Condolences on your loss. Treasure the memories. Great to see you get your home on wheels all checked out. Good luck with jockey wheel. Thanks for sharing another great video. Keep on enjoying and travel safe 🤗🚙🤗

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot... Yip New Jockey wheel on now, and Caravan is running sweet, which is great. We just parked up at a new spot which is stunning between Dunedin and the Catlins.

Sorry for the loss of Granddad !

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Tom. Hope you and Linda are doing well, ya'll are often in our thoughts, we have such great memories with Ya'll.

The good old jockey wheel problems eh. We had to replace ours earlier this year. I enjoy your episodes. Thanks.😊

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

thanks mate, yip I imagine the Jockeywheel takes a bit of a hammering. took the old one to the metal recyclers, got $2 lol...

Great to meet you guys. Travel safe. Really sorry to here of your Grandad. Lochie Rebecca and I look forward to seeing your adventures ahead

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Thanks mate... cheers for fitting us in on your weekend was great to know we are travelling safely... we'll probably book in again next year.

My favorite part was the maintenance 😂! Great clip thanks for sharing.

@leopardsgowild

7 ай бұрын

Not sure if it's sarcasm but I knew some ppl would appreciate it lol

Sorry for your loss. You are right about travel being expensive between islands. Our Apr23 return trip with small caravan cost $750, Apr24 was going to cost $950 (both companies). Reduced to $750 thanks to NZMCA discount.

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Yes it's pricey totatlly worth it for a lenghty trip, we were not planning a northbound trip due to the price and having no income, but this was def something we'd stretch our $$$ for... Love the South island though, def worth paying for the ferry for the different experiences.

Great video team 👍 that was certainly some wind… every time we were in Cromwell that NZMCA park either was empty or only one van in there, kind of wonder if it’s worth having it… now living our adventures through you guys don’t forget when your back in Blenheim give us a shout 👍

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

The cromwell site is great for families having that little jetty to jump off, which we did do, but didn't film, lake was freezing though... our 2nd night there, there was 9 vans... Hope you guys are settling in well back to a conventional life.

@NZCaravanLife

8 ай бұрын

@@leopardsgowild I bet the lake was freezing, that wouldn’t stop you all though 🤣 we love that area of central Otago, came so close to moving down there. Conventional life not really suiting us, taking some time to get used to it 😢 we are looking at going over to the lower North Island for a bit of a look around the south east coast up towards Hawkes Bay, although doubt we’ll make it up as far as there that trip in Dec and Jan, hopefully have 5 weeks off LWOP 🤞

Nice episode team! There is always something to go wrong aye!!

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

absolutely, bloody jockey wheel, I could feel it tightening up, and boom, just after a caravan service as well...

You can use a Laser Infrared Temperature Gun to check the temperature of your wheel bearings after a run. This may show there's a problems, before any damage occurs.

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

someone else has recommended that, we generally pull over and have a walk around, the tires are always just warm, never seen them hot other than early on when we had problems.

great episode bro, sry it took so long to watch it , my life of no responsibility is busy lolol jk,,everyone looks good and happy, awesomeu found the rv mechanic,,, seems like a solid guy!!!! hope all is well leopards!!!! talk to yah soon

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Cheers Cam... Life does get busy aye bro, lots of distractions out there.. I have some KZread vidoes to catch up on of my own. Hope the lakes still staying warm, but I see those wet suits are looking more serious.

Condolences to you all, passing of Grandfather, love you adventures, Cheers Bevan 🤠❤️🦘🦘🇦🇺

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Bevan.... I'm glad Grandad lived a full time and got to meet his great grandchildren. He'll be happy to be back with his bestie Nana, who he's been married to for 67 years.

*sorry to hear about your grandfather. Typical isnt it, get the brakes sorted and then something else goes😅*

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

ha ha yes totally... The brakes have been sorted since about February, I'm glad they haven't gotten any worse luckily.. The Jockey wheel, how typical aye... I asked Luke to chuck some extra grease in there because I felt it getting some resistance... Lucky insideoutrv were able to send a replacement for us.

Sorry for your loss, and thank you for sharing , this a tough time for your family ,I hope you get your jockey wheel sorted

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

thank you, was nice to catch up with our family... luckily we were able to order the jockey wheel so it was here when we returned...

Sorry to hear of the passing of your grandfather. Thanks for the video, keep up the great work and happy travels.

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Thank you... Always sad to lose a Leopard, there really aren't that many of us.. The videos' will continue, see you in the next one.

Great video. Sorry for your loss 😢. I didnt know about compassionate fares! Good tips you share, even mechanics chat is great. I am just starting out on my caravan journey. Waiting to pick her up this week. Your videos are inspiring. We have a lovely country. I grew up around ashburton lakes and been south lots. Do you edit your own and do you use go pro? Nice and clean vids and good music too. Great job.

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Ashburton lakes would be a great place to have spent time as a kid, we def loved it and have some videos of being in the area during winter... We love the caravan life, it offers so many great opportunities... You'll love the adventures.

Great video, Mike, that's pretty good. for being driven down the road for a year.

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

yea mate, pretty good wear n tear I reckon, the brakes issue was an early problem, I think things have been working well on the caravan for a while now, which is good.

Awesome as usual. Team Kawerau

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Team Kawerau... Bit of an average one this week... We'll try spice up the next couple.

7+km trail run, awesome effort guys! Must have over tightened the wheel nuts in Waiau, hopefully the breaks are working okay. Ice-creams and warm days, bring on summer ☀️

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Wheels came off in Invercargill where the brakes we're checked for issues under warranty... apparently normal wear n tear, no issues to note... kids did awesome on the trail, some good hill climbing

It will be good to find out what is going on with ya brakes, Im sure inside out will cover it if its a warranty fault.

@leopardsgowild

6 ай бұрын

Insideout are no longer unfortunatly, also they will only cover warranty for 1 year, so we just finished 2 years... it seems the brakes were working on the magnet and not the drum, but they were investigated back in feb and since then they seem to be working well, the wear from this video looks similar to what it did in Feb.

@KiwiWanderers

6 ай бұрын

@@leopardsgowild what happened to inside out ??? They seamed really onto it

Interesting how poorly balanced or set up the brakes were from new. At least you know everything is working and the bearings etc are serviced for the next year on the road. Those hot spring days are great except for the wind. It's been a weird cold patch this last week, which I'm blaming on me setting up the swimming pool for summer. Hope you get the jockey wheel replaced ok

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Hey Garth, yes it was a pretty chilly week just gone, beautiful day today though... Glad i was working for a mate doing some renovations, but got it finished in time to enjoy the sun now... The brakes were def out pretty badly, infact, they weren't even engaging when we picked the van up, I saw the wear n tear on those magnets in feb and it looks the same, so glad it hasn't gotten worse.

@kat_n_Rob_Touring_NZ

8 ай бұрын

Makes you wonder how the manufacturer checks these double axle wheel's 😢

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

I was surprised that a service didn't include a brake adjustment. I figured that would be one of the most important aspects to do serviced. @@kat_n_Rob_Touring_NZ

@kat_n_Rob_Touring_NZ

7 ай бұрын

I'll be ensuring that our service in January includes them, we've been having issues with the redarc braking system saying there's a voltage drop? After watching your videos on the brakes it made us very wary to whether it's set up correctly. But it's intermittent... When it's raining or damp. We've found somewhere near our daughters to stay till February so we can enjoy family time and explore Taranaki. Then head to the service after New year's holidays are over.

@leopardsgowild

7 ай бұрын

Just ensure they check the and adjust the brakes themselves, not just look for wear, you want an even balance of braking, so they should jack the caravan up and do up / tighten each wheel to it's skimming the pad, couple of wind backs and they will be adjusted to an even balance.... Sometimes the brake systems haven't even been installed properly, we didn't have proper brakes working until we nearly had an accident, and found out that our caravan and vehicle had never been collabrated which was a requirement of the braking system on a level site, it never happened but we didn't know that as it came pre installed... Your caravan brakes should be able to brake your truck at 50% once ours were adjusted correctly and collabrated we were towing at 30% brakes @@kat_n_Rob_Touring_NZ

Sorry for your loss Mike. Good luck with the jockey wheel. Is your caravan still under warranty?

@leopardsgowild

5 ай бұрын

Thanks mate, warranty is a complicated issue, insideoutRV state no warranty if you live in your caravan which I don't think is legal, but they do have a 3 year structural warraand 5 years on the chassis they did send us a replacement jockey wheel which we expected to pay for but they never invoiced us which is nice.

My sincerely condolences to you and your family. As usual enjoyed the video, and I was wondering how you were coping with the wind

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

thank you. I'm glad my grandad live a long, full, healthy life and that he's gone to be with his bestie of 67 years married... The wind, I think we missed most of the worst stuff thankfully... Christchurch area got a hammering though.

bagels

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

i wish.

Gave up on Jockey wheel and went to a farm implement stand. Same principle but no wheel. Can’t move caravan on the wheel anyway as too heavy

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

We got the new jockey wheel, I was working on the next video you'll see how much movement I was getting on the caravan with the Jack compared to the centered jockey wheel... Pretty heavy caravan to knock to the ground if it slipped though. Hope you guys are well.

Why does a heavy caravan still have a jockey "wheel" 😂😂 ??

@leopardsgowild

8 ай бұрын

Thats a good point... I expected that they would be balanced, ie unhooking the caravan could support it's own weight.

@hopaea7

8 ай бұрын

@@leopardsgowild that's up to how you pack it