If you want to fix the heating on the trabant, you have to Connect the flexible pipes correctly: one goes from the exhaust right to the "banana shaped" heater and the other one needs to go from the the engine cover to the front muffler. You have connected the heating outlet to the other heating outlet, so you are pumping hot exhaust air diretly to the engine cooling, thus the engine is overheating all the time and might result in engine damage!

A car launch in 1964 with a engine from 1935 still capable to travel this distance. Simply and perfect german engineering.

You drive it like crazy mad , and suprised that it breaks down .. 😅

The oil mixture is 33:1 for pre '84 models, post '84 runs on 50:1. With that amount of smoke, plus destroying spark plugs every 100 miles means wayyyyyy too much oil in the fuel. Mine makes hardly any smoke at all, just a little on a cold start that's all.

Sir your heater riser is connected to your intake, that seems like it won't help performance. 😂

A Trabant is reliable if you take care for it! 😃

Don't forget to shift into neutral anytime you let off the gas in any gear below 4th! The Trabant only has free-wheeling on 4th gear and, being two-stroke, only gets it's oil lubrication from the oil in the gas....but if you're not ON the throttle, that means no lubrication unless the engine is idling in neutral!

I had one for yeras and drove it daily. There is nothing that can go wrong with these. You are two likeable plonkers, really. 😅

DO NOT FORGET: use 2 stroke premix 50:1 (petrol:2 stroke oil). and DO NOT let off the throttle in ANY gear except 4th (4th has a ''freewheel'' that allows the engine to idle when coasting). when braking: always push the clutch pedal. this is to prevent the engine from seizing.

Road trips with unreliable Cars is always fun, and entertaining

I dont think shitbox quite cuts it for describing the trabant. Its like a level even lower than shitbox.

60 with one cylinder? That's basically raping the engine... mine only could go like 20 or 30 when I've lost spark in one cylinder, and only gone for maybe 1 km until I've reached my workplace, not 200 kilometers... no wonder it gave up. And if the spark plug thread is fucked, you'll probably need a new engine block anyway, or maybe it can be mend by a thread repair specialist. Btw it's 26 hp, and not Soviet at all. It's not that crap, you just bought a cheap rundown one that's been neglected for quite some time. You're expecting miracles here from an almost 40 year old car with technology from the '30s that wasn't maintained properly...

Still better than moden luxury plastic BS. Easy to repair if you have some mechanic knowledge of course.

I'm about to take my ford escort half way around Australia... praying we make it rnnnn

I am Hungarian and I find these Trabant vlogs especially amusing! Dying to see the next part!! Scotty, I checked your Trabant's license plate in the Hungarian road registry, and it says it has been temporarily withdrawn from traffic; additionally, the MOT has expired in 2020. (Wich means your trabant is not street legal right now) Are you aware of this? I hope you did not get in any trouble. Normally, if exporting a vehicle from Hungary, an export plate should be used, or no plate, and a trailer :)

For you it is just an object, many others can tell life stories about this car.

Officially they had 26.5 horsepower when new - this one performs like a lot of those horses ended up in the knacker's yard.

In the times of the DDR - East Germany - if you want to buy a new Trabant you have to wait till 12 years preordering it!If you want to have a Russian Limousine Lada you must preorder it 17 years ! If you have one-they will stay the whole live at your side if possible!

as a german i still love the smell of those cars! when i was a kid in early 2000th still many of them were driving around here in my small city in east germany but they got really rare and expensive now. there was also one tuned one driving around which had aluminium rims, suspension and a 200hp engine in it! :D would be cool if u keep the original engine but give it a nice tune. i wonder how much hp can be made with those little engines. I have never seen a turbo Trabant engine to be honest. :D

my father told me, the morning after the berlin wall fell (happened at night), there were already Trabbis rolling down the streets, here on the other side of germany 😀 they did not wait a second to get away from east-germany hehe

We call it leucoplastbomber. Racing cardboard. „Rennpappe“. If you want to improve the speed of the trabant, take the electric motor from the windshieldwipers. It’s the car of the year 1990 in Germany. A normal citizen had to wait approximately ten years for delivery.

Acctualy sounds sic on one cylinder!

Quality engineering right there! I admire your bravery traversing Europe in that absolute

Cool! Back in high school I had a respectable gentleman as my teacher for German class. He had many different license plates of Trabants hanging on the wall. Whenever asked about those or the Trabant in general, he would passionately talk about those cars the whole class long xD

It is kind of beautiful though. In the 1980s I saw a estate version Trabant with two East Germans up in Lochaber near Onich. We marvelled at its ability to get to the West Highlands.

6:15 oh Shit you even were in Glückstadt ? That is right around my corner .

So I remember watching this guy a good while ago, now I’m seeing him for the most hilarious memes on insta and I’m back

I once drove a 1960's Renault 10 Major to UK, Yorkshire and back to Germany....it was not new rust everywhere.......It did not blink once.......I did the same in 1970's VWs (Passatt 1300cc) and later a low mileage Morris marina 1300cc.......Many soldiers did this journey in old ~Ratbags in the 60's 70's and 80's.

Really nice stuff to watch! No bullshit, great commentary, keep it up!

Woah congrats with your new Trabbi, you even have one with the old style dash! I'd recommend for you, whenever you buy the plastic edges for your bumper, to drill a hole in the bottom through the metal lip and put a locking pin in there. They get lost way too easily hahaha. I know people who still use these as daily drivers, I only use mine daily from mid spring to mid autumn... its still 10k kilometers a year or so :P. Mine's from the very last production year, 1989, so it's as good as rust free still. If you take good care of it according to the book, they're very cheap to maintain and incredibly reliable cars. Have a lot of fun with it, and use common sense! I noticed, especially the English Trabant forums tend to be quite severe echo chambers shouting some really weird stuff.

Removing the sparkplug on one cylinder and only running on the second cylinder means no lubrication for the one without the spark plug because it doesnt get any gas/oil mixture.

with a well serviced trabant it is no problem to drive a distance like this. Most people (so you too) are buying the deadest corpse and think they are reliable. That's kind of a mistake. Drove my Trabant 10.000km in the last 6 years and only had one breakdown (clutch failure). So do a big Service and have fun with a reliable "Pappe". Greetings from east germany!

I would have thought that by using modern synthetic two-stroke oil you could lower the percentage of oil in the premix to the benefit of power and spark plug longevity and the reduction of smoke.

This was a fun video adventure to watch. The estate wagon must have had a longer wait time to purchase when new. When a BMW factory was scheduled to be built in the Southern U.S. the BMW club purists used the Trabant to poke fun at the new factory. They had an industrial cooling fan aimed at a Trabant and said this would be the quality of car they would make and this was the new factory "wind tunnel" test. The car I had that would cause me these types of road problems was an Austin Healey Frog Eye Sprite

I know this is among the worst automobiles ever made but how does it EAT 2 spark plugs every 100 miles? Ar they black? Are they melted? What Gas/Oil mix are you running? Also looks like youll either have to find a new head or a guy capable or drilling new thread so solid that it withstands the compression. Youd also be running two different spark plugs at that point.

I am planning to do exactly the same journey in this month, only different, my trabant is blue

How long does it usually take to start on freezing cold mornings? Does it take longer when it hasn't been used for several days?

Swear I saw your trabant pulled over on an A road in Buckinghamshire

Maybe it's a worst car but in case of serious solar storm which would wipe out every modern vehicle such old car will still work.

Take a Trabant on a road trip across the continental United States from New York to San Fransisco.

You bought an unkempt car in Hungary. The Trabant is really run-down. You would have been better off buying a well-maintained Trabant in Germany. Then you wouldn't have any trouble. Alternatively, you could take the vehicle to the former GDR. They will fix it up for you there so that you can enjoy the Auro. Incidentally, have an electronic ignition installed, which was also available for the Trabant. Then you no longer have to change and adjust the ignition contacts.

trabant truely are one of the car of all time.

I know the pain, I rode a 2 stroke Vespa to instanbul and back from wales and had over 50 breakdowns and an engine rebuild

What a legend!

mad The Long Drive energy

Great video

My Brain's going: "Why, Why are you doing this?"

How about a vaz-11113?

welcome back King, did you enjoy our south african beers?

Glad i come across this i'm triyng to get one here in the usa! lol.

Is there any chance of getting english sub?

What language is this?, it sounds like Dutch with Danish?.

Vid of driving it back?

Fine as an adventure! 🤣😂🤣

i live in east germany and i grew up with them. my dream is to buy one myselfe now that i have my license

This reminded me about the game called: Jalopy

The Trabant wasn't a terrible car at the time all things considered. The thing that was terrible about it was that you had to wait 10-15 years for one.

The long drive irl

Need to get yourself a Lada 2104 or a Fiat 126p to add to the collection next! 😎 even though cars from this era were not the best they are fascinating lol

Pretty cool video.

awesome

As an East German, I can tell you that this car is not for people like you.

Now just waiting for the headline "Scotty Fairno turned to dust" especially since I live one county away from ya so it'll probably be a headline here

Love the colour man .

I love shitboxes more than supercars ❤

Do not drive a 2 stroke on 1 cyl, it's a recipe for disaster.

For cleaning clogged spark plugs with oil and soot I'm often use sandblasting gun.

My Spring Car

This is the kind of car that screams Sport bike engine swap. Would love to work on a project like that.

id put a 13b rotary in it whaha sounds 2 stroke shit reliability but more power way more, like your channel mate cheers

Scotty how do you make money?

what are the most reliable /durabel car brands (or just cars) in generall and in the 80s 90s

"The Power of the two candles"😂

Please restore her. She doesn't deserve to suffer like this...

My Trabant’s cooling fan broke from its bracket and is possibly still on the A14 west of Ipswich, help yourselves if you find it. Carry a spare condenser or two as well.

Poor little car- I think it serves well under that circumstances 😅

PLEASE, buy ,,maluch" fiat 126p, they are rlly cheap (smthing like 500-1000euro, u can get it in ,,riding" condition)

I like the colour ❤

This is just like the game "Jalopy"

Why does it need so many spark plugs, guessing the oil burns on to them

The worst car ever doesn't still work 30+ years later. My friend had a Kia Carnival (about a 2002 or 2003 model). Car was already at the scrapyard by 2010 with less than 100,000 kms on it. Thats kilometres, not miles. Apparently the engine design was faulty (It was a Rover V6) and had piston sleeves that went wonky after a while. Apparently cylinders won't go up and down in wonky cylinder chambers. This ain't that rare a story either, there has more recently been issues again with Kia Cerato/Hyundai i30 cars having engine problems.

5:34 Trabant jumpscare.

The thought of having to pick between Volvo and Trabant. Lots of thinking must have been skipped here.

Bro thats Mr. Bean car

In hungary,we think the zaz is the worst car ever made

This guy is hilarious I swear he’s in a different country every video tho

This car idles how i imagine a carbirated diesel engine would idle.

A lady riva would be the pinnacle love these cars

If you ever in Germany again swing past Bavaria (Titting area) and I would be more than happy to house you my dude 😂😂😂 or maybe some machining work … I can do that for you as well either way dig you my dude 😂😂😂😂

Loony tunes car right there like chitty chitty bang bang

Tbf the headlights are better than my nb mx5’s😭

Condition of that thing is horrible. So don't be mad that it breaks every 100 miles. By the way you put too much oil into the patrol that's why problem with spark plugs and smoke.

The long drive IRL

It was traditional before the wall came down to kick these , hard, wherever you saw them , everyone kicked them in west ! When the wall came down the habit did not die away … we ended up with a Tatra v8

They are good cars

The Long Drive game

How can you even stand to sit in it for longer than 15 minutes with the engine running. Thats how long I test drove one before NOT BUYING the car. And I went home with the biggest headache ever

Back in the 60s, when this car was introduced, it was up to date and had a pretty modern design. Too bad, that the communism party has not allowed any improvements. One fact is the payload of this car. It weights 660kg and has around 380kg payload. That is a pretty good rate, and it drove quite well also with a bit more ;-).

good

Drive any other 40-60 year old unmaintained car and you get that result. Don't blame the car