You'll be very happy with your Alucab setup, I love mine. I have a custom Alucab Habitat on my Defender 130, which just sold, and now rocking a plethora of AC items on my Toyota Land Cruiser 78 series. Easy to use, and good customer support. I love the new Tundra, I've only had cruisers, 4runners and Tacomas, but may need to make the swap to a tundra when I go back home to the USA after my Cape Town to Shanghai overland trip is done. If your next big 'reveal' expedition is Africa- you may want to take the vinyl wraps off all the trucks going on it. 😉
I know you guys have had solid support from other companies and they make solid products. But your whole team is going to wonder why they ever messed with a tent other than the Alucab. They are incredibly easy to use, and for the sake of safety they are well worth the cost. If I’m solo and hurt myself, or someone in my group gets hurt and we need to get out, or for any reason feel uncomfortable sleeping somewhere it can be packed up faster than it takes to stuff a camp chair into it’s bag. I’ve got several years in the tent, and very much looking forward to getting the Canopy Camper this fall for a new build. The only downside is you won’t want to try new stuff in the future because it all starts looking like way too much effort.
Looking forward to this build - especially with products from my country, South Africa. Also, on an unrelated topic, thanks for the tip on the Jack Carr novels. I have been meaning to buy and read them but keep forgetting - now I have acted on this.
I am beyond excited!!!! I have a 2022 Tundra coming at the end of June and I’ve been wanting an Alu-Cabin since it was announced! I will be at expo west so I’m excited to check it out!
Clay and crew, my family and I are anxious to watch this build over time and are excited that you have got your hands on this truck. New drive trains always create a bit of anxiety especially for those of us who have found our old systems to be extremely dependable (2000 uzj100 w/500k mi. 2008 5.7 tundra w 250k mi. 2006 taco @ 350k mi., The uzj200 is only at 115k mi). I can't wait to watch and hope to see this truck tested. Thank you for all your videos!
Shop talk has to be may favourite series of all on this channel, hopefully it continues and becomes more frequent I think it could draw a larger audience to the channel!
Good luck! I have a lifted 5th gen 4Runner and was looking to upgrade to the new Tundra, but that awful front end and turbo V6 convinced me to hold on to the 4Runner. Interested to see what kind of front-end protection you come up with and just how much hacking and cutting will have to be done to get it to work with the large mouth bass grill.
The fronts of these look really good with a little bit of work but I do agree stock they are kind of ugly. But again when they are modded they look daaaamn good
Dang that is super legit! I will say, the one thing that kind of bums me out about newer vehicles is the invasion of privacy that rivals that of your phone. The fact that there's a remote kill switch that supposedly only LE can use, is a security hole that nation states and bad actors in the wild will most certainly take advantage of. Anyway, mini rant over lol.
I thought yall were keeping the red. Well throw my name suggestion out the window lol I was thinking red for red riding hood, into the woods yall go. Its cool that aluc is working with yall. Ive asked a couple big name overlander groups to reach out. Looks like they made it happen.
Hey Clay, quick question. On most Alu-Cab Canopy Campers, the side doors that lift have a diamond plate tread design on them. I noticed the Alu-Cabin for the Tundra has smooth side doors. Is this something you customed ordered from Alu-Cab?
Was it brand new? cause it looks just like the one the guys on TFL just traded in which would kinda cool to see to of my favorite Channels use the same truck
Considering how legit your trips are, I'm curious how you'll go about outfitting a full size truck with its longer wheelbase and limited approach/departure angles.
I cannot stand that you can just do whatever you want to do with any vehicle, never-mind the cost, but at the same time, I watch the show. I'm to blame!
So excited for you and the team Clay. If I lived close, I'd be the guy knocking on your door to volunteer if you'd have me...bad back and all. Looking forward for what's to come. PS prospector still my favorite 🤭
Too many missed opportunities by Toyota. The transfer case is a big disappointment. How did Toyota not include an auto mode? TRD Pro requires getting hybrid, which wouldn’t be all bad if the battery take up so much cargo room, or it had a 7000W generator.
The color on the right side of the camera/video is off during the beginning outdoor shots. Might look into that before using it for future videos. It's quite distracting. Great video otherwise.
I luv the old style tundras. The front grill on the new tundra is ridiculous and gawdy. It engulfs the front of the truck. 👀 Test drove one with a 26' travel trailer about 7500 lbs. The towing capacity for RVs is suspect (as expected for a V6). Its worse than my 2016 trd pro and its pulling a 30'. Hard Pass. Just sold my 2016 trd pro for a 3500 diesel. 🙄🤷🏻♂️
