I'd like to add my trip to this section of this great website Expeditionportal.com too. I hope this portal will become the place to be for expeditioners anywhere on the world!
The end of 2005 I came across a cool car, which is my favourite allround car. To do the groceries, going to work, and is quite able to do some travelling.
I do have a blog but I need to sit down and lock myself up to update this blog which can be found at http://300td.org.
I already have a thread about the setup of the car here: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37908
When possible we're out and about with the W123
Up until now I've driven about 180,000km in total. About 80,000km while travelling. There's a total of 235000km on the clock right now, still not much for an old Benz.
After the first trip to Turkey, Greece and Albania we changed the setup a bit, so now we're able to sleep on the roof and have enough gear to be self-supporting and camp wherever we want.
Meanwhile we've visited about 35 countries and the Benz is still running strong.
The car never broke down really. Once or twice an empty battery because of a dynamo and one time a short-circuiting start-relais. But with a second battery a diesel is still able to start and run, so driving to a garage was no problem.
Lot of kilometers we're driven on vegetable oil, the car is modified to run it in a responsible way. You can throw it in without modifications too by the way.
The expedition is still going on, and we'll try to keep on travelling as much as possible between periods of work/study.
Palmyra, Syria
Jurgen
The end of 2005 I came across a cool car, which is my favourite allround car. To do the groceries, going to work, and is quite able to do some travelling.
I do have a blog but I need to sit down and lock myself up to update this blog which can be found at http://300td.org.
I already have a thread about the setup of the car here: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37908
When possible we're out and about with the W123
Up until now I've driven about 180,000km in total. About 80,000km while travelling. There's a total of 235000km on the clock right now, still not much for an old Benz.
After the first trip to Turkey, Greece and Albania we changed the setup a bit, so now we're able to sleep on the roof and have enough gear to be self-supporting and camp wherever we want.
Meanwhile we've visited about 35 countries and the Benz is still running strong.
The car never broke down really. Once or twice an empty battery because of a dynamo and one time a short-circuiting start-relais. But with a second battery a diesel is still able to start and run, so driving to a garage was no problem.
Lot of kilometers we're driven on vegetable oil, the car is modified to run it in a responsible way. You can throw it in without modifications too by the way.
The expedition is still going on, and we'll try to keep on travelling as much as possible between periods of work/study.
Palmyra, Syria
Jurgen
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