Thanks The Wadamses,
I know 12months already, we have been wrapped with the van clocking up around 10,000km with a 6 weeker last year down the NSW Coast and planning Darwin, Lorrella Springs and the Savannah Way this year if time and money allows.
I have been very happy with the build quality, finish and a few warranty issues done with no questions asked. Just make sure if you go with them and design the van go over the plans 1000 times and check everything is to how you want it as we missed one thing by having the door swinging the wrong way, and no hatches under the bunk which they gave me for free when we collected from the factory and put in myself they also made the couch not to my measurements so re-made them for us with no issues and found a window with a scratch 3 weeks later and they posted a new one out (I am very fussy).
I find the Dometic toilet they use is a lot less capacity than the Expanda one due to three girls in the van. The couch even though I designed a centre club lounge large it's still not as easy sitting as the 16.49-3 Expanda but I'm not sure anything comes close to that so there is a compromise with everything.
Ask for full extension metal drawer runners, dust hatch, off side and rear lights and anything else you find great on other vans.
We went for a inverter split A/C which they installed and so far found fantastic, just a week ago free camping at Lake Bonney we were 50deg in the shade and the van in full sun and was very comfortable via the Honda 2 and even better was over night as it didn't drop below 33deg and we normally only got 4 hours run time from the A/C in the Expanda but with the inverter A/C we set the van for 19deg and we got almost 10 hours due to no compressor switching on and off the compressor slowly picks up and slows down and you can't even hear it on the revs from the Honda, it just idled all night still pumping cold air in.
Compressor fridge we decided on, Waeco 215Lt which is fantastic normally at Lake Bonney in that heat our old 3 way struggled but this one held -3deg in the fridge (yes below zero) which was fantastic with all the ham and Xmas food we had but it does use 6.5amps so you need 3 x batteries and a good solar set up.
A must a diesel heater, absolutely the best money spent by far and if you think you will install later you won't so best to it from new. We lived in the van on the front lawn during our 3 coldest months of the year last year due to renos and I was doing them so slow progress and we used the diesel every night as the Inverter was great on heat but dried out the air and we averaged 10Lt a week for 1o hours a day running.
I think the chassis is a bit over kill, very heavy duty but very strong by the looks of it and is quite weighty.
Mods I've made is quite a few like the pull out BBQ, repositioning the stabilising legs, adding an extra water pump to separate one of the 3 water tanks to a drinking only through the water filter and on collection they said they would of done that, adding 800w of solar, the 3rd battery, drawers to the hatches, extra 12v and usb outlets , sirroco fan, Genny box and Jerry can holder to the bumper, boat motor and bike rake on the front and so on.........Nearly there a few more things to do
Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions.
Cheers
Christian
I always thought the Crusaders were more expensive than that. Well done. 
