Tvan Vic High Country Frequently Asked Questions

 

Your meeting point, unless otherwise advised, will be at the Mt Mittamatite Carvan Park in Corryong where Moon Tours will have booked you a powered site for day one of the itinerary, check in from 2pm. The tour ends when roll into Mansfield by lunch on the last day.

 

 

Moon Tours will arrange all your permits for the trip and any bookings required. We will need your vehicle, trailer make, model and registration number.

 

All our tours require a reasonably well set up and very well maintained vehicle and trailer due to the nature of our tours. After market suspension (Land Rover Disco / new defender excluded), good tyres, UHF radio with external aerial (no hand held radios without external aerial please) as a start for the Vic High Country tours.

 

Please book your vehicle and trailer in for a pre trip service and inspection with a 4WD and camper trailer specialist. Among other things the following jumps to mind from experience.

 

– Suspension and tyres: There are very few exceptions to this rule. Inneos, Land Rover it. Anything else and it is mandatory we upgrade our suspension and tyres. You do not need a crazy lift, a slight legal lift and heavier duty suspension for the job of touring and towing is perfect. All-Terrain tyres in good condition. Please don’t drag out the half worn out set that have been sitting in the shed for years. Use them for around town and put a decent set on with two spares on rims. If your trailer has different wheels and tyres you will need at least one spare for the van.

 

– Wheel bearings: Please have them inspected, serviced, adjusted, repacked and or replaced accordingly. When they wheels literally fall off a vehicle or trailer it is a real problem.

 

– Brakes: Vehicle brakes, brake controllers, trailer  brakes and hand brakes. This is so important, unlike most other 4WD destinations in Australia here we are going to be contending with gravity. Please make a point of getting your brakes serviced before this trip.

 

– 12V wiring and charging: The most common faults we have on tour are related to 12V wiring. Everything from trailers not charging, brake controllers not working, fridges not working, trailer and anderson plug wiring too tight and being pulled out, wires run under vehicles exposed and rubbing, solar not charging. You name it, we see it. Please have your 4WD and trailer specialist inspect all your wiring and fuses prior to the trip.

 

Ok, yep, these are all different things. You are not covered by Moon Tours at all on a tag-along for any of these.

 

– Domestic travel insurance: You should protect your holiday investment like you would any overseas holiday with domestic travel insurance in the event you need to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances. It happens quite a lot. If you were going overseas I am sure you would invest in travel insurance. This is no difference. As outlined in our terms and conditions, website and invoices as a business we need to stick to our terms and conditions. Deposits are non-refundable with terms of balance payments in our Ts & C’s. A quick google search and you will find plenty of options for domestic travel insurance, we can’t advise you.

 

– Roadside assist: We recommend everyone take out roadside assistance top cover. In Victoria we have RACV total care, it’s less than a few hundred a year, covers me for any vehicle I drive and has saved many a headache every year for clients on tour. This may not help you if you’re broken down proper off-road but in general, if we can get you to a main road by towing you out you will be covered from there.

 

– Remote recovery. This is somewhat new and as far as we know is only available with Club 4×4 vehicle insurance which we have. You can choose up to $30,000 of remote recovery coverage with your insurance. It has nothing to do with roadside assistance, rather it is like an amount allowed to recover a vehicle from anywhere by any means (not really, you need to read up on the terms).

 

– Accident insurance: It goes without saying your vehicle and trailer should be well-insured for accidents. Here’s something interesting though, let’s say you’re in the bush and you hit a rock, log, hole or water (you need to check what your insurance covers you for) that damages your vehicle or you run into a tree for example and you can’t drive it. This wouldn’t be covered by roadside assistance but the towing and recovery may be covered by insurance as an accident as opposed to a breakdown. We’ve seen this applied from the middle of the Simpson Desert.