Truckster replied:

1. varies with conditions and temps.
2. Alpine has the best antiskip in the game.. if you have the $ get 1.
3. throw it away!

Cairns Offroad Training & Tours replied:

What tyre pressures are you running now? What size tyres are you using? It may be your presures are too high if things are skipping and shaking loose. As a rule of thumb I run 35 lb sealed roads 25-28 offroad 15-18 sand. Loaded up and doing long distances on sealed roads I may go as high as 45 lb Cheers Rob

Mick and Jennie replied:

we are currently running 38lbs all round. We will be leaving Darwin approx 10 May, going via the Gulf. So we could say that we will be at the Cape qapprox 7-10 days later. We plan on taking two spare tyres with us. Your advice on the option of doing the Telegraph track one way and then the other track sounds good.
Thanks Mick

Michael replied:

Hi there, i have the same vehicle and cd unit, if it seemed much better when you first got your vehicle, assuming you got it new . I found that it seemed to get worse as time went on. I have travelled a heap of dirt roads and i think that a build up of fine dust on the laser causes problems. My CD player skips a lot even on mildly bumpy roads and sometimes takes a while to recover to the point it jumped at, takes a while to start and find the tracks when you insert a cd into the unit and sometimes wont start at all, comes up with CD ERROR. Probably needs servicing. As for the real bumpy roads where most of the original equipment cd players skip, tape your CD'S and use the tape player. Sorry i cant be more helpful,,, Michael

Ps,. The casette player is of reasonable sound output.

kezza replied:

Also sus out the pioneer cd players - excellent quality and price - no skipping I wont bother with technical details
kes

Kev. replied:

The wind sheild should have little metal clips that go under the window rubber and tighten with small bolts as well as double sided tape.
Well thats how it was on the landcruiser.

Coberg peninsular was a good trip from Darwin as was the Gove peninsular.(Arnhem land)

I still miss Shady camp and the Daily river. ( barra fishing)

Kev.

Mick and Jennie replied:

Kev,
the wind shield has come away where the double sided tape is. As mentioned we've tried everything. We caught some decent size fish at the Daly, my mate owns the Mango Farm so thats where we camp. There are to many mozzies/midges at Shady Camp.
Mick

johnsy replied:

mick / jenni run as cairns off road suggests and i use the same got 70k out of the same tyres but at the other end of the nt below the berrimah line .

Troopie replied:

Possibly a little late to enter the fray here, but anyway - did the Cape over 7 weeks last year - I reckon drive the OTL in both directions - unless you're in a rush. The Bypass roads rattle the crap out of you - better off to take your time along the OTL and soak up the experience.

Mick and Jennie replied:

Troopie thanks, just out of interest how long do you think it would take each way,possibly three days each way as we dont have heaps and heaps of time. We will be travelling by ourself,we have no winch so would this still be alright. What about all the creek crossings?
Cheers Mick.

Mick and Jennie replied:

Troopie thanks, just out of interest how long do you think it would take each way,possibly three days each way as we dont have heaps and heaps of time. We will be travelling by ourself,we have no winch so would this still be alright. What about all the creek crossings?
Cheers Mick.