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Offline TysGuUte

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Drifta car back kitchen, who has one?
« on: April 29, 2015, 02:30:41 PM »
Just interested to hear people's thoughts on the drifta car back. Have you used one and are they a good set up?

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Re: Drifta car back kitchen, who has one?
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2015, 05:52:00 PM »
http://www.myswag.org/index.php?topic=40780.0

I love mine. Very easy to set up and you can pack a lot in if you pack it right!

I was thinking of doing a video to put up so that swaggers can see the how it is set up.

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Re: Drifta car back kitchen, who has one?
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2015, 07:55:51 PM »
Looks good mate, I havnt seen any drifta stuff in the flesh yet, but looks well built. I should have kept an eye out for you, we camped at Neurum ck on the weekend!

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Re: Drifta car back kitchen, who has one?
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2015, 08:00:25 PM »
Looks good mate, I havnt seen any drifta stuff in the flesh yet, but looks well built. I should have kept an eye out for you, we camped at Neurum ck on the weekend!

That was a few weeks ago. Where are you? If you would like a look at my setup, more than welcome for you to have a look.
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Re: Drifta car back kitchen, who has one?
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2015, 08:53:07 PM »
Ah sorry I thought you were out there on the weekend, great spot. I'm near Kedron mate and would be great to come and check yours out some time, cheers.

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Re: Drifta car back kitchen, who has one?
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2015, 08:10:46 PM »
I have a drift a Kitchen and love it.
The confidence of a well made and thought out unit I can grab and go at a moments notice.

I now have so much extra room cause the kitchen is one unit.


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Re: Drifta car back kitchen, who has one?
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2015, 09:19:01 AM »
I have the trailer kitchen with the return, storage and tucker box (DPOR package).
It is amazing, really is.

Very well built, strong and easy to pull in and out, litertally a minute to set up. Same goes for the storage.
Ours is fully packed ready to go whenever we want. When we have been on sites people have come over to check it out and commented on it.

I think I have helped sell about antoher 10 for Drifta  ;D

Not just a great product but Drifta themselves are a good example of an Aussie company.

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Re: Drifta car back kitchen, who has one?
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2015, 01:06:52 PM »
Yup - used to have one that we reluctantly sold - It was the single draw carback. I'd intended it to be used as a swap drawer for the Drifta rear drawers but I stuffed up my order and it no longer fit. Made out of the same stuff as their rear drawers so very sturdy
Its a great piece of kit and very versatile. We had our whole camping kitchen packed in it so just picked it up and put it in the back of the car when required. (Cutlery & Crockery for 4, Snow Peak Medium Cookset, 20cm frying pan, Knives, Washing up and Laundry stuff, two chopping boards, other stuff that fits). Doesn't look like it but drawer can be pulled out even when fully loaded without unit falling over, if the legs are level.

Luke's videos make it look easy to get in and out but I never got the knack of it, but it was easy enough to get around. There is a bit of movement in it when set up but nothing too bad. We found the hose for our 2 burner stove wasn't long enough when the kitchen was set up to be comfortable for me (1.85m) so we had to prop up the gas cylinder.

Pros-
Everything in one place. Fits in most cars (we had it sideways in the Xtrail)
Each leg is adjustable so fits to all terrain
Doubles in bench space when unfolded
Drifta can make their drawers custom fit to include it if you give them the right info.

Cons -
very heavy to lift out if full for one person.
Some wiggle/play in it
Hurts a lot if you don't tighten up the legs properly and it drops on your wife's head during set up





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