Hi all,
we would like to introduce ourselves as we are now the owners of a new Expanda Outback 14.44-5 OB!
My partner, Darella and I are very excited with our new panda as it is the first caravan we have owned. I have been reading all the great posts here which have been invaluable, thank you all.
If you see me out at a carvan park be kind as I'm not the best reverser!
I have been busy adding extra silicon (lots) and zip ties under the van. I also siliconed a plastic tent pole foot (pic below) onto the roof for the TV aerial to locate into as I don't won't it moving around too much when we hit corrugation etc.
So far we have found a few issues that I will raise with Jayco. One of concern is one locking latch for the roof/cover of the bed. It looks like they have overtightened the nut which has cracked the gelcoat and fibreglass and caused the whole locking latch to recede in a few millimetres more than the other. Has anyone else seen this and should it be a concern?
Also the front left AL-KO stabiliser/jack leg is a lot stiffer to wind down than the others, not sure if this is common as well?
Below is a breakdown of all the fruits
we would like to introduce ourselves as we are now the owners of a new Expanda Outback 14.44-5 OB!
My partner, Darella and I are very excited with our new panda as it is the first caravan we have owned. I have been reading all the great posts here which have been invaluable, thank you all.
If you see me out at a carvan park be kind as I'm not the best reverser!
I have been busy adding extra silicon (lots) and zip ties under the van. I also siliconed a plastic tent pole foot (pic below) onto the roof for the TV aerial to locate into as I don't won't it moving around too much when we hit corrugation etc.
So far we have found a few issues that I will raise with Jayco. One of concern is one locking latch for the roof/cover of the bed. It looks like they have overtightened the nut which has cracked the gelcoat and fibreglass and caused the whole locking latch to recede in a few millimetres more than the other. Has anyone else seen this and should it be a concern?
Also the front left AL-KO stabiliser/jack leg is a lot stiffer to wind down than the others, not sure if this is common as well?
Below is a breakdown of all the fruits
- Bed converter
- Control panel - coast to coast
- tv/dvd
- roof top AC
- Ext shower
- 160 Watt solar
- Ext picnic table
- ALKO esc
- Storm cover
- Sleves to robe
- 2nd battery
- two extra 12v sockets
- do35 hitch
- Payload upgrade