If you're reading this and you just watched this video for the first time or just landed on this channel: this is what you get when you mix spanish and german engineering with an english car and a society that makes people sick and sell them meds. damn, i can't stop watching this video. everytime i re-watch it i catch something with my eye that i go like "fuck, i need to do this".
Love this guys blunt honesty and No Frills No BS BA Build..!!!!! And Yes...." he may be going to hell in a bucket, babe. But at least you're enjoying the ride. " Thanks Bluelandy...!!!!
Just love it, practical and simple to satisfy your needs and everything you need, except of course that "pain in the arse" awning .. .. ha ha ha ha !! I totally agree with you - an awning, what for ?Enjoy and keep us in the loop on adventures. Best.
Thank you!! So happy to see others find it cool as well, we love our tiny house! We actually used the awning for two days straight because it was so damn hot where we are at right now, 🥵 we just wish it would be easier to put it up and down 😵
Yeah!! The poptop from X-V-X is incredible and we are so happy with the design. You're more than welcome. 🤗We love to see other people's room tours for inspiration, so we are glad this one can help others as well.😁
Hi fellow X-Vision-X top-poppers 😎 I recognized a few other things which I also use: diuble-battery system end dieselheater from Nakatanenga. The roof indeed is incredibly good, regards from Sweden.
Great room tour . Informative and full of well thought out details . Enjoyed seeing your build out of your defender . Thanks again for sharing your travel and videos with us all your over landing friends . Cheers from Steve Stott in Sutherlin Oregon U.S.A.:) :) 🍻👍🏼
@@Thebluelandy ….. I made the mistake of selling my Land Rover to some friends ( but glad they still have it and are enjoying it to the fullest) was the worst think I have done over landing . Miss it so much . As you know there is some thing special about being a landy owner . And how people always love to ask you about it and we’re it’s traveled to . BUT WILL BE GETTING ANOTER ONE TO BUILD AGAIN . CHEERS FROM STEVE STOTT IN SUTHERLIN OREGON U.S.A. :):)😁🍻👍🏼
@@stevestott1514 yes, the Land Rover community is one of the best, specially when traveling overland. Everyone knows the highs and the lows 😅so happy that your are considering getting one again. Good luck with the new project, keep us in the loop!!😊
Just had your channel presented on my feed. As I am sitting up monitoring my daughter who had a fever earlier, it’s perfect timing to binge your videos! Aloha from Hawaii 🤙🏻
Hey, really like your set-up. One can tell this isn't show but built with a sense for practicability and made from experience. Love it. TD5 Overlander here.
Hey, thank you! It is so far working great for us, there are only a couple of small things that we would change after a year traveling. But soon more to that. Gotta love the TD5
Yeah! We did spend the same time planing and discussing, as building it. We knew what didn't work and what did in the past, that helped a lot! Thanks for the comment 😊😊
Amazing build. German & Spanish engineering at its best. "The devil is in the details", as they say, awesome detailing on this rig!. I am a Toyota guy 100%, but I still find Land Rover Defenders quite sexy, I just can't imagine myself fixing something on them every single month or week (neither I have the mechanical expertise & patience you guys obviously have) Great stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Manuel, thanks! We spend quite a lot of time planning too utilize all the space. Yeah old Land Rovers have their problems, but I’ve to say we drove 85k km fully loaded, bad fuels, with a lot of rough terrain. And we had not many issues. I don’t know how Toyotas go thru that kind of usage. Thanks for watching
Thank you so much! We are really happy with it! It is extremely practical. The slide our table is used everyday and perfect to keep flat things like laptops and documents
Claro, seguro y contundente en la descripcion de vuestra "casa"... Felicitaciones.... Recien los descubro y voy a seguir viendo otros videos....Saludos desde Argentina...!!!!
Bienvenido al canal!! Espero que lo disfrutes. Tenemos episodes en la montaña, el desierto, el mar y docena de lagos. Y en el último episodio, hasta lugares que parecen de otro planeta. Nos vemos 😎
We thought soooooo long about the build. It had to be practical, in a long-term travel like we do, small problems become huge annoyances, so we were sure to reduce those that were in our power. The Landy is just the perfect base to run your imagination with build possibilities 🤩
We thought really long about the setup, it took us the same time to plan than to build the interior. And we were coming from a lot of trials, in all kind of conditions. This helped knowing what worked and what didnt.Thank you for your comment!
Great run through of your, defender td5, very nicely thought out , thankyou for sharing, and subscribed, from Steve near Chester England where the Roman's once lived.
the air compressor positioning and the air system is just 🤯. you guys even have an air cilinder, i didn't think that was possible and the value on this is just MENTAL. i wonder if i can do the same thing and use a air suspension compressor, that looks a lot like an air suspension compressor.
Yes you could use an air suspension compressor but as far as I know those are high pressure low flow… for tires you want the opposite. And you would need to add a pressure switch which turns the compressor off. Ours is set to 6 bar of. The hole system is rated for 10bar. If you have the space add a bigger air tank, ours is too small.
Nice to hear that others also went with X-V-X pop top. We don't have any problem with the zippers though. The zipper that sucks is the one from our rhino rack awning 😵
Another great video thank you, always learn something from other peoples set-ups and experience. I particularly like your hot water system. Can I ask what brand/make are your aluminium sand ladders/pods?
The sand boards as well as the folding mechanism is from GMB mount they have a special size that fits perfect in front of the back windows for the Defender.
omg! i thought i was gonna have to wait longer for a rig tour! Damn you guys are good, i can see how everything just make sense for you guys. I love how the dash is setup. And how genious was this idea of the heat exchange stuff? Holy moly, that's what i call engineering. Ya'll use propane to cook? Because i'm on a dilema. I might buy a dual propanel cooker (i don't know if it's called that way, you know the thing with the 2 burners?) and use it with a 2kg propane tank that's gonna stay on top of the car and buy a fuel stove for emergencies. I'm wondering if i can do the oposite, because i know that cooking inside the car with fuel is dangerous as fuck. Do i get a 2 mouth burner that uses propane or fuel? And of course, in the name of all the subscribers i thank you both of you for the video and for putting the time to edit and make it so clear for us! Be safe out there guys! Good to see ya'll again!
Hey Gustavo, thank you so much! We use a Coleman two burner stove that Runs with petrol. It’s a simple bit of kit, I got it cause my dad was traveling with a Coleman for years and it never failed. And I figured you can get petrol everywhere, to refill propane tanks can be tricky in some countries. We have a Primus multi fuel as backup it runs with propane, petrol or diesel. We use it with small propane cartridges to make coffee in the morning or also cook inside (but this happed only 1-2 times so far)
Do you really want/need to cook inside? I mean what with all the smell and vapours. In addition burning propane creates a lot of water vapour; I guess 10 minutes uses about 30g, which creates about half a bath tub's volume of water vapour.
@@frank-lr i would be cooking inside emergency only. And i think boiling water for a coffe or frying some eggs doesn't take long enough to moist everything. Crack a window a little bit open and make the air circulate. Regarding the smell, i don't know, it doesn't bother me that much. I would rather sleep on the beach smelling like noodles than sleep at home smelling like soap.
@@Thebluelandy are there any tips and tricks when cooking inside the car with those stoves or you are safe to go with the CO2 detector? i get scared mostly because of the first flame, then the amount of time we can use it inside such tight space.
Hi Mario, the inlet comes with a breather, so when the tank is full there is water coming out of the breather. No need to check while filling. We have only holes on the top of the tank to reduce the risk of having leaks ( no drain hole for example)👌
Good question, I have only had the TD5 therefore I can’t really talk about the others. I’m pretty happy with the TD5. Mine only really struggles with the belt drive. And that’s manageable if you bring 3 bearings…
coole Ortlieb Tasche ;) Durchdachter Ausbau . Top. das Kompressor System ist mega cool. was hat euch das gekostet? Wenn du ein vernünftigen Heckträger willst musst den von Nakatenga nehmen. Kostet auch weniger als der von extec.)
Danke ☺️ Der Kompressor ist Britpart ca. 50, die Kiste 100, die fittings, Schläuche, Druckschalter 80 und der Tank vllt 150€. So vllt 400 alles zusammen hab es über längere Zeit zusammen gestellt bin mir daher mit den Preisen nicht ganz sicher. Der Extec Träger hat uns immerhin die Tage die Tür gerettet als uns einer rein gefahren ist 🙈
Hey thank you! Strong wind is a problem. Especially if your lifters getting weaker, then the canvas is rattling, Which is a nightmare at night. It gets better, If you turn the front of the car into the wind but sometimes we had to sleep inside with the roof down (max.5 nights so-far). Rain is not really a problem, we had here and there small leaks but it got all sealed. The biggest issue in bad weather is that the Defender is still a tiny car and there is not much space even with pop top inside. I did winter trips with my brother at -12 degrees C it was a fun adventure. But if it looks like I’ll have constant rain for the next 2 weeks I start driving until the weather gets better 😅
Did you build to flip up roof yourself? So far I have only seen these kinds of roofs from AluCab and I saw that yours uses the original roof so I was wondering if you made it yourself and how?
Hi! No, X-VISION-X , a company in Germany did it for us, using the original roof. There are other companies as well (in Europe) that do it this way. But you are right Alucab doesn't use the original roof!
Hey of course! I wanted as a kid always a Defender, so I bought one from my first paychecks… A G-class in Germany is quite expensive and they all have too much rust. For a Land Cruiser i would have needed over a year’s worth of paychecks… And in the end we’re really happy with the Defender, it’s reliable, easy to work on and the Land Rover Community is the greatest bonus. We call so many people friends now that we met through the Land Rover connection.
@@Thebluelandy thank you so much for your reply. Great how you interact with viewers of your channel. Your trip and vehicle embodies the true land rover spirit of adventure. I don't think you'll see many people being able to do with a new defender what you've been able to do in yours 👍
Hey, I don’t have a link but it is the Britpart Air compressor, I got it years ago from paddocks spares. I just cut the cable off and fittet other air connectors
Guter Bericht der such mal zeigt, das nicht immer alles glatt geht. Btw, woher habt ihr die Daten der Lichtmaschinenlager? Hatte nichts dazu gefunden, Ihr fahrt doch einen TD5?
Danke! Ich hab die Daten aus dem Blacklandy Forum. BEX6203 BEX2007 BEX2004 Eins davon ist in der Vacuum-Pumpe die hab ich am Strand nicht auf bekommen. Scheint aber noch zu halten…. Ja wir haben einen 10P TD5
bonjour, merci pour votre video, j'aimerai fermer les vitres arrières coulissantes avec un panneau aluminium , oû avez vous acheté les vôtres ? cordialement, christian puyol.
Hello Christian, I just went to the next metal workshop, and asked them to cut two panels of 1,5 or 2mm aluminum. And had it painted by a paintshop. Then I glued it to the car using Sikaflex 227. Regards Kai
Hallo schönes Video. Sind die Außenscheinwerfer 12V? Wir suchen nach runden mit 24V. Falls ihr einen Tipp habt würden wir uns sehr freuen. Kleiner Tipp von uns...bitte verwendent unterwegs nur biologisch abbaubare Produkte...falls ihr das nicht ohnehin macht und ich mit getäuscht habe bei der Badezimmerlade. Danke und noch schöne Reisen!
Danke, die Scheinwerfer sind 12 und 24V kompatibel, sind eigentlich für Traktoren oder LKW daher nicht so teuer wie der 4x4 Kram. Schaut mal nach HELLA 1G0 357 000-011. Wir achten drauf, dass wir abbaubare Produkte benutzen, aber 100% ist leider sehr schwer (zb Sonnencreme). Dafür fahren wir einen der wenigen Defender der keinen Tropfen Motoröl verliert.
Hey!! As we bought it 7500€ total (2018) done by XvisionX in Germany. Now with inflation and so I guess is over a 10K€ . But don't have any actual figured to back up.
Hey, Yeah it’s right Defenders are more common in Europe. And they are pretty low tec this means they can be fixed easily with a hammer, this and the good availability of spare parts worldwide makes the car a good base. The Defender has also a payload from roughly 1 ton, As far as I know, is the pay load of a wrangler way less, manly cause the axles are not as oversized as in a Defender. Wranglers are probably better offroad but don’t behave aswell on the road, manly because both axle have a panhard rod. If the axle moves up and down, the panhard rod make the axle also move sideways. The Defender has an A-Frame on the rear axle and is there for more stable in roads. All this together make the Defender probably the better touring or Overland base.
The reason why Defenders are so expensive in the USA is cause they got banned after the 300tdi model for not having airbags. That makes them rare and therefore expensive. But in USA you have a wider choice of great 4x4s, which are great for touring. I personally like the Tacomas or the 4runners.
Hallo, wenn wir alles auf deutsch machen würden hätte keiner den wir unterwegs treffen eine Chance zu verfolgen was wir machen. Auch könnte der Spanische Teil der Familie nicht verfolgen was wir machen. Daher und da wir so oder so meist englisch sprechen sind die Videos auf Englisch.
