new guy from Germany
Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:17
Hello!
I'm a selfdriver from Germany and now I'm 13 years driving within the southern and eastern africa.
I shipped the Patrol (build 1991, 2.8 TD, GR Y60) in 2001 from Germany to Capetown, proceeded to Namibia for some years and than I have been in Kenya for around 10 years.
I travel only some weeks in a year, than I store the care somewhere and come back after some month. Unfortunately I have to work
Fortunately I found a lot of friend while traveling, so the parking was never - äh, nearly never a problem (an italian man in Mombasa replaced his engine with my engine, big trouble to get it back)
Some month ago a friend invited me to join his 50. birthday in ZA, so my wife and me decided to change our travelbase from Nairobi to Bethlehem (found new friends there
)
Now I have to eliminate all the problem, which were made by kenyan mechanics within the last years.
It is unbelievable, what they spoiled. I came with one problem, I left with two bigger problems. Nothing, what the Kenyans touched, was working for more than a week. I spent more time with reparing the bullshit made by the mechanics than repairing the problems caused by the roads, stones and elephants
After a first stop with a problem in the transfercase in Pretoria at ACR-Gearboxes, I'm enthusiastic about the quality of work in south africa.
At the moment is the car at diesel electric bethlehem, the last kenyan mechanic broke the cylinderhead while checking the injectors.
Now I'm searching for a lot of good spareparts. Midas has nearly nothing for the patrol, a shop called "clutch & brake" offered two brakedisks for 3800 Rand (or was it one disk?) - the price in germany is about 500 Rand(one) for good quality.
The big steering rod? No change to get a third party one in south africa.
So far!
greetings from germany
Frank
Please excuse my terrible english. I speak it only on my tours in africa, so I'm not really used to the language.
I'm a selfdriver from Germany and now I'm 13 years driving within the southern and eastern africa.
I shipped the Patrol (build 1991, 2.8 TD, GR Y60) in 2001 from Germany to Capetown, proceeded to Namibia for some years and than I have been in Kenya for around 10 years.
I travel only some weeks in a year, than I store the care somewhere and come back after some month. Unfortunately I have to work
Fortunately I found a lot of friend while traveling, so the parking was never - äh, nearly never a problem (an italian man in Mombasa replaced his engine with my engine, big trouble to get it back)
Some month ago a friend invited me to join his 50. birthday in ZA, so my wife and me decided to change our travelbase from Nairobi to Bethlehem (found new friends there
)Now I have to eliminate all the problem, which were made by kenyan mechanics within the last years.
It is unbelievable, what they spoiled. I came with one problem, I left with two bigger problems. Nothing, what the Kenyans touched, was working for more than a week. I spent more time with reparing the bullshit made by the mechanics than repairing the problems caused by the roads, stones and elephants
After a first stop with a problem in the transfercase in Pretoria at ACR-Gearboxes, I'm enthusiastic about the quality of work in south africa.
At the moment is the car at diesel electric bethlehem, the last kenyan mechanic broke the cylinderhead while checking the injectors.
Now I'm searching for a lot of good spareparts. Midas has nearly nothing for the patrol, a shop called "clutch & brake" offered two brakedisks for 3800 Rand (or was it one disk?) - the price in germany is about 500 Rand(one) for good quality.
The big steering rod? No change to get a third party one in south africa.
So far!
greetings from germany
Frank
Please excuse my terrible english. I speak it only on my tours in africa, so I'm not really used to the language.
Frank
Grahams number are 0027126513447 or if you are ringing from South Africa 0126513447