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Tow Vehicle - Holden Colorado
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Hi folk out there in GN land. Wonder if I could ask your opinion on towing with a 2009-2010 Auto 2WD Petrol 3.6l Holden Colorado. What are your opinions? Any and all appreciated, any Links appreciated as well. Thanks folk, travel safe and stay happy
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Planning for full time retirement
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Hi Everyone, We are planning our full time retirement and want to purchase our "home base". Would love to hear the pro and cons of living in a retirement village or buying a house in town. This will be our last major purchase so we want to do our home work thoroughly and hopefully "get it r...
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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
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The Good - Holts Motors & Home Hardware Swan hill. The Bad - Bond Batteries. The Ugly - Me. Headed off for a two week shake down run in the new van. First morning the car only just started. Whoops! Battery problem or a discharge somewhere. Arrived in Swan Hill, Booked in to a park (Ensuite Sites $23/ni...
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Wish Myrtle well for tomorrow
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Myrtle goes in tomorrow morning for her heart transplant. Sam rang this arvo. If I have trouble starting her in the morning he will send over one of his guys. Not sure how long she will be in there for. Will keep you updated.
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Happywanderer
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TOWING MIRRORS
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Hi. I am looking at updating my towing mirrors. I have a Ford Territory and full 19'6" caravan. At present I have the clip-on ones held with rubber straps. What is your opinion of say, Aussie Truck Mirrors , the Ora Torino ones and the others that clip on the mirrors? I have a limited budget also. Loo...
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STICKERS ARE ON!!!!!!
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I have just put the grey nomad stickers on "The beast"they look great, I have a man putting some shelves in the cupboards for me then the fun begins loading all my stuff I only have 2 days to go in the house, then a week at my daughters if my back is ok by then I will be leaving on the tuesday,see you a...
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HOME AGAIN
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Well, we are home again after nine weeks on the road. We free camped and van parked and friend parked and family parked......nothing like variety. We went as far as Yorke Peninsular and thanks heaps to Debe and Elbe for their hospitality and playing tour guide. Sorry we can't be there for the Septembe...
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Why Men Die Before women
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Men never seem to think about the danger of some of the jobs that they do......... you've got to love the techniques they conjure up to get the jobs done.
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Wombat 280
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Billy The Kid - AKA William The Third - Discover Downunder ?
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Did anyone see Bill The Kid on Discover Downunder on TV on Saturday afternoon (4.30pm)? He was supposed to be on the Charlieville leg booking into a caravan park I think? We had visitors so I missed it.
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New Member
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Hi Guys, Just joined this good looking and informative Forum been following and looking for a while. And it looks like i will learn quite a bit. Cheers Mr Red.
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Mr Red
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There are some good sales people out there..
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I know car salesmen get a bad rep most of the time,but the guy who we bought the "Tardis" from has been excellent, well and beyond after sales .. He has even moved to a couple of other different yards since we bought our rig and still is quite happy to come over and help us out with any questions we...
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Nappisan for Porta Pottie.
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I have seen threads at different times that recommended Nappisan for Porta Potties. Not having a pottie, I've only ever given these threads a quick glance. We called in to our van builder yesterday morning to have a couple of freebie added before heading up along the Murray. One of the things we left wi...
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Meeting Members
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We spent a lovely couple of hours at the Darwin Sailing Club with Terrry and Chris and Hilda and Jon this afternoon. Would like to still be there but we are pulling out of Darwin in the morning and had a few extra things to do before night fall. Thanks Terry and Chris for taking the time to orgainse our get to...
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ALDI
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Decided to drop into Aldi today to pick up a few things as we didn't have time to get to our local Coles before it closed. What a bloody waste of time Aldi only stock mainly generic house brands and bugger all range of them at that, we wanted: Wostershire sauce "sorry discontinued" Potatoes ...
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Vin plates
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hello all I recently had purchased a caravan that had the vin plate weights altered by the dealer to a weight 400kgs less than what it actually weighed. Unfortunately I believed the dealer and took the van but on the travels it felt heavy and pulled the prado. Does anybody know the legalities of this Ken...
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oh dear
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Too nice of a day to stay inside. Off to meet an american couple and get pissed at the beer garden. Please excuse any late night posts :)
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Contents Security in RV - Servicing/Repairs - At Home or On The Move
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Whenever I've put my caravan or campervan in for service or repair etc, i've always removed everything I can, including tools and personal valuable (eg; TV/Radio/Laptop etc). My reasoning is that it is better to do that rather than have a dispute later about anything that is missing. Bearing in min...
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HOUSE SIT
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Only 2 weeks to our house sitting job
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traveling west
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left home in townsville 2 days ago and freecamped 50k west of mt isa last night. good to be on the road again.not as many vans on the road as i would have expected. heading to west aussie hope to run into some grey nomads on the way rocan
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On the road again!!!!!
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Despite numerous hold ups and appointments we are finally hitting the road in the morning for a few weeks. Haven't got time to travel far enough North for good weather but at least we'll be away.
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