DUTCH

Pulling a camper and with a roof rack with a full sized spare at 70 mph on the Interstate.

North to Alaska!

cadetdrivr

Looking at the title I was horrified.

Looking at the post I'm impressed!

2012MLBlue

Very cool camper. What the hell is it?

HAILERS2

Yeah, that camper looks interesting. Seems from afar, that you could lift it off the trailer and then use the trailer for other things when not out camping. I've been through the Canadian Rockys and here that Alaska is just a pretty. Good luck.

Drano64

Very impressed. Good luck and drive safe

Shrdlu

Did you settle on an accessory towing mirror? Don't see one in the photo.

DUTCH

No. Could not find anything that wouldn't slide off the wedge shaped mirror.

DUTCH

Kimberley Karavan from Australia. It's designed to go off road.

Several detailed photos in the bottom three rows of this gallery:

http://www.pbase.com/flydutch/kimberleykamper

2012MLBlue

Looks amazing. Did you have it imported or is there a North American dealer?

DUTCH

No NA dealer. Self imported. It will be for sale when we get back from AK.

2012MLBlue

Why not detour through Canada on the way home and drop it off at my doorstep? Some great camping in Northern Ontario. What do you want for it?

DUTCH

Got a check engine light and a ticking engine at idle in South Dakota. Closest MB dealer is in Billings, MT - 300 miles away.

Got there, diagnosis is a bad fuel injector; and the ticking is the engine running with one cylinder shut down.

No part in stock. Closest available is Missoula, MT. So we're off on an over night drive to be there first in the AM. At least it's in the right direction; and they claim no harm to the engine with that drive pulling the Karavan.

Onward and upward!

DUTCH

As a follow up to the CEL and the bad fuel injector diagnosis.

The tech discovered that there was an updated firmware available for the engine ECU. He installed it, and the CEL went away to never return.

This also happened to a friend with a 2014 ML350BTC, and the firmware update fixed his, too.

EricM

Too bad the first dealer didn't make the discovery about the firmware update. Did they give you any indication as to when this firmware update was released? I'm just curious if I should pay a visit to the dealer (100+ miles away) to get this done before a problem arises. Mine is a late May build so I would hope it had the latest firmware from the factory.

DUTCH

First dealer did it before sending me on. No need for the second dealer. No idea on the date, but it's only to be done if a problem arises with a customer complaint or at a general service.