Here's my list of things that didn't make it on our recent Central trip, that included the Simpson and all the rough roads to get there and back. Use these ideas to work out on what to buy cheap and throw away, or spend big so it can cope.
1. About a third of my tents pegs bent or lost
2. A non-canvas tent hole in floor
3. Kings roof top bags (the cheap ones) - not even worth buying
4. Kings LED light strip - shorted out
5. Flag pole mount - don't try and use an antenna mount
6. Almost lost my roof rack - the Rhino cross bars slid through their mounts. Could probably have tightened them a little more.
7. Mate broke his pop-rivetted roof rack mounts (Triton design flaw - no other way to put roof rack on).
8. Cheap plastic tubs
9. I'd usually expect to kill a tyre, but we got lucky
10. I also think we got lucky and didn't kill any shocks
11. I noticed my Darche awning is showing sighs of wear, where it rolls up against the mount on the inside.
12. Pretty resigned to having to throw away things that we just couldn't get all the dust out of, like sleeping bags
13. Self inflating mattresses - one holed, 2 others no longer holding air
1. About a third of my tents pegs bent or lost
2. A non-canvas tent hole in floor
3. Kings roof top bags (the cheap ones) - not even worth buying
4. Kings LED light strip - shorted out
5. Flag pole mount - don't try and use an antenna mount
6. Almost lost my roof rack - the Rhino cross bars slid through their mounts. Could probably have tightened them a little more.
7. Mate broke his pop-rivetted roof rack mounts (Triton design flaw - no other way to put roof rack on).
8. Cheap plastic tubs
9. I'd usually expect to kill a tyre, but we got lucky
10. I also think we got lucky and didn't kill any shocks
11. I noticed my Darche awning is showing sighs of wear, where it rolls up against the mount on the inside.
12. Pretty resigned to having to throw away things that we just couldn't get all the dust out of, like sleeping bags
13. Self inflating mattresses - one holed, 2 others no longer holding air
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