Exhaust Fail

We knew today’s drive was going to be a long one.  Rovaniemi is 600 miles from Helsinki and it is 2 lane roads most of the way.

Around a hour into the drive, the shit hit the fan, or more specifically, the exhaust pipe hit the ground!

We obviously couldn’t drive with it scraping along the highway so John did his best Macgyver impression and tied it up with bungee cord and zip ties.

Amazingly it held for almost 2 hours but unfortunately just as we were pulling into a gas station, it dropped again. Our on the road mechanic, James, told John to kick it off.

The next step was to dispose of the evidence and make a hasty escape. John found a dumpster with a tyre next to it and figured that must be where old car parts are meant to be left.

For obvious reasons, driving was now deafening! Ear plugs helped slightly but hearing the radio or each other was almost impossible for the next 300 miles.

Despite all of this madness, the Tartan Eagle arrived safely (but definitely not discretely) in the Finnish capital.