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Prado build
We have done so much to this vehicle.
We've done bull bar, winches, UHFs,
roof racks, solar panels,
drawers, everything.
This thing is insane.
Even drop-down side steps.
So I've got Craig here to help me go through it all,
'cause there is so much.
I know both of us are probably gonna forget something,
but let's have a run-through.
So we'll start at the front on this one, Craig
'cause I think we're gonna have to walk our way through
and pick stuff as we go.
What have we got?
- So we've got Offroad Animal Toro Bull bar.
This one's been colour coded,
same colour as the car,
in the lovely graphite colour.
This one, this vehicle's a VX,
so it has all the park sensors, radars,
everything like that.
That all integrates back into these bull bars.
Also behind the bull bar,
we've got a Bushranger 12,000 pound Revo winch,
with a synthetic rope.
These ones have got the wireless remote.
You can still plug in a wired remote if you need to
in case your batteries ever go flat,
so you're never gonna be stranded,
but obviously provides a nice easy means of winching
if you need to.
STEDI lights.
So the customer has opted for the STEDI Type-X PROs.
They're STEDIs, top-of-the-range lights,
super bright, pretty good price point too,
and they fit the Offroad Animal bar super nicely.
- All right.
Well let's keep going on the bull bar.
What do we got? This?
- Yep. So antennas,
obviously you can see there's two antennas.
This one mounted up here on the bull bar
is for the Cel-Fi GO we've fitted,
which is a phone signal booster.
So the customer gonna have, obviously,
boosted reception in the middle of nowhere.
On this GMF Bonnet Bracket,
the back here is for the UHF.
So we'll go into that in a bit more detail later,
but that is, yeah, the UHF antenna there.
- Alrighty.
So, I guess, moving up,
the good segue from the Cel-Fi,
what have you wired the Cel-Fi to?
- Yep, so a Cel-Fi,
along with all the accessories in the back,
which we'll run through in a second,
were all wired to an auxiliary battery system
we've put in this vehicle.
So we're running an Invicta 100Ah Lithium battery,
with Bluetooth,
so the customer can monitor, on their phone,
what's going on with the battery,
and that is being charged via REDARC BCDC1240,
which is mounted in behind the grill here
to keep it nice and cool.
- So I guess from there, let's show it, the bottom.
That's pretty much the go under here.
What do you reckon?
Shall we go down...
Shall we stay with the...
Let's run down the side,
and we'll, - Yeah,
check out the side steps. - run down the side.
- All right, so here we are on the side.
Now I used to have these on my 79.
I reckon they are so much better
than the gimmick you think they are.
They are the greatest thing ever.
Check 'em out.
What have we done, Craig?
- Yep. - Woo!
- So these are the TMAX Side Steps.
Obviously auto fold out.
Open the door.
Doesn't matter, front and back, left and right,
the corresponding side will fold out.
Makes it super easy to get into the car.
- Yeah, awesome. I love 'em.
They're actually really good
and they're great for your Mum with a bung hip.
Alright, up the top here,
let's do the roof rack while we're here.
There's a fair bit goin' on up there.
What do we got?
- Cool. Cool.
So for this one we've gone with old faithful.
We've gone for the Rhino with the Backbone Mounting System,
which is obviously the strongest mounting system
that Rhino do.
Mounted to that, we've got a range of accessories.
We're gonna start with the awning.
So we got the, another old faithful,
Rhino-Rack Batwing, 180, sorry,
- 270? - (laughs) 270 degree awning.
- 270. All the way round.
- Runs all the way around to the back of the vehicle.
Mounted to the very front of the roof rack,
we've got the STEDI Light Bar up there,
the 40 inch STEDI Light Bar.
On the side, we've got left and right rock lights
which actually mount into the base rack.
Now these are the STEDI Rock Lights.
Have also got up on top, which I'll show you later.
The 120 Watt REDARC Solar Panel,
which is feeding straight back into the BCDC
to charge that lithium battery under the bonnet.
Also got,
(Craig's hands clap)
- The tank?
- Yep. The water tank.
So water tank's mounted up there,
Offroad Animal Plastic Water Tank,
which is gonna be fed via a customer-supplied pump,
and we've also got obviously STEDI Work Lights
coming off the rear as well.
So we have a really good vision
all around the vehicle at night, for camping,
and for the hitching up the caravan, et cetera.
Yeah, they're covered all round.
- Yeah. Awesome.
And all those lights, where are they switched?
- Yep, so they're all, - I don't even know.
- switched inside the cab,
- Cool. We'll get to that.
- on factory-style push-button switches,
that all matches into the dash super nicely,
and they're all run off of the auxiliary battery.
- Cool. Well I guess any tourer in a waggon,
it's all about the back,
so let's go have a look at the back next, guys.
All right, so we're around the back here.
Obviously, you can see the anodized blue of the MSA,
but there is so much we have crammed,
well, the guys have crammed,
into this drawer set,
that I'm gonna back away
and let, just, Craig go for it,
'cause it's crazy.
Wait till you hear what's in here.
- Rightio.
Obviously, first thing you see,
like Andrew mentioned,
lovely set of MSA alloy drawers.
So super nice and lightweight.
Super robust.
Really nice and smooth.
These guys have got the inbuilt LED light as well.
So you pull the drawer out, full extension.
On both sides, LED strip on both sides.
So at nighttime you can see exactly what's in your drawers.
You're not trying to fumble around
and stab in the dark.
On top, customer-supplied,
75 litre Dometic Dual Zone Fridge/Freezer.
Obviously we've supplied it
and fitted the MSA Drop Down Fridge Slide
with that one as well.
So the assembly pull-out
and drops down super nice and easy,
so you can easily access everything inside your fridge.
So all the magic happens,
all nicely tucked in behind here.
So in behind here,
we've crammed in the ARB Twin Cylinder Air Compressor,
the big four litre air tank as well,
all in behind the factory panel so you can't see it at all.
It's taking up completely wasted space.
We've also got a, so the full Airbag Man Airbag System
with On-Board Inflation.
So we've got the gauge here,
which tells your pressures in each bag, left and right,
and they're all easily adjusted
by a couple of little paddle switches here,
obviously along with
the ARB compressor switch, (engine revs)
just down here.
Now super nice and easy,
to adjust up and down,
obviously when you have the caravan hitched up,
so you can get away
and you'll know
that you're gonna be set to the right pressures.
Righto.
Tyre inflation,
obviously powered by the ARB Twin-Cylinder Compressor.
Have the ARB Air Chuck there.
Same thing, nice convenient location.
We can plug the obvious six metre ARB hose in,
nice and easily,
run around to all the tyres on the vehicle,
and then you can also get another six-meter extension
to do the van too if you need to.
These twin-cylinder compressors have got heaps of guts,
standard four-wheel drive-size tyre,
like what's on this at the moment,
from 18 to 40 PSI in about a minute per tyre.
Super quick, super reliable. It's a no-brainer.
Over in this side,
off the dual-battery system under the bonnet,
we've got all the standard selection of sockets
that you might want.
So we've got two 12-Volt Cig Sockets
to run all your extra camp lights
and little bits and pieces.
We actually have a USB-A and USB-C socket now.
Obviously a lot of phones these days
are going to that USB-C
so it's really important to have one of those in there
off the second battery,
so it can be charged at any time
and the Red Anderson Plug,
flush mounted down on the top for solar input
so if the customer ever wishes to add a bit of extra solar
to their existing system,
they can just plug a blanket straight in, unregulated,
and it'll help top that battery up, super quick.
- Hey, guys.
Well, yeah, here we are,
squished, three of us, in the front.
We love it.
Alright. So heaps going on in here.
I don't know, start from the top. (hand bangs)
What do we got?
- Righto.
From the top, Outback Roof Console,
obviously LED lights replacing the standard interior lights,
that would've been there from the factory.
Little console that's there,
obviously gives you heaps of storage up here
for all your little knickknacks.
Nice and easy, tucked away in there.
Also a great place to house the UHF.
UHF, the customer's gone for on this one,
is the Uniden UH9060.
So everything on the handpiece, microphone, speaker,
all your controls, everything on there,
obviously running through the unit and antenna
on the bonnet mounting bracket.
- We've done a full lithium system
in this customer's caravan as well,
and as part of that we fitted a camera system.
So this here is a screen that'll run that camera system.
So that's full Safety Dave Screen,
two channels,
and being such a big reverse camera here,
we haven't really run a reverse camera to it.
It's purely for the caravan sitting up there.
What do you reckon, Craig?
Is there anything we missed?
- Yeah, I guess the only other thing
probably worthwhile mentioning-
- Oh, is the switches. - Is, of course, the switches.
So-
- Come on, cameraman. Zoom in on here.
- As we were discussing before,
all the switches we've put in here
are designed to look factory.
So obviously the rear work light switches,
left and right rock lights on the roof rack,
and over the other side
have got the spotlight override,
which, by law, you have to have.
Same thing with the front light bar
on the roof rack, as well, down here.
So we've actually used up all the spare switch blanks,
but it makes it super nice and tidy,
and, yeah, for a factory look.
- It's meant to be.
All right.
Well last but not least, I guess,
any good touring vehicle, wheels and suspension.
What have we done?
- Rightio.
So wheels and tyres, ROH rims,
wrapped in the Falken Wildpeaks.
Really good, tried and tested tyre.
Really good all-rounder.
They're not noisy.
They're not annoying.
They don't wobble
and they still give you a good aggressive pattern from them.
Going does get a bit crappy,
and, yeah, just really good all-round, well-wearing tyre.
Suspension-wise, so we've gone
for the full Pedders 3500 kilo GVM upgrade.
So the guys at Pedders,
worked with them really closely,
and yeah, they've done the full upgrade to this vehicle.
So that's front suspension, rear suspension,
and the blue plate as well
to obviously make it all legal
for all this extra weight we put on the vehicle.
(hand bangs)
- What do we got?
- Rightio.
We went with the TJM Airtec Snorkel.
These ones fit the Prado super nicely.
A little bit sleeker-looking than the old-school Safari,
so the forward-facing ram,
air remesher comes up and across the windscreen.
Keeps it more discreet. Looks really good.
Well-made snorkel.
Also got MSA Towing Mirrors on this one, too.
Obviously towing mirrors are just a necessity
for anyone with a caravan.
Anyone going touring full-time, like these guys are,
these ones are exceptional.
Pull it out. Roll out,
so we can get that field of view all the way out,
and then when they fold it, all the way back in,
they don't look out of place.
They're not big. They don't look ugly.
They just work extremely well.
- Yeah, right.
So I think that sort of wraps us up on this one.
We got everything?
- That's about it.
- Yeah, fantastic. (upbeat music)
As you can see,
insane the amount of work our guys have put into this thing,
and everything has just come together so well.
So I'm super proud of how well Craig's managed this
and put the parts together,
just to make a really nice-looking touring vehicle.
- Thanks for watching, guys.
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