We are still looking for a suitable vehicle that can handle towing our Roma caravan. Our caravan is about 19.6 feet long internal, about 20.6 feet long external ( not including the draw bar/tow bar ), about 7.6 feet wide and about 1650 tare. We think our Roma is a great size. Not too big to tow but big enough to live in comfortably ( hopefully Haha ).
Shane and myself spent most of the day at car yards yesterday ( while the girls were at school ) looking for a secondhand, diesel, automatic, at least 2.5 tonne 4WD at a reasonably low price! That shouldn't be too hard, should it?
We spent a lot of time at car city in Ringwood. That place is HUGE! Its actually about 40 something car yards in one large area and you just walk through to each car yard, it even has a cafe and finance office within the dealership. It was good to be able to view so many different vehicles in the one area, but we left with only 1 vehicle worth thinking about and it was a dual fuel vehicle ( gas/petrol ) so not exactly what we want.
Its so difficult looking for a suitable vehicle because we don't know a great deal about them. We need to find a vehicle that offers us what we need and then have a mechanic take a really good look at it and give us the okay before we purchase it. We don't know a great deal about cars so we are heavily reliant on a mechanic. Shane's step dad is a mechanic but he is quite busy with his business. Hopefully he has some free time soon and is able to help us find a suitable vehicle.
Time is ticking away and we really want to secure a vehicle within the next 2 weeks, pay the deposit and hopefully have it ready for us to be leaving in about 4 weeks which is our plan A. We do have a plan b in place but both plans still require us to have a vehicle completely ready to go within the next 4 to 5 weeks ( ideally 4 weeks ).
Its all a bit stressful at the moment, however we are reminded to trust God and so we will continue to trust Him...This is just another thing we are going to spend more time praying about.
If your reading this and your happy to... please pray we get the vehicle we need, for a great price and we are able to have it ready to go within the time frame we need it in!
Thank You Very Much and Take Care,
Dimi xoxox
