The hunt for red oct..... er... the memory card.

So its been a while since the run, I figured that anyone who is still following the blog might appreciate an update... so I thought it was time to post up what has happened since the run, and where we were going with the car.

With that in mind, the first port of call was to try and locate the missing memory card.

Those of you paying attention will recall that on Day 1 of the scum run, Gregg managed to launch my 16gb SD card into the dashboard, never to be seen again.  Despite a lot of rummaging it didn't appear, so I decided it was time to get down and dirty with the car, and strip it to its nuts and bolts.  To be fair, this task wasn't purely for this reason.  We also needed to give the fairly ropey carpet a clean, and generally organise the cables and the seats a bit better, so we were killing several birds with one stone.

With the carpet removed you can see what an epic mess of cables lie underneath the dashboard and centre console.  To be fair, a lot of it is stock cabling, or at least cabling that was there when we got the car, but our additions for the scumrun were, shall we say, expedient.  So getting back in there with cable ties and wire loom was the order of the day.

The passenger side carpet looks like someone spilled coke, or similar, and let it pool and dry.  Nice.  We attacked it with a hoover, soap, and carpet cleaner.  Then let it all dry out, but it will still need more work in the future.  Its good enough for now tho.

Back to the hunt for the SD card..  Well after ripping out the carpet and scooping up all the crap that had accumulated underneath I actually located the thing.  It had somehow managed to get from the passenger side glove box, all the way through the dashboard, down and under the carpet and finally nestled its way into a nook in the floor by the drivers seat.  No way we would have found that while waiting for the ferry at Dover.  Still that's 70 quid saved..  all in all a good day on the car.