OUR FULL TIME TRAVEL SET UP | Hints and Tips for living life COMFORTABLY on the road - Ep 34
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- This week’s episode is a little different to our normal travel vlogs, this week is all about our touring set. After many, many questions about our travelling setup we decided to try and answer all those questions in one episode.
We take you on a full tour of our 2020 LTZ Holden Colorado that we’ve fully decked out touring Australia, followed by a walk around our Marvel RV 19ft Sea Breeze Sport off road caravan. We’ll show you some of our favourite purchases and we let you know our top 5 tips for gearing up before heading off on your BIG LAP of our beautiful country.
******* I FORGOT OUR NEW TOTAL WEIGHT FOR THE CAR ************
2840kg
So grab yourself a cold drink, sit back and relax for the next 30 minutes or so, and join Allison and I as we continue our adventures around Australia.
Ally and I would like to thank you all for your wonderful support to our channel and a HUGE WELCOME to all of our new SUBSCRIBERS.
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We hope you enjoy this week’s episode!
Steve & Ally @trip42australia
Filmed: Feb 2024
Related link from this week’s video:
Inside van tour
• MARVEL RV 19’ SEA BREE...
So when you buy a new caravan you need to purchase the hoses and leads? Is that like buying a car without the steering wheel? Also I have a Colorado and it tows my Goldstream extremely well. Very underrated ute, in my opion. And finally I've not long found your website and an enjoyinf your episodes. Ps I grew up in Redcliffe, was a fantastic place to be a kid!
Unfortunately mate some (most) caravan manufacturers these days sell them off as starter packs. It doesn’t seem to how much money you spend, they always want a little more. Go the mighty Colorados we love ours
Enjoying just watching without commenting but I think it’s a helpful for utube and getting your program out a little more. Ps really enjoying normal people being themselves,thanks.
Thank you mate we’re really happy your enjoying our channel
Hi guys, I've spend a large amount of my time (at night) on you tube, watching videos like yours, as you can never stop learning.
I have to say, I was impressed by the way you guys explained everything and tips on making things easier. Keep up the good work, I'll be tuned in👍
Thank you your comments are very much appreciated we’re very happy your enjoying our channel
Great episode. We are in our late 70s and have just upgraded to a Jayco Starcraft caravan from a Jayco Freedom pop-top. We are loving your channel. Sensible and helpful. Fortunately our new to us van came with all the extras. Thanks from Braidwood, NSW
Thanks Dot we really hope you enjoy your new van it sounds very nice we see quite a few Jayco’s during our travels and everyone seems very happy with them. Safe travels
Not sponsored in any way or promoting anybody ot endorsed by anybody
But your wearing B C F shirt.
That's advertising business
Thanks for watching mate and yes you’re right we aren’t sponsored by anyone but the 50+ SunSmart shirts you buy at BCF come with their logo. I’d be very happy if they did sponsor us, so if you’ve got a contact let me now 🤓
Hi guys. My hubby uses the throw away surgical gloves and puts them in a bin when finished with them. We also keep hand sanitiser as well but he chooses to use the gloves.
That’s a great idea, I think I’ll grab a box 🤓
We always have hand sanitiser on hand but my husband uses the surgical gloves when he changes the toilet and then just throws them into the rubbish bin. If no bin at the site of the dump point, he just puts them somewhere until we come to a bin.
Good video. Suggest a must-have safety item is a GME PLB. Understand you have starlink etc but it might not work in some emergency situations such as collision or vehicle fire. They are relatively cheap and they last for 10 years.
great advice I’ll definitely check that out, thank you
Thx. Very informative. I was wondering what brand your Lithium batteries are. Also, the specs on the A/C plz.
The aircon is a Dometic IBIS 4 and we have 2 x 200ah Enerdrive B-TECH lithium batteries. We can run the aircon off grid for 2-4 hours on about 23 degrees Celsius using an our Enerdrive 2600w inverter. Of course we only use the AC off grid when it’s very hot at night. Hope this helps
Thx. also, what brand are your solar panels ?@@trip42australia
thanks for your info! We have a 300w solar blanket from itechworld and it is brilliant.
Thank you that was on our list to checkout, 300w is a fantastic size
Thanks Steve for the info good show and information have subscribed to your Chanel please keep them coming.
Thank you
Hi guys great episode, I do have one question, we have a similar setup as you both in regard to the draw system, how does your fridge run on hot days? we have a 40lt engle fridge and find it does struggle keeping temp sometimes ( we are running it as a fridge not a freezer) we have a 120ah battery, DCDC Charger etc. cheers Les & Denise
Thank you, ours also struggles on hot days, I’ve set both compartments to minus 1 at the moment and it normally hovers around 2-3 degrees in the middle of the day. I try and keep it reasonably full that seems to help. I read somewhere that the fridge doesn’t need to work as hard to maintain it’s temperature and lately I’ve been opening the canopy windows when we’re parked up. That seems to help.
way to underpowered a vehicle for long term towing
we’re really happy with the set up it’s been running like clockwork so far (32000km) of full time towing but I’ll be happy to eat my words if it fails in the future. Go the mighty Colorado 🤓
Wow information overload!
That was great and in depth.
-:- First off, You should be sponsored, at least by BCF with the amount of free advertising your giving them also ARB 🤣. -:-
I have so many questions....... like,
Why did you give up camping and buy a caravan?
Did you own the car before the van as the car looks like it is set up for camping?
How did you find out all the information as to how the caravan should be set up?
Same again for the Colorado as that would take some research, no?
I can go on and on so i will stop now lol.
Great video as usual guys!
Thank you, yes your right we brought the car before the van and yes the car was originally set up for camping but during the pandemic we decided to travel Australia, initially we thought a camper trailer would be good but we soon realised that living full time on the road we’d need a bit more comfort so we brought the van. We’ve never caravaned before so we done a lot of research, took driving lessons and visited heaps of camping and caravan shows. The Colorado was a work in progress for about 18 months but eventually I think we got a good balance.
Great video guys. Thanks heaps. I have been on the road for over 12 months….always learning 🙏
Our pleasure!
Just started watching your channel and I have to say it's really entertaining your a great talker so easy to listen to . Have watched every other caravaning channel and it was getting a bit stale this is a breath of fresh air.
Thank you, welcome to our channel and we’re really happy you enjoyed the episode
Hi guys, new subscriber and loved the video. Re water tanks have you thought about the easy modification to enable your to fill your tanks from the bottom up. Also speeds up the fill. Cheers Mark.
Thank you we’re really happy you enjoyed the video, I’ll definitely look into better tank filling options🤓
@@trip42australia happy to send photos of what i did if that helps
@jeep2701 that would be great thanks mate
@@trip42australia where can i send them to?
Trip42australia@gmail.com
Interesting video. For me if I was travelling full time I would have to have a coffee machine in case I was somewhere where a cafe wasn’t easy to find
I hear where your coming from, we have a small coffee machine in the van and we haven’t used it yet but I’m sure there will come a day☕️
Hi,great useful video. What weight is the loaded caravan.?
Sorry I totally forgot to put it in when I was editing the video, the total weight of the car travelling down the road fully loaded is 2840kg and our current GCM with van full of water is 5922kg.
Did i see a lock around your wheel ?
Hi Tony, yes we use a Kovic cable with a heavy duty padlock between two wheels which I also thread through our chairs when we are away from the van.
Just one question. You said you were going to say what the car weight was with all the bits you have put on it did i miss it?
sorry I missed it when I was editing the episode, the total car weight complete with Ally and I on board was 2840kg it gained about 600kg. 🤓
Just found your channel good stuff guys 👍 just going through process of checking our ranger weights. Almost identical arb extras right down to winch. Kerb weight before around same as your Colorado as well. We are at 2818 with full tank fuel, me and wife but nothing in back. Does the 2840 include your drawer system, fridge and all the gear in the back?
@miket2304 hey Mike thanks for watching, yes it does. I last weighed it (about 2 months ago) at the dump before heading towards Darwin and it weighed in a little heavier at 2910 but we were fully packed for travelling off grid, the weigh bridge operator said the scale was good for about 20kg either way. Hope this helps
@@trip42australia I better weigh mine again. Been looking for someone with similar setup to get a feel for axle weights. With Lovells upgrade it will get me to 3500GVM and 6600GCM but rear axle weight is what I’m trying to guess. I assume yours was okay?
@@miket2304there is no way this setup is legal
Thanks for sharing guys. Love your videos. Been binge watching as we are in the process of buying our van and deposit on a new car for our trips. Cheers 😊
Thank you, we’re very happy your enjoying the channel, you’ll have to let us know what type of van you get. Safe travels
Great episode guys . Keep livin the dream and go the collies 👍
Thank you mate love the the Collie
8000 kilo winch , that is a big winch 😁I guess that is 8000 pounds ??
2.2 pounds to the kilogram. so 8000 x 2.2 ( Roughly )
Sorry mate, I got the info slightly wrong it’s a 10000lb Bushranger Revo winch that’s about 4500kg. I remembered when I was buying it thinking about running the cable through a block which increases the winches pulling power to between 8-9000kgs. I’ll make mention of it in next weeks video to prevent any confusion.🤓
try the pegs in reverse, will go in
Thanks mate
I have a 2018 Z71 Colorado, no issues in 136000km, got all the same type of stuff bolted to mine but Opposite Lock. Had an ecu remap at 26k 138.8 kw /495 nm after. Standard was 115.7kw and 435nm.Avg fuel over 136000 km10.3 including towing a2.5t full size van to SA, Darwin and around Victoria/Nsw..
mate I love our Colorado, it’s a very capable car the only thing that disappoints me is I can’t buy a new one and the US is manufacturing them as V8s now. Maybe one day the one back
Great video guys
Thanks for watching mate
Great episode 👏
Thank you
Really enjoying the channel - keep up the great work. Interested in your vehicle set-up but I think I missed the bit where you said what the total weight came up to once you added all the gear. What is it?
Sorry I forgot to put it in. It’s now 2840kg with all the gear, all our travelling stuff, a full tank of fuel and of course Ally and I. Hope this helps your planning
Sure does - thanks.
Go the riff.