Mars Camper Trailer

Please keep us undated.

Is this a hard floor camper?

Cheers

I met a bloke outback last year who had a new Chinese hard floor camper that cost about the same. He had done a fair bit of follow-up work on it himself because it was obvious that it wouldn't do the job on our long gravel roads, as delivered. I think his work included a few replacement bits too. There was a fair bit of duct tape on display also; I presume the dust proofing was a shocker. That said, the point that this particular happy camper made was that he wanted it for two long outback trips and didn't care what it was worth after that ! Reliability aside, that's probably good economics :-o).

I have just bought a Mars CT for $4400 brand new! Yes it is made in China, but at that price the value for money is incredible.
I will be interested to see how long some of the components last, but the trailer and tent seem to be reasonable quality.
Towed it from Mel to ADL with no issues and used it for the first time with a wet night, no complaints.
Very happy with it!

Brian,
I have had the same camper for 28 months, same features but different brand. Paid $5500 ebay.
We live in Ballarat. We have been to Mungo N/P to Broken Hill. (dirt roads) Flinders Rangers and Carnarvan Gorge N/P. The Camper is great.
What I have done is silicone all joins under the camper. Added 2 extra 20ltr jerry can holders for fuel and installed a circut breaker and internal / external 24volt outlets.
Our next trip in September this year is to Camerons Corner.
We love the Camper. Not a TVAN, but so far so good, and it didn't cost me $40k!

There's some good info to be found on MySwag forum regarding the cheaper Chinese made camper trailers. Several members on that forum have given honest reviews of what they own, and what upgrades they have done to them. A common complaint seems to be the lack of grease found in the wheel bearings when they pull them out to see what type they are so as to get spares, hub seals also may be an odd size and hard to source for some makes aswell one person has mentioned (he's currently trying to find some the same size in Australia and not having much luck apparently).
Not sure if you'll need to join the forum to view this link i've added, but it's a good read IMHO for decent info from people who own them if your looking at going down the road of buying one of these campers http://www.myswag.org/index.php?topic=37797.msg611495#msg611495