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After leaving Warsaw at 18:30 I finally crossed checkpoint Charlie at 04:17 and managed to grab a room in a hostel at 05:00.
The journey was quite eventful, I got passed by everything from artic lorries to mopeds... first the car decided it didn’t want the rocker cover to stay on and after 100ish KM it’d lifted up and sprayed oil everywhere, tightened that down again and it lifted a few more times.
It then decided to delete its exhaust manifold bolts, one hit the top of the belt or one of the pulleys and shot against the engine cover and out at the rear glass giving it a decent chip!
I had to continue to the journey with a massive exhaust leak. The muffler then decided to come disconnected and one of the studs retaining it popped out and turned into a new crankcase breather spraying oil everywhere so I had to keep stopping to top that up all the way to Berlin.
I think I used about 2L oil per 100km and 5L fuel. Sorry if all this is eve harder to follow the usual, I’m tired and my brain is all shaken about... and I can’t hear anything....