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I never thought of doing that. Sounds like a great idea. Thanks for the link. I am used to thinking about battery switches on sailboats, and I have never seen them done that way on boats. It's good to have a new way of thinking about such things. I can see how it would easily work on my set...

That is a good suggestion, and I had friends in Arabia who did that with their Defender. I considered that option, but I never have done it. I never liked drilling more holes in my battery box and then passing additional high amperage wires through those holes. I must admit that I have never...

When I am touring, I have both batteries charging in the daytime, and at night, I have only one battery that I am using for running all of my accessories. It is all regulated through that single switch. The house battery is the only one that ever gets run down because it is isolated at night...

Every time I prepare a Defender for expeditionary travel, I always have to decide how I am going to create my dual battery installation. I look at the expensive fancy systems designed for dual batteries, and I ask myself whether this time around I am going to go fancy or go basic. I see the...

The fact is, when it comes to Defenders, any color works for me, and I don't think anyone else really cares. So far I have travelled in Red, Green, White, and Burgundy Defenders. Getting noticed isn't about color. Officials and larcenous individuals go where the money is, and Defenders don't...

I have had Defenders in four different colors, and I have driven them in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the Emirates, Oman, Australia, and New Zealand. I have not noticed any difference in the way I was treated by authorities in any place that I have travelled regardless of what color of vehicle I was...

Nice. I like it! That must have cost a pretty penny to have made.

Thanks for the link. That might be good for bulky items that I want to carry on my roof rack. Good find. I will check it out at Target.

Without the lid, the stacker height is approximately 7 1/2 inches.

I never thought about having a second 40% seat installation next to both doors. That is a good idea and worth consideration. I can see the benefits, and it would give you both wings for storage of larger items.

They are very strong for their light weight. The should be able to take a real beating and survive.

On my Defender 130 in Australia, I have Black Widow storage drawers that are awesome. The are strong, hold lots of weight, secure, and they keep out the dust. They were my first choice for drawers on my Land Rover here in the USA. Unfortunately, the drawers are not available at the present...

Deciding how you are going to mount your fridge on an expeditionary vehicle is a major decision that effects how you will store all the other items in the vehicle. The expensive solution is to get a fridge slide. You can put the fridge in an inconvenient location, and slide it out for easy...

I sailed around the world on my sailboat on an eleven year voyage, and I never had anything stolen off the yacht, and I never had anythings stolen during land trips. Expeditionary land travel is different because there are realtively few places to hide/secure high value items in a vehicle. A...

Expeditionary travel requires storage, and the way you solve the storage problem depends on how much money you want to spend, and what fits inside your vehicle. If you get lucky, you will discover affordable storage containers that fit exactly in the available space. There is no wasted space...

Your rear door table and shelf look great. It will be interesting to get a report on how much noise the aluminum makes when driving on corrugations. Defenders make lots of noise on corrugations. It always sounded like things were coming apart when doing lots of corrugations. Whenever I do a...

If you can take it apart by drilling out the rivets and using a few spanners, you got a real Land Rover. If you can put it back together with a good supply of rivets and a few spanners, you got a real Land Rover. And if you can do a complete chassis switch in a single weekend, you have a Land...

Thanks for the pictures. The Land Rover pedigree is awesome to behold. These vehicles are dream machines. Every time I see these vintage rovers, I can imagine hundreds of different adventures that they made possible around the world. Land Rovers were a game changer in the world of...

You have a lot of ground to cover before heading off for England. You will definitely be on turbo boost. You will give your Defender a good shake down cruise before you cross the big water. Probably a good idea to do discover any problems this side of the Atlantic. You might save yourself...