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In europe you can find Coleman coolers, a lot more reasonable prices and similar quality with Igloo and others.. A decent one is between 70 -110 euro..

Actually you can use the car in EU for 6 months, not sure from where this 90 days comes from... It is true that tires outside fenders can attract attention, and talks with police over the legality on a temporary import can take a lot of time, so indeed, even if they are legal in the US...

Redarc is very good if you have the aux batterry in the engine bay. Victron is also an extremely reputable company, much older than redarc and very well known in the RV world, but none of their products are designed for engine bay use. If you do not keep the BCDC inside the engine bay...

A regular deep cycle AGM kept in trailer, and not engine bay, should last you 7 years in trailer np, if you don't discharge it often below 50 %. I also keep my AGM during non - camping season hooked up to a charger/maintainer in the garage...

Shipping to Belgium or Germany has mostly to do with cost and paperwork. In some countries it is easy, in some complicated and can take weeks to get the vehicle trough customs. Spain is one of those countries where is more complicated. It also has to do with the size of the ports. For a...

@Neuvik I am not forcing anyone to do anything. I am saying I hope there will economical alternatives to diesels. A hybrid petrol electric vehicle can be a solution. in US apparently there is an issue with the gas price, hence the topic. In Europe, prices of fuel were always high ...

Loved my RTT, clamshell V shape, did not fit anymore inside with the kid growing up. Softshell RTT's have 0 advantages for me, even if they can fit more people. Sold it and switched to 2 aussie swags, bulky and heavy ( both of them are still 25 kg less than a clamshell ) , but easy...

I don't think anyone reads anything, or reads on a diagonal. Not talking about hybrids you need to plug in to charge. An those systems are not heavier than your average run of the mill modern diesel plant with all the emission systems. Since the 80-90 's only 3 things transformed off...

I can't pretend that I am green when I own a pick up. What I do want is the ability to continuing to do what I do without a diesel build with all this emission stuff. Even if they are still reliable , some of them ( F there are no big issues with the 2.4 diesel I have now, it is used on...

As I said, there is still a lot of confusion because many system are called Hybrid, but it comes in many flavors. You have "mild hybrid" 48V systems where you have as the name suggest a 48V battery that can charge when you brake/go downhill etc ) that does a few things like drive an AC...

You don't need a huge battery to go full electric x miles. You can have a hybrid system like in the Camry for example. It does not have huge weight, battery is very small a few kw . It saves a huge amount of fuel in certain conditions, when your vehicle is the least efficient. Hybrid...

frozen gas lines are just poor planing and cost cutting. In Siberia, one of the coldest region on Earth they transport gas in any whether just fine.. Also a lack of investment in the grid. Distribution of electricity was and is one of the most profitable bussiness on the planet no matter...

I don't want to get in to politics here. Does not matter if I live in what is a small country. In EU it does not mater at all, you travel freely and your business, work or pleasure takes you to whatever place, and it is still a continent, even a if bit smaller overall. I also lived in...

Don't. get me wrong, I am not saying V8 driving people are Satan's envoys. I am just saying there is a a big pressure for change. All over the world motorist are easy targets. Try to pick a fight with farmers of the so called "biofuel" which is useless, or cow growers who pollute...

I don't agree is the same thing. I know you like cheap gas, who does not ? who does not like a nice big V8 ? but is unsustainable long therm. Changes will come. You have big V8 engines in US because the tax system and the gas price allows it. Are they nice to have ? for sure. Can you...

I don't think you can make it with a single battery with all that stuff, lights and fridge. Not with a 65L Dometic. You might pull it off with a small engel fridge, but even there I would have some kind of battery booster with me at all times. You say the fridge draws aprox 9 amp/h. Lets...

I guess you made some trips already since you have the winch. How often did you get in trouble ? The places where you have problems with the winch are in sand deserts, like Sahara, where you have nothing to anchor of, or other places with no trees/ rocks ., or very long river crossings...

This is the kind the thing you need to think about it before you buy the stuff. How long do you keep it, do you set-up for a 3 year trip around the world or just average joe of 24 days off/year + some week ends... Everything I have is removable and suitable to go in another vehicle...

I don't think petrol prices will ever see the folly before 2007 at more 100 U.S $ / barrel.. What might change is the fuel taxes, and with the debt that all countries have, it might go up in time. Anyway, US has nothing to complain, I think they are one of the OECD countries with the...

many AT tyres have just as good sidewall as an MT. There is no general rule that says AT has a weaker sidewall than an MT. MT's in general have a more aggressive thread and come with their own drawbacks like noise, poor fuel economy, many are terrible on wet asphalt, some on the verge of...