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Nice Stornoway - love to hear what your experience is like.
I reckon this would be the way to go for us in a couple of year's time too.
We'll never do the amount of these type of holidays to justify buying one, and I'm sure it may be the same for you, or perhaps a genuine try before buy thing too!
There's obviously a market prepared to pay reasonable money for a good product that puts this type of trip within reach, despite what Redback thinks.
Regards,
Les.
We paid $770 pw for the Vista. I think it depends on how long youre in the one spot for. We moved a bit & it was handy for a 4min set up inc the rear stabilizers. Bed ready all the time :D
I would assume that is only the tent section and not including the annex, which evens out the setup time between a hard floor camper and a soft floor camper.Quote:
Originally Posted by DI5CO
The thing people forget is, when it comes to setup times, it's all about the same when you factor in the annex, pulling the kitchen out, the chairs, your cooking gear and all the odds and ends you need when camping, trust me I know, we have been doing this for years and we tested a few before we bought our camper.
You can setup a soft floor in 5mins too, if all your doing is opening it up to sleep in, stabiliser legs included;)
I guess it all comes down to what your willing to pay and whether you feel it's worth it, personnally I don't think they are worth it, at the end of the day, they are both a tent on a trailer:)
Baz.
Ive got a cameron camper ALL aussie made and from SA ( important to me ), Its a soft floor but the dust cover is a instant anexe over the kitchen. all up my wife and I can set up under 5 mins with cover over kitchen and 12 mins more for the full anexe.
We decided on this one because of the speed and ease of use and very important to us my wife or one of my kids can pack it up by them selves if something happened to me in the middle of nowhere.
Its got override brakes and never had bumping problem, infact work great . Imho If the weight of your trailer is like a camper these are good, for a heavy caravan I would go electric, and if you have to use your elec brakes to stop your trailer fish tailing I would look at your weights as there are strict laws for towing now , well in SA anyhow .Most hire car trailers once you put a equal sized car on trailer your over weight.
connock
thanks guys
@ outasight - the kimberley was based in Wollongong - Express Tools and Camper Trailers
having taken all the info on board i actually thought the cub campers from the Shire might be the best bet as everything is included - therefore we don't need to load the car with all the camping equipment to then pick up the trailer. plus the fridge is on the trailer with enough juice to last 3 days. So i don't need to take up space in the car.
however they have just informed me that their camper has led lights and he thought that might be an issue for the D3, which having googled seems to be the case.
so it looks like i need to buy a D4 just to go on this trip :arms:
(that is on the cards but probably not enough time between now and then )
so looks like my only option is to spend about $300 on an adapter
www
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does that sound about right?
or i look at the other campers instead
That's a bugger, I'm assuming the Kimberly will have LEDs as well if it is a fairly recent model.Quote:
Originally Posted by simoncs
Baz.
I was under the impression that the D4 had the same problem so bought an adapter (which I haven't tried yet). It was only about $150 from a guy on the Central Coast, the link: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/190647349606'ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p398 4.m1439.l2649Quote:
Originally Posted by simoncs
No Diana the D4 is OK with LEDs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
Baz.
Diana,Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
D4 will make all LEDs work on my trailers. I still had to get the adapter to turn off parking sensors and for the tow assist to work as it should. Since installing it the transmission works differently, so for me towing heavy weights, this adapter has been vital.
Brett....
To clarify - there were two independent issues with the D3 and trailer LED's. One was the intermittent pulsing of the LED's by the car's electronics. The other was the inability of the car to detect a trailer connection, so no disabling of the parking sensors or triggering of the trailer-tweaked suspension control.
The D4 doesn't suffer from the first issue. But the second is still a problem. Hence you still need a load (shunt, light etc) of some sort. The "LED tamer" type boxes achieve this - although there are much cheaper ways of accomplishing it (on a D4).
Cheers,
Gordon