We Made It to Cape Town With Our Land Rover Defender (Germany-South Africa) // EP.63
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2023
- After more than 50.000 km and 14 months we made it to Cape Town with our Land Rover Defender!
Countless adventures, ups and downs and many beautiful encounters over three continents.
We arrived earlier than expected, but we have to deal with our broken propshaft. We go shopping around and we only find expensive solutions. We used to have a wide angled propshaft from Terrafirma, this propshaft is not available anywhere in Cape Town. But as we learn for experts here ,we should go to a double cardan propshaft. We visit Pon Steyn and they recommend to go to Hennie form Helderberg Propshafts. And indeed is the best we could have done. Not only he has a Propshafts for us but he can repair our old one to keep it as spare.
but everything can only be done on Monday. Until then we are super lucky as Stephy from @GrizzlyNbearOverland invites us to her place for the weekend.
We are able to share stories, visit the Elgin Railway Market together and even visit the new rebuild from Bear.
Thank you Stephy!
Monday we get our propshaft installed and oh boy what a difference! with the repairs done we go back to nature to visit the Cape of Good Hope National Park. Just Beautiful!! 😍
Enjoy the Ride!
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We, Kai & Irati from Germany and Spain, are currently on a full-time Overland journey. We quit our jobs, our apartment and left Germany mid of March 2022. We traveled all the way from Germany to Namibia, and had amazing experiences for the last year. Follow us in season 2 where we will be exploring the Middle East and Africa!
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Land Rover 110 TD5 (MY 1998)
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GMB "Esel" roof rack
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DIY Custom outdoor shower
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I have been following you since season one and I felt like we were three people in your land rover but honestly your doing a great job and motivating others who want to explore the world.
Thousand thanks Ezekiel! This has always been our goal, to inspire others to get out and explore on their own ❤️ so happy to have you on board 😎 let's keep on creating memories and not being afraid of adventure, see you around season 3 ✌️
Terrific to see Bluelandy’s propshaft sorted and being able to finish up in South Africa on a high note.
Bravo also to Stephy and the good folks at Pon Steyn who directed you to the propshaft shop.
The overlander network at its finest!! 😊
It was such a relief to find the right people so fast! Incredible network for Overlanding in South Africa. 🤙 Pon Steyn they must be one of the most responsive workshops we have visited, the service is 10/10. Stephy is such a hard working "frenchy", she hosted us and we saw live how disciplined and committed she is, to be able to continue living their type of life (*Leigh was also working also hard at the oil platform). Big inspiration!
@@Thebluelandy No doubt a relief to find such fine people on the road.
I’m a a big fan of GrizzlynBear too!!
Hope you are enjoying my home town! Cape Town is the best!! I love it here!
Oh yeah we did. It was so good to be in a big city again! And Cape Town is clearly a special place! I would even consider living there but it's too far from family and friends!
Wow, you met Stephy! I follow GrizzlyNbear since years! I think, I found your channel via them 😉This was another great video, thanks a lot ❤
Thank you so much! Yeah it was great to meet Stephy, she is so nice! We hope to see them again, to then meet Leigh as well!
What a great video again you two from the work on the landy to the beautiful countryside views . And how awesome that you got to spend time with Stephie from grizzly & bear . Thanks again you two fore sharing your wonderful travel memories with us your over landing friends . Cheers from Steve Stott in Sutherlin Oregon U.S.A. :) :) 🌍🍻👍🏼😁.
This part of the world is special and people are very proud of living here! We can understand why! It's sad that the social/economical situation is not the best at the moment 😞 we were lucky to find such great people to help us with the Landy and Stephy was incredible to let us stay with her and share so many stories, tips and more. ❤️
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Hi there welcome to Cape Town
Hi Jerome! And thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏we felt well in Cape Town ❤️
Good to see you got the shaft sorted,and at a fair price..South africa ,and cape town looks amazing.
We were absolutely stoked!! Not always one finds the solution fast and with the help of such incredible people. We cannot talk enough about the amazing work they do in Pon Steyn and Helderberg Props, they know their stuff and how to treat customers 10/10👌👌👌happy bluelandy
Greetings we welcome u too our beautiful country hopefully u enjoy all what our country has too offer really enjoyed following u u on ur adventures 🌍
Thank you so much Mohamed! We did enjoy it a LOT! even if the weather was not cooperating this winter 🥶🌧️ enjoy the next episodes in SA!
Thank you so much Mohamed! We did enjoy it a LOT! even if the weather was not cooperating this winter 🥶🌧️ enjoy the next episodes in SA!
Keep them coming those videos ❤
We will try! Keep you comments coming 😎😍
Well done for finding the best in Africa...Pon Steyn
Really great work, service and people above all!! 👏👌
Welcome here in Cape Town - I trust that you'll enjoy your stay here. 4 x 4 regards, Joseph (Cape Town)
Thank you so much! We did enjoy Cape Town specially in the beginning. On the way back the weather got terrible and was difficult to do anything 😞 but anyway we're really busy getting ready to ship.
@@Thebluelandy safe ride back home! Thank you so much for your YouYube videos!
@@m3logistics not going home yet! There is more to come about South America! 😎
So glad you enjoyed my hometown... Awesome stuff... So much to see and never enough time... Glad the Landy is sorted...
Yes, we did! So much to see, so little time and add to that extremely bad weather this winter... So happy our Landy is ready for the next stretch 💃
@@Thebluelandy they say Cape Town is like a baby... If it's not wet it's windy but you love it non the less...
@@deriusnorris4463 that sounds just about right, haha. Btw thanks again for recommending Pon Steyn!! They are awesome!
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I have a 2" lift but with standard propshafts. No probs. Now you mention it maybe I should fit wide angled prop shafts.
Don't feel overawed by meeting Grizzly'n'Bear. They are ordinary dudes like the rest of us. You are creating your story which is an inspiration to others.
I have been to many of the places you have, almost following each other's footsteps. My recent trip ended. S. America next.
Hey, I believe we have roughly a 2” lift as well, I did it cause I was reading that the maximum you can do without touching the probs. And I needed it to run the 255/85 MT’s. But I got quite some vibrations and had to replace u-joints every 10k km with the standard prob. That's why I went to the wide-angle probs. Which again was the wrong choice. The wide angle reduced vibrations but still failed. If you want to change something I would recommend the double Kardan probs to be on the save side. But if yours is running find leave it until it fails…
Godetevi questo grande, meritato traguardo che per molti rappresenta un grande sogno sapendo che ogni punto di arrivo diventa presto... un nuovo punto di ripartenza.
Buona strada sempre, ai viaggiatori!!!
È incredibile se pensiamo ai primi mesi di viaggio! sono successe così tante cose! È la fine ma anche l'inizio 😎🤙
Hi guy's. Look's like you are doing great traveling around my part of the world. Welcome to Cape Town and you drove threw my town off Fishhoek towards Cape Point. Enjoy 👋🥂💯
South Africa was a relaxed country for us! We didn't have much planned and we took it how it came (repairs, weather, etc.) We would not have it otherwise. Around that road, passing through the town up to Cape Point is magical ✨nice place to call home 🏡
Thank you for sharing your wonderful adventures. It was very inspiring and we hope one day we will living the dream too! Can not wait for the the sequel! In the mean time stay save enjoy!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
Hi, Irati and Kai, was good to see you smile. Hopefully the Landy is still ok for the nex adventures. Gute Reise aus Österreich!
Happy when we find solutions that quick and we meet with awesome people!❤️ Grüße aus Südamerika!
well done!
you are truly living the dream, thanks for sharing that with us.
Thank you so much! We cannot believe it this is us! One day you leave it all, the next day you are at the other side of this planet. It is a pleasure sharing it, hopefully somebody will get inspired to take the leap and go for their own adventures 🥾🧭
@@Thebluelandy you guys are definitely an inspiration and your humble and down to earth delivery if your travels is great!
A good result all round (and a nice little Lotus 7 sitting in the workshop). What is the plan now for you guys?
Fastest solution and repair we could possibly get. 👌 And the small Lotus gets out once in a while for some racing sessions 😎 after Cape Town, Garden Route and then back to Cape Town for shipping to Montevideo, Uruguay. Crazy times 🤯
So good to see you made it to Cape Town!! One of the best places on earth in my opinion!! Hope you enjoyed it!!
Cape Town is really special, the closeness to nature is just unbeatable. We did enjoy it yes! ❤️
So glad that you could get the prop shaft sorted at a fraction of the initially quoted price! The Landy community is really fantastic here in South Africa! You probably never got to see anything else of the West Coast after Lamberts Bay and Elands Bay due to having to get the prop repaired. Am close to Paternoster! Looking forward to the next vlogs! All the best!
Yeah in general the Landy community is the best! That's why we would never choose a other car!
No sadly we missed out on the part between Elands Bay and Misty Clives.
Thank you 😊
Beautiful vid...u must b filmmakers!
It's been an amazing journey and congratulations on making it to the end. Watching your journey was good medicine for me
Thank you so so much!! So glad to hear that our episodes brought you joy! This is absolutely the best compliment 😍 this chapter in Africa is ending soon ,but a new one is starting, stay tuned 😎
Welcome to Cape town.... Indian and Atlantic meet at Cape Agulhas
Thank you! Yes, the most southern point is Cape Aguhlas and therefore where geographically speaking both oceans meet! But Cape of Good Hope has higher significance historically in my opinion as it was the start of the journey going East! 😀But we also visited Cape Aguhlas!
@@Thebluelandy Where are you off to now
@@lafras1973 Now in real time, the Landy is crossing the Atlantic towards Montevideo. In the next episode we drive East along the coast!
Magic stuff!
Thank you! Cape Town has an special feeling to it! 😎
Another enjoyable video, must be a great sense of achievement
It was, but at the same time absolutely bonkers and surreal. You have watched our videos, so you know how much we have experienced... Coming after all that to a place like Cape Town, kind of makes it feel suddenly real somehow. Like, yeah, that happened 🤔😎😜
@@Thebluelandy stay safe guys, enjoy the ride
Fantastic editing! I mean I was completely transfixed!
Interesting about those props. I'm running a 300tdi on 130 springs with standard props. Never and issue. And with the extra constant weight I'd have imagined your props would have been at an even better angle than mine. Perhaps the quality of the props? That Double Decarden will sort you out. And the chap was right. Rinse it off and inspect the seal but don't constantly over-grease. I use Morris K48 these days which keeps the water out 👍
Hey thank you so much!
That's interesting. My prob shaft story began as I changed the brushings at the front radius arm. The old ones where gone and the axle was tilted. With the axle in the right position I started to get vibrations and I went through U-Joints every 10k with the standard probs. That's why I went to a Terrafirma Wideagle (the one that failed) and it fixed the U-Joint problem and reduced vibrations. I was reading about problems with the double cadan that's the reason why I didn't go straight to the double cadan.
Now with the double cadan we have zero vibrations. But it's also a brand new prob. I'm curious how it will perform over time!
Fingers crossed it works out this time.
Another interesting chapter of the BlueLandy saga.
Just imagine the sheer intestinal fortitude of those CheeseHead explorers circa 400 years back setting up a new city/town in such a remote place.They were lucky that Bantu Africans had not yet migrated to the area.....but only Hotentots.(Wilbur Smith captured some of this stuff in his earlier novels.....his later works did become a bit tedious and formulaic)
A well planned trip it seems....you certainly wouldn't want to arrive in Terre Del Fuego in the Southern Hemisphere winter!!.
It is feeling like an end to a long journey and the start to one that we don't really know how long will last. Interesting times 😎 If the explorers came in winter with the weather of this year, they must have been pretty tough 😳🥶
It's funny that we thought about shipping around May 2023 or so. But things take more time in such a trip and it was well worth it to spend extra time. We will be traveling a bit around Argentina before coming down to Tierra del Fuego with "warmer" temperatures 😜
I have a Discovery 2, which run the double cardan front propshaft.
I live in Australia, so a lot of corrugated dirt roads and hard 4x4ing. I found I only got around 10 thousand kms or less by not regularly greasing the propshaft, and i even had one fail at around 3 thou kms. I found greasing it regularly does make a huge difference - I am 35 thousand km on the same branded propshaft. So I'd recommend you grease it regularly as you were before.
Sorry to add to the confusion, but that's my personal experience
Hey Kyle, that's a bit shocking! I was hoping we were done with prob shafts! I guess what Henny from Heldenberg Probshafts meant was if you damage the seal you need to grease them all the time. So if you start greasing a lot you need to keep that spirit up 😅
Hey Kyle, that's a bit shocking! I was hoping we were done with prob shafts! I guess what Henny from Heldenberg Probshafts meant was if you damage the seal you need to grease them all the time. So if you start greasing a lot you need to keep that spirit up 😅
You'll see it here how that new shaft performs
@Thebluelandy Yeah, maybe 🤔
But you've got your spare one, so that's gotta be peace of mind in any case. Loving your adventures and Africa is so much more amazing than I would have thought. Safe travel.
Thank you! We're so glad, we can make everyone happy with every episode that were putting out!
I think, We will try to drop the spare prob off somewhere, and collect it later on. It's constantly in the way and it's to heavy to put it on the roof.
Its been more than 2 weeks from the last video post, its up to you to decide on the frequency of the post.
What do you mean? There is a video every week pretty consistently. Check the „video“ tap on our Chanel page if TH-cam is not recommending all our videos to you. Or enable the notifications 😉
Oh No, I wish this was live. If your look at my 90 with 35 inch etc You could have gone to colin at Proshaft engineering for half the price.
We were so happy to have a solution that fast and Hennie is great, but thank you so much for the advice, this will help maybe other people!! We hope we can reduce our gap a bit the next weeks.
Now you still have to go to Agulhas, where the two oceans meet at the southernmost tip of Africa. And that's not Cape Point (read on the signposts.)
Yes! We did that as well, as mentioned in the video. We know that Cape Aguhlas is the most Southern point in Africa, hence the place where both oceans officially meet, but I think this one has a bigger significance in my opinion as it was the tipping point for all the shipping routes coming from Europe and starting their journey East! Maybe I should have said that, so I don't create so much fuss in the comments 🤣🤣🤣🤣
IT looks realy nice 👍 friends of mine emigrate to south africa 🙂
Similar levels of crime as London...but this time with sunshine.
It is really nice! Everything around Cape Town is green and the mountains and ocean are just there! Beautiful ❤️
Well Done congrats to have made it all the way! So whats next?
Well stay some weeks in SA and the ship to another continent in the southern hemisphere 😉
How did the camera guys get on with your camera gear? I have loved watching your videos of your African travels so far. I am recuperating from surgery and came across your channel by chance scrolling, so pleased that I did! Many of the areas you visited I have been to but there are many more gaps that you have filled in for me so thank you. Be safe and be wary in this part of Africa. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Hey! Hope you get better soon 🤗 happy to share our adventures and fill the gaps, our pleasure ✌️ we show it in the next episode, but basically the guys from ORMS wouldn't be able to repair it! We were force to get a new camera (second hand).
Hallo Irati und Kai - wie geht es mit der Reise nach Südafrika weiter?
Viele Grüße, Klaus
Hey Leo, wir sind inzwischen in Uruguay und erwarten das Auto in der nächsten Tagen. Werden dann noch ein halbes/Dreiviertel Jahr durch Süd Amerika fahren.
Ja, über das abschmieren: Wasserdurchfahrten mag das Kreuzgelenk nicht. Danach fette ich immer nach. Wichtig hierbei ist das Schiebestück nicht zustark abschmieren da durch den Druck des Festtes druck auf das Gelenk ausgeübt wird. Aber das weißt du vermutlich auch... Gute Zeit weiterhin
Hallo Philipp, danke für den Tipp!
Jup weiß ich, die meisten empfehlen das Schiebestück nur im auseinander gebauten Zustand zu fetten. So drastisch machen wir es nicht aber steht schon auf der todo list 😅
😮 I grease the propshafts of my defender roughly every 5000km. Makes you wonder what is a good interval...
Land Rover recommends for Europe (mostly road use) 30.000 km, I think between 10-30k is ok I do it with every oil change.
Cuando tienen pensado llegar a Sudamérica y cual va a ser el puerto al que envien a Bluelandy? Buen viaje
Hola!! Llegaremos a Montevideo en Septiembre! De ahí viajaremos por Argentina durante varios meses.
@@Thebluelandy vivimos a 30 k de Montevideo. A las órdenes
i would suggest to avoid taking that LR to deserts (soft sands or deep mud), its not made for it, its made for old English farms hauling bails of hay once a week and taking the dog for a walk - lol. Have fun! but dont break down in Congo or Nigeria and such places, it will be costly and dangerous.
We have taken the bluelandy to all this places hahahaha 🤣and I guess we will continue doing it 😎 Maintenance is key for the landy, but all vehicles in general. And sometimes luck as well.
My Toyota broke down with a gearbox failure in Malawi. If it wasn't for a friendly defender owner who towed me to Maun. I would still be there. So you comment means nothing.
@@HonestyfromtheStreet ooouch!
Lr service...always a rip off and useless as always
It was sad they couldn't provide any solution in a fair price range. 😵 we did get some parts there though, back lights some spare door handles, etc. But nothing major. 🤷