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We had 166 flat tires (= every 2'456 miles or 109 hours of driving).
We used 72 tires, 32 batteries, 144 spark plugs, 22 air filters, 54 shock absorbers.
We made 94 oil changes with 56 oil filters and 100 times greasing.

We had to take 273 times a ferry or a freighter to cross a river, lake or the sea.

This was done on 229 ferries, 21 containers, 2 pontoons, 17 roll-on/roll-off-shipments und 4 times by crane.

We changed 23 times each from right hand to left hand traffic and 22 times from the left to the right.

We crossed 14 times the Equator from North to South and 13 times from South to North, then 12 resp. 9 times with the car.
We had to apply for 82 visas, which filled 9 passports and cost US$ 3'850.- per person.

The 169 visited countries had 66 different languages and 142 different currencies.
We visited 148 of the total 194 sovereign and 21 of the 65 non-sovereign countries and other territories of the world.
We have been checked 315 times at the totally 463 border crossings..
We traveled in 23 of the total 24 time-zones.

The highest point the car reached was 17'454 ft in Bolivia (Chacaltaya).
The lowest point was in Jordan at -1'280 ft (Dead Sea).
Since 1995 we have given 68 TV interviews in 40 different countries.

382 pages (½ in German and ½ in English) can be chosen on our website, where 9'874 different pictures of our journey can be found.

Since 4/1/2002 – the start of the statistics of emails – we received and sent 18'456 emails, this is monthly 170 av. (Birth day of Hotmail 3/5/1999)

Since 1/1/2005 – the start of the statistics of our website – we welcomed on our site www.weltrekordreise.ch

totally 2'696'640 visitors (= daily 1'172) that did 81'654'203 (= daily 35'502) hits.

(Record day since 12/17/1998 = the birthday of our website: on 11/5/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits)

We "shot" about 19'260 slides, 18'660 prints and 42'740 digital pictures, that is every 5 miles or 13 minutes of driving one picture.

The highest average speed we drove in Belgium (44.7 miles/h), followed by Denmark (38.7 miles/h).
The lowest average speed we drove in the Vatican (6.2 miles/h), followed by Gibraltar (7.0 miles/h).

The most days and miles we spent in the USA (1'818 days = 63'091 miles), followed by Australia (318 days = 24'209 miles).
The fewest miles we drove in the Vatican (1.2 miles), followed by Monaco (12 miles).

Generally, the car was moved on 7 out of 10 days.
In the average we moved to the next place after 3 days of stay.
We filled up totally 42'850 US-gallons of gasoline at 1’744 service stations, average 24½ gallons per filling.
The highest paid gasoline price was US$ 7.45 per US-gallon in August 2008 in New Caledonia, the lowest US$ 0.06½ in May 1995 in Iran.