Fifth Wheels with left side or rear door
G'day Mates, I'm Rod Williams from Brisbane, Australia. I was wondering if anyone knows any of the RV Manufacturers or any RV Makes or models that are built with either left side or rear entry doors? ...
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Hi Rod,
At this stage our plan is to go to the US before returning home - happy to chat when I get back but it maybe years away. I have sent you a private message but when I think it through maybe this is the best place to exchange general information as others maybe aware of information we are not and can add to the discussion.
I have written to 2 Australian conversion companies and received responses. For the Fifth Wheeler (and we had first thought we would like a larger new vehicle - 39 feet) the cost to ship home and convert through to registered in Australia was in the order of $125K aussie. The only other cost would be the US purchase - the one we like was going to be about $90K aussie. The tow vehicle (again a new large one) would be about $90K Aussie (brand new) and conversion back home about $45K.
All up it would cost me initially $AUD180K to make the purchases in the US and another $170K to get them home and on the bitumen in Australia - At $350 all up we will now see where we can shave some costs - we had originally allowed $250K based on some earlier research on second hand equipment so its back to the drawing board.
Since I last wrote I have had contact with the Australia fifth wheeler association and once my membership is through I will look to see if any of their members have been down this road (no pun intended)
Cheers
Paul
At this stage our plan is to go to the US before returning home - happy to chat when I get back but it maybe years away. I have sent you a private message but when I think it through maybe this is the best place to exchange general information as others maybe aware of information we are not and can add to the discussion.
I have written to 2 Australian conversion companies and received responses. For the Fifth Wheeler (and we had first thought we would like a larger new vehicle - 39 feet) the cost to ship home and convert through to registered in Australia was in the order of $125K aussie. The only other cost would be the US purchase - the one we like was going to be about $90K aussie. The tow vehicle (again a new large one) would be about $90K Aussie (brand new) and conversion back home about $45K.
All up it would cost me initially $AUD180K to make the purchases in the US and another $170K to get them home and on the bitumen in Australia - At $350 all up we will now see where we can shave some costs - we had originally allowed $250K based on some earlier research on second hand equipment so its back to the drawing board.
Since I last wrote I have had contact with the Australia fifth wheeler association and once my membership is through I will look to see if any of their members have been down this road (no pun intended)
Cheers
Paul
