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hi all, have been travelling around with our recently installed snorkel on the new mazda bt50. the noise/drone/ engine noise, even with windows up is driving the wife and i crazy. before the snorkel was fitted, the BT was very quite. i have since called the installer and explained the noise to which...

An old geezer became very bored in retirement and decided to open a medical clinic. He put a sign up outside that said: "Dr. Geezer's Clinic. Get your treatment... for $500, if not cured, get back $1,000." Mr "Young," who was positive that this old geezer didn't know beans about medicine, thought this...

Planning to do some back roads on our way to Darwin and looking through my camps book on the road north from Barcaldine there are some camps listed with " E Permit required". I googled away and could find nothing that seemed to fit. Any wise souls out there can enlighten me? -- Edited by Bru on Tuesday 30t...

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Hello, We are thinking of driving this route East to West with a large 3200kg rig. Is it bendy? Are there steep hills? Is the road reasonable width? Are steep drop-offs / sides of roads? Comments will be appreciated.

A truckie walks into an outback cafe with a full-grown emu behind him. The waitress asks them for their orders. The truckie says, 'A hamburger, chips and a co...ke,' and turns to the emu, 'What's yours?' - 'Sounds great, the same,' says the emu. A short time later the waitress returns with the order 'Th...

Hello everyone, I have recently purchased the above Engel and was wondering which option to use when free camping. I am not very savvy when it comes to 12 volt bits and pieces so am asking for advice. I wonder if I need to install a standalone battery in the back of the tug at considerable expense for 12v su...

Hi everyone. I am very new to the Grey Nomads area. My husband and I have just come to the conclusion that life is worth living and seeing our country is what we want to do. We are only in the planning stage at the moment and have not yet bought our forever house on wheels. I am the Head of Operations and the...

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Has anyone traveled around Australia by leaving the caravan and 4x4 at a spot, in storage, to return later and continue from there onwards? We arent on retirement yet, has approx. 3-4 weeks leave twice a year and want to travel around Australia sooner than later. As travelling from home to a designat...

Hi all My self & a couple friends brought the Swift Ecotherm hot water caravan heaters. Not one warms our vans up enough. The 3 of us have since brought ether Gas or Diesel heaters. How they work is buy using hot water in your hot water tank. The water in you hot water tank doesn't get no where hot eno...

NBN is coming to our area shortly and we have to decide on what to do. We travel for around 6 months of the year in our van which I use a dongle for and still paying our monthly fee for home internet and still have a home phone . My thoughts are to drop the home connection and just use a dongle at home and on the ro...

Hi all, Happy Easter, i am wanting to install a 250 watt panel on our van but when I connect the regular it is flashing overvoltage so I wasn't game to connect to my battery bank,the reg is rated at 20 amps, the panel -max power current 8.8 amps, max voltage 30 v. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have...

A farmer had five female pigs. Times were hard, so he decided to take them to the county fair and sell them. At the fair, he met another Farmer who owned five m...ale pigs. After talking a bit, they decided to mate the pigs and split everything 50/50. The farmers lived sixty miles apart. So they agreed to d...

Hi everyone, Firstly - Lest We Forget. Just curious to know if anyone is using the Foxtel App - Foxtel Now - (was Foxtel Go previously) - instead of taking your IQ box with you. We recognise there will be considerable data usage involved but were planning on a decent GB plan anyway. We will have a smart T...

Would you like the chance to Adopt a NSW Police Force Training Dog? From time to time the Police Dog Unit - NSW Police Force has dogs that lack the necessary qualities, behavioral traits and working drive that is required to become a fully operational Police Dog. Although these dogs are not suitable fo...