Finally made it to Sydney to pickup the hippo (6x6 cargo)... Can't say enough good things about Brad at KLR. He picked it up from the auction for me, serviced it, and didn't even complain when it took me 2.5 weeks to get organised to go and pick it up
Left KLR at about 1pm and pulled into Kempsey about 6:30. My apologies to any serving ADF drivers for giving you a bad name - my departure from Sydney involved a lot of missed gears and wandering around in my lane as I got used to the width of the thing with only a drivers side mirror to work from (passenger side wobbles all over the place - seems the internal friction mechanism is busted) so much for the AFR blue slip process...
Sat on 80-90 the whole way - mostly 90. I was surprised how well it handles hills - inclines that I thought for sure I'd be losing speed and eventually have to change down it just keep on pulling - even speeding up. Drives like its on rails - even over significant ruts and bumps.... Total between fill ups was 448k's for 68 litres.... That's a LOT better than my gu patrol gets!!!
The engine noise I was prepared for.... It's definitely loud - no worse than my old mq patrol after I ripped the carpet out of it.... What I wasn't expecting was the noise from the canopy flapping around.... I'm hoping it's just been chucked on for the auction and not roped on properly. It bangs and rattles against the cab and almost sounds like it's going to smash the back window... Hopefully an easy fix
Only other items on the fix list so far are the passenger side mirror and those useless round things on the front where headlights would normally go. The last hour through roadworks into Kempsey was a pain in the proverbial as I really struggled to see the road!
Another 500k's tomorrow and I'm home... If it wasn't for the dodgy headlights I'd still be driving. Loving it
