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Offline Pooch231

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Hi all!!
« on: August 24, 2011, 09:22:57 PM »
We are on a quest to buy a camper.. Sounds pretty straight forward ay.Yeah right!!
Narrowed it down to a few.. Customline,Redback,Explorer campers,Camel & Jimboomba.
Any help,comments or advice greatly appreciated.. :cheers:

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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2011, 09:24:06 PM »
Hey pooch welcome to myswag, lots of good info here and some bad  ;D
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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2011, 09:26:55 PM »
Welcome to MySwag Pooch. Good luck with your decision - it is not easy trying to decide which camper to go with
cheers
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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2011, 09:30:32 PM »
Hey pooch welcome to myswag, lots of good info here and some bad  ;D
Most of the bad stuff from you ;D
G'day and welcome :cheers:
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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2011, 09:37:17 PM »
Most of the bad stuff from you ;D

Respect your elders  :laugh:
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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2011, 09:40:53 PM »
Welcome to the Forum Pooch, research away. Cannot help you with any of those breeds but many can

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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2011, 09:43:05 PM »
Hi Pooch and welcome to My Swag :cheers:
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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2011, 10:28:26 PM »
Welcome to the forum Pooch - and you have quite a list there.  Good luck with trying to decide on your final choice!!

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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2011, 10:35:22 PM »
Welcome aboard pooch, plenty of good info here, take your time deciding, don't want to hand over your hard earned then decide it's not right


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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2011, 01:57:20 PM »
G'day & Welcome.

How is your search going? where are you looking, what area?
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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2011, 02:26:51 PM »
Hi Pooch

We got our customline in Feb of this year and are very happy with it. From your shortlist, my shortlist also had Jimboomba on it. My advice is to study the specs, decide whats important to you then go and have a good long look at each. I went to the Brissie pre xmas camping show and once I had narrowed it down spent a few hours going back and forth between the three I had narrowed it down to. This was great as you can do comparisons, then when you see something else you want to compare its easy to go back and look at the others.

For me it came down to a compromise between tent and trailer. I rated customline canvas and tent features such as tropical roof design, door location, annex/pole design above the others I looked at but the others had fancier trailers. For me I decided that I was going to use the tent every time I used the trailer, where I wasn't going to thrash the trailer over the roughest track every time, so tent quality and features took a higher priority. The customline trailer is still very sturdy but as I said not as fancy as a jimboomba or lifestyle (the others on my short list)

Its not an easy decision though.

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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2011, 02:53:51 PM »
Gidday Pooch,

Welcome and good luck choosing your CT. One thing to bear in mind that if the CT is well or over engineered it is likely to be heavy to tow and manouvre around manually.

It took me 3 CT's to get the right one that meets all needs.

Cheers Balfang  :cheers:

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« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2011, 04:54:44 PM »
Hello and welcome, did you have a look at a Trackabout????
Always a good chat on here.
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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2011, 04:59:14 PM »
Welcome.

Usually try and work out few things.
Your budget
and how many people are you taking camping :)

Have a look in the trader, theres much better value in some of them than new...
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Re: Hi all!!
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2011, 05:02:07 PM »
Hi Pooch - surprisingly it took me an afternoon to choose my future wife.  Camper trailers?  well, you could keep looking forever.  You've done well to narrow it down.  When we chose our first camper, we went with the 80/20 rule recognising that no CT is ever going to be "the one" (unlike the wife).  Tastes and experiences change and that's when we changed our CT again....
Cheers and good luck
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