WE ROLLED THE VAN...and survived. Our trip to the Flinders Ranges.
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- čas přidán 22. 01. 2024
- After travelling 2000km from our home in Queensland to visit family in Melbourne, Victoria. We head off for our first outback trip as a family in our Ineos Grenadier four wheel drive with the Australian Off Road camper van.
In this video we explore the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, without a doubt one of the most beautiful and rugged areas of Australia.
Unfortunately Australia is experiencing an unusually wet summer and we find ourselves in some tricky situations and unable to reach our destination. We are forced to turn back and in doing so encounter extreme conditions resulting in our van rollover.!!!
John, please continue to document your experience with your Grenadier. Your viewpoint is candid, honest and credible; minus the breathless hype of most of these "one-day, test-track" reviewers. Along with Ronny Dahl, your videos have provided a real world, no BS perspective. Thank you and please keep em coming.
What a cliff hanger, cant wait gor next episode!
Hope you all are OK, a very enlightening insight to Australia. Thanks John.
Great video John
Another enjoyable video John. Will be interested to see how the Sierra fared being upside down....prob didn't worry it too much I expect! Cheers
Hi John good to no you and your family are safe and well, a scary incident by the looks!! Great views of your outback country ,and a weeks too long to wait for the next installment 😅, get your skates on!! From Steve near Chester England 🏴 where the Roman's once lived,. ( p.s. John had my Grenadier around 6 weeks now, and i absolutely love it 😊.atb.
Really liked the dog rock,it’s a lazy old dog that one.
Lovely Ep and places guys. My wife and I and our friends did a trip thought that area in 1996 we struck rain, Our 4wd and trailers had mud stick to them it was 30cm think in some places on them it dried like concrete. And as we travelled north weeks later it was still falling off up near Darwin. and into the Gulf of NT.
Great trip, albeit you seem to have put the ‘A’ into adventure at the end there.
Sorry to see the tumble John. That can be very scary for you all, and I am glad you all seem to be OK. I hope you get back on the road without to much trouble and costs.
We camped at the Blinman pub about 35 years ago when we were travelling Oz in our 1964 series 2s SWB Landrover. We pulled in mid to late afternoon and had a few cleansing ales until tea time then asked the publician about camping at the pub , at about that time a big rain storm hit and he said I have a cabin out the back that sleeps 10 people but it is not quite finished yet ,just needs painting , you can have it for $5-00 . No worries that will do us as we only had a tent . So we are sitting at the bar eating our counter meal when this youngish bloke bursts through the door , no giday or how you goin and saya he wants 2 rooms for his family and the outlaws . The publician looks out the window and the rain showed on signs of easing ,scratches his head gives us a wink and says $60=00 for 2 rooms . continued our trip up through central Queensland to Cape York across the gulf to Darwin and canped there for over 20 years . moved back to Vic a few years ago and I still have the old Landy
The more you talk about the vehicle.
Rawnsley is actually a working station the caravan park while fantastic is a side operation. Rawnsley is our favorite place to stay in the Flinders.
I’m not surprised you rolled it .. going a bit too fast along that track doing the drive by 😳😖
Geez i dunno. Ive been in the auction industry for 37 years, recently retired. Over that time ive had new company cars every 5000-15,000km, plus driving cars of interest. My personal choice has always been landcruiser and now a hilux (to see if incan live with the 2.8 and auto before buying a new70). For the first time I feel toyota are taking the mickey out of their buyers. So Im snooping around alternatives.
Will do re keep watching! You may convert me yet
We missed you, John... We also wandered off into SA... On our entire trip, we never passed one Grenadier - see
80 litres at the back of the van doesn’t sound good for stability
Your not first and not the last.
Re LandRover section of this vid. I just spent a night in a fancy Italian restaurant , with my bro in law and also LandRover FANBOY telling me about all the repairs he had to do, that cost him a fortune, whilst on a pretty normal run interstate from Bundaberg.