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Some might remember I put a question up here in "Techies" about my van lights blinking every 5 seconds when hooked up to my Colorado. Well, I had the Collie serviced here in Townsville yesterday and I took all the comments received from fellow GN members and handed to the service tech. "No problem we wil...

Hi heater, installed, fired up straight away, but only runs flat out, even with temp set at 21 temp in van got to 30 but still kept running full bore. Have now run it twice for up to an hour, pulled fuse, re start from scratch but still only runs flat out. Any ideas please as to why it won't go into slow mod...

what are your thoughts on Having caravan batteries on mains power and solar power at the same time .We have the van parked up at home here and have it conected to 240v as well as solar on the roof of the van.Just noticed a sulfer smell coming from battery compartment yesterday .Should it be one or the othe...

A horse walks up to the bar and the barman asks "Why the long face?"

Hi, as we have always bush camped we have never needed a hose to connect straight to the mains water. We are about to leave on a 2 week road trip and will need to use CP water some days. For the CP taps do you usually need a screw on fitting or do they have the cilp in type fittings ? . Also the fitting to attach t...

Gooday all, we camped at Beardy Waters free camp on Monday night 9/5/2016 along with about 20 other vans and motor homes mostly Grey Nomads by the look, it was a very quiet night and 2 campers pulled out before sunrise, all was well until a camper went to the loo, apparently someone had tried to empty a to...

To attach anything to my Ranger Sports bar should I clamp it, self-tap into the tubing or run a bolt thru the tubing? Has anyone done any of these?

no juice in battery last night in Travelhome. Lights flickering and gauge on zero. Humming from regulator in boot like an alarm sound. Next morning battery charging and needle almost off the scale within about an hour of daylight. We have 2 solar panels fitted on roof by caravan and camping megas...

Hello all, the Cairns Caravan, Camping & Boating Expo is on this weekend 13th-15th May, at the Cairns Showgrounds. The showgrounds is located on Mulgrave Road Parramatta Park. Safe travels Darmc -- Edited by Darmc on Thursday 12th of May 2016 03:11:38 PM

Hi everybody, Hope someone can help me out. We have been hearing a lot recently about an explosion in the popularity of craft beers is Australia, with literally hundreds of micro breweries popping up all over the country. With so many grey nomads making visits to wineries a part of their Big Lap, I was...

Hi All, Any thoughts (positive or negative) on a 2002 Landrover 6cyl 2.5l petrol SE series Freelander? I have checked reviews and, so far have found nothing major. Cheers

Were leavening point turton today and heading towards ,Victor Harbour south australia ,we will be there in a few days time,can anyone recomend a good park for us to camp at while we're there, we don't need jumping castles and all the frills Ron....

It's been awhile since my last post,we've been on the road for 5 weeks now, in a 2012 grand cherokee overland traveling the east coast from Melbourne to Cairns. Had the car serviced for our first trip away in our new van. First day was Melbourne to Mulwala, every thing went well car pulled the van easy VER...

Hello We do have an oven in our van but are looking to buy a 'health oven' or convection oven for externally cooking meats etc., Larger cuts which won't fit into our oven or bake evenly. My mum has an Easycook and it works really well but was wanting any comment on other products before purchasing. Also ne...

A happy mothers day to all our mums out there....... And mine who spends hers at home.....she never wanted to see our great country.......so some time ago Dad up and left her much to our disgust ........so he saw heaps of the playground. Mum has been quite happy at home and for mothers day she grows and se...

We had a 2002 Jayco Freedom Outback, and yesterday we picked up our new Atlantic Endeavour off roader (well maybe rough road?) Nice to have a bathroom and hot and cold running water! It seems to be steady on the road without a WDH, I was a bit concerned the Navara would struggle a bit, but very happy. Picke...

Mr D tried to open our washing machine today in a bit of a hurry - it was not "unlocked", and it appears he may have broken the lock, so now I am unable to open the door. We have rung the Dometic agent in Launceston, who has suggested how to open it - to no avail. We have arranged for a washing machine tecno to co...

The old grey nomad caravanned into the town and decided to stop there for the evening as it was getting late and he needed to rest. He parked his rig in a quiet shady spot and went for a short stroll to stretch his legs. Shortly he came upon the town's local hall, where there must have been some sort of meetin...

My goal for this year was to lose just 10 pounds. Only 15 to go. Ate salad for dinner! Mostly croutons & tomatoes. Really just one big, round crouton covered with tomato sauce. And cheese. FINE, it was a pizza. I ate a pizza. How to prepare Tofu: 1. Throw it in the trash. 2. Gri...

An old grey nomad caravans into town and needs to make a few bucks as he's sailing fairly close to the wind and needs to stock up on fuel and groceries. He gets word from a couple of friendly locals he meets in the pub that the local parish priest is looking for a volunteer to paint his church. The next mornin...