Member Since: 17 Sep 2016
Location: Peterborough
Posts: 99
Lockdown Project
During the last 12 months my family and i have been working on our D3. We have done several Spain trips with wild camping being a large part of the fun. So we decided to go one step further and make our vehicle fully self supporting.
We started with our base vehicle which we acquired in 2016.
The rear was totally stripped out including junking the 3rd row seats, and one of the 2nd row seats.
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!970 Petrol 109 "Samson"
1972 Diesel 88 No top half body "rat landy"
1988 110 V8 Defender
1995 300TDI Discovery Auto
1997 Camel Trophy 110 Support Vehicle P232KAC
2001 Freelander GS V6
27th Feb 2021 4:42 pm
Samson66
Member Since: 17 Sep 2016
Location: Peterborough
Posts: 99
Modular kitchen with sink and gas cooker plus storage for all utensils and dried/canned food
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!970 Petrol 109 "Samson"
1972 Diesel 88 No top half body "rat landy"
1988 110 V8 Defender
1995 300TDI Discovery Auto
1997 Camel Trophy 110 Support Vehicle P232KAC
2001 Freelander GS V6
27th Feb 2021 4:49 pm
Samson66
Member Since: 17 Sep 2016
Location: Peterborough
Posts: 99
Refrigeration is a dual voltage Engel situated where the centre 2nd row seat was this can run on 240v when glamping or off the leisure battery if out in the wild
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!970 Petrol 109 "Samson"
1972 Diesel 88 No top half body "rat landy"
1988 110 V8 Defender
1995 300TDI Discovery Auto
1997 Camel Trophy 110 Support Vehicle P232KAC
2001 Freelander GS V6
27th Feb 2021 4:52 pm
Lee Trinder
Member Since: 12 Aug 2018
Location: Henley in arden
Posts: 515
Looks great, anymore photo’s?
27th Feb 2021 5:50 pm
Samson66
Member Since: 17 Sep 2016
Location: Peterborough
Posts: 99
My wife took pics through the build these are what I took today
Rear of the unit with storage on the o/s and electrics in the n/s
240v and 12v power distribution, and split charge control in the centre. The cold water tank sits below insulated keeping cool.
All sockets and control panel showing battery condition of both batteries, water level along with kitchen and exterior light control. A small LPG tank is fitted and the electronic level control is there tooiiD Bluetooth Diagnostic Tool
Cambs GLASS Rep
!970 Petrol 109 "Samson"
1972 Diesel 88 No top half body "rat landy"
1988 110 V8 Defender
1995 300TDI Discovery Auto
1997 Camel Trophy 110 Support Vehicle P232KAC
2001 Freelander GS V6
27th Feb 2021 6:15 pm
Samson66
Member Since: 17 Sep 2016
Location: Peterborough
Posts: 99
Spare wheel was removed from beneath, the space was going to be utilised for cold water storage, I could not find a tank to fit within the space. Now left open and will be easier to keep clean. The wheel carrier is a Terrafirma one. The rim will be fitted with a Cooper SST to match the restiiD Bluetooth Diagnostic Tool
Cambs GLASS Rep
!970 Petrol 109 "Samson"
1972 Diesel 88 No top half body "rat landy"
1988 110 V8 Defender
1995 300TDI Discovery Auto
1997 Camel Trophy 110 Support Vehicle P232KAC
2001 Freelander GS V6
27th Feb 2021 6:22 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72802
Looks fab, hopefully you can use the car properly in the not too distant timescale.
27th Feb 2021 6:31 pm
Samson66
Member Since: 17 Sep 2016
Location: Peterborough
Posts: 99
Travel restrictions are a bind at the moment but it can't last forever. I will do some preventative stuff like replacing rad as they are prone for allowing water into the autobox fluid. Also intercooler hoses and maybe a winch.iiD Bluetooth Diagnostic Tool
Cambs GLASS Rep
!970 Petrol 109 "Samson"
1972 Diesel 88 No top half body "rat landy"
1988 110 V8 Defender
1995 300TDI Discovery Auto
1997 Camel Trophy 110 Support Vehicle P232KAC
2001 Freelander GS V6
27th Feb 2021 6:44 pm
James W
Member Since: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Riyadh, KSA
Posts: 3069
Very nicely done indeed D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
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27th Feb 2021 8:16 pm
V8man
Member Since: 01 Jan 2021
Location: Dunno i was just following the satnav😳
Posts: 288
Proper job that , very impressive
3rd Mar 2021 8:20 am
Drakx
Member Since: 21 Jan 2021
Location: West Yorkshire
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