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!
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.
@@NaoPb Having spent much of my late teens rebuilding and using 2 stroke motorcycles and mopeds, it's a common problem. My Trabant was driven from Bulgaria to the UK, but I have no idea if or how many times it may have broken down. Too much oil in the mix will wreck a spark plug in mere minutes!
@@joelthorstensson2772 Yes, but it has to be in proportion. 10 litres of gas needs 303ml of oil, 18 litres of gas needs 545ml of oil. You can't just add 1 litres of oil for every 33 litres of gas used. The oil must be added at the same time as the gas in the right amount.
Yeah true! "worst car".. He just dont know how to maintain it or bought a areleady damaged one. Its very reliable. The "shit box" trendy word is wrong here. Its an old slower car but not a bad car at all. The most of them back then didnt going to sit or into scrapyard because of it died.. After the Fall of the wall every DDR Bürger wanted a west side car so they let them die. He should just keep insulting the car so the value wont go up faster ;)
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!
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
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 Scotty, I checked your Trabant's license plate in the Hungarian road registry, and it says it has been temporarily withdrawn from traffic; additionally, the MOT has expired in 2020.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 :)
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.
Drove a 50 year old American car with a dodgy carburetor, engine stalls accelerating from full stop unless I stomped the gas pedal more, not bad until I am close to home and encountered a stop and go traffic on hot June afternoon and the car vapor locked on me! Since the fuel gauge is inoperable and I have no long stick to measure the fuel level, I falsely believed I ran out of fuel.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
Just new cylinder head and it will run no problem. But yes if one cilinder has no spark plug, it runs a lot better than with the spark plug still in it. And no it is not good for it, duh.... these guys dont care at all.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
@@CAESARbondsI understand that the guy is unhappy with the purchase. And with a two-sroke engine, the guy has to realize he always needs the right engine oil in the right mixing ratio in his tank.
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.
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_Touring_Jedi Unlikely. It didn't happen in '89. Telegraph lines and power lines are succeptible because of induction. Car electronics not so much.
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.
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
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
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.
The most hilarious part on these cars is that you have stay on the throttle while driving downhill. If you don't do this occasionally your engine doesn't get lubricated while running and we all know thats not really good. When they bild the 2 stroke engine they connected the oilpump with the throttle cable. So more throttle more lubrication.
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
When it comes to the legendary Trabi it's all about the operator. If yours did not perform it is because you are not man enough for the task. This car is tough as nails and much more reliable than any actual shitbox from Western manufacturers. We drove those little rascals for decades, they never disappointed.
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.
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 😂😂😂😂
The trabant is ny favourite car. The reason youve had so many hilarious issues is because you brought a literal shitbox of the trabant world lol. A good condition trabant will always run well... Until it breaks down the next day lol
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!
Someone needs to send this to them.
@@jwalster9412its too late
hahahaha legend we have a trabant expert its good job you saw the video mate you probably saved his Trabant
@@ItZFlipzcar is dead
I cry bro@@afkafkafk
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.
I figured it had to do with the air/fuel mixture. But too much oil makes sense too. Certainly when it smokes like that.
@@NaoPb Having spent much of my late teens rebuilding and using 2 stroke motorcycles and mopeds, it's a common problem. My Trabant was driven from Bulgaria to the UK, but I have no idea if or how many times it may have broken down.
Too much oil in the mix will wreck a spark plug in mere minutes!
Forgive me for not understanding the ratio, but for every 33 litres of fuel (using as an example), you add one litre of oil (on pre-84 models)
@@joelthorstensson2772 Yes, but it has to be in proportion. 10 litres of gas needs 303ml of oil, 18 litres of gas needs 545ml of oil. You can't just add 1 litres of oil for every 33 litres of gas used. The oil must be added at the same time as the gas in the right amount.
That's wrong in so many ways. First, it's 1:33, not 33:1. And they have already changed it to 1:50 in 1974.
A car launch in 1964 with a engine from 1935 still capable to travel this distance. Simply and perfect german engineering.
😄😄😄😄😄
Yeah true!
"worst car".. He just dont know how to maintain it or bought a areleady damaged one. Its very reliable. The "shit box" trendy word is wrong here. Its an old slower car but not a bad car at all.
The most of them back then didnt going to sit or into scrapyard because of it died.. After the Fall of the wall every DDR Bürger wanted a west side car so they let them die.
He should just keep insulting the car so the value wont go up faster ;)
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!
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
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 :)
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.
To Maicopaul. OH MY GOD!
Sir your heater riser is connected to your intake, that seems like it won't help performance. 😂
Officially they had 26.5 horsepower when new - this one performs like a lot of those horses ended up in the knacker's yard.
I had one for yeras and drove it daily. There is nothing that can go wrong with these. You are two likeable plonkers, really. 😅
Thank you hahahaha
For you it is just an object, many others can tell life stories about this car.
I dont think shitbox quite cuts it for describing the trabant. Its like a level even lower than shitbox.
Just shit, no box
@@scottyfairno I want a kombi. Let me know if you get sick of it.
Good news scotty, in the Netherlands the minimum speed on the motorway is 60 so you weren't even doing anything illegal.
@@scottyfairno bro the trabrant is the best car ever
Trabant ownership isn't for the weak. lol
I'm about to take my ford escort half way around Australia... praying we make it rnnnn
Good luck!
No doubt, What Mk? I got MK4 and its really realiable.
That's a whole different category of car.
This car makes the Ford escort look like Rolls Royce.
Road trips with unreliable Cars is always fun, and entertaining
take care of it and it is realiable the engine is a 2 stroke they make a lot of problems
@@JuNKiEtekkehahaha a Trabant is not reliable
To watch not to do trust me
Arkady Fiedler's Fiat 126p road trips are legendary.
Drove a 50 year old American car with a dodgy carburetor, engine stalls accelerating from full stop unless I stomped the gas pedal more, not bad until I am close to home and encountered a stop and go traffic on hot June afternoon and the car vapor locked on me! Since the fuel gauge is inoperable and I have no long stick to measure the fuel level, I falsely believed I ran out of fuel.
Still better than moden luxury plastic BS.
Easy to repair if you have some mechanic knowledge of course.
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.
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.
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!
Quality engineering right there! I admire your bravery traversing Europe in that absolute
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
Why do I feel like 200 Hp would rip the panels off the frame..
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.
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
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...
Just new cylinder head and it will run no problem. But yes if one cilinder has no spark plug, it runs a lot better than with the spark plug still in it. And no it is not good for it, duh.... these guys dont care at all.
Swear I saw your trabant pulled over on an A road in Buckinghamshire
Acctualy sounds sic on one cylinder!
Like a big line trimmer
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.
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.
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
Please restore her.
She doesn't deserve to suffer like this...
I am planning to do exactly the same journey in this month, only different, my trabant is blue
Please be kind
@@KC9UDX I will be, for example, I not gonna use motorways
@@Morzsaszar Thank you. Are you going to post videos on UA-cam?
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
Really nice stuff to watch! No bullshit, great commentary, keep it up!
trabant truely are one of the car of all time.
“Komrade, it has engine, wheels, and goes forward and backwards, what more is needed да?” - Dimitri, 1982 probably
For cleaning clogged spark plugs with oil and soot I'm often use sandblasting gun.
How about a vaz-11113?
i live in east germany and i grew up with them. my dream is to buy one myselfe now that i have my license
I'm in england and I love these
I'm in Wisconsin and I wish I could afford one.
big dream
The long drive irl
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!
Ja aber mal ehrlich ich fahr meinen 190er Mercedes Diesel 10.000km im Monat, die Pissbude hat 480 runter und da passiert nix
mad The Long Drive energy
nah jalopy
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.
But that way it is more fun. And you get a free road-trip ;-)
booooring, and way too expensive too
@@CAESARbondsI understand that the guy is unhappy with the purchase. And with a two-sroke engine, the guy has to realize he always needs the right engine oil in the right mixing ratio in his tank.
I hope to do this some day. Seems like nice little cars. Just a shame I don't have space to keep my current car them. Since I love it very much.
@@CAESARbondsAnd what about the spare parts? Where in Scotland can you buy Trabant spare parts?
Take a Trabant on a road trip across the continental United States from New York to San Fransisco.
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.
What a legend!
Vid of driving it back?
This reminded me about the game called: Jalopy
My Brain's going: "Why, Why are you doing this?"
welcome back King, did you enjoy our south african beers?
Ahh yes...
Jalopy in real life...
Fine as an adventure! 🤣😂🤣
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.
In all honesty, it was a terrible car.
Trabant is only city car not between cities. You want to drive between countries crazy man. lol love ya
5:34 Trabant jumpscare.
This car idles how i imagine a carbirated diesel engine would idle.
A hot bulb engine? They're quite quiet actually.
@@KC9UDX a normal diesel. With a carburetor.
@@jwalster9412 I'm pretty sure that can't work.
@@KC9UDX don't knock it till you try it 🤷♂️
@@jwalster9412 starting to sound like perpetual motion
What language is this?, it sounds like Dutch with Danish?.
English hahahaha
"The Power of the two candles"😂
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.
Most cars will still work. Gas pumps, however...
@@KC9UDX No most cars will be useless as ECU would be destroyed in any modern car.
@@The_Touring_Jedi Unlikely. It didn't happen in '89. Telegraph lines and power lines are succeptible because of induction. Car electronics not so much.
The thought of having to pick between Volvo and Trabant.
Lots of thinking must have been skipped here.
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.
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
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
Glad i come across this i'm triyng to get one here in the usa! lol.
Watch-out for crap-trabants sold in Hungary!!! Be sure to have a spare engine (or a lot of spare parts) with it if you'd buy there.
Pretty cool video.
This is just like the game "Jalopy"
Great video
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
This is the kind of car that screams Sport bike engine swap. Would love to work on a project like that.
As an East German, I can tell you that this car is not for people like you.
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.
My Spring Car
Is there any chance of getting english sub?
A lady riva would be the pinnacle love these cars
Gotta love spell correct 😁
What the heell is a Lady Riva?
@@f.d.3595 *Lada Riva.
Love the colour man .
Poor little car- I think it serves well under that circumstances 😅
The most hilarious part on these cars is that you have stay on the throttle while driving downhill. If you don't do this occasionally your engine doesn't get lubricated while running and we all know thats not really good.
When they bild the 2 stroke engine they connected the oilpump with the throttle cable. So more throttle more lubrication.
Use neutral
What are you talking about?
Oilpump? There is just one pump in the whole car and it is for the wiperfluid!
This guy is hilarious I swear he’s in a different country every video tho
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
When it comes to the legendary Trabi it's all about the operator. If yours did not perform it is because you are not man enough for the task. This car is tough as nails and much more reliable than any actual shitbox from Western manufacturers. We drove those little rascals for decades, they never disappointed.
Totally right . They don’t have a clue what they are doing . And blame their ignorance on the car .
Same goes for Yugos I guess lol, I've been driving one around for 6 years and all shit I had to do on it was due to poor maintenance from my grandpa.
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.
jalopy IRL lol🤣
what are the most reliable /durabel car brands (or just cars) in generall and in the 80s 90s
Toyota Carina E with 3S-FE
Jeep Cherokee XJ
Mercedes, almost any
Audi 100 with 2.3 non-turbo five cylinder engine
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?
Loony tunes car right there like chitty chitty bang bang
id put a 13b rotary in it whaha sounds 2 stroke shit reliability but more power way more, like your channel mate cheers
awesome
There were many reasons to stop production of the Trabant after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Right because then they could join the throw-away world. 🙁
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 😂😂😂😂
Scotty how do you make money?
The trabant is ny favourite car. The reason youve had so many hilarious issues is because you brought a literal shitbox of the trabant world lol. A good condition trabant will always run well... Until it breaks down the next day lol
I love shitboxes more than supercars ❤
The Long Drive game
Do not drive a 2 stroke on 1 cyl, it's a recipe for disaster.
I like the colour ❤
My first car, a white Trabant.