supreme traveller pop-top caravans

Many thanks, will check out your caravanersforum@group.msn.com. Not heard of it before so will be good. Hear what you say about full caravan, but for storage and travelling think that the pop-top is for us. Problem is that there is too much to choose from. cheers, Alison

Yes, have seen some comments about quality of build in later models and I think is always a worry. Seems that quality if sacrificed, but the $$ do not alter. Have been looking for a model about 2004 in the supreme traveller but think that it might be a bit soon for it to get to second hand land. We were lucky with our coromal silhouette pioneer which was 2004 and we bought it 12 months old, but had to wait for quite a while to find it. Might find the same for the Supreme Traveller. thanks for your input, cheers, Alison

My understanding is that the supreme getaway it a total off-road unit, but the supreme traveller is a bitumen and (soft) off-road. We intend to do just free camps and some gravel roads, not the like of Gibb River Rd, which the coromal silhouette did easily. I think that the supreme traveller is fairly new to the market, but compared with the "on-road" type caravan, it allows more flexibility and greater strength to cope with gravel road and shallow river crossings. They seem to be priced about the $40,000, so would have the price tag of an off-road. Also we are looking to purchase in the Eastern States because of the stamp duty which is considerable when compared to W.A. About $2,500 on a $40,000 purchase whereas in SA. NSW and Qld $0. Costs to get it to WA have to be factored in of course, but you also get a holiday. Work in Progross!!!!, cheers, Alison

Hi Trevor

I see you have the larger model than mine
ours is a 11.5' x 6.6' I was not happy with the workman ship of the van, a lot of small things wrong and broke, the chassis was poorly put together..

But at the end, it did a 7000 km trip this year with some dirt roads and 250km of the old eyre hwy and got home ok a days work to fix all the broken bits and it fine again..

Will give it a go next year and see how she pulls up

Richard

Thanks heaps, but the van we are looking at is the "Supreme",; model Traveller. I did see the review you placed, but that is on the "Traveller" van, which I understand are made in Qld. We are in the West and it is too hard and too far to go to Qld to check it out, but I appreciate your comments. You obviously did heaps of work which if very important when purchasing any van. Thanks, regards, Alison

Hi gertie, sorry to hear of your experience. Yes, it can and does happen to a lot of people. I find this site just amazing as all of the people who place comments, ideas and thoughts have a strong sense of honesty and real experience. Viscount is not one of the vans that we have ever looked at. Maybe not in the West? I know that in the Eastern States there is much more choice and selection. Is that good or bad. Hope you were able to cope with and get out of your "nightmare van". cheers, Alison