Few videos, pretty sh1te to be honest as I just strap the gopro on and press record lol
Got the wife to video me yesterday as wanted to hear the car from outside. She loves it really
San Bernardino pass. Public road so nothing to wild. Was playing around with an external microphone I bought for the gopro to put on the back bumper as always have trouble getting exhaust noise to sound right in videos
Took this from near the top of the Stelvio solely to show others how busy the place is and how slow you have to negotiate some of the hairpins. As said before, it's scenic, but way too busy and it's tight enough passing at some points.
9mins you will never get back, but sure
And lastly the lap of the Ring. Still have no clue where the corners are most of the time lol, but I love the place so much! There's a couple of points where I get passed by quicker things so you can see how slow I am lol. That AMG GTR was flying, as were the 3 x M2s/240is or whatever they were.
Pull away in Reims alone made me smile
Also, thought you weren't allowed to record on the ring?
Amazing Gav. Fair play to you for the updates and the write up. It looked epic.Home, car washed, checked over for any damage and put away for the month as back to work for me tomorrow. Only damage found is a stonechip on the vinyl wrap on the grille, so all good. Tyres still look brand new which is good!
So as a final update to the thread.......the costs
Only putting these up as handy for anyone else trying to plan a similar trip. Won't include things like food, drink and other stuff we done as everyone is different.
This is the final reading as we pulled in this morning. Actually a wee bit less than I'd first planned as we went a different route to Hungary and also didn't do as much of France as I wanted to do due to time.
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The car used a total of 852.8 litres of fuel
This cost a total of £1325.95, or an average of 1.55 per litre
Overall works out at 21.6mpg which is great as I'd planned for spending a lot more on fuel.
Hotels and Airbnb cost a total of £1462. Again can probably be done a lot cheaper, or a lot dearer depending on what you want.
And then Eurotunnel was £200 return, ferries were £460.
Vignettes were 40euro for Switzerland, 15euro for Slovenia, £15 for Hungary and 8euro for Austria. None needed for Germany or Belgium, and France and Italy were toll roads. Italy we paid with card there and then, for France we had the wee Emovis E-tag thing from last years trip which is handy and means you don't need to stop. Tolls were around £55 for all roads used.
So around about £3560 all in, which in the grand scheme of what all we saw isnt bad value for money.
Anybody planning a similar trip feel free to post here or message me for info.
Already started planning next year's, all being well it'll be up through Scandinavia and do the Atlantic drive in Norway! Another bucket list road.
Wheels and brakes were stinking before washing
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All checked over. Actually had an annoying rattle, like a tinkling noise underneath the car. I forgot to fully tighten one of the undertray fasteners ffs 4k miles wondering what was about to fall off
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And all tucked away again
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Superb thread from start to finish Gav. Now that its over and your home how do you feel about the car and selling it, or has it persuaded you to keep it?
It has actually! The only other car I want is a 911 GT3(997.2 ideally or 991). That's not going to happen this year or next as I've other plans financially.
It's a great car really, does everything and then some being an estate. The thing that surprised me most was the attention it got in the likes of Monaco and St Tropez. Really weird lol, especially with so many ferraris and Porsches around. Think they don't see many C63s, especially ones in dump run spec estate. Hungarians were really loving it lol.
Think I'll buy a Quaife LSD as it deserves it, and some H&R 20mm lowering springs as on the Ring the it did wallow a bit and rub the rear arch liners so could do with stiffening up. I've the 265 rears on which don't help. Oh and spacers an all as wheels look lost. Maybe new wheels an all. Oh and a carbon splitter. Possibly a Royal steering wheel refurb.
Trailed on a wee touch there in that last block of text
Honestly the detail you went into throughout your trip has me convincing myself it's worth going over just to the ring for a few days. Provided everything goes to plan at the start of next month it may be a case of jump on the train.
Which videos did you use a boom mic on? Fairly sure it's obvious tbh as the sound quality for the Reims and stelvio I think were exceptional!
In terms of fuel that's fairly decent, considering I use about 750 litres for every 2k I cover
The wee external mic was only on the San Bernardino one. Had it clipped to the rear wiper and had a wind block thing on it. To be honest it needs more setting up and probably taping lower down but I’d no time for that. Stelvio one was filmed just straight from the GoPro on the suction mount on inside of windscreen, and Reims one was straight from my Galaxy S8 as held by the wife
Honestly you should do it mate. Combine it with a trio to Audi or one of the many other car museums, or even a wee city break. I can’t wait to get back!