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Hi The highest was in the Moroccan Atlas mountains. :)

Hi Dzzz I have a petrol genny, and a stove for outside cooking or if the propane runs out. A heater like this as you know uses so little fuel that my current 20l jerrycan to top up a small Espar only fuel tank (as I've seen fitted in caravans in the UK) will probably be fine, 2 even is still no...

Hi Just to clarify where I was coming from, regardless of who gets bigger sales from which market area, is that diesel powered heating suffers with altitude, and diesel fuelled anything suffers with cold to a greater or lesser extent. They would be happiest at low level, so of course in a boat...

Hi Having read the last few posts I thought they had just driven off the edge rather than the bridge collapsing and I'd remembered incorrectly. Driving 300km per day on perhaps not too smooth roads in a slow truck, when maybe theres a bridge like this every few km, you've driven over hundreds...

Butter and marge. Recently in Morocco we noticed, sitting on the shelves with tinned stuff, normal looking packets of foil wrapped butter, and tubs of marge, just sitting on the shelves perfectly fine in 45 deg C heat! I don't know how its made differently, but if we put it in the fridge you...

Hi Europe is mainly set up for casettes though. Most of the emptying points cannot be used by draining from a black tank via gravity. A macerator would be a good idea, although we have managed with a 70l tank and a 2m drain hose for the two of us. I wouldn't set off on a long trip without...

I'm beginning to think high altitude add ons are camoflage for something ideally aimed at boats. My diesel water heating Espar fills up with soot at close to its operating height limit, and has sometimes been a pain in that respect. Maybe a petrol unit is more sensible? Then any altitude and...

Hi My U1700 camper Moglet weighs 9500kg and returns 10 UK mpg. It will sit at 55mph just, not on hills though. The speed limit for me where I am now in Iceland is 50mph anyway, same as Denmark, Germany and Belgium getting here. In Iceland its 55mph max for everything smaller too :) We have been...

Hi and good luck I am no expert, but I would prefer two piece axles which a 2150 will have but a 1550 may not? The 2150 will be sitting higher on heavier springs, so will create more of a clearance issue perhaps depending what you put on the back? New lighter springs aren't expensive though. A...

I got myself a little hung up about copper gas lines a while back until someone pointed out it the same stuff thats works just fine every time you put you foot on the brakes, lines fixed to the axle, bounced around, covered in crud and how often you you check those compared to how often you rely...

Because thats my opinion :) If I had the means and was going to have a nice Unicat camper on a Mog chassis, I would buy a U2150L38 and have it remade like new by the likes of Hellgeth. I agree that the engine in isolation will run on a variety of diesels, but can you definitely get the ECU...

I don't think its a fear of the unknown as such. A fear of stuff you can't fix maybe though. All the gubbins to produce Euro5 emissions was not added by Mercedes to improve offroad durability, but to appease politicians. They will not currently run on high sulphur diesel as discussed elsewhere...

I was hoping you would come back on that Charlie! :) A 1999 70000km U2150 L38 is for sale in the UK for 35K GBP plus taxes. A fully specced U5000 would be 100K more perhaps? That would buy new axles, rewired and a new air system and a great deal more? But for Carnet purposes a chassis value of...

Hi Newer engines won't like high sulphur content fuel still used in many devloping countries. Newer vehicles have more electronics, giving more systems to fail in a remote location, a long way from a dealer perhaps? Have you looked into Carnet costs at all, depending where you are looking at...

Hi A friend in the UK had a long conversation with an Espar/Eberspacher techy regarding his camper fit out, and a heat exchanger between camper and engine coolants was suggested for some reason along the lines of one doesn't ideally appreciate the other, I never did get why. But that heat...

What proportion of this forum insists on firearms and camoflage with everything?!?! Good thread though :) I suppose all of you experienced lot know whats in it already, but Cody Lundin's book "98.6 the Art of Keeping Your *** Alive" # ISBN-10: 9781586852344 # ISBN-13: 978-1586852344...

Hi Is altitude an issue? Most diesel burners require an extra "bit" to burn cleanly above 1000m, and I don't know how cleanly or up to what height? Our camper has a D5WS Eberspacher without any variability for height, and 3 weeks at 910m sooted it up nicely. It has burnt for a night or two at...

Hi Charlie, and sorry for not replying earlier. The truck was an overladen U1300L, and now its a great deal more happy as a U1700, so same camper body mounted to an entirely different chassis. :)

The U500 is the heaviest of that series, and heavier than the U5000. I like this vid too, especially from about 3mins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCPV5PQStl4 Benzworld has more Mog people, this thread is a start for your search perhaps...

Hiya I believe this vid is of an Expo forum members U500 camper, who will be heading to Europe via China and Russia (I think) after currently Oz. Some people think the best description of any Unimog from the last 40 years is a fast tractor, but USA versions like this one I think are faster...