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Tuesday, 28 March 2017


29 March 2017 - Decisions!

Well, we've had weeks and weeks of research working out what upgrades need to be done to the car and we've made some big decisions.  On the recommendation of some members of the Toyota 4x4 Club and also SCS4x4, one of the Club's sponsors, we've booked the Prado in to "Fourby Fitouts" in Hallam to have a fridge slide and drawers fitted.  Thankfully they've fitted us in to their busy schedule and will do the work in a fortnight's time and SCS4x4 will do the electrical work next week.  We'll be able to head to Hatta Kulkyne NP for Easter with a working fridge-feeezer in the car - yippee!

This trip to HKNP will probably be the last trip we'll do in Ranger - our camper trailer which has been (and still is) a fabulous unit.  We'll sell her when we get back from our Easter trip and hopefully off-set some of the AOR cost!

We got news yesterday that our Q4 is on the production line and our handover will be on 23rd May - 55 days to go - and who's excited?!!  We'll head off north, no doubt with the car packed to the gills so that once we've picked up the camper, we'll load it and head off to camp somewhere locally near Caloundra for a few days.  AOR like this approach so if there are any issues or we don't understand something we simply head back to the factory to get it sorted.  We'll travel back to Melbourne down the coast road and camp along the way, working out what we need and what we need to ditch, and hopefully we'll have it all under control before we head off on The Lap just a few weeks after we get back to Melbourne.  And hopefully that's not wishful thinking!



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