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Preparing a Discovery for overlanding

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alankennedy10:
iv just read your pages at overland well have to say that is a fantastic motor you got there love the storage solutions you have come up with there very usfull will rob a few ideas there when i get a disco hopfully next year.

as for your trip last year to moroco could anything else have gone wrong :shocked:

do hope that your planed trip to tunisia run with no probs :dance:

Ralph Hardwick:
Thanks for the compliments.  Please feel free to pinch and adapt any of the ideas and let me know how you get on.

With regard to Morocco, it's difficult to see what else could have gone wrong but that was more than enough :'(

We have done some extensive maintenance on the Disco this weekend which I shall be writing about soon.  Hopefully with all the extra mods, repairs and servicing Tunisia will be less eventfull [-o<

DurtyDisco:
Ralph, just as an aside, in order to help take some of the weight of your awning off the roofrack, and stop the corners flapping about, a useful mod is a couple of old aluminium crutches modified with a small stub in the end can be used to prop up the corners, and give you a frame work. They compress to about .75Mtr, and being made of Ally weigh next to nothing.

Did this on my full length awning and it makes a huge difference when a bit breezy!

Will take some pics and post for you if you like.

Regards

Andi 

Ralph Hardwick:
Andi

Thanks for the idea.  TBH we haven't had the chance to test the awning much yet.  we're hoping to get away for a couple of weekends in August (one being the LRMax show on the bank holiday weekend).

I picked the hannibal awning because it didn't have any support poles but I might regret that in windy conditions.

I look forward to seeing your photos.

Cheers

Ralph

andycwb:
Fantastic job.

Incidentally, for anyone wanting some storage space while still keeping the rear seats usable, you can get two 20 litre really useful boxes which will sit flat in the boot keeping most of the space usable, and you can stack them and use one rear seat or (just!) put one person in each rear seat and slide the boxes in between.  A bit cramped but does work.

Since I now have a roof rack I can pull the dog guard out, sit that on the rack, and then slide the boxes on top to use the rear seats.

Really Useful Boxes are the mutts' wossnames.

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