It is becoming a tradition that my first morning start of the beast fails. This time it was dead battery.  So one more trip to the shop and we can start! My biggest worry was if the bigger tires would cause any problems  off road. To at least partially simulate the load in the rally, I loaded the car with my  wife and kids and we all went on.  The car behaved very well, although I did not push it too much.  

The missing bit of the front bumper bar is result of our efforts to fit the big wheels. It will be fixed in couple of days together with the noisy exhaust pipe.