How I Packed My 4x4 for a 3 Week Camping & Overlanding Trip Across Namibia and Botswana
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2024
- We had an epic trip overlanding across Southern Namibia and Botswana; we did long hours on the road and spent plenty of timing engaged in 4x4 on gravel and sand. We camped in beautiful locations in the Namib, Spitzkoppe, Baines Baobabs and Kubu Island. We got to really test our toyota hilux's and put all of the great we had with us to the test. Everything passed with flying colours and we had the best time camping, and the vehicles handles everything like a dream! This video is going to give you some insight how we packed the overlander for a a couple of weeks for 3 people, we really had to finesse the setup and make perfect usage of the canopy and drawersystem to maximise our storage space. We left some things at home but we certainly didnt want for anything on this trip! it just goes to show if you have a couple really great quality things, it goes a long way!
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Bro it's ODIABIKER from odisha , india. And i have seen your journey from jimny to this toyota . And you are awesome as your videos ❤️. Hope we will meet one day and we will have big adventure ride together for sure .
The humble plastic ammo box has to be South Africa’s greatest contribution to the camping world.
Hahah it’s true…
I always watch your videos and need to meet you one day.
Your car is so nice, you have made it, Congratulations
So glad I found this channel today!! Planning a Namibia and Botswana trip for December
Welcome aboard!
Followed the series from beginning till end since Friday 😂😂 love the quality and education but most importantly the inspiration 🙌🏾🙏🏾. But personally you left one thing Adrian😭, the build costs. From the vehicle to the gear please 🥺🙏🏾
I'm from India... I love your car..
Very insightful! I'm thinking about doing some car camping at boat ramps and this is very helpful
Glad it helped!! Goodluck with your setup
Great video Adrian, many happy travels for 2022.
Thanks, you too! :D Wishing you many safe adventures!
Nice hilux bro and nice content
Thanks for watching
Brilliant 👊🏻😃
Thanks for sharing mate, very insightful.
Glad you enjoyed it
Please come and visit Ethiopia
Just found your channel. Very entertaining and educational. One question that comes up on Australia build outs alot is how the keep their load weight down under max gross vehicle weight. Do you see similar issues over in Africa with the overlander niche?
I'll check through your past videos to see
Enjoyed the video on the Jimney.
Hey mate! So people tend to ignore the GVM here, and just load it up to what the vehicle feels like mostly. I actually have the vehicle Ona diet after the Namibia trip. Even though it handled great and we had everything we needed, I found some limitations in my suspension with all the kit on there. And the spare wheel carrier really influenced the handling of the vehicle in a negative way; even though it was handy and looked so cool 😂
Nice video as always
Thanks again!
Really like the setup and great product partners that you get to work with. How was the 2.4 vs the 2.8 in terms of fuel economy and generally overall? It seems like if not towing the 2.4 is all you would ever need. In comparison to your Jimny you must be loving the extra space. Auto for the win!
Thanks Ryan! The 2.4 handles itself very well! What we found out on the trip was that my turbo was pretty much stuffed; so once we came back from the trip I rebuilt the turbo to a hybrid turbo and got it remapped; and it has dramatically closed the gap with the 2.8! That new 2.8 is something else though, its still more fuel efficient than my 2.4 with all the kit on and has does still have more power. BUT the price difference, means that the 2.4 is very very well worth it!
@@RoamOverlanding how have you connected your fridge to the car battery, is your fridge not drying up your battery?
Another great video Adrian, I was wondering if you were ok. Hadn't seen you on in about 3 or 4 weeks. The audio is a little wonky though, kind of echoes.
Yeah the audio was crap! Haha I wasn’t going to post this because the camera broke and I didn’t realise it until it was way too late. So I figured the information in this case was more important than the audio quality
@@RoamOverlanding agreed, I would have posted the video too. Excellent information. Looking forward to the next video and I hope it's soon.
Always trips me out the amount of screens a lot of you overland guys feel you need. Going out to see the nature yet you have 6 screens staring at you. I live and holiday in remote Western Australia and have never required more then a paper map and a iPhone, along with epirb for emergency. Also seems that for such a organised set up you need to remove a ton of gear to camp. Hilux is looking great though. But does look overloaded and for sure would be with 3 adults in there.
hahaha I am a garmin ambassador so I was testing out an extra gps; my normal setup is just my phone and my garmin overlander. The stuff that we remove from the vehicle is stuff that is useful in camp, so I dont mind taking them out or putting them back, you would need to move them to access them anyways, so you just move it once and put it somewhere accessible in the campsite. My setup when its just me traveling on my own is less, although it looked quite full; its also actually mostly quite soft stuff like clothing bags etc.
Have you seen the NATS institute 5 door Jimny? Will you get one if OG Suzuki It is like that????
Nice utilisation of the limited space you have. So is there any gear (ie. Exclude spare parts etc) that you brought that you ended up not using, or will not bring in the future?
That’s a great question. We used pretty much everything. Obviously I didn’t use my spare tent I brought with. Otherwise we used pretty much everything. The rest of the stuff was emergency or just in case. You will see the next trip I do I’ve made some big changes to the vehicle to reduce and balance out the weight abit; so it’ll be interesting to see what I decide to also leave out 👌🏻I’ve been in a kick to improve fuel economy and vehicle handling
Nice rig. Quick question: how National luna DC-DC is separated from main battery after engine is stopped?
I saw you previous videos where you say it's a 1 cable just plug in and that's all. But there should be some automatic switch disconnecting main from Luna dc25 when engine is not running.
The dc25 handles that all on its own. It only connects to the main battery when the alternator kicks in, so it’s voltage sensitive. It’s amazing 👌🏻
@@RoamOverlanding that's great, thank you for this information
Is the ignition sense switch used for this behaviour or it's from dc-dc electronics only? Sorry to asking these questions, but can't find more info about NL products and I really want to buy the same box, but no detailed info regarding working scenarios.
@@nbarachkov The ignition sensor is just for some vehicle which use a smart alternator, that basically use variable output that it keeps charging even when the alternator is doing weird things.
nice setup mate, lithium for rear setup? once you go lithium u will never go back
Definitely on the cards for this year; I have changed a lot after this trip to reduce weight on the vehicle and streamline the setup even more. So lithium is one of those moves. I might just go 1000W Jackery and be done with it all :P
@@RoamOverlanding check out redarc gear from here in Aus. Best setup money can buy. fixed panel solar on your roof top tent permanent feed 100ah litium. All displayed and electrical controlled on redvision panel. go and check out the builds on youtube done by pro touring concepts
Hi. Do you use external or internal nGauge sensors?
I used the external ones; it I like them so much I might swap to the internals
Any Mechanical Challenges from the Trip??
Nope! Just a flat tire, otherwise all good! Good little Hilux! 😂
Are you not using tracks 4 africa?
I do indeed; its installed on my Garmin Overlander
Are you working out??
nah just doing intermittent fasting and trying to to eat garbage :)