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After discovering our love for caravanning with our Jayco Flamingo, and setting our five year dream of saving for our Big Lap in 2025, we decided to upgrade the van to something off-road and more roomie for our growing boys. We spent a fair bit of time researching what van would suit our needs, what interiors would make our hearts sing and spent hours punching in numbers to see which vans gave us a bang for our buck! After spending hours at caravan dealerships and caravan shows, it wasn't until we were leaving the show when we came across Great Aussie Caravans! It was everything we were looking for, and for the price we wanted to spend for everything that we needed! With the chaos that COVID created, it did mean there was going to be a 12 month wait. We were fine with that, we believe good things come to those who wait, and we couldn't be more stoked with our investment! She hasn't missed a beat since bringing her home! So let us introduce to you our beast of a van! It is a 2022 Great Aussie 21'6 Tribal Xplora. She is fully off-road with an island queen bed and double bunks. We kept the oven, there's a 3.5kg wall-mounted washing machine in the ensuite and we have a Dometic 224L compressor fridge. You can find all the deets on their website but have listed below some customisation when we ordered our van:
Our inverter supplies 240v power to the entire van when off-grid through a transfer switch wired-in at the factory. We bought and installed 3x iTechworld 120X lithium batteries after handover (there were 2x 100ah AGM's supplied). On delivery the tare weight was 2880kg and we are towing it with a 2021 Volkswagen Amarok V6. At handover, the dealer fitted a Hayman-Reese weight distribution hitch which keeps the car and van level and as the name implies, evenly distributes the weight across the drawbar and rear end of the Amarok for a safe and comfortable ride. Occasionally when off-grid, we use a Mobi 300w solar blanket to charge the batteries a little quicker, via an Anderson plug underneath the van. Sometime in future we may fit a separate DC-DC charger (with solar input) for more efficient battery charging than the PM335 presently does. Otherwise, we've been very happy with the Projecta components. Comments are closed.
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