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Last week we took the van to Karuah which is only a bit over an hours run up the highway from where we live in Lake Macquarie. When i picked it up from the storage yard I noiticed when travelling a loud creaking and groaning coming from the hitch area. As we leave the van on the foot path on the night before we l...

Gday... An earlier post highlighted the problems of losing a wheel from their van while travelling. I have had it happen within the first 80km of taking delivery of my van 10 years ago - it was definitely NOT a pleasant experience. However, that was caused by the 'manufacturer' failing to install the s...

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A young man was strolling down the street. As he passed a large building with a fence around it, he heard a group of people chanting: Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen over and over again. Curious, he tried to see over the fence, but couldnt. Then he spotted a small hole in the wood and put his eye to it. He just...

Ive sold my campervan due to illness in the family so I now have a brand new, unused satellite for sale. Satplus Optima T2 folding fibreglass satellite dish with twin LMB so that one programme can be recorded while watching another. Also adjustable leg tripod. Dish and stand both have padded bags...

One day a little girl was watching her mother make a roast beef. She cut off the ends, wrapped it in string, seasoned it and set it in the roasting pan. The little girl asked her mother why she cut the ends of the roast off. The mother replied, after some thought, that it was the way that her mother had done it...

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My wife & I have been refining our travel plans for 2019. Currently we are caretaking a remote property on the Kimberley west coast for the Wet season. Around the end of April we expect to pack up & move slowly eastward & across the Kimberley & top end with a view to finding a house sit/pr...

For some reason the other day just for something to do I guess, I decided to sit and list the dollar value of all the extras we have added to our van since driving it our of the sales yard. Total came in at $7000 plus and still adding. Main expenses were Honda Gennie Diesel heater Replace the L shape dinette w...

G'Day All, I have a 08/2018 Isuzu D-max LS. I have a USB with 1500 songs/music on it which we use when there is no radio reception, however it only plats 255 songs/music. I have checked the USB and they are not in folders. I have tried to read the instruction manual (which would drive a person insane) and th...

Hi To all dog owners who have put there dog on the ferry to Tassie,we would like to here of your experiences, we have a little French bulldog and would like to know if its better to leave him in the van! Or go with the kennels on board. Only we havent been able to find any comments on this service. He like most...

Dead parrot At dawn the telephone rings, "Hello, Senor? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house." "Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?" "Umm, I am just calling to advise you, Senor, that your green and purple parrot, he is dead". "My parrot? Dead? The one that wo...

Hello to the brains trust. Ok to start with I thought the water pump was on the blink so replaced it today. Shurflo to Seaflow, same idea just that seaflow is quiter. Well problem didn't resolve itself and I fear the hot water system may be on the way out. it won't prime fully and keeps blowing air out of the...

It was pelting down with rain and a big puddle had formed out the front of a pub. An old man stood beside the puddle holding a stick with a string on the end and began jiggling it up and down in the water. A young man, who was travelling through the town, stopped to ask what he was doing. "Fishing," replied the...

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It appears that ALL the major players are thumbing their noses at the ACCC re Internet Download speeds. I had a month to month contract with TPG in Qld with an NBN box in the house. A 20/50mbs unlimited download speed. Cost including a telephone line with $20 included calls. was $69. Speed was told to me a...

Have been staying at the DISCOVERY CARAVAN PARK at BOYDTOWN ..731 Princes highway Boydtown. They have a special on starting yesterday..................4 plus nights for $25 pn on a POWERED site. Really well cared for park, terrific facilities, very clean AND right on the beach. The special goes f...

Hi all, I picked up one of these aldi fans a little over a month ago for 40 bucks. Since I regularly see requests for advice on fans, and I've enjoyed this one compared to the other ones I've had, I figured a review was in order. Plus they're back on at ALDI this saturday coinciding with the caravan show in Ne...

Hi all, our 300ltr 2way fridge in van has died. Spent many, many hours looking for a used 3way to replace (180ltr or thereabouts}. No luck locating one within 200k from Geelong. Got about $1000 to spend max. Only on a pension. Are there no caravan wreckers, people that have a van that they never use the fr...