Thread: Fender on the Ghan... height of vechicle <2m ?

Ok - I will answer my own question once and for all!
When you check your car into the Ghan (in my case in Adelaide) - they have an inverted "L" shaped stick that they use to measure the height of your vehicle. Our Defender - fully loaded (with no roofrack) was a "biro's width" too tall. The guy let us drive away, and drop the tyres for a retest. We got under the limit by a "gnats".

We wanted to book the Forester from Sydney to Perth for our trip in March. It is 10mm too tall (for the Syd-Adelaide leg) so they wouldn't accept it.

So we have to drive the SYD-ADL legs bothways.

Gettin' twitchy counting down the day til our Gulf mud (or dust) covered Disco gets loaded at Darwin.
$100 with 2 Gold tickets
$450 for the trailer on the back
Luxury for a day, then ****** (January) hot for a week around Alice, then back to (/Yorkshire accent) Lookshrey.
Nice.
Dave.

If it wasn't for the staff discount, I couldn't afford the Ghan nor Indian.

P38arover, Same here. Got very lucky (skillful actually) and won 2+2 GK tickets

Skill was putting up a 3 pers tent faster than all comers. True!