did want to share this journey with me. I wonder why

In my 12,000 year s of living on this planet I have had the very good fortune to do some pretty insane things in the company of some truly insane people.
The Finnish have always lead the way in this classification.
So happy that Lester's Cerb went tol a true Nutcase.
You are an honarary member of Cerb folklore already
(and gives all Cerb owners a really good target for Cerberoar in Europe)

You have to admire a nation whose equivalent to "Cheers !" is "Get Pissed !"

[Byker28i]

Top driving chap and welcome to ownership.

[schimg]

Nice to see that you got yourself sorted, think you were the chap chatting to my wife at the Autosport show...we had a brief chat, and you gave me your card?

You were looking for a decent Cerbera?
Looks like you found one...pleased for you..

Think you said you had a wedge...photographic evidence now!

Good luck with the Cerbera, they are awesome...keep an eye on the salt tho!

regards

Steve

[mikeinsheffield]

Excellent post - you must have balls the size of watermelons!!!
Got caught in heavy snow ONCE in the Cerbera - not an experience I would care to repeat again in a hurry....

Hope that you enjoy your Cerb ownership!

[camel_landy]

Utterly bonkers...

...you're going to fit in well!

I take my hat off to you for driving a Cerb in those conditions but seriously envious of that garage of yours!

M

[robsco]

Good post. Hope you enjoy the car, they really are incredible machines. As I said in a previous thread, it is a shame that there are Cerberas leaving the UK, but it seems as though this one has found an excellent home and owner.

Hat doffed to you for your commitment and dedication.

[SporttiJanne]

Many thanks to all of you!
It is very nice to read you comments!
TVR nut is a nut, even if you froze him!

Lester: There was appr. 1100 km of driving. I saved a lot of driving by taking the ferry from Harwich to Esbjerg, Denmark. Still have to check that randomly blinking MIL-light.

Steve: Yes, I am the guy you and your wife had a chat with at NEC.

TVR winter motoring is not quite new to me, althought we do not nomally use them in the winter.The first TVR I was driving was 400SE. We were doing the trip with my mom. The car was new from Blackpool. It was 1990 December, and the weather conditions were a lot worse at that time. It was snowing in England and Sweden, and I was driving thru Sweden all night . THAT was exciting, I would not recommend any one to do it. That car is gone now.

Winter experience with Cerbera in Finland:
http://youtu.be/CRpoENlbksc

Let's see, when I put the car on my dyno. And to what it will lead...

Edited by SporttiJanne on Tuesday 31st January 12:18

[StPauli]

robsco said:

As I said in a previous thread, it is a shame that there are Cerberas leaving the UK, but it seems as though this one has found an excellent home and owner.

Rob, don't worry, all the Cerbera owners in Germany which I know treat their Cerbs very well, so they are in good hands

Jean: very nice pics from an intersting trip. Congratulations

[ajp70]

Nice car Jean, good choice of colour.

If anyone can handle the snow and ice it the Finnish drivers. You're still a brave man though. I've had my Cerb wheels spinning nowhere on flat road and I think I'm OK at driving in snow.

[gruffalo]

SporttiJanne said:

Many thanks to all of you!
It is very nice to read you comments!
TVR nut is a nut, even if you froze him!

Lester: There was appr. 1100 km of driving. I saved a lot of driving by taking the ferry from Harwich to Esbjerg, Denmark. Still have to check that randomly blinking MIL-light.

Steve: Yes, I am the guy you and your wife had a chat with at NEC.

TVR winter motoring is not quite new to me, althought we do not nomally use them in the winter.The first TVR I was driving was 400SE. We were doing the trip with my mom. The car was new from Blackpool. It was 1990 December, and the weather conditions were a lot worse at that time. It was snowing in England and Sweden, and I was driving thru Sweden all night . THAT was exciting, I would not recommend any one to do it. That car is gone now.

Winter experience with Cerbera in Finland:
http://youtu.be/CRpoENlbksc

Let's see, when I put the car on my dyno. And to what it will lead...

Edited by SporttiJanne on Tuesday 31st January 12:18

Plug a laptop into the ECU and see what faults are logged for the MIL Light, can often be caused by a failing voltage regulator allowing the output voltage to spike too high.

Just a thought.

[SporttiJanne]

gruffalo said:

Plug a laptop into the ECU and see what faults are logged for the MIL Light, can often be caused by a failing voltage regulator allowing the output voltage to spike too high.

Thanks, I will see to it, as soon as I have made a suitable wiring/plug for it. MIL light was blinking randomly and stayed on in the end. Yesterday it was all gone though...