Hello everyone

I'm just on the journey to Austria ia via France and Germany. I have a new set of 19" Hankook Winters which are superb. The cabin is nice and quiet and they really show off the silky smooth ride of the Rangie. Chuffed as they only cost £120 per corner from the tinternet!

Stayed in a basic but clean budget chain hotel (Premiere Classe) in Epernay - fine for getting your head down at a bargain £30 for a triple room. Got a nice few days now in Bavaria planned with a better grade hotel at the foot of the mountains.

Looking forward to Christmas Markets, mulled wine and real apple strudel!

Although the car is running great, she did have a speed limited episode a few weeks ago (EGR needs replacing) and has an oil leak from the cooler (also being done before xmas). Hopefully it won't spoil the journey but most of my foreign trips end up at a dealership so we will have to see! Hope to post some white stuff when I get there.

All the best, Roy 2005 L322 Vogue Gold gone
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sounds great Roy, please get some pics up so we can drool...  ... - .- -.




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Just don't tell the Bavarians that they are Germanz - could be that they throw you out of Bavaria....  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

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Cool trip, literally. Enjoy

Reccomend the "Sonne" hotel in Fussen just before you get to Austria

Spot on.

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wealy wrote:

Reccomend the "Sonne" hotel in Fussen just before you get to Austria

Spot on.

Roystonh wrote:

Although the car is running great, she did have a speed limited episode a few weeks ago (EGR needs replacing) and has an oil leak from the cooler (also being done before xmas). Hopefully it won't spoil the journey but most of my foreign trips end up at a dealership so we will have to see! Hope to post some white stuff when I get there.

All the best, Roy

Roy, just a quick note for you to check when you get back... There is a temperature probe in the N.S. manifold that gives an EGR type issue and often mis diagnosed as a faulty EGR on the 4.4. Code P040D-00(2F) UNKNOWN... And your oil leak will almost certainly be the “O ring” on the engine oil cooler supply pipe. A very common problem on the 4.4 too... Often results in the dealer changing the EGR cooler at a cost upwards of £1500 for the part alone!!!

Both get mis diagnosed & changed by dealers on a regular basis at a cost of thousands!!!

Hope that might save you a few quid sir

If you have time a visit to baron Ludwigs castle is a must. And take the cable car up Tegelberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle

^ Agreed,

And just opposite the is a fab Spa with Hot Salt Swimming pools inside & Out plus the upstairs is totally naked and full of good looking German Girls .... lol

http://www.kristalltherme-schwangau.de/

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wealy wrote:

Reccomend the "Sonne" hotel in Fussen just before you get to Austria

Spot on.

That's where I stayed! Good price and location

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2006 L322 Vogue Black gone
2011 L322 Vogue Silver gone
2011 L322 Autobiography Black gone
2015 L405 Autobiography LWB Black gone
2019 L405 P400e Range Rover Autobiography LWB Eiger grey / black roof gone
2001 P38a 30th Anniversary Wimbledon Green gone
2019 L405 P525 Autobiography LWB British Racing Green

Cam-Tech-Craig wrote:

Roystonh wrote:

Although the car is running great, she did have a speed limited episode a few weeks ago (EGR needs replacing) and has an oil leak from the cooler (also being done before xmas). Hopefully it won't spoil the journey but most of my foreign trips end up at a dealership so we will have to see! Hope to post some white stuff when I get there.

All the best, Roy

Roy, just a quick note for you to check when you get back... There is a temperature probe in the N.S. manifold that gives an EGR type issue and often mis diagnosed as a faulty EGR on the 4.4. Code P040D-00(2F) UNKNOWN... And your oil leak will almost certainly be the “O ring” on the engine oil cooler supply pipe. A very common problem on the 4.4 too... Often results in the dealer changing the EGR cooler at a cost upwards of £1500 for the part alone!!!

Both get mis diagnosed & changed by dealers on a regular basis at a cost of thousands!!!

Hope that might save you a few quid sir

This whole area is our favourite and well worth exploring including a ride up the Zugspitz the highest mountain in Germany although its half in Austria...