Nowra to Melbourne, 24th November 2009

This was Rosemary's inaugural road trip; we bought her in Nowra and drove her to Melbourne in a day. The only fault we discovered along the way was a failure to charge the battery.

She'd had a new alternator fitted recently, along with some changes to the wiring loom, and it looks like she's earthing the current from the alternator rather than charging with it.

We've found that we get several hours of motoring from an 850CCA battery. For the moment we're just taking shorter trips around town while we learn to drive her properly, so we run her off the battery and charge it overnight.