Which Camper Trailer to Choose!

Have a look at *Dingo Campers* out in Dandenong and *Southern Cross Canvas* in Canterbury Road Bayswater North.

I narrowed my choice down to these two some yrs ago when I bought mine

Maîneÿ . . .

G'day, have a look at Tambo Campers, very good product and easy to talk to.


Tambo Campers

For the best quality, finish and price in a soft floor camper trailer, you carnt go past Tambo campers.
We have towed ours all over Australia(40000kms off road) and apart from wearing out a zipper, its as good today as when we purchased it.

Mate

Truthfully you will not get good advice here or any other forum with such a wide specification. Replies will mostly state what CT's the replier had, with good comments only as no-one pays big money and then bags their product of choice.

Best to read up just a little to form your opinion about the good and bad of the two or three main sections eg hard floor, soft floor and hybrid. Then see if you can see one of each in action.

Once you have made up your mind you may already be in a position to ignore 66% of options and concentrate on the section you want.

CJ

we have an adventure pilbara made here in adelaide

huge bed quick easy set up and built like a tank

loads of storage


look around and even rent one before you buy as some types are better suited to different people

http://www.adventurecampers.com.au/camper_trailer_adventure_pilbara.htm

http://www.campertrailers.org/camper_trader.htm


good luck and enjoy which ever you buy

mike

Suggest you hire a few beforehand. This will enable you to work out what you like/dislike in a C/T before making a big purchase.

We did this with our Challenge C/T.


Ta.

Check out Mountain Trail Campers made in Albury. I may sound biased but after owning a Southern Cross for 12 years and it was faultless. We now own a Mountain Trail and i believe the quality to be as good but the design suited us better hence the reason we bought one and the fact it is local for us. They are all good in their own way. It would come down to price and what your after.

As with buying a caravan or even a car you do need to do some research first so you can ask intelligent questions eg about canvas and zip quality, ease of set up, access to stored items on the road, usability of kitchen, water storage, insect proofing etc.
Then a good source of practical observation is to visit a popular campground at a reasonably busy time and talk to people about their gear. People love to talk about their CTs and caravans. They are hardly likely to tell you they have a lemon but you will be able to see their gear in action and watch people setting up, packing up etc and get a good idea of what might work for you.
Your trip sounds great. Good luck! Lynne and John

T-Van? They look like great offroaders, would probably be on my list for consideration if I had anywhere close to that amount of money.
Complete Campsite seems highly thought of, similar to a camper we had called the All Terrain which suited us really well.
Adventure Campers, we had one of those as well but we found the All Terrain suited our needs more (I'm not the type that needs a kitchen sink etc).

So really there are way too many choices out there, you need to start with a budget and an idea of what you might want in a camper (you already mentioned offroad capability for a start) and then hopefully try and narrow it down to some you like the look of, investigate further, try and get some real life reviews, see it in person etc etc.

We don't have a camper at the moment, but reading forums like ExplorOz and MySwag you soon get an idea of brands that seem popular anyway, it's always a good start but then you have to determine if it will suit you.

Our Advice is first list the 5 features that your require and 5 features that would be nice and have your partner do the same swap and drill these down to the best 12.
The go shopping to the vendors with that list if they can not do that list then move on.

Also look at the OZ made companies that make the trailer and the tent as they will be looking at the whole of the trailer and tent as a solution and not just plopping a tent on the trailer and hoping for the best.

Look at the finish and welds that are done on the trailer and also to look at the older models as that will tell you if they have stood up to the test and if they support the trailer.