The COMPLETE Guide To Our 4x4 Touring Canopy Layout: Full Rundown
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
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Join us for the complete guide to our off-grid 4x4 touring canopy layout! In this video, we reveal our setup and talk through the internals of our canopy including the kitchen, where we store our gear, how we live out of it while travelling full-time, and explain the general layout. Get a detailed rundown of what's inside our MRT X-Series Chassis Mount Canopy, and learn more our custom 4x4 touring setup. Whether you're into touring, overlanding, camping, or just exploring Australia, this video has everything you need for the perfect canopy setup!
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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Our MRT Canopy
1:18 - Kitchen Side/ Passenger Side
7:37 - Storage Side/ Driver Side
14:05 - Toolboxes/ Rear/ Under Tray Drawer
19:27 - Clothes and Water Storage
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Thanks so much! Really appreciate you checking out the video 😊
Nice setup guys! So good 😮
Thanks so much! 😁
Love the cheap Bunnings bin in the bag. I’ll be doing that tomorrow.
40L water bags are perfect, just carry 2-3 of them and if you know you’re off grid for longer, fill them as needed, don’t take much room when stored empty.
Yes we love it too - won’t travel with out the trust Bunnings but anymore! That’s a great idea - will definitely look into those 😊
Very nicely done, given me some ideas.
Thank you 😀. We’re glad it was of some help!
Cheers for showing the setup. Looks good. I am getting ready for a slow lap. Have ideas and thanks for sharing yours.
No problem - thanks so much for checking out the video 😁 that’s so exciting! We hope all the prep for your lap is going well - are you going with a 4x4 and canopy setup as well? Hopefully some of our other episodes might be useful for some locations for you to visit as well ☺️
Just found your channel n subbed...Really enjoyed you guys taking us around your new set up. Thanks for sharing.
We are getting the same MRT canopy fitted to our '11 DC Luxxie this Thursday...We're both amped for it. Going from tubs in the tub holding everything to a canopy is going to be a game changer for us.
Oooh that’s today now (sorry for the late response)! Happy canopy fitting day! 😀. That’s going to change your world having that setup versus the tub. We’re so stoked with it - it’s so easy to live out of and has so much space. Thanks for checking out the video too 😀
Loving the videos guys, very entertaining and informative. I'm in the process of setting up my own D-Max and have a lot of questions. But the one I will ask here is, with your uhf antenna on the roof rack, where did you run the cable in to the cab?
Cool canopy setup! Totally putting a microwave in my setup now 👌
Yes do it!! Game changer for full time travel 👌
Great work, very neat setup. Just wondering what roof rack you are running on the cab?
Thank you - we’re loving it and it’s been very good to us 😀.
That’s an Off-road Animal Scout rack - it’s the only one we could find that only added 90mm height (so the tent didn’t have to be mounted ridiculously high to clear it)
Hey I’m just wondering how u guys got the big draw with the modular setup as on mrt website it only has the small draw no big draw option cheers awesome setup
G’day! Hmm..I’m not too sure why it’s not listed on the MRT website, but as far as we know it should definitely be a product that you can order and purchase now. I just checked our order paperwork, and that unit’s code is listed as ‘MSXF500’ - X-Series Modular Unit 500mmx500mmx760mm with 1 x Shallow Drawer + 1 x Deep Drawer.
If you called your local MRT store they should be able to give you a price and more info on them :)
Looks great, do you pack the awning away each night to access the tent? Or use the other ladder you mentioned. Do you think a 180 would be better or an awning with a zippered cut out?
Thanks so much! 😊 We typically do pack the awning up every night however this isn’t really a big deal for us as this one in particular is so quick to pack up and we would probably do this even with a 180 just so we don’t have to worry about sudden changes in weather/crazy unexpected wind overnight. If we really want to keep it up overnight ie. if it’s raining then we will use the side ladder yes 👍 I guess it comes down to what works for you - those zipper cut out options could work well especially if you didn’t have space to carry an extra ladder. I’m not sure we would ever go back to a 180 awning though, the size of the coverage and increased ‘living area’ that the 270 gives us has been absolutely amazing! Real game changer for us 😊
Thanks for replying.
@@007oliu don't have to pack ur awning away.there is a hack video on TH-cam showing how to strap it down to enable rear access to ur tent. Easy as you use a ratchet strap.
Neat setup but have you thought about organising the 12v setup
Have you done a total weight of your build etc canopy tent fridge consumables?
We did actually yes! We weighed the full setup during our first few days on the road when it was fully loaded with groceries and everything, and it came in at about 3400kg, including us two. So we definitely can’t collect any heavy souvenirs 😂.
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How do you guys store/organise clothes? I’m guessing back seat, but wondering if there’s a hack out there 😅 or are we all living in a crazy packing cube world hehe
😂😂 I’m sorry to disappoint, but we are still with you in the crazy packing cube world. So yep, they’re on the back seat in a cube - one side each.
We do use Bush Company zip up clear top canvas bags WITHIN each clothes box to organise things better (because it has a tendency to get messy when you have to dig around!), and that works well. But we don’t have any revolutionary ideas for this one 😂. Please let us know if you come up with any amazing ideas.
@@BorderlandExplorers 😂 looks like we are living in good company, albeit crazy hehe. It’s something that stumps me. We have a toddler too, so another five sets of outfits to our one per day, and it’s been a tad hectic 🤣 I have asked in forums and the best advice I got was “roll your clothes so they don’t crinkle” but we aren’t even at the stage of worrying if things are crinkled 🤣🤣 #whataluxury
Collapsible bags that can hang vertical or lay flat, they have dividers as well , , handles double them as a suitcase when packing. Leave them on the back seat also. Only place I’ve seen them are on the Ultimate Camper website.
@@David-rr3hw thanks for the idea!! We are currently on a longer trip, and have popped some shelves in the back seat to help organise. But it isn’t perfect yet. I’m going to check out your idea!
Thanks for being honest. I love the idea of this full time travel but the 0-5 yrs with clothes laundry (& ongoing wet bed linen changes) makes stick & bricks laundry access golden.
I would probably go where my child wears birthday suit / same 2 or 3 sun protection swimmers. And looking into elimination communication (part time or up to full time) could possibly help with less diapering.
And lowering expectation of child being clean…many a happy kid is very dirty much of the time. Big respect to those travelling with youngins. Each child/parent relationship is unique and has varying needs/phases of needs.
How do you cook food? Didn’t see a stove or gas cooker but saw the gas bottle on the roof?
Great question - We totally forgot to cover this in the video 🤦🏼♂️.
We just have a 2 burner gas stove that we store in the rear trundle/ under tray drawer. 😀
Hey guys where did you get the fan for the bushman and how is it mounted?
G’day! We bought it online from the ‘Rogue Canopies’ website. The bracket and fan is just mounted with double sided tape - it’s staying on no worries. (We just made sure the surface was very dry first and cleaned it with isopropyl alcohol)😀
how do you wire it? thanks
@@alessandromontanari4753 I'd recommend checking out the video that Dan from @explorebound made - th-cam.com/video/u21BmusxNzo/w-d-xo.html. He runs through how to wire it up :)
No tyre rubbish bin sponsor!?!?!?😮😮😮😊😊😊
😂😂😂 nope. We paid cold hard cash for that bad boy! It’s a good bin though 😀
Do you carry a toilet? And where do you store it?
We do :) we just have one of those foldable camp toilets which slides nicely down the side of one of our adjustable modular shelving units (as it’s not flush up against the canopy wall - we purposely left a little space for some storage)
Where about do you get the patches from
We usually look for them at Visitor Information Centres in each town we visit. They usually have them - but local post offices and souvenir shops often do too 😀
How do you use the back seat space?
We keep our clothes in cubes on the back seat - one side each. And then the footwell has the footwell water tank in it. We also have seat back organisers on the back of each seat for our smaller bits and pieces.
For those who don't want to watch, it's basically just a kitchen on wheels, with the interesting part is that Matty likes pretty lights.
😂😂😂 I was kind of thinking that. Basically, this TH-cam video could have been an email
My eyes are in gaw of the expense, when I only have my Bunnings table and BCF stove!😂😂😂😅😅😅
What's the weight of the dmax as it stands as per the video?
Hey! It’s around 3400kg, including us two. But it’s had a GVM upgrade :)
@@BorderlandExplorers thanks for the info. Nice set up.
@@krump743 no worries, and thank you! 😀
Where do you put seats ?
Do you mean the back passenger seats? We keep our clothes etc in the back seat, because it’s just the two of us.
@@BorderlandExplorers sorry no I mean fold up chairs, cheers
@@kenbrand2123 Sorry, gotcha! We forgot to mention this. At 7:40 in the video, you can just see the feet of the fold up camp chairs - on top of the big drawer, just next to that black bag that Matt is pointing near. They're just two standard size chairs, nothing TOO big.
Yeah cool. Does the misso have an OF?
😂 wrong channel for that mate. Matt has one though if you’re keen for a free first month? 😜
@@BorderlandExplorers Ha ha ha! Keep up the excellent content guys - love your work 👍
😂 Thank you! 😀@@curtisjones1904
For a “complete guide” it’s rather incomplete.
Sorry if we missed things you were wanting to know! I do wish we covered the back seat in more detail like you mentioned in your other comment :)