Does anyone know about OKA's

**blitz** · 5th February 2007, 02:08 PM

Hi all
I know this is not a landrover question but I am thinking of buying one in a camper configuration for extended remote area work. I have seen a few around including some as tourist buses and am wondering if anyone knows how good they are?
Blythe

**dobbo** · 5th February 2007, 02:13 PM

Story I heard was they were designed in Gove and the bloke sold the design and prototype to a company in WA.

Offroad ability excellent, cost extreme. If I could afford one I'd get one.

**Outlaw** · 5th February 2007, 02:31 PM

www.oka.com.au

**blitz** · 5th February 2007, 02:32 PM

Thanks Matt
I just chased up the general ball park prices they are similar to a range rover base model to all the fruit in price.

I will be towing a boat with it and away for extended times so my landy is out (I'm buggered if I am going to sleep in my swag for weeks on end anymore and to slow to bath in a river in the NT any more so bigger is better in 4X4)

Blythe

**Frenchie** · 5th February 2007, 02:47 PM

Main downside I reckon is that they are extremely heavy.

I think the cab/chassis was about 4.5 tonnes.

Not bad offroad for the size of them though, just have to allow for the bulk.

**isuzurover** · 5th February 2007, 02:48 PM

Used to know a guy whon owned one which he used as a 4x4 tour bus (C2C tours). He was very happy with it.

They have been through a few updates, and now have Dana 70 Rear F&R axles AFAIK (ARB lockers are available for these).

Check on which engines they offer now as when they first came out the smallest engine offered was underpowered and the v8 diesels had the typical reliability and cooling problems those engines suffer(ed) from.

**101RRS** · 5th February 2007, 03:00 PM

A better option might have been the Landy FC101 camper that was just passed in at $12,500 on e-bay.

Gazzz

**easo** · 5th February 2007, 03:08 PM

A mate of mine has one. It's got a perkins desiol in it. He picked it up for 17,000 and later picked up the deul cab back for an extra 5,000. So far he has rebuilt the perkins and put airlockers, winch, hf, deul batts and heaps of other crap on it, including an old pop top camper van. The deul cab back fits his two kids nicly on one side with heaps of spare room. Before he got it, it was used as a drilling rig.

**UncleHo** · 5th February 2007, 05:08 PM

G'day Folks

Wasn't there a thread that had a link to the OKA web page a week or so ago

**cookiesa** · 5th February 2007, 06:17 PM

Have spoken to a few tour bus owner/operators about these when I lived in Darwin. They loved them but often swore at the perkins diesel. Good on fuel, go forever and reliable but very slow on the highway. (Transit stages between destinations were slow)

Might be worth seeing if you can take one out on the highway and make sure your happy with highway performance if you intend doing touring. Strong headwind would make things even worse

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