A Bit about the car and trailer before we go

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This post is just to share abit about the truck and trailer and some of the things we will be carrying with us and use on this trip and also to get used to using this web page before we leave .


The truck is a 2001 Nissan Patrol GU 4.2 Litre turbo diesel coil cab .
some of the accessories and features are as follows :-
#Factory air conditioning
#Factory steel winch bar
#Warn 9000lb low mount winch
#Lightforce 240 blitz spotlights and upgraded headlights
#Triple battery set up (2 deep cycle)
#80 litre engel fridge/freezer with fridge slide out, left side of car
#175 litres of fuel in twin tanks as standard
#3 inch exhaust with 3 inch dump pipe plus dyno tune and 11psi
#2 inch dobinson coils with adjustable koni shocks
#Poly air bags for loads , strengthened rear spring hangers
#33x12.5-15 inch Goodyear MTR tyres
#75 litre water tank with tap for easy use
#arb compressor with 15 litre aux tank
#Autotechnica monza bucket seats with ST centre console
#GME 4400 uhf with 2 aerials 4.5db 1.2mtr and 6.0db 2.1 mtr
#Glind hot water shower system
#custom tray with spare mounted underneath and LED tail lights and reverse spotties
#Custom canopy in anti rip canvas with slide on side awning
#Autometer boost and pyro gauges

The trailer is a 8/2006 17 foot all terrain 4x4 off road trailer some of the functions and extras are:-
#queen size mattress
#battery in special box deep cycle and 12 volt through trailer
#33x12.5-15 inch Goodyear MTR tyres matching car 3x
#75 litre water tank
#kitchen with tap / sink and 3 burner gas stove
#3 jerry can brackets / 9 kilo gas bottle holder/hi lift jack holder
#Fully enclosed zip on sides with windows and 9 foot extenda awning
#heavy duty suspension and construction on full trailer in 3mm chequer plate
#plenty of storage in side trailer for Traceys stuff!!
#Big aluminium chequer plate toolbox on front
#mechanical disc brakes
#2x mountain bikes

We also carry a honda eu10 generator for power and charging batteries plus a 500w pure sine wave power invertor for the laptop, camera batteries, shaver and things like that.

We use a variety of stuff for cooking gear from the 3 burner gas cooker in the trailer to a cobb cooker (for roasting,smoking,steaming,baking and frying which can also double as a heater in colder conditions) , we also have a camp oven , jaffle iron , metal hot plate/grill and a single butane cartrige cooker plus all the pots and pans and stuff .

For navigation we use a garmin gps with external aerial and have 2 map programs on the laptop which can be connected for live tracking . we also have all paper maps for areas we are going along with a compass for when the gps plays up ( my mates will know all about this , snow last year LOL still hurts thinking about it though LOL ) as they do . We carry a epirb as back up in case anything goes wrong .

This is how it stands now with one and half weeks to go . Just a few little finishing touches left and finished . All we need to do is pack everything in the car and trailer fill the tanks and we are ready to leave .

Hopefully this combination will take us everywhere we wish to go to in quite a deal of comfort and with ease . It has so far proven bullet proof and had no problems on all lead up trips so feel quite confident it will continue the same way from here .


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On this post we have included 2 photos in the text box , but from now on we will just be adding all of our pics to the gallery area for quicker up loads and ease of use for us . There are 3 pictures in there as of now so keep an eye out in the gallery for new pics .

Any questions feel free to post in the comment or message area and we will get around to answering them when we can, please be patient .

P.S. No flexi shots for you yet Igor i'll get them up after i get a shot of it on big red in a few weeks!!

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Photos

atheute
pic of ute

bthetrailer
the trailer

Comments

[JEEPMAN]

Nice Rig
Thats a nice rig you got there, not sure what you mean about the GPS, i find them very reliable.

[TraceyMicksOzAdventure]

gps
They are about as reliable as a XJ cherokee fuel gauge LOL

[Navara man]

Yeah Well...
Well, Well, Well........ Make sure you bring me back a crocodile or something........ Have a great trip guys, Hopefully be able to spend a week out yonder with ya's at some stage later this year..... Dont forget my Crocodile........ Get me flexi photos....STAT.... Catch ya's soon..

[Jeebus]

Give it a hit!!!
This blog is way too serious - as if that thing can even make it over a speed bump... you might contemplate taking a 200B, just in case you need a winch. Anyways peeps, nice photo of the shitbox GU - good to see it'll at least get you to Waterfall... only stirring! Have a good one - give me a holler whenever... JP \m/