KK <span class="highlight">caravan</span> full negative camber!! broken axle?

That won't be the case on this particular caravan. Kimberley Karavan aren't the run of the mill camper trailer or caravan.

That photo doesn't really give a feeling of quality Lol! Michael

Micheal, no on knows why this has happened, so until then it would be good to sit back and find out. Lol!

So many people on the internet shooting their mouths off without thinking.

So after doing a bit of thinking, what we're you're thoughts? Michael

I couldn't make out if it was the single or dual axle van, and blowing the photo up just made it blurry for me !!

Either way, he should get the thing off the road a bit more !!

Yes, that thought had crossed my mind.

I'm reasonably familiar with the engineering of these things, owning a Karavan myself. (The broken one in the OP's photo is actually a Kruiser, the Karavan's big brother). Karavan, Kruiser and Kamper share similar suspension concepts.

Design-wise, I'm sure the chassis is well sorted. IMO something has slipped through QC before it got hidden by production processes - bad welds undetected before galvanising, or something like that, perhaps.

Interesting thing on ABC TV tonight, talking about imported Chinese steel with a high boron content that adversely affects welds. If you know about it, no problem, you can compensate. If you don't, which is often the case in imported raw materials, either the welds or the material adjacent to the weld fails. Interesting.

All we can do is speculate, which is of little help.

Cheers

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That's my thoughts also.
Can't see how else you may end up with both left and right wheels doing an impression of the splits.

That's what forums are all about......a bit like a mothers meeting on a computer !!! lol

The photo shows the wheel(s) at an angle, so something is wrong......and amongst all the replies is probably the right answer.....but we'll probably never know......and although not in this case, sometimes among the replies is a solution to a problem, so that can be the positive side of a forum !!!

I agree Gronk, but the frustrating part is that it has now got me intrigued. The correct answer is probably in the comments, but I do not know which one it is. If I knew then it is something that is useful and will help me on preventative maintenance in the future.
I have had wheels come off in the past- broken studs, missing studs when someone tried to steal my mag, broken wishbone, but just keen on finding out the true problem here.

Given they come at a price of over $120K or more I suspect many will be interested to learn what went wrong...

Cheers, Baz

Could have been overloaded and pounded.

That's usually the manufacturers first reply! Quite often true, going to fast, too much air in the tyres, overloaded. An expensive price does not make it indestructible!
Kind regards

That has been my experience too, Mark.

I had a damaged outer suspension bush on my Karavan. Limped into Kunnunurra and sent pics of the problem to my dealer, who happens to be an engineer himself. Dealer told me to go to an engineering shop - I chose Argyle Engineering. Dealer sent or phoned instructions to Argyle Engineering. Job was done within 24 hours and the Karavan was as good as new. This was outside the warranty period but costs were covered by Kimberley. A pretty impressive response, IMO.

Cheers