Just back from Brussels....
Discussion
Phew! The Chimaera was okay to be honest!
Set off on Saturday morning with perfect British roads then on into Belgium with the odd build up of snow in the outside lane but mainly good, just the car suffering from frozen washer jets, soon sorted with winter additive.
We arrived at hotel with some snowy side roads but into Hotel car park and forgotten about 'til our trip home this morning....
It was still okay but heavy snow showers and lots of slush made things a bit scary but ultimately it was fine apart from 20 mins outside Calais I notice the temp creeping up and up and up and having had the car inspected by The TVR Center on Friday and having checked before setting off from Brussels I was ready for the worst.
So with a ten minute window and with my wife and mum in the other car (BMW, not another Chim!) I made us stop to check....the reason (some of you probably well aware of this) - iced up grille! Literally the whole grille was blocked by snow! So after clearing it we were fine and on time! But it nearly made a blemish on my TVR's perfect reliability, and with my old Dad in the pass seat! I was ready to with the ''this is typical'' comments etc etc!
Anyway home now, here's how it looked getting on the ferry at Calais..
Overall a great trip and extremely lucky with the snow!
Set off on Saturday morning with perfect British roads then on into Belgium with the odd build up of snow in the outside lane but mainly good, just the car suffering from frozen washer jets, soon sorted with winter additive.
We arrived at hotel with some snowy side roads but into Hotel car park and forgotten about 'til our trip home this morning....
It was still okay but heavy snow showers and lots of slush made things a bit scary but ultimately it was fine apart from 20 mins outside Calais I notice the temp creeping up and up and up and having had the car inspected by The TVR Center on Friday and having checked before setting off from Brussels I was ready for the worst.
So with a ten minute window and with my wife and mum in the other car (BMW, not another Chim!) I made us stop to check....the reason (some of you probably well aware of this) - iced up grille! Literally the whole grille was blocked by snow! So after clearing it we were fine and on time! But it nearly made a blemish on my TVR's perfect reliability, and with my old Dad in the pass seat! I was ready to with the ''this is typical'' comments etc etc!
Anyway home now, here's how it looked getting on the ferry at Calais..
Overall a great trip and extremely lucky with the snow!
All I can say is Kudos! I've taken my Chim over to France and Belgium a couple times but not in those conditions, I lve seeing TVR's abroad, at Le Mans you see many and it's great camaraderie! the best thing is that people on the continent really love seeing TVRs. Fantastic, wish I wos there
All I can say is Kudos! I've taken my Chim over to France and Belgium a couple times but not in those conditions, I lve seeing TVR's abroad, at Le Mans you see many and it's great camaraderie! the best thing is that people on the continent really love seeing TVRs. Fantastic, wish I wos there
Only kidding any Tiv is company and an occasion when your on the open road.
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