COROMAL MAGNUM 420- CAMERONS CORNER TRIP

I have corromal magnam 440 did that trip approx 2 yrs ago and went up the bore track handled those roads easily BUT had new goodyear MTR on the patrol i protected the rear windows from stone damage on the patrol the stones however ,destroyed the external battery box on the drawbar ,destroyed both ends of the pvc tubing holding the annex poles and tore apart the padding on the front of the van and punched holes through the front aluminium fanel of the van,fit a stone deflector on the van and protect the rear doors and windows of the vehicle

Thank you both for your advice. Based on your info I will certainly arrange for a stone guard to be fitted.

Is the Coromal 440 the offroad version? The 620 I have is an on road version with lower clearance than the offroad type

Mick, the road between Tibooburra and White Cliffs has got quite a few creek crossing through there, more particularly from Cobham through to Morambie.
Don't worry about the depth of the water, it's the possible gutters that might be through the creek crossing that are the problem.
They will do a bit of damage to your suspension if there is gutters there. It depends if there has been rain and if the grader has been along after the rain.
If it does rain while you are in the area, you won't move too far.
The last 40 K's into White Cliffs from Tib is also subject to some bulldust holes too, so just take it a bit easy through Morambie.
You didn't say which way you were going to Menindee, but from Broken Hill to Tibooburra and CC is generally a good road and fairly well maintained.
The roads north of Broken Hill are maintained by the RTA, so you can check the latest info on this site.

Far West NSW Road Reports

Dave

Thanks Dave.

The route we are going is

Day 4. Wednesday 16th. Silverton to Tibooburra (362klms)
Travel along Silver City Highway stopping at thePacksaddle Roadhouse for morning tea, the Albert Hotel at Milparinka for lunch and continue on to Tibooburra, we will be staying at Dead Horse Gully Camping Grounds for the
night.

Go over all your van and replace any cable ties with wire, anything plastic, wire rubber infront of to take the rock rash, even brake wires on axles, remove cable ties as the rocks will real quick.
On another note, make sure you have a look through the NPWS office in the main street of Tibboburra....they have a great re-enactment of Sturts party through the scrub, and you will quickly appreciate why the locals were throwing spears at them....
Andrew

G'Day Mick,

We are doing basically the same trip next Thursday. Starting at Broken Hill then to Whitecliffs - Tibooburra - CC - Broken Hill.

We'll be towing a Jayco Dove Outback, so reply to this message again in the first week of April after I've returned and I will let you know what the roads were like.

As Dave B has said unless they have recent rain (and we haven't had any of that for a long while) then you shouldn't have any dramas so long as you drive to conditions.

I'm just hoping it cools down before next week!!!

ok thanks Hughesy will try to remeber to do that.

The Jayco outback has a lot higher clearance than my Coromal does, I'm reasonably confident the suspension should handle the conditions okay it was more the clearance issue I was concerned about, but I think I will take the chance on it.

My wife will be a lot more happy if we take the Coromal rather than a tent