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My wheelbase is 3395mm while yours is 4470.4mm which is 1075mm longer, which by my calculation adds approximately the extra depth of the Crew Cab version you have. That longer wheelbase is not available directly from Isuzu in their N series 4x4 unit. This does appear to be a bonus for you for...

I'm not 100% sure of your figures as mathematics is my weakest subject, plus my NPS has a shorter wheelbase (medium) in Isuzu land. Sometimes what you work out on paper is fine, but sometimes there is, or there can be, an exception. No doubt you will find this out as did a close friend who has...

They have various, but the ones we have are their budget variant, which so far have been remarkably good. But we are interested in touring to interesting and sometimes difficult to get to places, but not extreme bush bashing, which is what some people in this country do with their NPS units...

We run MaxTrax standard units. They have only been used once in 5 years, in deep sand. Which was before we had an aftermarket CTIS fitted to the NPS. These days we just press a button, air down more, then drive out. We hover around 6,000 kg and they didn't even flinch. Once we doubled them up...

With regard to essentially very heavy duty passenger vehicles with a tub on the rear, as in your Toyota Tundra, then you may have a point; I'm not sure. Here we are talking about a Japanese 4x2 delivery truck that is delivered from the factory as a cab chassis only vehicle with a gross vehicle...

Yes and no. If you are talking about a vehicle that will be purely transporting goods over reasonably well constructed roads, then yes, that is a pretty good idea. After all why not make full usage of the larger rear axle componentry, which normally includes 4 wheels on the single rear axle...

I haven't seen one of these systems in the flesh, but I listened to someone who had one of these systems in their vehicle, which was a food vendor running freezers inside the food van. He was very impressed with his super fast charging system, which if memory serves me, was supplying power to a...

Well the reason there may not be much information for you with regard to this picture, is that it is of our Isuzu NPS 75/155. In fact I've posted this picture in one of your threads, and maybe earlier in this thread. Mick.

We spent a couple of months in Iceland in 2017 and spent at least double that amount of money. We hired a 4x4 (sort of high clearance) vehicle. One of the problems is that the inner roads/tracks can and will not be opened or closed before you wish due to the prevailing conditions. The road...

The standard alternator for the Isuzu range of N series trucks, is 2,160W of power; which is a substantial amount of grunt. Allowing for losses I would suggest the maximum under normal circumstances would be around the 2,000W mark; which is still reasonable. But doesn't account for air...

I would suggest it is more important to know the height of your vehicle. Ours is 3.25m and there was a bridge with a 3.3m high clearance sign, so we should have been able to very slowly pass under. Unfortunately due to successive layers of bitumen, the clearance was nowhere near 3.3m, so our...

Interesting slide on pod camper, how much do they weigh loaded with water? Is that one of the Austral units? Single cab, so I'm guessing a 4.2m tray? You're game running around with the rear legs attached. So easy to get caught up when doing a U turn in a tight place. My mate didn't rip one...

In general I agree with you, however we are in a situation where even the slightest movement, which one can see as the lady steps onto the steps, is unacceptable. We now require absolute steadiness of the steps into the camper, and before you ask, we have solved the issue of getting into the...

Steps into a high mounted camper need to be very stable the higher you go. Once over a certain height and if the steps are not standing on the ground, then sturdiness becomes paramount and harder to attain. We thought about doing something freestanding, as in, not touching the ground. However...

DzIToy, I Just had a thought after reading your take on Isuzu NPR/NPS wheel travel, presumably from an American perspective. All Terrain Warriors (ATW), essentially take an everything approach, which you can have, or you can have a restricted approach. In 2019, which is when we started talking...