Thank you all very much for your positive feedback and kind words. It's quite nice to find that, when I get home from retrofitting tours, people have been documenting the activities of my travels.
This tour started in Staines and then progressed to Harlesden, Rickmansworth, Slough, Bridgewater, St Austell, Bristol, Gloucester, Telford, Lighthorne, Leicester, Uttoxeter, Prestatyn, Halifax, Wigan ...and home!
To anyone who may have wanted a visit, my apologies that the tour wasn't publicly advertised in advance. I had a limited amount of time and had already made promises to enough members to fill every day.
I'm pleased to read that Colour DIS is getting universal praise from those who've decided to upgrade. Very satisfying from my perspective. Thank you.
It was also extremely satisfying to get
@Jeff Sutcliffe's car up and running again. Its instrument cluster had decided to completely corrupt the contents of its memory, meaning no immobiliser and no driving! It's now running on a Gen2 cluster and is set to give its owners many more miles of frugal service.
For me, this tour will be remembered as 'the cold one'. The Beast from the East was over the UK for almost the entire duration of the tour, meaning I was working outside in -4°C for many consecutive days, trying to find ways of avoiding kneeling in the snow! As for the WOM Automotive hat that seems to have caused such a stir, I'm not sure why I've given the impression that I was proud of it. It was on my head for the simple purpose for which it was designed; keeping my head warm!
The
TDI120 did all 1700 miles flawlessly, though it doesn't feel anywhere near as fast with all those parts and tools in the back. As many have noted, it's a proper game of Tetris fitting it all in.
Cheers all,
Tom