tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69468581685935103202024-03-13T20:33:57.923+01:00Just Land Rovers.. and Santanas, and a bit about our Landy travels, and repairs, and the usual reallyroughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-64570295692192213042011-12-26T20:40:00.002+01:002011-12-26T20:42:42.152+01:00The new Málaga by-pass, A7 - east to westAnd the flip side - east to west. I don't think any text is necessary if you have read the previous post.
Except to say head for Algeciras all the way and you can't go wrong.
A nice peaceful start to the journey
One of those adorable ruins 'para reformar'?
Spanish love their bridges
By-passing Málaga and looking towards Alhaurin
Entrance to the tunnel
Spectacular views on the other side roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-73651984525870216542011-12-04T18:30:00.013+01:002011-12-04T18:51:07.604+01:00The new Málaga by-pass, A7 - west to east
The last time we set off down the N340/A7/goodness-knows-how-many-other-names-it-has, down to Gib, it looked as though the new by-pass around Málaga was finally open.
Either way we missed it. And trotted happily off down the usual old city by-pass route (opened nearly 20 years ago in 1992) which is pretty quiet on a Sunday anyway.
But coming back up from Gib a couple of weeks ago we decidedroughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-90784003009090733892011-10-03T10:38:00.014+02:002011-10-03T11:32:59.990+02:00Fairey winchesWe read recently on some Landy forums that people with Fairey winches have been unable to get the original documentation for them. So, if anyone is stuck, please leave a comment on here and we will try to help. We have info on the Fairey Series 5000 with mechanical power-take-off, fitting and operating instructions, and the Superwinch Series III Drum Winch kit 6920.Superwinch sent the roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-58549285602297621792011-07-23T18:12:00.005+02:002011-07-23T18:37:41.332+02:00Tips for driving in Spain ;)Travelling on the N340 today and watching varying styles of driving, made me think it would be useful to compile one of those lists for how to drive elsewhere - in this case in Spain.1) The obvious one. Speed limits do not apply. Or if they do, they are the minimum speed for driving.2) When you are merging onto a dual carriageway or motorway, it is important to go as quickly as possible and pushroughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-20249920173313258652011-06-27T14:31:00.007+02:002011-06-28T12:57:39.038+02:00On the road to MongoliaThis is a travel post - maybe not in a Landy - but natch, there is a Landy link.Not long after we had embarked on our own travels through France, Spain and Portugal (in the Landy), we received a letter from a friend in the UK.Like us, he had a Series III 109 with a V8, so there was never a shortage of conversation. Might have been a shortage of different topics - but who needs more than one?He roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-62626883321389495902011-06-07T11:22:00.007+02:002011-06-07T11:41:49.823+02:00Import duty into Gib - updateWe had a query about importing a vehicle into Gibraltar so I thought I would answer it in a main post so everyone gets to see the answer. (Original post here).Here were the questions:What is the accurate duty fee to pay? Is it 30%, 40%, 12%?And how does it vary depending on engine size? How is the value determined and is it worth using an online evaluation of the plates to get an idea of how muchroughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-4535444808083201652011-06-05T18:22:00.003+02:002011-06-05T18:28:52.741+02:00Gib mil vehiclesCouldn't resist these two RN Landies parked outside John Mack Hall when there was a parade this weekend.And, when we went down to the dockyard to watch the 21gun salute for the accession to the throne of HMQEII, we checked out the Reynolds Boughton that is being done up very nicely.Had a query about importing into Gib, so that will be the next post.roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-20582469513672729352011-02-20T12:58:00.006+01:002011-02-20T13:10:49.753+01:00Ready to goHere we are, not long before we set off on our travels. We'd done a total rebuild and she was pretty fit at this point. New chassis, new 1 ton springs, second hand bulkhead, second hand back body, ex-mil doors, a load of others I can't even remember. We'd even sorted the brakes. But first up, a few trial trips around the UK.More later.....roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-79611388950089189372011-02-16T10:23:00.017+01:002011-02-16T13:38:22.715+01:00Not such a pane - the trip to ArcosAs this blog is about travels and trips as well as mending Landies, I thought I would finish the series of glass-hunting posts with some - 'phone - photos of the trip taken on the return journey from Arcos.We've travelled up the beautiful Cadiz coastline before, up through Jerez, via Sevilla, and into the Cota Doñana, and we'd travelled inland around the Medina Sidonia area, but we'd never been roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-33771473406135632262011-02-13T16:49:00.001+01:002011-02-13T16:49:41.701+01:00What a pane - lessons and costsHere is the much promised post about lessons learned and costs when replacing the glass/doors, based on our mistakes.Short and sweet:1) When you find a windscreen at the scrappy, take the frame as well. The glass is easy to get out of the frame of the donor vehicle, but it is a pain to put back in yours. And new windscreens are dear. As we know to our cost.2) Don't be in so much of a rush roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-55735421029649815672011-01-11T21:18:00.037+01:002011-01-17T15:13:46.361+01:00What a pane (5) - Cracked it!Last but not least, the windscreen.This was the one we really lacked confidence for. Anyways, usual story, knock out all broken glass. Remove window seal and get rid of rest of glass. Lubricate both faces of seal. Refit to glass. Start to insert glass and seal, slowly and carefully into frame.Fuck it up at last corner. Oh well, it was worth a try.Plan BUndo all bolts from roof and jack up roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-25637353758225740492011-01-10T20:12:00.006+01:002011-01-11T21:33:14.944+01:00What a pane (4) - a wind up?Getting there. Front door windows next. We'd looked for some decent doors because ours need replacing, but had to settle for the windows only.Like the rest of the glass, they are windy up ones, not sliding, so sorting out the scissor-style winding mechanism was something to contend with for the first time.Remove door card. Then remove all broken glass (lots) from inside the door. Take out roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-58955904312700800302011-01-09T15:47:00.002+01:002011-01-09T15:52:26.774+01:00What a pane (3) - own goal - no strikersWe found a lot of glass at a Málaga scrapyard. What we didn't find was glass for the middle doors, or even any decent replacement middle doors.But, after a drive up to the scrappy at Arcos de la Frontera, we found some middle doors, complete with glass. They were from an earlier model, but hey anything will do when you are struggling.It had taken us ages to find the scrappy. The directions we roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-53043652043441698362011-01-08T12:01:00.018+01:002011-01-11T21:34:56.806+01:00What a pane (2) - in the rearWe hadn't been unlucky enough to have to do this one before. The hardest bit here was getting the small rubber back in - the equivalent of the one that covers the pop rivets on the side window.ProcedureKnock out as much broken glass as possible.Take out the small rubber from the centre of the big rubber.Remove big rubber from door and clean out all remaining glass.Lubricate the face (that fits roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-11947889391912887892011-01-07T12:19:00.009+01:002011-01-11T21:39:53.534+01:00What a pane (1) - offside!Last year, some unpleasant person, or persons unknown, smashed the windows in our Santana. Not just one, but virtually all of them, including the windscreen.There is nowhere to source them in Gib, and the cost of getting new glass or doors shipped from the UK was prohibitive.If the intention was to put us off the road, then it wasn't a bad start.Still, with the help of friends, we managed to roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-84301984996952166642010-12-14T16:30:00.001+01:002010-12-14T16:32:51.831+01:00Speed killsThe photo says it all.roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-69434839474998083872010-12-01T15:46:00.008+01:002010-12-01T16:35:58.477+01:00Random photos sequelAnd to complete the random photos ..Here is a brill exped vehicle. We were very impressed with the security plating over the rear windows. Totally different to the usual grilles but very effective and clever. Interesting roof conversion too, adds height, don't know whether it lifts, guessing not. We did leave a contact email on the windscreen of this one as we thought it was such a good and roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-53467444750579855482010-10-02T11:55:00.008+02:002010-10-02T13:27:03.317+02:00Random photosWe haven't been entirely idle in our summer absence, so here for starters are some photos of random Land Rovers shot around Gib. Some are kitted out for expeditions with some interesting adaptations and good-looking gear.First up, an exped vehicle.Next an early county. Always fancied one of these when I was younger.Another well kitted out exped Landy. Nice awning, good sand ladders, safety roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-70642173022296306772010-05-22T15:54:00.018+02:002010-05-30T19:24:27.778+02:00Desguaces (scrapyards) in AndaluciaIt's always good to waste time, I mean travel around usefully, looking for scrapyards in Andalucía.So here, for anyone who wants to visit them, is a list of some of the ones we have visited in the search for Land Rover spares in the provincias of Málaga and Cadiz.So, first up Málaga province.A quick google and some queries on a very helpful Spanish forum - 4x4malaga revealed the main contenders roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-31163004909968240002010-03-14T21:53:00.004+01:002010-03-14T22:04:39.548+01:00MOT in GibThis is an easy one.£20 for the test. Valid for two years. Only catch? This is for Gib residents and people with Gib businesses, ie registered in Gibraltar, only. So no, you can't bring your GB reg coche for an updated MOT when you have been living in Spain or anywhere else and out of the UK for longer than your MOT lasts. Nor can you buy some cheap Brit vehicle that has been kicking around on roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-88834512902239439652010-01-19T13:12:00.006+01:002010-01-19T13:25:59.133+01:00Sunday afternoon outThanks to Sean for the ride out, Tuggy and Erica for their hospitality, and everyone else for making Sunday such an enjoyable afternoon. A few photos ...... And good footage of the afternoon thanks to toyotaphil ...roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-30101528867046123312009-11-29T14:41:00.003+01:002009-11-29T15:22:34.887+01:00Compressor attachment for tyresSlashed tyres are not good. Ever.So, off we went back to Spain to pick up some spares, and en route, a stop at Leroy Merlin for a nice attachment for the compressor to inflate tyres.22€ for the full kit. Better than legs falling off using the bicycle pump.roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-89365986928946851542009-10-19T10:47:00.009+02:002009-10-19T11:06:27.125+02:00Toll roads - Costa del SolAnd the good news is, the toll prices have gone down with the end of the summer holidays.Mountains on the way up at the rest area between Estepona and Marbella.It wasn't all cloud though - blue sky looking towards the coast.Dog.So new prices:Fuengirola - Marbella: €3.75Marbella - Estepona: €2.55(although I could have sworn on the way up it was €4.15 between Marbella and Fuengirola).Finally we roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-36106683877592077392009-09-10T10:59:00.009+02:002009-10-04T09:23:06.677+02:00Compressor - Clarke Hunter 50Acquired from Freecycle.It wasn't working. It seemed like an electrical fault. First thing was to check the plug and the fuse.Someone had put a Spanish plug on it, so I disconnected that and put a three-pin plug on it. As the compressor is designed for live, neutral and earth it wouldn't work without the earth wire.Still didn't work, but at least it had current - it didn't before the plug was roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-35426987160724033692009-08-23T10:59:00.002+02:002009-08-23T11:15:51.880+02:00Random Landy photosSeen in Gib over the last month or so.roughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.com0