Rab

Once you get onto upper sturt road you can't miss it. Signs for the national park and campsite are everywhere.

Speak for yourself Currently got the F1's on Foxtel, music blasting and working remotely in the cabin. Might go oil my pod later.

Now to setup the office

Flash tune probably gets better economy than stock tune

You won't have if you're able to flash back to stock and still drive (or at least you shouldn't drive with stock tune with a cat) Any chance the average included country miles from the original owner and your stop/start city driving is only now catching up? Only real way to be accurate is to keep a log of kms/fuel. Go back to your full tank and filling after 1/3rd gone etc (will cost the same and any "dodgy fuel" is diluted by the rest of the full tank, rather than concentrated in the almost empty tank. Any real issues should have been picked up last week by Mick?? Reset before the weekend and see how it reads after a while. Should be closer to or under 10l/100 for the trip over. That said - 21l/100 is way high for your car.

Reset the meter once you leave Melbourne and cry when you get to Adelaide because it'll probably never look that good again Just wanted everyone to remember to look out for the free donuts along the way Most are hard to miss, normal donut vans, but this one follows you between the 2 towns trying to force the glazed option on you.

Sorry, only stopped the once and didn't check prices.

Probably safer than over filling the lpg tank

Fitting 10 more litres into the lpg tank than its taken for the last 4 years. (I think the cut-off or whatever cuts off the flow is dead - gas keeps ticking over slower and slower as the pressure builds up rather than cutting off) Got 400kms from a tank today -- previous best was about 330-350. Yeah - I know it can be a danger and won't overfill, but damn it's nice to be able to shove that little bit more in on a long trip.

OK. Better report in. This little Mexican decided to infiltrate a day early under the cover of darkness. Snuck past the checkpoint (quarantine) without any issues and am currently holed up a couple of hundred k's behind enemy lines in Murray Bridge. Will be continuing the push forward in the morning, hoping to setup base camp in the hills overlooking Adelaide before lunch and will be awaiting reinforcements and local sympathisers to arrive with further supplies and to strengthen our numbers later in the day. I highly recommend the afternoon/evening tomorrow is spent pouring over the local intel along with a heavy session of R & R before the full frontal assault begins the next morning. Rab signing off for the night. May the turbo gods be on our side.

No South Australia. That's a schooner, not a pint.

99.9 instant on the screen isn't unusual.

Point to point camera for the 15kms?? between coonalpyn and ki ki. Not sure if it's cars or trucks only.

Can put one in if you want me to (I can't play, but can steal my sons)

I dare say your consumption on Friday night/Saturday morning will vary quite a bit from Saturday arvo, Sunday, Monday

Packed a speaker so we can have tunes around the non-existent campfire

Yeah - she suggested to me that they officially don't, but would consider tasking a look at the conditions when we get there. I doubt it too now - the weather looks far too nice for us.

Only real way to test is to fill tanks, take note of how much fuel went in for how many km's over quite a number of tanks. If it's only over a shorter distance then any variables are going to be exaggerated. (e.g. 6 uphill, 4 downhill trips on one record vs 6 downhill, 4 uphill on the next one - all due to which part of the journey you reset the counter) I don't think??? the levels in the fuel tank come into the consumption calculations? Just the distance to empty (which is based on the level of fuel and the recent consumption)

You too Gary - will be far more relaxed now knowing I'm not on a schedule to make it to the camp on time and that I'll be able to deal with "work stuff" tomorrow in case something crops up. Hard part will be holding off the beers until the rest of the crew turn up

Pics?

Was waiting for a "good chat" Dissapointed Cheers

For someone worried about all the extra bytes being needlessly wasted on the forum that could be avoided.......... Fair dinkum

About to start packing so I can leave as early this arvo as I can. Am going to spend the next 24 hours wondering what I forgot to bring. edit: good news - can get into the cabin from midday (not the 2pm check-in) so should be all sorted to deal with clients tomorrow. Will mean it's only the 1 day (monday) I'm tied up. Will try and sweet talk them into allowing us to use a firepit at night.

Was it fun?