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It is very active and full of people from all walks of life discussing the pros and cons and hints and tips of camper trailers, including plenty from WA.
Hi Jik22,
we bought a brand new Cavalier camper soft floor from Camper traliers Wa in 06 in balcatta where you might be heading they do hire them out as well good idea to hire in case you don't like. We like ours we have two kids and find the soft floor very roomy we increased the size of ours from 9ft to 14ft plus annexe and slide out kitchen. The other option we took was the treg type hitch best thing i did you can go nuts with options but we kept to the $10000 mark. We have toured all down south and up north since with no probs only trouble we had to wait 8 weeks for delivery.
all the best Mark:)
Hard Top advantages are flip the lid 1 person job as gas assisted struts and canvas for living area is self erecting just secure the wing uts to hold internal poles in place and your set up within 5 mins. Hard top means o pegs no rocks no mud no cleaning floor when you go to pack it away.
You can have zipper extensions to outside for shade areas front side and rear.
Storage area under queen size bed
Cooking external to trailer
Prices will vary anywhere from $9000 to $40000 new reasons vary from suspension technology to what the market will pay but at end of day its a 6x4 box on wheels.
There are different approaches to the layout of these things you need to find the one that suits you the best given your family sleeping configuration.
Other point to consider is what are you doing, touring well thats lots of packing and unpacking on daily basis so you wont something quick and convenient to set up and you want something with good carrying capacity Staying at one spot you want something with loads of living space via extensions and add ons.
Personally l wouldnn't bother with new go look at second hand yards significant cost savings to be had
I sold my Goldmark off road hardtop trailer for $3,500
after deciding we werent using it as often as we need to justify it keeping it on the driveway
same way you keep it out of a hard floor, you wipe your feet...Quote:
Originally Posted by aston
I have a soft floor Tambo:
I while I do like some of the hard floors....I have had no dramas finding suitable spots to camp with the soft floor... ( any yes it does get usede bush camping.. not just spots like below..)
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One big advantage of mine over many hardfloors if you have a family... is space.. I can easily sleep 5 adults in mine.. if you didn't use stretchers.. I think I could squeeze 4-5 kids on the floor as well as the missus and I up top..
Juat another thing to consider if you have kids..
Mark
Wish you didn't post that pic up Bytemrk now i want to to hook up the camper and head off.
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We have had our soft floor camper trailer for about 4 years now camped all over in various plaaces and conditions, never had any problems.We use a cheap blue tarp under the floor and a piece of rubber backed carpet from bunnngs on the bed base and floor of thetent section. It is a Customline Camper heavy duty Off road we paid $6500 brand new, with two teenage girls and the missus to keep happy we have never had any problems with room.http://customlinecampertrailers.com/
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Originally Posted by Mark86
hehe..
Gets like that doesn't it:p
Mark
We have a cameron canvas (SA built) soft floor camper with a "larger" floor area (11 foot) and a king size bed on the top. Also has extended annex and screens, and a massive slide-out kitchen.
If "motivated" you can have the basic camper setup, kids swags rolled out (we have 3 of them) and the kitchen out and billy on in about 5 min.
Pack up is not much longer (takes a bit longer with the annex and screens)
Have towed it probably 25k (NT, WA, QLD) with probably 10K off road, and been through dry, wet, and camped in some heavy storms.
Hard floors do have a few good advantages, but the soft floors do have the advantage of being able to have a larger floor area and are considerably cheaper.
When checking them out, important to check out the quality of the canvas work (when we were looking we saw some appauling ones could see straight through the stitching) and how easy to a: set up, and b: put away.
Last bit, if you intend doing a bit off road, I would recomend trailer brakes, we have basic cable-disc brakes on the trailer, and they have been a godsend on a few trips.
Cheers
