Crossed into Canada

We’re about a month in and yesterday exited the US after starting the trip in Long Beach, CA. We’ve received some generous assistance along the way which might be nice to share here.

After six weeks sitting in a container from Sydney, Iggy arrived with depleted batteries and despite responding to a jump pack was left with various fault warnings. Other than that the shipping was incident free.

Bernhard at Leitner Designs cleared several of them for us, but it took a whistle stop visit to Sierra Ineos over in Orange County to complete the reset. Some weeks later we also found time for a routine service at Elliot Bay Ineos in Seattle who were happy to service our diesel.

Both dealership teams made us very welcome and we’ve benefited also from the interest and encouragement of Ineos USA.

We hopped from National Park to National Park (eight in total) up the west coast. Thanks to Forum members @255/85 and @Bodhi’s Grenadier who kindly offered in-person recommendations along the way.

The only real issue so far was the windscreen which was cracked by a piece of debris flung off by a truck on a freeway nearby Seattle. Seems imprudent to replace a ‘screen before the Dempster Highway etc so we’re living with a ~10cm crack stabilised with a bit of superglue.

Might also be worth noting that oil of the correct spec (for a diesel) is difficult to find off the shelf in this region - it’s best to plan ahead and buy online.
We are yet to try sourcing direct from a BMW service centre though, that might be an option.