G - Reporting
1st order of the day internet so we could find a hotel in Volgograd so we could spend a few days sightseeing and getting what we thought was a saggy or broken rear suspension spring changed on the truck, found a café really quickly and with coffee drunk and hotel booked we set off for Volgograd.
About 20Km outside of Astrakhan we came to a road side rest area that has a car inspection ramp in it (most do in Russia) so we drove the truck up onto it just to check how bad the broken saggy spring was, what we found was totally different the entire spring mounting had ripped off the chassis and was resting against the floor of the truck which was now taking the weight of the driver’s side rear of the car!
So armed with the knowledge that it had probably survived nearly 600Km like this since I 1st noticed the slight sag and the that the roads where very smooth in Russia we set of at a careful 60Kph for Volgograd arriving finally at 7pm checking into our super cheap ($31) but very nice motel and crashing after a long long days driving.
1st order of the day internet so we could find a hotel in Volgograd so we could spend a few days sightseeing and getting what we thought was a saggy or broken rear suspension spring changed on the truck, found a café really quickly and with coffee drunk and hotel booked we set off for Volgograd.
About 20Km outside of Astrakhan we came to a road side rest area that has a car inspection ramp in it (most do in Russia) so we drove the truck up onto it just to check how bad the broken saggy spring was, what we found was totally different the entire spring mounting had ripped off the chassis and was resting against the floor of the truck which was now taking the weight of the driver’s side rear of the car!
So armed with the knowledge that it had probably survived nearly 600Km like this since I 1st noticed the slight sag and the that the roads where very smooth in Russia we set of at a careful 60Kph for Volgograd arriving finally at 7pm checking into our super cheap ($31) but very nice motel and crashing after a long long days driving.
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