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yobarr


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The van pictured above reminds me of a similar one I parked near at Coober Pedy, the rear opened to form a verandah and there were four bunks behind and obviously an ensuite next and way down the front a double bed. Lots of children.
Another had a SWB Land Cruiser (must have been modified) used as a prime mover with a similarly long van behind on a 5th wheel setup, parked at Longreach.

And a 5th wheel setup would be the only way any sane person would attempt to tow a trailer such as the one pictured,with a smaller car.Stupidity in the extreme,no matter how it is set up.Heaven knows what that vans ATM is,but you can bet your bottom dollar that it is greater than the GVM of the 200,or it wouldn't need four axles! And before anybody decides that the car may have a 4000kg Braked Towing Capacity upgrade, it needs to be noted that if that is the case,the cars GVM reverts to only 3800kg......and lets not even mention the LC200 rear axle capacity,which increases by only 50kg,to a ridiculously low 2000kg,with the 3800kg GVM upgrade..That van can best be towed by something like an F350 or Silverado,or Ram 2500,among others,but the much over rated 200 is waaaay out of its depth here.However,I wish them only good luck,because they're gunna need as much good luck as they can muster! Cheers



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When in WA a while back . They stopped a family towing a 23 ft with Suzuki ! A little over weight !! Pffft

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This is the biggest caravan we have seen at Deni. Three power points.

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The safest way to have a big van, would have to be this one.

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The safest way to have a big van, would have to be this one.

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Possibly someone on a working holiday where you pull up in a town,tow company trailers for as long as you want,and then move on.I did seriously consider doing something like this with a prime mover,or even towing the van with a tipper,and having a small excavator on the back,but decided that I am sick of work.Cheers



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B1DA1D4C-B819-4F87-93F6-D670C284BC27.jpegNothing wrong here !! Ahahaha Told to unload truck !!



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HAHA, the coloured lights on the back say it all

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Biggest & smallest I have seen.

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This Jack knife happened about 6 months ago whilst heading down the Kuranda Range on a wet slippery road surface. Just one of many recent accidents involving Isuzu MUX vehicles towing larger heavy vans. I personally would not tow any caravan over 20ft with an MUX. Rated to tow 3 ton, but they are a bit small and light, and if you incorporate a weight distribution hitch lifting the rear end up off the road, and the vans breaks set too light, so most of the braking falls back onto the tow vehicle and not the van, can be a recipe for disaster on a steep, slippery wet road. Glad no injuries with this one. If they had gone over the side it's a 400 meter drop.



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This little van was in the same park as us at Jacobs Well just north of the Gold Coast in Queensland.

40' long, 5 power inlets and 3 air cons. Enough axles to make a B Double happy.

We were wondering what they were towing with as no vehicles were there for a day or two and we were speculating it must be a small truck or F350 perhaps.

Well you could have knocked me over with a feather when he comes along and hitches up a BT50 to the front of it and takes off.

Now given that I have the BT50's sister car in the Ranger I know for certain that there is no way known that I could tow that thing with the Ranger and be even remotely close to legal.

I asked the same question of how do they get away with that because it would be so obvious even to the most casual observer, that it was highly unlikely that set up would pass muster.



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