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hello everyone. Can anyone recommend a good gps. Thanks

For anyone interested, Ctek have released a new DC-DC regulator with solar input, compatible with smart alternators. CTEK 250 SA Dual Cheers Pete -- Edited by wasn_me on Friday 5th of May 2017 09:06:35 AM

Hi All, newbie here. My caravan is under 2 tons so legally I am not required to have a break-away brake switch but I'd like to have one anyway.. It seems to me a break-away switch is just that: a simple switch. But unlike a normal switch the breakaway switch is turned on when the plunger is pulled away and be...

Recently I had trouble lighting my diesel heater it gave off a lot of smoke without lighting.i sent the heater back to pinnacles and they returned it to me saying that there was nothing wrong with it So i re installed the heater and had the same problem,after further investigation and being totally fr...

Just wondering if anyone has recently been to The Boulders near Babinda to please let us know if the bities are bad or tolerable. Kim

With Kim Jong un waving his sabre rattling sword and saying he can nuke northern Australia is there a wave of nomads heading south for the winter? This Korean conflict is scary.

Hi all We are setting off on our trip around Australia next week and was thinking about fitting a grey water tank underneath the van. After looking at some of the van sites around Australia, there are quite alot of self contained only!!! After chatting to a guy at Bunnings yesterday, he said self...

We brought a brand new caravan 6 and half years ago. We have just realized after weighting when packed with the water tanks full and full gas bottles we are over the allowable ATM weight, this does not allow us much for food and clothes. I have contacted the manufacture and they are no help, I have b...

Do you know that Prince Phillip is the only surviving Australian Field Marshall for the Army?? The highest rank! I would like to give him a 'high five' for all the hard yakka he has put in the last 70 something odd years. Helen

"Yep" Mine's the same !!!! K.J.

Ya gotta love the little helpers !!! K.J.

After being married for 50 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, "Fifty years ago we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 23-year-old girl. Now ... I have a $750,000 home, a $45,000 car, a nice big...

1 hour to liftoff 8.5 hours in cattle class then two weeks R n R in the philippines we have a wedding to attent tomorrow, looking forward to it and a few coldies too . Woody n Sue

....after dropping the twins off at 'THE' Beach. I am here until probably September so if you are around and would like to catch up just send up a smoke signal in PM language and I will see it. Keep Safe on the roads and out there.

well it has been a while since i posted on this forum hopefully we will be on the road in a couple weeks finally , and have been perusing this site on all subjects and the different views that people have , it has been good , we will be travelling with a camper trailer for longer stays at our prefered places an...

Have travelled from Brisbane to Armidale in a Mazda 6 towing a Ranger Skamper Camper. Although travelling in manual auto transmission wentBeing replaced now at Mazda dealership at Armidale. Any ideas on services available (paid of course) to get camper back to Brisbane In the next two weeks. Not...

Now ain't that the truth !!!

Hi everyone, I am new to your forum and I really look forward to your advise and hopefully offering my experiences to you. I have traded in my old faithful and am purchasing a new Avida motorhome based on the Fiat Ducato. The dealer has advised me that the new vehicle will not have the built in GPS system ac...

We are thinking of travelling from Broken Hill to Menindee then on to Ivanhoe then Cobar and would like to know if anyone has been on these roads recently and could tell me their condition.

I trying to find out what size kva genny to use so i can run the air con the air con is a air comand small type in a jayco poptop any ideas