Rod and Mavis

Greetings Crow&I/Brian :biggrin: We had the same problem and the two of us spent a whole day removing same with a hair drier and Gerni,followed by a gentle turps rub to remove the sticky stuff. It was a major job. We were and still are thinking of having the striping painted on but the van looks great without the stripes. We did leave the Kedron name on front and back. The jury is still out but stickers will not be going back on for sure. That was a huge quote for replacements :confused: We have not seen a set of stickers that don't bubble eventually.

Thanks Cal Sorry for the delay. We have been waiting until the last minute to ensure that we have good numbers for the festival. Will be calling Jim tomorrow. Only a small number this year compared to last gathering but that is the way of things. Thanks again

Chris Please tell us about the Dometic window fix !!!!!

Whitney Houston concert. Wow what a disappointment complete waste of money. She was obviously not capable of performing to expectations. The Great lady was not nearly up to scratch and a real disappointment. All the adverse news reports are true. She didn't really finish one remembered song. She was gasping for breath, sweating like a sick lady (perhaps she was). For the thousands that paid big bucks we join you all in being pi..ed of. Have read the reports and I am glad it was not just us. I commented on the Herald Sun report (item 117) and it was published along with around 175 other mixed comments some good but most bad and some should never have made the grade for publication. Obviously a lot of unhappy people as were we. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/...f-1225833352912 Bugger. AC DC should be great. We are off to see Deep Purple April 27. I am under threat of death if we miss it grin. While we were living in Singapore and Mavis had a trip home to Aus I managed to get a ticket to their open air concert. Wow what a performance. My biggest mistake was raving about the performance to all and sundry,(Mavis heard about it :confused: ) and I was in trouble,so this is the make up :thumbsup:

Hi John and Julie We have changed all our halogens for led's We kept the halogens for emergency spares, which are now taking up space. If you would like to send us an Email with some details we can send you a couple of our spares. Regards.

Thanks Tony. That reads like its a b..dy monster. How sad and as the last page comment said suck it up Australia its made for the states :sad:

Bugger for all Checked that out myself so settled for Whitney should be a good buzz :thumbsup:

Greetings all. Just for info Apparently the Whitney Houston concert in Brissie is not sold out and tickets are 50% discounted. If anyone is interested,see below, we are there on Monday night yahoooooo :biggrin: . see http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show....6f-bb88e3195875 Aint it great to be in the prime of life :thumbsup: Deep Purple is in April

Hi all. Have to say that we have had the use of RACQ's sister organization the NRMA in NSW without fault. The need arose when our 2000 model 3L Nissan Patrol blew the engine ( as the early models do) on our way home after 7 glorious months on the road. This happened about 30kms out from Merriwa near Newcastle. The gentleman with the recovery truck loaded our poor dead Nissan which was fully laden ( weight unknown but obviously heavy). This guy made the statement then that they were not supposed to tow vans but after I had fitted our tow ball to his truck he did transport the van to the van park in Merriwa (with the car on the truck) luckily. Guess we were lucky.

Ok all you Toymotor lovers. Give it a year and we will see who is dreamin :biggrin:

Thanks Tony

What a monster machine. That’s a big lump of V8. Definitely need a big weight capacity to carry the extra fuel bladder in the back just to get to the shops :biggrin: Thanks for the info Kimbo.

Greeting all. I thank you all very much for the invaluable input. We will let you all know when we have jumped in. Probably with a selcall attached to the notification :thumbsup: Pretty sound advice thanks Tony and Wendy to have the back up of sat. As we are pretty tied to Brisbane for the foreseeable future (short trips 1 month max), the HF will be the go initially so as to get used to the operating protocols and catch up with you all. Thanks again guy's.

Greetings all. I would like to steer some comment our way on the virtues or otherwise of HF over Sat communications for we grey nomads. Any worthwhile comments and experiences would be appreciated. I/We are currently leaning towards HF. Comments please :confused: Regards and happy travels to all. Mavis and Rod.

Thanks Chris A great display of pics,can't wait for the rest looked great. Mavis and Rod.

Greetings all. Today we are the proud owners of a new washing machine for the van. :biggrin: Never having had one before you can be sure that we/I did the complete investigation on what was right for our situation. We ended up with the Lemair XQB22 top loader. This baby will run beautifully on our inverter (Xantrex 1000 W) and is great on water usage with interrupted cycles not a problem, so we can just spin or any combination of cycles that suite us. Having had the offer of a discount from Ca?ec we did look very hard at alternatives (being of Scottish extraction we/I needed to save the maximum ) We ended up buying from "Appliances on Line" at http://www.appliancesonline.com.au/ This saved us in excess of $100 from the offer of mates rates from Ca?ec. You do have to look around and I have to say that specialist caravan suppliers are not cheap so do your homework on purchases guy's. We would recommend this mob as somewhere to look for purchases of appliances. We got free delivery to our address in Brisbane. Happy travels to all. Mavis and Rod. :thumbsup:

Thanks for that guy's. What a crack up love it :thumbsup: Mavis and Rod

Concur with Tony H Be very careful where you install the main body of the unit as it will sence the temperature of the environment in which it lives. The thermostat sensor is in the inlet of the module. The concequence of this is if it is in a cupboard the outlet ducting will be hot which also passes through the cupboard so the unit thinks that the desired operating temperature has been reached and will back off the heat. Thus not giving a satisfactory temp. increase in the van. The way to rectify this is with a ducted inlet to the heater from a remote point in the cabin. Good luck. Mavis and Rod

Steady Lady. "The nagger" is a pure term of endearment if that is to what you refer nothing like "The crow and I". My God Bryan is brave :biggrin: .

Brian I gotta ask. How have you lived so long with a handle "the crow and I" mate I would be hung out to dry and talking real hi if at all :biggrin:

Hi Brian. Have a look at the attached web site should answer you questions. http://www.caravansplus.com.au/catalog/pro...roducts_id=9235 Your combustion air should come from outside as should your exhaust be ducted outside. The cabin air to be heated is from inside the van. Good luck and regards. Rod and Mavis

When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street by sucking on a hose, he got much more than he bargained for.. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had. :biggrin: Mavis and Rod.

Hi Guy's and a very Happy New Year to you both. We have welded the home made equivalent of a Hayman Reece receiver to the bar between the spare tires as seen in the pics. We carry a standard tongue and ball in case we need to tow a standard trailer with the car, we just fit this to the car. The bike carrier as seen is a standard unit for clearing rear carried wheels so we can also fit this entire assembly to the car to carry the bikes. Bear in mind this entire carrier was heavily re enforced due to cracking, but works well. Hint if you fit something up, be sure to cover the bikes as red dust (from experience) is a bugger to get out of gears and lubed bits :shutup: . Regards and love too yas. Mavis and Rod. P.S. Great work on the hitch lock Col & Debbie

I passed this beasty this week sitting on Albany Creek road with the big For sale sign on it and gotta say that it looks great in the flesh. The pics do not do it justice. Rod

:laugh: Was wondering how long it would take you :biggrin: