Thread: Perhaps a silly question

Originally Posted by Yorkshire_Jon

Hi Frank,

Im flying into darwin to meet up with a friend (Leeds on this forum) who shipped his 110 over back in April. He's doing the round Oz trip - Im only doing a month of it!

The idea was to put some gear in the 110 and ship it back with the car.


Im not entirely sure I'll be ending up in Sydney (at least not with the 110 as well) and so was looking at options earlier on in the trip.

Curret Aus prices for ARB lockers (AU$1219) seem very comparable to UK prices though, so not going to save much

Regards,
Jon

Jon only you can work out if it is worth buying Down Under rather than where you live but it will be cheaper by far to buy in either Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne or Adelaide (don't know about Perth and I'm not sure you're headed there) than to buy in Cairns, Alice Springs or Darwin.

I understand that ARB prices should be the same - its just what freight they may charge you. Hence, you don't have to go to Sydney but just buy from the closest outlet to the major capitals that you find yourself visiting.

Whatever you do have a great trip. While hot and humid the storms in Darwin in Nov are spectacular

Like Waynep said, talk to a few stores as they will discount if you ask.

As far as service goes, my local ARB Ive had some issues with one of the now apparently X staff members trying to tell me furphys about my Landrover as well as just being difficult to deal with so I have found my local TJM to be much easier to deal with and much more knolagable but that changes from store to store but in the main I think most people in both are pretty good.

I dont deal much with either though as im in Melbourne I have easier access to their suppliers (e.g. Noble and sons for the Strops, snatch straps, drag chains and tree trunk protectors) where you can normally get stuff heaps cheaper than if it has ARB written on it.