Monday, Apr 05, 2010 at 20:27
Hi Rockape,
We have friends with one. We went to Cape
Yorke with them in 2005. Had problems with the electrics on their van on the way up, and had to continually fix things all the way up through
longreach,
Barcaldine, Savanah Hway, George Town. Finally had most of that sorted by the time we left
Cairns. However they decided to leave their van at
Weipa and used a tent for the rest of the trip. (They used the facilities out of our 6 yr old
Kimberley K.) On the way back they picked it up at
Weipa but the brakes seized, drums disintigrated, just outside of
Coen. We got it back to
Coen, and I removed the braking system so that we were able to get the Jurgen back to
Cairns. We left them there, waiting for Jurgen to come out and repair. Their maintenance guy was already in FNQ doing another repair, so they only had a few days to wait. However, he found that the chassie was also cracked so the van was replaced a few months later.
We were so pleased with how our kamper went that we went
home via the coast and ordered a new one!
The friends have just recently done a trip to the strezeleki track and I gather the replacement van was o.k. however they still had electric problems.
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