Caravaning forum

G'Day Pezza,

If you caravanning involves more than a trip to the local caravan park, this site may be of use to you, depending of course on exactly what you are after

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Regards

Rolande

Try these as well
http://groups.msn.com/Caravanersforum/general.msnw
http://groups.msn.com/AustralianCaravanning/messages.msnw

hope these help
Regards avro

Thanks fella's,

My appologies, should have given a bit more info.
Was after information regarding different caravan construction, mainly, what will hang together on dirt roads and what won't, I realise the likes of "bushranger", "Phoenix", "trackmaster", "kedron", and "supreme", are all good but I was leaning away from these full on offroaders, and more towards the "roadstar", "jayco" and others, and was wondering what brands at 20' with shwr/ws are built tough enough for long distance dirt, ie. birdville track, etc.
The 'caravaners general' above seems like the sort of thing I was after.

Thanks again
Avagoodn
Pezza

There's a new Travel and Caravanning forum, Touring Oz

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Hi Pezza
Another brand to look at is Evernew Heidelberg Victoria
Ray

Hi Pezza

We have a Windsor Rapid, with off-road kit, this included independent suspension, heavier under carriage, the kit was and extra $5,000 but worth it, we have taken it to birdsville-maree-William Creek-Cooperpedie-Port Augusta- Kangaroo Island, Tasmania, also Morton Island both sides through the cutting - Frazer Island. We have had no major problems only minor repairs such as relocating pipes from shower and wc to the rear of front axel due to being smashed by rocks thrown up from cruiser, This was on our first major trip, so we now have rubber mats across all exposed parts, this has proved to have been a good exercise.
Cost around $55k when we bought and sleeps six by the way.
Hope this helps

I belong to the msn group caravaners forum (address given in posts above) as well as Exploroz and Bushtracker Owners Group, and this type of question is often discussed - particluarly on the caravaners forum. Depends where you want to go. When you read the fine print on many of the so called off road caravans, it says suitable for occasion trips off the bitumen - or similar. Although i was willing to try one of these to save money, my husband had visions of it falling apart in the middle of the never never, and once he saw under a Bushtracker and how strongly it was built when we met some Queenslanders in the Pilbara, it was that or nothing. We don't go 4wd driving for the sake of it, but want to get out into isolated places. All good reports on our 3rd hand or so BT sofar - looking forward to getting away for a bit longer next year. Feel free to member message me if you want anything more specific - a bit spasmodic and mail and forums at present as my computers (old PC and modern laptop) have mysteriously and tragically died on me. Motherhen

You can take most of them off road, just slow down. I picked up a three way fridge once on the track into a gorge one day and when I arrived at the camp site there were lots of people standing around a camper trailer looking at a hole where the fridge used to be. I remembered the trailer as it passed me at a great rate of knots back along the road a ways.