The DMAX gets a dream Canopy setup from MRT! | Building our ULTIMATE tourer to travel Aus - Ep. 1
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HERE IT IS!
Episode 1 of the Borderland Builds Series! The DMAX gets an MRT X-Series Chassis Mount Canopy, complete with a full internal drawer fitout and a 130L upright fridge.
Join us as we start the build on our ultimate rig to tour Australia in. Straight after the Build Series, we’re doing a lap of Aus!
These canopies matched our touring needs perfectly and we can’t wait to get ours on the road - the MRT crew did an epic job of the setup.
Check out the new MRT X-Series Chassis Mount Canopy HERE 👉🏻 bit.ly/XSERIESCANOPY
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Hey guys, great vid !! How wide is the canopy ? Cheers
G’day! Thanks guys. The canopy is 1800mm wide (and 1650mm long). 😀.
Fantastic first video back guys!! Bring on the next ones!!
Thank you!!! 🙌 it’s on it way 😁
Such a helpful video and love the editing too guys 🙌🏾
Thanks for watching mate, glad you enjoyed it!
Looks brilliant guys....great episode🤩
Thanks!! 🤩
Unreal guys, can’t wait to see the next video along with your new adventure 🎉
Thanks guys! Getting close with the build now! 😀
Boom… excellent episode. Canopy looks great! ❤ nice work MRT!
Thanks mate! It looks mint hey 😀
Looking great 👍
Thanks John! 😀
Awsome set-up love the colour as well 👍
Thanks so much! We definitely love the colour as well and how it all came together 😁
Awesome work Matt and Em!
Thanks Woody! 😀
Looking sharp 👍 Go the DMAX 🤘
Thanks mate, it’s starting to really come together!!
How was the cape trip? 😀. Saw a bit of what you got up to on IG but still need to watch your TH-cams of it!
@@BorderlandExplorers excellent 👌 Getting the big how to vid of it together now
Awesome setup you 2 🎉 ❤I’ll check MRT out. I’ve got a Norweld canopy on mine. I bought mine secondhand already built but just trying to design the inside. Thanks for sharing your cool setup what size was your adjustable shelving on the pantry side? Cheers have fun& enjoy 😊
Great episode guys love your work. We are looking at doing something very similar.
Thank you mate! That sounds awesome, which Ute do you have?
After watching your episode, we went down to Yatala and checked out the X-series canopy for ourselves and were very impressed. The deposit goes down tomorrow to put the X-series on our new 2023 Triton GLX+. Then I'll go and see the guys at Pedders suspension at Lawnton. Thanks again guys. 👍👍@@BorderlandExplorers
@@peterwilkes1915we had such a good experience with both. That’s really exciting about the X-Series too!
We’d love to see a pic of your Triton with the canopy on, they’re a nice looking rig 😀
Great first video back in the saddle! Can the boys from MRT trick out my Honda Jazz? There's people that say you can't improve on perfection but I think there's a few things that could be done to make the best even better.
Can't wait to see future videos!
😂😂😂 chopped Honda Jazz with canopy maybe? We’ll do a build series on it!
@@BorderlandExplorers now there's a video I wouldn't watch
Awesome canopy and great setup!
I’ve ordered the same canopy from MRT and have a similar internal layout.
I was wondering if the 130l bushman fridge was installed with or without the fridge box?
Cheers
That’s awesome! When is yours expected to arrived? We love it - especially coming from a wagon, this canopy setup is luxury for travelling.
We didn’t end up getting a seperate fridge box. It’s only the back of the fridge thats really exposed in our setup (sides protected by canopy headboard, and pantry) and the way store stuff, we don’t really have anything too bulky/ heavy that will hit and damage the fridge. It’s packed in pretty well. But if it was setup in a way where we’d have stuff potentially flying around back there, we definitely would have invested in the box.
Good video, what's a ballpark figure for this setup with an empty canopy?
Thanks so much! So this package is an Explorer X-Series Chassis mount package :) The price for the package is $14699 installed (excluding internal fit out).
Did mrt disclose the weight of the canopy? Was the chassis mount cheaper than the tray/canopy versions they also do. Thinking about going MRT, just not sure they as good as something $5k more.
The chassis mount canopy with all the external accessories (Jerry can holder, spare wheel carrier (excluding spare itself), canopy ladder, under tray drawer, under tray toolboxes, flared mudguards, roof rails) is approx. 310kgs including mounts (excluding internal fit out). This one we have is the Explorer X-series chassis mount package which is $14699 installed excluding internal fit out. Yeah, it's definitely important to do your research and look around for what's best for you and your setup :) We definitely did - we particularly liked the build quality of these MRT canopies and felt the design and functionality of them would be perfect for us on the road full time and as a weekender rig when we get back from our lap.
Only just found your channel. I look forward to playing catch up with the rest of your videos
What pushed you to sell the 105 series and upgrade?
Thank you for watching - we hope you enjoy them!
We loved the 105, but we were always keen to have something that has more usable space to live out of for full time travel. Having a canopy gives us better organisation and more accessible storage and we find it much easier.
We also wanted to build a newer vehicle up into a tourer. Whilst the 105 had plenty of life left in it, and we loved how it performed, it was still getting on a bit in age and with the amount of travel we are doing we wanted to minimise the inevitable downtime that comes with frequently repairing older 4x4s 😀
We would have kept it as a weekender / off-roader and slowly refreshed it… if we didn’t need the funds!
Thanks for the in depth reply. Yep, I can totally understand that. I had an older ute with a tub which wasn't usable at all, didn't want to pour money into an older car on a tray and canopy so I bought an even older patrol (wagon) for solid axles
Wagon life is good but the upkeep on that is getting pretty expensive as the old owner thrashed it. I probably should've jumped into a new dual cab like you guys so I could justify spending the money modifying a newer car (to get longer use out of a new tray and canopy) but apparently I needed to learn the hard way aha
Hi matt and Em. great video. What camera and video editing software are you using to produce these episodes?
Thank you! Cheers for watching. We mainly used a Sony A7C for this, with a Sony 24-70mm f4 lens. Plus a tiny bit of GoPro footage in there. And we edited on Adobe Premiere Pro 😀
Thanks for that information. Looks like I will need to invest in Adobe Premier Pro and a decent camera in the near future. Looking forward to seeing the evolution of your new DMAX. Em…. Not sure if you recognise the name but it’s Peter Gregory here and Handmade Futures is the name of my new freelance project. UCC dumped me so I’ve decided to see if I can make a go of it on my own. Part of what I’m playing with is to get more creative with my use of video and performance hence my interest in your tech.
@@handmadefutures oh hey Peter! Didn’t recognise the name - good to hear from you :) Matty and I are sorry to hear about UCC. The freelance project sounds super exciting though! We really like adobe pro, it took us some time to learn how to really use it but once we did, it’s such a great editing tool. We are keen to see some of your creative work - have followed your channel :)
Hiya guys, great work! We are very close to ordering this very same unit but questioning whether we need the extra height option (930 vs 1070mm) Which option did you run with to accomodate the upright fridge? Cheers and thx.
Hey, thank you! 😀. That’s awesome - ours has been great, no regrets here. We went with the standard 930 height. Being a chassis mount with flush floors (rather than seperate tray and canopy where you have to build the floor up for the fridge door to clear the bottom lip of the canopy) the height of the 930 allows for a 130L Bushman fridge. Just double check with MRT with regard to the Ute you’re fitting, but I’m pretty sure this is the case across the whole range of X-Series chassis mount canopies
@@BorderlandExplorers 🙏
Hey guys, how’s the mrt going, how do you like the chassis mount? I’m about to order one for my xt arriving late next month. I like the chassis mount with the flat floor and other cool extras. Did you guys go with the 1650 or 1800 size? Look forward to hear back from you 🤙🏽🤙🏽
G’day! We love it…we can’t fault it and we have lived of it full time for about 4 months now. And we’ve seriously put it through it’s paces - Old Tele Track, crazy corrugations, a kangaroo hit etc. It’s a SOLID canopy.
We went with the 1650 to reduce how much weight we have overhanging the rear axle. We find that to be plenty of space to live out of for what we are doing :).
And that’s awesome about the XT! 😀.
@@BorderlandExplorers cheers guys, love what guys are doing! 1650 is what I thought to less over hang so I can tow boat. I think I’ll go the chassis mount as has flat floor and some cool extras. Did you guys go chassis or canopy and tray?
Also did you worry about gvm upgrade? Tossing up wheather to or not. Won’t be using a rooftop just renting for us as we have a young fella. It’s so bloody hard ahe to make decision as there’s way to much to choose from 🤦
Sorry we didn’t reply earlier! Sometimes TH-cam doesn’t notify us properly if someone replies to our reply.
We went the chassis mount because we loved the flush floor too. And the fact that we could fit a 130L fridge in there was awesome.
We did end up getting a GVM upgrade. We did a Pedders 3450kg pre-rego. To give you an idea, fully loaded we are sitting on about 3400kg. With about 150kg of that being the rooftop tent, awning and solar panels on the tent. We did also put quite a few drawer units inside the canopy too.
We felt the same when we started building the car - so many choices and configurations out there. And so many videos of people doing different things!
Hey, I’m getting the same setup. What colour did u get for the canopy ? GV8?
Nice!! What Ute are you putting it on? Yep we went with the GV8, we really liked it. It matches up nicely with most other matte black powdercoating on barwork etc.
@@BorderlandExplorers many thanks for the response. 2024 LSU due Julyish Just sorting out the fit out/ upgrades now. You did a great job with yours so basically doing a copy/paste. 👍
@@philipvanderwoerd9609 Awesome! It's a good day when Isuzu call saying it's arrived. We are really happy with all the mods we did - they're serving us well.
THANK YOU FOR VIDEO
HOW WEIGHT IN THAT SETUP?
ISUZU USE HERE HAVE 1000KG AND 30CM LONG THAT STAND ?
PUT ON TOW?
No worries! The weight of the canopy is 350kg (that’s the empty canopy with no drawers etc inside). The 350kg is including the ladder, Jerry can holder and spare tyre carrier on the rear wall.
The total weight (GVM) of our whole car is now about 3400kg. The payload weight that this DMAX can carry is similar in Australia - 1050kg. But we had a suspension / GVM upgrade done by Pedders Suspension to increase this by 300kg.
We aren’t towing anything at the moment. If we tow in the future we would need to reduce some weight on the vehicle :)
I have the same, I did it myself but it cost half of the cost of that thing
That’s pure talent if you built that yourself! Definitely not a skillset I have unfortunately 😀
Awesome! What's the weight as fitted?
The canopy weighs in at 350kg, which includes the rear wall accessories (Jerry can holder, ladder, tyre carrier).
Then the drawers units and pantry are between around 15-25kg each from memory, depending on the size. And the 130L fridge is 30.8kg😀
@@BorderlandExplorers
Looks like a ripper 👍
💰💰💰💰
Where is the underbody water tank ?
None at this stage! We’re running a footwell tank, plus water in a jerry on the canopy rear wall. It’s doing the job, but we’ll probably look at bumping up capacity in the future
Not a massive fan of the chassis mount but otherwise looks top notch, internal fitout looks killer
Thanks mate! We actually did look at a seperate tray and canopy package rather than a chassis mount initially but for us we knew we'd never end up needing a tray. The internals drawers are SO good. We're currently configuring and packing this weekend :)
And what happens next on the truck….
It’s getting the works!! OL episode in a couple of weeks 😀😀
just don't get a bullbar and blow your pistons otherwist isuzu will steal your paddles and s#!t in the creek
Damn, did they knock back a warranty claim for having a bullbar?!
Whew, might want to equalise your voice and intro music levels.
Was the music a bit much on your end versus voice? Genuinely keen to hear. What did you watch it on? Thanks for mentioning it - always keen to improve :).
@@BorderlandExplorers Yes, although you're not alone in that respect. I've noticed a lot of TH-camrs seem to set their voiceover to 5 and their intros and music B roll to 11.
I've just got desktop speakers and that intro in particular was a bit shock inducing.
If you're editing in Premiere just as an FYI, keep an eye on your sound meters and keep it all in the same range. Normally around -6 to-8 seems to work well. Hope that helps.
Thank you! We’ll sus out those levels for next time :).
I've been designing similar products since 2015, and I could design a better-looking canopy. This also looks good but.
Do you have any pictures/ video of your build?
@danieljameson6690 not right now, but I usually base the exterior of my designs off the vehicles and follow their contours.
@@maz1980s do you have a place we could look your canopies up?