Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:12
Russ, there are a heap of links to people driving Karavans as fast as they think they can drive their cars. It is like any other system being trailed. If you get to rough roads, you should drop tyre pressures and drop your speed. It commonly hasn't been done until they are now recommending it.
The first thing that happens is that the shockers fade, which you actually mention above, you did a shocker. If you want you can pay many hundreds extra for military spec, but the shocker seal will give way with temperatures over 200c. If you drive to the conditions and have lower pressures, they will seldom get over 80c. I use an infrared temperature probe to regularly monitor
mine and they haven't been over 50 this last winter - usually 40-42c.
It is amazing that some people still like to drive with bitumen pressures over broken surfaces. I saw a post on the Landrover site that discussed breakages and the speeds of 80-90 kph at 40psi on the Tanami. Why? Because the
suspension of the Landrover didn't pick up too many shocks. What a dipswitch
All manufacturers of caravans suggest you drop pressures and speeds, but I know one dealer of
Kimberley Karavans had someone with mud over the top of the Karavan. Their employees found out that the owner had been hitting creeks at over 100kph. No wonder people wreck things.
I am not aware of any of the Karavans cracking a
water tank and we have over 130 members of the KKOG (
Kimberley Karavan Owners Group)
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