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!
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.
@trevorrogers828918 күн бұрын
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 😂
@petermercer596828 күн бұрын
Very nice guys look great 👍👍👍
@fittonehealthandfitnessstu9602Ай бұрын
Hi mate can u run a manual burn if the engine isn’t on as a preventive measure?
@PNutPistachio6 күн бұрын
From what I have been advised you can’t force a manual burn as a preventative measure until the vehicle has indicated that a self clean is needed
@crandamer2872Ай бұрын
Lana Rhoades
@shirlprada24472 ай бұрын
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.
@bellindareid71632 ай бұрын
Brother you the real MVP making this. Panicked. ALOT.
@siobhankirk93203 ай бұрын
Really good video, we will be travelling in that area in a few months time, thanks for the info for 24hr stay in Geraldton ❤
@antslim1683 ай бұрын
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.
@Siyabonga1582 ай бұрын
Ignorant comment.
@LandHvideos73 ай бұрын
U visit my house thanks my house is the cactus one
@scottguy54523 ай бұрын
What does null arbor mean?
@IvanDjuric3003 ай бұрын
Legend! Thank you.
@timddo3 ай бұрын
Mate. How did you install the awning on
@Noniinthebush3 ай бұрын
Hi, is your caravan off road? Cheers
@griffinsgetaway3 ай бұрын
Hi, no it's not offroad.
@graydrever19273 ай бұрын
Really surprised you have trusted a Chinese made vehicle in that environment. They must be laughing at us buying their junk
@giacomocappelletti68544 ай бұрын
You just saved me $250 between the diode and wiring harness. Thanks a lot. Same ute here so I’ll replicate your install.
@griffinsgetaway4 ай бұрын
No worries 👍
@kobusvanzyl84544 ай бұрын
Hey mate, i've sent you a message on messenger. Cheers
@RemingtonVarvaris4 ай бұрын
Hey mate. Can someone undo the screws/hinges on top to open/remove the side/rear doors? Hoping this ain’t the case. But can you confirm?
@peterRobinson101015 ай бұрын
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.
@peterRobinson101015 ай бұрын
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.
@Steve-qs1tw5 ай бұрын
Very thorough coverage of the Island. What time of the year was it? was it during school holidays?
@gregstuart97835 ай бұрын
Stonefish breeding ground too, apparently at the liddle lagoon, I didn’t know till recently!
@xounggoiofficial44165 ай бұрын
I think this ute very nice look' very hansome ute I won buying canon x👍
@calvinshum80195 ай бұрын
I am thinking to buy the same model. Do you think lacking the 360 camera make it difficult to park?
@larasenivudi225 ай бұрын
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
@hamishholmes32135 ай бұрын
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.
@zohrabhesenov49295 ай бұрын
Perfected video
@jomarie54865 ай бұрын
Great to have you all visiting our hometown Mildura! We're heading over to Rapid Bay for the first time. Thanks for sharing your travel vlogs!
@liambarnes866 ай бұрын
Hi mate, just wondering if you have a link to where you got the new brackets from as mine have also just started to fail 😓 cheers
@griffinsgarage20236 ай бұрын
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.
@liambarnes866 ай бұрын
Great to know thanks mate @@griffinsgarage2023
@6amfilms-videostoriesforsm6196 ай бұрын
Great video! Looking at one of these for my business to keep equipment clean and dry
@cherelynpabon47886 ай бұрын
Hi boss,after 2 yrs using gwm ute how it was? How's the performance?
@macmckenzie76026 ай бұрын
Hey mate been watching your videos awesome bye the way do you recommend the gwm my partner and I are thinking of getting one and hitting the road soon
@griffinsgetaway6 ай бұрын
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.
@sistersforever21426 ай бұрын
I’m going to bember bay next week
@Herosade6 ай бұрын
Hello, is the canopy waterproof?
@knightrider64736 ай бұрын
Is another video coming soon about the solar boss? Im wandering how you're going with it.
@griffinsgetaway6 ай бұрын
Hi mate, i am super busy at the moment, but will be doing an update video on this soon! Cheers
@knightrider64736 ай бұрын
@@griffinsgetaway thanks mate, was thinking of doing the same on my shed I built so look forward to seeing hiw you go. 👍
@staybent93806 ай бұрын
Going the 19th 😊 Thank you
@griffinsgetaway6 ай бұрын
Have fun!
@HSKY4126 ай бұрын
any long term thoughts mate?
@GriffinsIdeas-xv2fj6 ай бұрын
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.
@williamhoughton50516 ай бұрын
Do you have a vid on the awning
@ashleym28787 ай бұрын
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
@griffinsgetaway7 ай бұрын
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.
@maybyrne51247 ай бұрын
No salt only recently, it was all pastoral ....
@Brad.whatthe7 ай бұрын
10% interest on savings is triple what reality is, compounding interest over that period would be closer to 3-5k not over 15k
@griffinsgetaway7 ай бұрын
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
@swampcastle81427 ай бұрын
Sure. Easy enough to do those these days for a home owner. No need to wait for everyone else.
@evil177 ай бұрын
How has it been holding up, is it still performing okay?
@griffinsgetaway7 ай бұрын
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.
@adr2t7 ай бұрын
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.
@griffinsgetaway7 ай бұрын
I see where your coming from, thanks for comment! Al though I think we should try it anyway on a couple new estates as an experiment.
@trevormeyer28207 ай бұрын
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.
@MatthewBayard7 ай бұрын
Did you have access to the grid?
@griffinsgetaway7 ай бұрын
Hi trevor, that's awesome and a great example that it's definitely possible. I will be doing the same myself.
@griffinsgetaway7 ай бұрын
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.
@trevormeyer28207 ай бұрын
@@MatthewBayard it was an option, yes.
@MatthewBayard7 ай бұрын
@@trevormeyer2820 would you not benefit in spot market trading? Giving you the ability to generate an income
@MatthewBayard7 ай бұрын
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.
@MatthewBayard7 ай бұрын
Staying grid connected allows people and businesses who can't produce power on their own to benefit from low daytime energy prices.
@griffinsgetaway7 ай бұрын
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.
@MatthewBayard7 ай бұрын
@@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
@griffinsgetaway7 ай бұрын
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.
@MatthewBayard7 ай бұрын
@@griffinsgetaway but the EV charging would be the most difficult part to completely cover off grid.
@mickspecial7 ай бұрын
Saw your GWM vid - Do you think the Tank 300 big enough to do some simple camping set up?
@griffinsgetaway7 ай бұрын
Yes for sure, but if you have a Family and want to tow a caravan the Cannon would be a better choice in my opinion.
@AlGreenLightThroughGlass8 ай бұрын
Diesels are built for the road not the stop start tradie stuff around town which is why so many petrol workmates are still sold. Long touring will prevent clogged DPF and injectors in the GWM.
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i just hate the fact the indicator on left side
I just hate the fact the indicator on left side
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 😂
Very nice guys look great 👍👍👍
Hi mate can u run a manual burn if the engine isn’t on as a preventive measure?
From what I have been advised you can’t force a manual burn as a preventative measure until the vehicle has indicated that a self clean is needed
Lana Rhoades
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.
Brother you the real MVP making this. Panicked. ALOT.
Really good video, we will be travelling in that area in a few months time, thanks for the info for 24hr stay in Geraldton ❤
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.
Ignorant comment.
U visit my house thanks my house is the cactus one
What does null arbor mean?
Legend! Thank you.
Mate. How did you install the awning on
Hi, is your caravan off road? Cheers
Hi, no it's not offroad.
Really surprised you have trusted a Chinese made vehicle in that environment. They must be laughing at us buying their junk
You just saved me $250 between the diode and wiring harness. Thanks a lot. Same ute here so I’ll replicate your install.
No worries 👍
Hey mate, i've sent you a message on messenger. Cheers
Hey mate. Can someone undo the screws/hinges on top to open/remove the side/rear doors? Hoping this ain’t the case. But can you confirm?
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.
Very thorough coverage of the Island. What time of the year was it? was it during school holidays?
Stonefish breeding ground too, apparently at the liddle lagoon, I didn’t know till recently!
I think this ute very nice look' very hansome ute I won buying canon x👍
I am thinking to buy the same model. Do you think lacking the 360 camera make it difficult to park?
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.
Perfected video
Great to have you all visiting our hometown Mildura! We're heading over to Rapid Bay for the first time. Thanks for sharing your travel vlogs!
Hi mate, just wondering if you have a link to where you got the new brackets from as mine have also just started to fail 😓 cheers
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.
Great to know thanks mate @@griffinsgarage2023
Great video! Looking at one of these for my business to keep equipment clean and dry
Hi boss,after 2 yrs using gwm ute how it was? How's the performance?
Hey mate been watching your videos awesome bye the way do you recommend the gwm my partner and I are thinking of getting one and hitting the road soon
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.
I’m going to bember bay next week
Hello, is the canopy waterproof?
Is another video coming soon about the solar boss? Im wandering how you're going with it.
Hi mate, i am super busy at the moment, but will be doing an update video on this soon! Cheers
@@griffinsgetaway thanks mate, was thinking of doing the same on my shed I built so look forward to seeing hiw you go. 👍
Going the 19th 😊 Thank you
Have fun!
any long term thoughts mate?
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.
Do you have a vid on the awning
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.
No salt only recently, it was all pastoral ....
10% interest on savings is triple what reality is, compounding interest over that period would be closer to 3-5k not over 15k
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
Sure. Easy enough to do those these days for a home owner. No need to wait for everyone else.
How has it been holding up, is it still performing okay?
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 see where your coming from, thanks for comment! Al though I think we should try it anyway on a couple new estates as an experiment.
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.
Did you have access to the grid?
Hi trevor, that's awesome and a great example that it's definitely possible. I will be doing the same myself.
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.
@@MatthewBayard it was an option, yes.
@@trevormeyer2820 would you not benefit in spot market trading? Giving you the ability to generate an income
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.
Staying grid connected allows people and businesses who can't produce power on their own to benefit from low daytime energy prices.
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.
@@griffinsgetaway but the EV charging would be the most difficult part to completely cover off grid.
Saw your GWM vid - Do you think the Tank 300 big enough to do some simple camping set up?
Yes for sure, but if you have a Family and want to tow a caravan the Cannon would be a better choice in my opinion.
Diesels are built for the road not the stop start tradie stuff around town which is why so many petrol workmates are still sold. Long touring will prevent clogged DPF and injectors in the GWM.
Hows these performing?