We are a young family from Queensland living our dream and completing our big lap of Australia in our caravan & GWM Cannon. We hope to inspire others to give it a go too!
I have had one of these for almost the same amount of time. I live less than a km from Bass Strait. This is high risk area for coated steel products. Around here gal steel works - Colorbond steel is in the danger zone. These canopies are not as well painted as colorbond steel and after 12 mths they look it. My $2000 canopy has a lot of surface rust on one door and small amounts on the others. A bit on welds but the body is pretty good. Unlike this author im pretty disappointed and wish i had spent a couple of hundred dollars extra and bought the same one in aluminium. Like the author i have used a rust converter on the rust spots and have bought a couple of cans of black raptor paint to treat the doors. Waiting on the weather to improve before painting. Not sure id recommend, but definitely not if you live near the beach or do a lot of beach driving.
Very helpful video. Thanks heaps mate. Hubby's been referring back here for help. With the mounting of the controller dial there inside the cab. Did you just drill a hole in the back of the fuse box, as well as the front? We just couldn't quite see there in the video.
How u working out ur mileage? I have a 85kg canopy on mine and do 1/2 town and 1/2 freeway driving and I’m getting 8.5-9L/100km. I used to think I was getting 10to 11 but I was working it out wrong 😂
To overcome the turbo lag I run the vehicle in sport mode when approaching a busy intersection. The vehicle is capable of switching between sport normal and eco when on the move and depending of the speed your driving as to how quick it changes. I usually preempt shifting to sport prior to approaching a busy intersection. It’s very quick in sport.
Cannon wouldn't last in Africa, we have dirty diesel from Cape to Cairo, stick to Toyota's and paTrolls. One good thing is Cannon's aren't on the carjacking list. Insurance companies insist on Toyotas needing double tracking devices.
These canopys cost about $1600 when buying from Alibaba, cheaper (and custom branded) when you buy quantity for the most modern model vehicles. But they take 40 days sea freight to arrive. Australian retailers are far too greedy. Trying to extract $500 - $1000 per sale. Write to the suppliers and complain. Aussie retailers need to focus on volume sales and happy customers. They think that its a once off sale... but its not. Customers that save momey on the canopy come fwd to buy more accessories and refer more customers too them. Greedy aussie retailers.
basically all these steel and aluminum canopies are all made in China custom branded to your fav local brand.. and theres nothing wrong with that but they try to take far too much profit and some even try to claim their custom branded units are locally made BS.
Ive followed your video thabks heaos, it was a fun drive home last night with the low RPM, i worked out if i set cruise control it would slowly get to speed . Anyway, tbe engine light is still on today however, should i be concerned? Im leaving tomorrow to do a 1000km trip and am a bit nervous now
Hi Mate …here in SthAust, SAPN is currently rolling out flexible export limiting, so there are no ‘spikes’ on the grid …my apologies if you touched on this & I missed it but I dare say it will soon be Australia wide …the pilot program here in SA for export limiting has been a success & they are rolling it out state wide …soon we will be able to export up to 10kw (which will be most of the time when the sun is out) with our 10kw inverter…currently we are capped at a 5kw export limit …so this is a win for the grid spikes & a win for us exporting more ⚡️, as South Australia moves to 100% renewables … I think we are currently 70% on renewables across the year.
Hi Liam, the ones I got are aluminium but they have started failing aswell now. So I would suggest you get some stainless steel ones instead. Just need to be 40x40mm with 25mm centre to centre holes.
Hi mate, I am very happy with it. Done 50,000k's so far, towed caravan for whole lap of Australia. Never let us down once. Havent had any issues. Really good value vehicle in my opinion.
Hey mate, yeh still happy with it for price, but the paint is not great, hinges are not good either, I have repainted the outside and put new hinges on it. Also one of the gas struts had failed.
Gwm is the biggest pole of garbage my friends constantly does dpf burns every single time he drive it and even after a manual burn it does it again the next drive then it will go into limp more every coucouple days and does a forced burn leaving you stranded on the side of the road for 20 minutes. Filter is not clogged I took it apart inspected and did a manual clean and it was as expected for a new car it was basically clean. So could be sensor which you can't buy from repco all engine parts need to come directly from China. Not to mention everything else wrong with the car as a hole
hI ashley, sucks your mate is having a bad experience. Just remember 1 persons experience doesnt mean everyone else has the same experience. China has very strick emissions standards, so the car has to complete a full dpf burn atleast once in every 4 otherwise it goes into limp mode and forces you to do a manual burn. i have done about 50,000km and have only had to do that twice. its normally when only doing short drives every day so it doesnt get the chance to do a full burn. in generall most people have a pretty good experience with the utes, especialy for how good value they are.
Hi Brad, i am talking about putting the money into a managed indexed fund, not just leaving it in savings acount. index funds can easily pull 10 percent on average per year. Cheers
The kings one ended up going a milky colour over the whole thing, the renogy ones still looked fine. Haven't got them any more but I would say renogy ones are better quality and will last longer.
Short answer, no. Longer answer, the problem with solar on house is the fact that it does wear out meaning people have to pay to get it replace in the future, and very little will want to do that by paying for it when buying a home, and then replacing it after. There is also the fact that grid connected homes, can off set power cost by giving their power to lower income homes and business during the day. Aka, it would be better as solar gets cheaper to still power what we can vs trying to have the grid trying to power everything else or less grid size power plants. Granted, if the building is totally off grid anyways for the most part it doesnt matter either way.
I am currently completely off grid, drive a 2 hour commute in an EV, electric furnace and AC, all electric appliances, our own electric well pump, etc. You can do it, but power companies don't like this and often spread lies that you can't produce enough of your own power, that is false. I ended up combining the large solar and battery systems with my mortgage, which paid for itself in only 5 years based on my usage (which is a lot) and my local grid costs.
I know with 100% certainty that it's possible and would be cheaper by far in the long run. And I agree that power company's don't want people to know that.
Yes I agree, residential homes can go off grid very easily. However it's very hard if your lifestyle is completely powered by electricity. You wouldn't be able to power even moderate car usage if it's an EV being completely off grid.
Hi Mathew, I think it's definitely do-able even with an EV. For instance currently our household only uses on average about 4.5kw/h overnight, and our current 6.6kw system produces on average 15kw/h a day. We have enough roof space to double that which would bring us up to 30kw/h a day on average. For us anyways, that would be ample production. Given that on a good day we could produce close to 80kw/h. Once battery is full all excess solar would get soaked up by the EV. Obviously when designing the new home you would ensure your roof layout is optimal to maximise solar production aswell. Most homes currently are designed with solar as an afterthought.
@@griffinsgetaway Average annual EV electrical use: 12600 x 0.18 = 2268kWh Average household electrical use: 19.2 x 365 = 7008kWh Therefore an EV would add, on average, about 32% to the average usage component of a household electricity bill Having a system produce 9000kWh a year would be difficult. 11,000kWh plus if you have two cars. Which most people do. Kids living at home and driving ECT
Yep agree it would be hard for some current houses to convert. But for new builds still very possible. For instance even our current household, we are a family of 3. Our 6.6kw system produces around 6000kw/h per year, that will double to 12000kw/h per year when i increase to a 14kw system. We run all energy effecient appliances and only consume around 3000kw/h per year. So will be easily do able for us. We have heat pump water heating, heat pump dryer, inverter ac unit etc. Households just need to be well designed and its more than achievable.
