Just heard that Jimboomba campers have gone bust

[ranger-jules]

Okay if we do this, can we then get it registered and insured? They need to have that vin for this. We need to finish it first. Like I said earlier, we have yet to know if we can keep it yet! THose bloody admin people, receivers get a huge whack of money, they take first serve, what is left goes elsewhere, but customers usually get zilch! Like I said we will fight if we can. Will not give up without a fight.

[ranger-jules]

Thanks Rob,
have been too busy today to contact you, and just feel helpless again. We have a vin on the trailer and no documents of release or sale other than bank proof which we do have. We paid $15,000 to those people. Retirement money, or some of it. Have waited so long for this. Just need to know where we stand I guess, have to get registration, canvas made, bed base and struts etc etc, finishing off other stuff. My husband can do some of this, but we cannot start until we know if we can keep it. However we will fight to keep what we have, why should we give it up after paying out so much money? Any advice is going to be valuable to us. Knowing the trailers as you do, you may have some suggestions that could be useful.

Jules

[dazzler]

Cut the vin off, first time you go to rego it's a home made trailer.  You'll have to get a new number stamped by RTA (they should tell you where to get it done) and Bob's your cousin's father.
I'll find out for sure when Vic gets home

Woohoo - 2 shonky bastwerds 

[bushbandit]

Never said they werent a great bit of gear at all.. But I feel that the company name is tarnished now.  Im betting the Rob bloke that started it is just as pist as many other people.. There's a thread here with a bloke removing the stickers/mudflaps with Jimboomba Campers on them off his trailer - overkill I reckon... People arent happy
People research things online these days, they may not like what they find.

That would be me Lost but i only removed the phone number part of the stickers now trying to work out how to cover the phone number part of the mudflaps.Love my Jimboomba.

[ewwreckers]

Before the receivers step in, just make up a bit of a chassis trailer, with a draw bar and cheap hitch on it, put the vin off your Jimboomba trailer on it, and tell them that's what you got.  Use new steel so it looks the part.  The pencil pushers will have no idea what kind of trailer it is, or what it's supposed to look like.
Have you been served with something like summons papers saying for it to be returned?

[ewwreckers]

Woohoo - 2 shonky bastwerds

Who?  Us?? 

Jules and Luke, demand to know when they are going to auction off all the remaining trailers and stuff, you may manage to get a bargain and salvage something.

Has anyone contacted ACA or TT??

[ozbogwam]

Do you really think it is a smart idea to instruct someone how to illegally register a trailer on a public forum? Especially one that is pretty much one of the top google results and is in the process of legal actions.

[Paul (SA)]

Do you really think it is a smart idea to instruct someone how to illegally register a trailer on a public forum? Especially one that is pretty much one of the top google results and is in the process of legal actions.

I think you will find the topic has been covered in much detail on this forum over the years. Comes with the territory I figure.

PS I have a rusty old trailer for sale if anyone wants it. $200 and its yours.

[ranger-jules]

Before the receivers step in, just make up a bit of a chassis trailer, with a draw bar and cheap hitch on it, put the vin off your Jimboomba trailer on it, and tell them that's what you got.  Use new steel so it looks the part.  The pencil pushers will have no idea what kind of trailer it is, or what it's supposed to look like.
Have you been served with something like summons papers saying for it to be returned?

received nothing as yet, not sure what is going on at all. Just so annoyed by it all. Will fight if we have to.

[luke07]

Julie- if you weren't on the books as being owed money or a camper then they wouldn't have sent you anything in the mail. As I said in previous posts you either need to contact the administrators and tell them what happened or not say anything and leave it at that. I know you keep saying  the banks get everything and tax and the receivers and yes this is the case, but unfortunately there is no money to pay any of those debts back let alone all of us. There is a lot of money owed to a lot of people some are owed a little and some are owed just way to much to even think about it but either way there is no money in the company to pay anyone back. If you put yourself as a creditor you will get a list at the next meeting of exactly how much money is owed etc etc.

Some good news for us we have received the contract for our new camper with follow me campers...we just can't say how grateful we are. We have also had Melissa's parents offer to pay with frequent flyer points for myself to fly to Perth to see the new camper and ,meet these wonderful people!  So thank you everyone for you wonderful offers of help, just knowing good people are out there makes it all better!

Luke

[ranger-jules]

I am glad you can go to perth to meet these wonderful people, good luck with the next camper you get, at least you are likely to get it this time! We may not know for ages. We just are too unsure to contact them about it and if we say nothing will have to wait to see if they contact us at all.Maybe say nothing, but then know nothing. Just too undecided as to what to do. Some say, lie low, others say find out. Feel we need more info before doing anything. Still we will try and fight it if they want to try and get it off us. Not sure of the legalities in all of this yet. I know possession is one thing and having documentation of payment is also some proof, but the law is an ass a lot of the time and justice is not always fair as some one said. Just makes you realise the law protect those with money and position, the little people get nothing most of the time and it is about time we all retaliated and stopped taking this crap! Time to revolt!!!

[ewwreckers]

Do you really think it is a smart idea to instruct someone how to illegally register a trailer on a public forum? Especially one that is pretty much one of the top google results and is in the process of legal actions.

Doing vin swaps is pretty common knowledge.  The amount of people who have registered written off caravans etc by getting an old set of numbers that not on the WOVR, and stamping them onto their 'new' caravans is huge!  Give the chassis a coat of paint so it looks new, say it's a fix her upper, and then you can also wheel it in and say you built the caravan and get new numbers.  The rediculous new laws have made it so that innocent people become crooks.  In the mean time, the crooks get away with blue murder ..... got to wonder where the justice in this world has gone 

That is fantastic news Luke!

Laying low might be the best option for you Jules

[achjimmy]

Luke that's great to hear and hopefully eventually this will be a distant nightmare! Follow me trailers sound like a great company and people.

Jules you really need to stop and seek some advice professionally.  Don't take this the wrong way I feel terribly for you but as lost has mentioned you need stop airing everything on a public forum. You recieved your trailer at a very questionable period in the company, basically it could be said you were a " favoured" creditor and as such you could be liable to return the goods. Now the administrators might be good people and realise that getting 5 half finished trailers back worth $10k at auction is going to make diddly squat difference to the $2??k in debt but the law can be the law.

You have been given some good advice, not all strictly kosher but thats not to say it ain't good advice. Time to talk to someone professional and come back to myswag when you have your  abmoobmij camper trailer ;-)

Iam sorry this news ain't going to help you get off the Xanax, I really am sorry for you and would support what ever the collective good people of myswag could come up with to help you. It sounds like Rob might be a good place to start?

[ranger-jules]

Yeah you are right, get advice from whoever can help us. Being on the forum does help though. other people's thoughts ideas etc really boost you when you need it. I appreciate all the help we have had from this site. I just need to know stuff, so asking the questions seems like a good idea. Well we will see. If we keep getting messages and replies I feel obliged to comment.

[Nomad]

As I have said to you Jules I don't think your going to get a phone call from someone wanting to come and collect your camper.........stick up some pictures and lets get on with fixing it up.

[ranger-jules]

If we do have to start again, where do we start? So many out there, it is mind boggling. We just wanted a light weight trailer with the stair case in it. We do not want to tow a lead weight with a Forester. It is also easy for us to manoeuvre by hand. We are not exactly spring chickens. Still we do not give up easily. We have always been careful with our money, not wasted it, helped our kids, been through tough times like most of you out there, to fight again,. still there comes a time when you just have had enough. This could be it. If we have to start again, maybe we will stick with the tent and tarp like we have all these years. Just wanted a bit of comfort as we get older. ANy ideas about what campers are light and easy and not too expensive? Not too big either.

[ranger-jules]

will stick up pictures when we feel more confident. That would be a happy day I can assure you. Until then we watch and wait!

[Bird]

As I have said to you Jules I don't think your going to get a phone call from someone wanting to come and collect your camper.........stick up some pictures and lets get on with fixing it up.

of that trailer he bought off Paul (SA) for $200?? Good idea

[jetcrew]

Ranger jules,

with legalites in mind ...

You paid for a trailer right ..in a certain form registered and all that.

the supplier did not follow thru and gave you a trailer that is not what you ordered but still a semi finished trailer.

Go to dept of transport QLD

Purchase a vin plate $12 form DN1644 I think from mem

Then attach one thing to the trailer yourself .. as well as placing the vin that transport gives you on the trailer.

Then fill out form F3970es  trailer self assesment.

then take all the forms back and get the trailer registered to you as a box trailer .. then when camper conversion is done do a re-compliance and roadworthy if brakes fitted as a camper trailer.

This way you are compleatley legal ... although the chassis has a number from the contracted builder ..they never finshed and registered the trailer so that chasis number that was listed to them will just never be used.

YOU are finishing the trailer at home so tech you have a homemade trailer and as such can register it as such.You built it ..it does not say what % you must have built to claim homemade. Like if your mate welds it all up for you ..you still built it and if you paid him some $$$ to do it for you as your skills were not there but you did something on the trailer then is homemade by you. Buliders don't build the house the contractors do ..if you know what I mean.

If recivers come knocking it;s in your name and registered and you will not have brocken any re-birthing laws.

What cond is the trailer in ..IE how much work to have it at a registerable state for a box trailer .

If you need any help /advice with wiring or need any parts let us know I can source a few things for you and I,m sure the myswagg network will have plenty of bits laying around. and if you need any help will chuck in some free labour as well to get it done for you.

My kids are prob being schooled with all the taxes you guys have paid over the years so I'd be happy to help get that retirement back on track.

Kind regards

Jet

[ranger-jules]

I would like to thank you for this help and advice. We will follow through with this advice asap. Positive advice is good, and we know we need to make sure we do it right. We just want to finish what we have and get out there and use it. Life is too short for all this crap going around and the negativities of the legal system. I guess what ever we do we will be damned by some and hailed by others. We cannot do anything until after christmas anyway. Still even if we start to do something it feels good, just not spend too much to start with. Play a bit safe I guess.

[McGirr]

I would like to thank you for this help and advice. We will follow through with this advice asap. Positive advice is good, and we know we need to make sure we do it right. We just want to finish what we have and get out there and use it. Life is too short for all this crap going around and the negativities of the legal system. I guess what ever we do we will be damned by some and hailed by others. We cannot do anything until after christmas anyway. Still even if we start to do something it feels good, just not spend too much to start with. Play a bit safe I guess.

Just think you will be camping by a creek enjoying a cold beer looking at your camper and all of these hassles will be a memory.

Mark

[evolution]

I would like to thank you for this help and advice. We will follow through with this advice asap. Positive advice is good, and we know we need to make sure we do it right. We just want to finish what we have and get out there and use it. Life is too short for all this crap going around and the negativities of the legal system. I guess what ever we do we will be damned by some and hailed by others. We cannot do anything until after christmas anyway. Still even if we start to do something it feels good, just not spend too much to start with. Play a bit safe I guess.

I don't know if this helps, but I think I read somewhere that you don't have any lights on the trailer?
I have a spare set of new LED tail lights, clearance lights, 10M of 7core wiring and a 7pin flat plug sitting here on a shelf that Im not using?
I think all you would need is a number plate light.
I bought them for my boat trailer but went with a different style and already have my "special ones" for my camper build.

Im more than happy to donate them too you if that would help?

Pm me if you would like them, or if you would like I can throw a photo up to see if they could fit on your trailer?

Cheers
Evo
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[dazzler]

Do you really think it is a smart idea to instruct someone how to illegally register a trailer on a public forum? Especially one that is pretty much one of the top google results and is in the process of legal actions.

And what, the AFP are going to come and lock me up for what crime?

Do you REALLY think the cops are scanning myswag for potential aid and abet crimes against the traffic act?

"Hey Sarge, quick, call out SWAT, this is BIG!"

[Bird]

And what, the AFP are going to come and lock me up for what crime?

Do you REALLY think the cops are scanning myswag for potential aid and abet crimes against the traffic act?

"Hey Sarge, quick, call out SWAT, this is BIG!"

Calling Fuji... front counter customer waiting to see you

[evolution]

Calling Fuji... front counter customer waiting to see you

lol
Go get em "other" evo!!! 

Cheers
Evo