Thread: Off Road Caravans

Hey all

I'm considering getting a decent tandem caravan & doing a long term / working holiday, has anyone on here got - used one for a long period ?

Looking at a Titan, JB, Harvok, Nextogen or NZ made Kiwiline, the Ozzy made stuff looks nicely made but then so does the Kiwiline, just after some feed back on what they're like to live in, I'm only a little prick so don't need an enormous amount of space but do have a ton of shit so need plenty of storage.

You using around nz? Are you keeping house or fully becoming gypsy?

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Spend a lot of time in one through the year

Originally Posted by hillclima

You using around nz? Are you keeping house or fully becoming gypsy?

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Thinking of going full gypsy bro Be in SI of NZ for now.

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

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Spend a lot of time in one through the year

Will give ya a holla in next few days mate

Originally Posted by Philipo

Thinking of going full gypsy bro Be in SI of NZ for now.



Will give ya a holla in next few days mate

oh fuck !

Save the money for your next GST bill

Originally Posted by Dorkus

Save the money for your next GST bill

Don't mention farken GST buddy lol

Hey Phillipo, Might also be a good idea to reach out to @Happy as he build one from scratch as a off-roader - aimed as similar to takingthe best of the Aussie systems into a single build. He's know the in's and outs mate.

Originally Posted by Huntfisheat

This is interesting.
I'm 2 years away from full time Romani lifestyle.
I've been looking at all the above and the Idiya brand also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZecbPQZ3voc
Kiwiline seem like a good idea too, yet, for the money, Ecocampor are hard to beat if they're tough enough?
https://www.alibaba.com/product-deta...264538886.html

Yikes that Idiya looks flash. And expensive.And heavy. I imagine there's little change out of 120K for that???

Re the Chinese import stuff: I have had a bit to do with Chinese imported horse floats. And in one sentence...its not pretty. They are cheap for a reason.

Have you thought about a 2nd hand higher end horse truck? Can be just as luxurious, but more roomy and instead of horses coming along, there's plenty of room in the rear for a quad and tinny to come along for the ride.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/t...4?bof=WYkcov2O

Originally Posted by Philipo

Don't mention farken GST buddy lol

Thought you had purchased a special "GST Pen" to take care of those pesky GST issues??

Himmm here was me expecting to see some pics of caravans in a paddock……..like they do in England…think you guys call it free camping…..here they call it

Originally Posted by Huntfisheat

Idiya unit is $90k. 2.8 Tonne so fairly chunky. 3,5GLW so heaps of room for all the fishing/huntiing/kayaking toys.
None of these modern units have a genuine double burner fire place though. It's all diesel and gas heating and that's not going to get any cheaper.
Whatever I get in to, I'm going to have to cure that problem pronto.
Kiwi line Pukeko looks the goods too.
https://www.bidbud.co.nz/3537108269
Same dosh as the Idiya basically.

John Cadogan did a useful bit on towing 3.5T full time (and more importantly towing 3.5T off road!): In essence he said "don't do it with any of the double cab utes, or even a 2 hundy series cruiser. Tow with a light truck. But that's even more dosh etc etc etc

May have just found what you are looking for: https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/been...mog/1283398128

We have a full off road caravan it weights 2.9 t and has a all up weight of 3.5t.
We imported it from Aussie. Which is not as hard as you think.
There is a lot of choices over there as Aussie makes the best off road ones.
We tow it with a 79 series v8 double cab land-cruiser which it needs as you need grunt, we will more than likely need to up chip for more power.
Flick me a PM if you want all the goss on how to import one.

Originally Posted by XR500

May have just found what you are looking for: https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/been...mog/1283398128

You'd go broke doing regular standard service on them, let alone something "extra" like brake pads.

the kiwilines run fully independent suspension per wheel inc 2 shocks per wheel. other brands mostly use torsion bar axles.