Thread: Bug Screen Tips - Driving to Grand Final

Don't bother with it.

All it does is interrupt flow...

A few bugs is nothing, just clean it with a hose when you get home (of course a locust plague is something else but none at the moment)

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Wife has declared if the Eagles get through this Saturday we are driving over to Melbourne leaving Monday.

Just wanted to check if I put some flywire in front of radiator I wont blow it up or cook the turbo? Have heard various reports of not using on a TD car.

My idea is to hang a sheet of flywire directly in front of the radiator and coolers.

Me, I'm a Kangaroos fan so a Hawks v Kangas GF might see some cheap flights East and the car not leave the garage.

If a Derby GF the Nullarbor might be busy!!

Thanks
Richard

thats a lot of dedication mate....surely it would be cheaper to fly ..but i commend your dedication.

Originally Posted by dublin_101

thats a lot of dedication mate....surely it would be cheaper to fly ..but i commend your dedication.

Definitely not cheaper to fly.

Airfares at the moment are being quoted at more than $1,000 each one way, so for two people, $4K plus return.

If you can't drive a Disco across and back for considerably less than that, there's something seriously wrong with it.

We're going across to Tassie again in January. Looked at flying over there as well. Once we add in the cost of a hire car for the time we're over there, it's much cheaper to drive across, including the boat fare with car and overnight cabin both ways. Of course if you're driving, you have to make allowance for overnight accommodation on the way across and back (unless you're really keen and want to do it non-stop ) - but there are cheap options here too. We are well set up for overnight stops, so don't spend too much money on this.

Long range fuel tank helps a lot - fuel prices across the paddock can be scary. But I can easily make it from Norseman to at least Ceduna (have managed right through to Port Augusta on our best trip, with a tail wind), so this is not a big concern for us.

We happened to be driving across (on our way to Tassie) the last time the Dockers made it into a Grand Final - the road was busy but not so bad as to be any bother. Finding accommodation might have been an issue though if we had needed to. But the tent that clips under the awning only takes a couple of minutes to put up and is all we need for an overnight stop.

If you're worried about bugs - you are far more likely to encounter them between Perth and Southern Cross on this side, and then through the wheatbelt in SA. Plenty of towns there where you can pull up and hose the radiator out if you need to. You won't have any problems with bugs between Southern Cross and at least Penong in SA. Both my son and I hit a locust plague recently on our way down to Perth. I was in the D4 and they didn't give me any grief apart from the mess on the windscreen and the front of the vehicle - managed to wash it all off while they were still wet and easy to move at Lifestyle 4WD in Morley when I got down there. The young bloke had a few more issues in the D2 the following day - it started running hot from around Northam through the hills. He ended up pulling in and hosing it all out at The Lakes, and no more problems after that.

Id be more worried about driving at night with the wildlife than a few bugs
Word of warning only the brave or dumb drive across the paddock of a night in a car

I had bug screens on my D2s, my D4 and have just fitted one to my RRV. I live in a farming area where bugs of one sort or another occur most of the year and I don't want to spend my life reverse cleaning radiators. With canola in full bloom native bees are the current culprits and they had already made a mess of the RRV's radiators. Its standard practice with farmers around here to have a screen permanently fitted.

"Id be more worried about driving at night with the wildlife than a few bugs
Word of warning only the brave or dumb drive across the paddock of a night in a car"



Yep, both brave and dumb and drove with my eyes on stalks. I've had to do it a couple times and it was a bit hairy to say the least. Nothing like a road train coming in the opposite direction outlining of a bunch of camels crossing the road outside the range of your lights to get the old heart rate up! Would hate to think what the Defender I used to have would have looked like after running into one of those....

Originally Posted by cripesamighty

"Id be more worried about driving at night with the wildlife than a few bugs
Word of warning only the brave or dumb drive across the paddock of a night in a car"



Yep, both brave and dumb and drove with my eyes on stalks. I've had to do it a couple times and it was a bit hairy to say the least. Nothing like a road train coming in the opposite direction outlining of a bunch of camels crossing the road outside the range of your lights to get the old heart rate up! Would hate to think what the Defender I used to have would have looked like after running into one of those....

Ever seen what happens to Accord that hit Camels of a night across the Paddock
Not a good sight

Originally Posted by BMKal

Definitely not cheaper to fly.

have you tried other ways to get cheap flights? eg via Singapore etc? Sorry I just love these sorts of challenges