Originally posted by Dicko1
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But we want an easy to set up hardtop tent and they all range between 50-65kg so what do you do. We want to stay as legal as possible and this will be legal. The backbone from rhino is as good as it gets as far as the connection between rack and vehicle is the weak link. The first years we want to travel with vehicle only to maximize our abilities to get to locations before we will buy a small 4WD minimized trailer you can put your own mattress in if you want and not climb up anymore with 60+ bones e.g. (this is a $35k one though and will eat a chunk out of the super }
We still have one of our children at home that we want to be able to transport with the Pajero so the 3rd seat has to stay in for the coming 2 years... We also want 2 seats for rainy days without a steering wheel in front of it but keep all options open. Time will tell if 2 good outdoor seats inside the awning will be sufficient.
The best way forward for us, if I implement the comments, is to take seats 4 to 7 out, put the strongest rack on possible, put the ARB long range 128 liter in to replace the 88 liter , install snorkel, install compressor in spare wheel cavity, built the rack for the 6x FRunner wolf packs and 2x 20l jerrycans (for now) on each side, put a dual battery system in, put the 40 liter FRunner foot well in and just fill all up near a public weigh bridge and go from that figure.
This can all be done without upgrading the suspension that we will leave till 6 months before departure. In those last 6 months we will have to do the final 2 weeks off grid test and fine tune whilst we still have a brick home.
Thanks for all the feedback up till now!
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