Longest Trip in a Griff

[Higgins23]

I am currently in the middle of my search for a Griff and one concern that seems to keep raising it's ugly head is reliability. I tend to take my cars on long trips into Europe. What are the longest trips owners have taken ?

[apache]

Le Mans, Lannion and Mt St Michel. Le Mans was seriously hot and while we were stuck in traffic a friends power steering fluid boiled in his Cerb but the Griff behaved perfectly

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[Trundle]

Back from Nurburgring to the Cotswolds in a day. Non stop (except for the Channel!).

Weather very hot, warm in the car! But no problems.

[icb]

One trip to Corsica, one trip to Sourthern Spain. No problems.

[johno]

High Wycombe to Folembray for a track and back in a day ... 637 miles andd it never missed a beat and spent at least an hour and a half on track ... Not the longest, but certainly one of the most demanding !!

[groucho]

I thinking about taking the Griff on a 2500 miles round trip around Europe this year, I'm not even thinking of reliabilty. Oops I've said it now.



Edited for being a knobber.

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[tvr4ever]

1100 Km from my house to Italy, two weeks of racing throught the mountains, and another 1100 Km back home.

Makes a total of about 5000 km, all without any problems.

The Grif has been an excellent car to travel long distances.

Done it two years in a row til now, and hope to do it this year again.

Fred

[David H]

850 miles from Birmingham to southern Germany, none stop apart from the crossing.

My hearing wasn't quite right the next day!

Great fun moving idiots in Mercedes out of the way on the Autobahns though

[fatbuttfast]

No problem. Been to Le Mans and Lake Como in northern Italy. Even popped in to meet Swiss Griff in Lugano.

Always take the full spares kit but not needed to use once.

Cheers
Steve

[Higgins23]

Very reassuring. Thanks.

[marco]

Well ...

2 Weeks in 2000 : Stourbridge to St. Tropez to Nice to Venice to Ljublijana, Slovenia to Amsterdam to Stourbridge

1 Week in 2001 : Stourbridge to Amsterdam to Ljublijana, Slovenia to Luxembourg to Stourbridge

2 Weeks in 2002 : Stourbridge to Chamonix to Rapallo, Italy to Nice to Montpellier to Bordeaux to Stourbridge

4 Days in 2004 : Stourbridge to Montreaux to Stourbridge


I had an alarm problem on the last one that involved cutting off the siren and throwing it in a lake. Other than that not a single beat missed!

Go on, go on, go on, etc.


Marco

[Alex]

I took mine to the Monaco Grand Prix in 1999 and 2000. Only failures were a broken throttle cable on the way home in 2000 (temporarily fixed with one of those electrical "Lego" bricks!) and a worn steering column joint (but still made it home).

[Ballistic Banana]

Done a 600 mile stint down to south of France in a day. and used while there for a week and then the 600 mile journey back in a day. Never missed a beat except when a Ht lead moved against the manifold for some spokey reason and made the old banana cough a bit. This was mid August too and very hot.

BB

[Edt]

Just in the hope to raising a smile.. we once managed to get back from Italy > Henley in my old S2 in a day. A long, tiring day. The baffles were shot. The wheel needed balancing, badly. No idea of the mileage but damn did I feel rough day after.. hands vibrated all day long

Ed

miss that old car!

[Higgins23]

Any tips on what types of spares to take in the travel kit ?

[grm500]

London to Outer Hebrides via Uig (Skye) (and Glasgow-Edinburgh several times on trip). 2000 miles approx in all. Optimax cost a bit, but very pleasant drive, car fine.

Having a V6 Omega take me on at services in the Lake District (North) as I pulled out was funny, he thought he might do me, saw error of his ways shortly afterwards, chuckled as he passed me doing about 95 some time afterwards, thinking he'd caught and "done" me!

Awesome car to go touring in - so relaxed if you want it to be - Scottish Highlands are what the car is made for - overtaking is "choose target, aim, fire", laughing all the time.

Enjoy your trip, don't forget to take your grin with you.

g

[fatbuttfast]

Higgins23 said:

Any tips on what types of spares to take in the travel kit ?

See the excellent Bible for the Griff by Steve Heath, it lists all the kit you will need, and other good advice.

Steve