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Jeeps on Paris - New York trip, after "crossing through nearly 18 countries and tracking over 17,000 miles thus far," have had to postpone "due to extreme snowstorms and numerous mechanical failures in Siberia."

http://www.off-road.com/jeep/feature/pa ... 13479.html

LOOOL....mechanical failures.....Jeep is keeping its reputation alive as usual

This is not the typical "its a jeep thing" WA. every trans-Siberia crossing is a royal SOB. There have been several documentaries and all of them have had to halt at one time or another due to mechanical failure. Even the Mog's have issues due to the brutal nature of the track. I want to see you get a group of FJ's and do it. You can call your trip "WA eats his words".

LOL...there was an FJ expedition that did thsi route and it was a piece of cake for them...let me locate teh link ...and we''ll see who eats whose words Mr. Loudmouth

Wasif Ahmed wrote:LOL...there was an FJ expedition that did thsi route and it was a piece of cake for them...let me locate teh link ...and we''ll see who eats whose words Mr. Loudmouth

The pots calls the kettle black....

And if you could read the article you would see that the only mechanical failure mentioned was with the hub of the support equipment trailer. Nothing found yet about the JK being the problem. Unfortunately i am not seeing any kind of daily report of the trip either...

Ah man this article is old too!

Sounds like a fun trip. Nice looking rigs too

pseacraft wrote:And if you could read the article you would see that the only mechanical failure mentioned was with the hub of the support equipment trailer. Nothing found yet about the JK being the problem.

LOOOOL 8) 8)

Yes, there's a lot more to the story than meets the eye. They were also powered by renewable energy... bio-fuel?

AND.... in 2010 they went back and tried again, reaching the very end of Russia (but not the Paris - New York jeep trip 8)

Here's the website of the dude himself: http://www.ee-mj.com/about.html (Matthias Jeschke) He has done several incredible off-road expeditions, even the world record for the highest altitude - in 2005 with a land Cruiser, and in 2007 he beat that with a climb to 6646 meters aboard a stock Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon!

Some great stuff but man I wish he would put out more details! Probably have to buy the video...humm...idea.... I would love to do something like this but I will have to stick to exploring Laos on my dirt bike.

Just for WA from Matthias' website:
"As the first-ever automobile expedition from Europe, the expedition arrives at the Bering Strait / at the end of Asia in Chukotka / Russia via the southern route, which has never been driven by wheeled vehicles before."

Was that highest climb the one where he climbed the side of a volcano or somethign like that?

PR wrote:LOOOOL 8) 8)

Yes, there's a lot more to the story than meets the eye. They were also powered by renewable energy... bio-fuel?

AND.... in 2010 they went back and tried again, reaching the very end of Russia (but not the Paris - New York jeep trip 8)

Here's the website of the dude himself: http://www.ee-mj.com/about.html (Matthias Jeschke) He has done several incredible off-road expeditions, even the world record for the highest altitude - in 2005 with a land Cruiser, and in 2007 he beat that with a climb to 6646 meters aboard a stock Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon!