Camry towing/Gibb River/Roper Highway

Hi Gerard and Anne....Firstly i havent experienced long distance towing with a v6 camry , but dont see any probs with that ...Secondly i would not even attempt the GRR with the setup you are using , the corrugations alone would shake your vehicle and poptop to pieces.......Thirdly i travel the Roper highway every year with my Patrol and a 16ft poptop van with no probs , bitumen just about all the way apart from the last 30 odd klms wich is usually pretty good, as long as you take it easy i cant see any probs , just remember that the bitumen is only one car wide and when pasing other vehicles you have to move to the side of the road , some places the drop off is very steep.......cheers .......Dave

Not a good idea to take a Camry on the Gibb River Road nor a caravan

Roper Highway is tarred strip road for about 180km plus. After that also not a good idea to take Camry or van on gravel sections.

My reason for saying this is that you will travel along these roads with ordinary road tyres and a low slung car and a flimsy caravan. On the gravel roads they are all likely to be shaken apart.

Cheers

thanks guys...OK..we'll delete our hopes doing the Gibbs River,but am tempted to quietly do the Roper Highway...
What I am tempted to do is buy an old Patrol or cruiser and spend $3000 on tidying it up and getting off road a wee bit..butv nothing major...or toooooo way out.
Cheers
Gerard and Anne

If you went with the second option of getting an older 4WD then you could always leave the van at derby of kununurra and just take the car and tent along the Gibb River Road ..

We regularly did the old Nullabor (Pre Sealing) in various non 4wd vehicles (HR Wagon), you just had to drive to the conditions, not 70 mph everywhere. I have travelled the Gibb a couple of time recently (4x4) and it was no worse than the Nullabor. We are getting precious aren't we.

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