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Commando – Description / What's included
The Commando (also known
as the Camper 9). You can expect a tough, go-anywhere unit with
good standard equipment.
The trailer is a conventional 7ft x 4ft (2.1m x
1.2m) size and built out of 2mm cold rolled steel. Ours was black
in colour, but Rudi has recently altered the colour scheme to beige
and military green to better reflect the Commando name.
The ATM of the Commando is 1250kg with a Tare of 600kg, giving a mighty
650kg of storage on-board. And thanks to its relatively low ATM, it can
be towed by just about every 4WD available on the market, meaning our
Nissan Pathfinder had little trouble hauling the Desert Sky on sealed or
unsealed roads.
The Chassis is built from 75x50mm x 2.5mm steel, with 50mm cross-beams.
Fifteen-inch Sunraysia rims are shod in new 235/75 off-road rubber, and
sit on seven-leaf off-road rebound springs to absorb those bumpy road
imperfections. The brakes, meanwhile, are cable-operated drums, and as
the unit is so lightweight, there isn’t really a call for more than
this.
A spare wheel comes as standard and is mounted on the A-frame, alongside
a massive front storage box. This fits anything up to an 80L fridge
(which Desert Sky can provide as a cost option), or instead, the box
could be used for storing all the dirty stuff (like tools) you don’t
want in the main area under the bed.
A stone shield is standard, while the coupling is taken care of by an
off-road Trigg hitch.
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