Tuesday, Jan 23, 2018 at 23:28
I did buy one and what you say is correct about being heavy. You certainly know you have it behind you. But then you do get an enormous amount of camper with it, which is what we particularly liked. If it’s just the two of us, we’re several hundred kilos lighter, but if we’re the mother ship for the whole family or a bunch of friends, we’re heavier, but we can perform that role really
well too, and we’re really pleased that both roles can be fulfilled.
We are able to open our
barn door on the Pajero but that is as a result of choosing the removable winch option.
We bought a Chinese built camper after ascertaining the company had established the necessary relationships with their Chinese builder and his workforce. And that they would back it up. They are a small business owned and worked by two couples in WA who are both seasoned campers themselves and simply don’t have the resources to be able to carry lots of unhappy customers. As small business operators ourselves, we understood that intuitively because it describes our businesses pretty
well too.
There were certainly far cheaper campers on the market but the one we bought was less than half the price of many Australian-built campers that frankly didn’t look particularly robust or
well appointed.
They also hire their campers out, which seems to me a very good testing ground and in a place the size of WA, they certainly wouldn’t be staying in business if they had to deliver service across the length and breadth of WA if they broke down often.
I spoke to present owners and past hirers and was able to get a very good sense of the product and went with that rather than a simple blanket ban on anything Chinese. There are some terrible Chinese-built campers on the market and there are some equally dreadful Australian-built campers, so I think you’ve got to work out what you want and go looking for it until you find it.
And form judgements based on the people behind them rather than blanket bans. After all, everything comes down to relationships.
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