Stelvio Rescue Service!

My hotel very kindly sent someone out today with fuel for the Mercedes.

The Mercedes is a slight problem right now. Essentially it overheated on the way to Stelvio, barely made it to the hotel, and is currently in limp mode. It's blowing smoke each morning and there is nothing I can about that.

The big problem is that 60-70km from Stelvio on Friday, it went into limp mode, and limited itself to 2nd gear only (maybe even 1st). I drove all that distance, up 2 more passes with the car in limp mode.

And because I was limited to 25-30mph at high rpm, it drank all my spare fuel. Which means I'm stuck on the top of Stelvio with a car that will probably overheat if I take it to Bormio and refuel it. (It'll overheat on the way back up most likely).

So we have a problem.

Hence the hotel sending out fuel for me as it was getting a little low, and there was a small chance that I wouldn't have made it back up Stelvio (even from corner 12) this afternoon after work. Does that make sense?

Hopefully at the end of June we'll have a solution to the Merc, get it out of limp mode, and get some cooling over the engine and gearbox.

Anyway, a big thank you to Albergo Folgore today!