New car, new Territory to explore

Sorry, couldn't help the pun.

Yes, it's true. After 240,000km the time had come for the BMW X5 to be given a rest.

We've grabbed a brand new Ford Territory, a Titanium no less, and had it fitted out with the Ford heavy duty tow bar, a Tekonsha P3 brake controller, a Redarc BCDC charger to keep the caravan batteries alive and had the faithful ICOM 440 two way radio reinstalled.

The only other bits we went for were floor mats (can you believe that they sell you a new car and it comes with 1 floor mat on the drivers side? So you have to buy the pack of 3 to fix it up), a mat for the cargo space and a set of lock nuts to keep the wheels on the car. Apart from the niggle that at $55000 for a new top of the line car these things should be included, they then tell you that you have to put them in / on yourself or book it in and for a fee they will do it for you. Talk about 'memorable customer experience'. They have no idea. What would it cost them to supply the car fitted up and ready to go? Oh, well, let's hope the car service organisation knows their game better than the sales people.

All we need now is to get about 1500km under its belt before we take off for the bush.