Thunderbolts High/Way Summer Preparations
G’day NP.com.au Team,
Just recently crossed Thunderbolts Way - NSW, East to North/West for my first time.
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A truly beautiful scenic highway run and one of our major cut throughs from the Pacific back inland to the New England/Oxley Highways.
An honest Thunderbolt word of warning here though Good Caravanning folks, “Be Prepared” East<>West<>East either way “Scouts Honour” :-) !
Unfortunately witnessed some very sizeable Caravans, most noticeably smelt them stinking hot in brake shoe horror descending way way too fast past me whilst climbing only its first 12% gradient in the old GQ.
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So summer steep and demanding those mountains are the old faithful unladen ute started just licking its limits and decided to give her a passionate high idle water pump/fan spinning rest for a few minutes to regain composure:-)
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This is a serious climb and worthy of respect from whichever direction you travel folks, so much so the locals have kindly made pit stops if ever in full summer needed.
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Carson’s Lookout is magnificent folks and well worth the pre-planning/smart gearing choices [emoji106][emoji106]
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Take care, stay safe!
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Thunderbolts High/Way Summer Preparations
They definitely sound like great pads thanks Cuppa mate, would be very reassuring having them onboard down that ripper mountain for sure!
Any chance when time kindly permits of a linky to them please, would be very keen to look into them for the family GU 2001 wagon fronts as Mrs MB is soon upgrading to a bigger float for her Nags in our home hills.
Cheers!
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