Portable airconditioners in c/vans ???

Yep, you're right about the exhaust.I forgot about that as I sit inside on the cool end, with the exhaust outside. It wouldn't be good in a Caravan Park. I'll note down this split system thing for our van if we ever get it. Bye Sally.

Mines a 2.2 Heron split system.

Thanks Bruce,

I really hadn't wanted to get into my Coromal woes. But on the strength of your comments I will.... small world. We are in Bundaberg Qld.

Ironically our first trip was to SA and that where the ac failed us even after the drip tray repaiirs in 40 degree heat. We called in on the Air Command factory but they had a 10 day wait for attention to drive in problems and Coromal said via our dealer sthat I had to approach a local Coromal dealer first before going off to Air Command unless I wanted to pay for that avenue of fix myself

Our aircon didn't work properly on receipt and cheque handover at our NSW Lismore Coromal dealer. It leaked water all over the kitchen bench once turned off after a short test period. A visit to a refrigeration engineer in Ballina was organised by the dealer.

The refrigeration engineer fixed it in 10 minutes and showed me the reason for the fault. The plastic drain pipe from the drip tray under the condenser had been taken and clamped up above the level of the drip tray before turning and dropping down towards the ground outside. It was always going to flood and would have in WA had it been tested properly.

The ref engineer said if he hadn't seen it he would have believed it but he was still going to bill coromal $95 for the repair which was simply removing the clamp and directing the drain pipe straight down. He also commented that "water must flow uphill in WA"

Since then the aircon has been serviced so many times at my expense that I think they see me as the milking cow to say nothing about the vans multiple busted plumbing events and etc etc.

Sadly we have paid out the $33,000 for the van and we cannot sell it second hand and afford to buy another van of better quality sowe are stuck with the *.*.

Hi Bennyzbit,

We put up with our air con for quite awhile as the dealer couldn't fit us in. In the end we just asked where they had them repaired and who they got in touch with. It was the best bit of straight talking we.

In the end we took our van to Mike Griggs here in SA to have the other issues repaired, cost, but everything now works. They do a great job. We have also had our Kimberley Kamper serviced and repaired by them - again most worthwhile.

We were suggesting to friends the other day we might look at getting a new caravan (what we have is a high tow), but they asked us whether we wanted to go down the repair path again. That made us think as we now have a van that works well. It put us on hold.

Bruce and Di