Thread: New Camper trailer

Talk the wife into a newish second hand camper.
Check out mysway.org
There is a awesome Tambo camper on there for around $7k would be much better than a new one of similar price.

as above, buy a well built used one, you will be doing a lot more than tinkering with a cheap new one...there are lots of those to choose from scattered all over this wide land, abandoned due to failures...

the cheap trailer industry has all but ruined our heavy duty true offroad camper industry in this country, where people look to price first, quality and design second.


jc

Gotta agree don't discount the second hand market........

Some of these new ones seem to have a ridiculous amount of canvas......more canvass mean more weight and longer set up time

I haven't checked out the vast number of imports but you seem to get a lot camper for your $$ if you're just doing light work up and down the hi way than they are probably OK.....I see quite a few MDC's on the road

Originally Posted by weeds

Gotta agree don't discount the second hand market........

Some of these new ones seem to have a ridiculous amount of canvas......more canvass mean more weight and longer set up time

I haven't checked out the vast number of imports but you seem to get a lot camper for your $$ if you're just doing light work up and down the hi way than they are probably OK.....I see quite a few MDC's on the road

Obviously horses for courses etc ...

But this is right - some are a real Taj Mahals which would take an hour to erect and pack up (fancy doing that in the dark).

In many (if not most) cases I wonder if these c/ts get enough use to justify the extra expense on quality. Therefore there are a number of higher quality items on the 2nd hand market (eg. that Tambo one above mentioned and the site is myswag.org if you want to look it up FOR SALE: 2010 Tambo Cooper Camper trailer $7500 Priced to Sell - it's been there for long enough for it to be negotiable).

Originally Posted by 87County

In many (if not most) cases I wonder if these c/ts get enough use to justify the extra expense on quality.

gotta agree, I umm and hrr'd for ages on my camper trailer purchase........

was going to go a hard floor.....but when it come down to price and the number of times it would get used I couldn't justify those dollars sitting in the garage all year...I try and do one two week trip a year than maybe 3 or 4 weekends

soooo......I build my own with a $6k budget, I think it will always be a work in progress as I slowly changing/upgrading depending on where the two week trip takes us

As everyone has rightly said... $7000 will buy you a fairly crap new camper trailer, but it will also buy you a nice second hand, well proven, well built camper trailer. A friend has just bought an Adelaide built Trak Shak Camper. He paid a little over your budget for it, and its immaculate. Sleeps 6, takes all of 5 min to set up (once you know what's what), came with a host of extras inc a kitchen, boxes, cutlery, etc etc etc. Your money would be wisely spent on a decent s/h trailer over one of these poorly built 'semi off road' things you see in the Fourby Mags. Let us know how you go, and good luck talking SWMBO around this one!! Remember, mattresses etc are easily steam/dry cleaned, and or renewed thru places like Clarke Rubber.