Winter Is Here

Refueling trip to Vyborg, Russia today.

The cold is getting to these old cars - the fuel light on my buddy's W124 malfunctioned and he ran out of fuel 20km before the border.

We went to get emergency fuel with my car and when at the fuel station, I noticed my central locking had failed so it took some doing to get to the trunk.

As you may recall, I've had the central locking problem before, about a year now, except it worked perfectly over the summer. It's always been related to the trunk which is why I thought it had to be a leaky vacuum lead or other mechanical problem with the trunk lock actuator. However, today tipped at it probably being the trunk release button. When it's even slightly frozen it gets stuck somewhere in the "release" end of its movement and starts messing with the central locking - and doesn't release the trunklid.

Well, it did work eventually, so all's good.

Came back home with ~95 litres of fuel at 0.853 eur/litre. On last tank, averaged 14.6 l/100km.

Speaking of the cold, these are from yesterday:

That was only a frozen surface, no snow. We got actual snow today, therefore the first powerslide of winter 2012-2013 happened on 27.10.2012!