Thread: Mulgo Ex Box vs Front Runner safe

I have fitted a under-cubby safe. I figured the chances of me wading through water so deep in my >$40k vehicle that the electronics under the seat would get soaked is fairly low. For the once or twice in a lifetime that water is that deep I will wait for it to recede or find another way.

The safe, however is constantly used and I love it. The lack of storage space in the Deefer is a problem largely solved by the safe. It's somewhere I keep the manual and service folder, maps, handheld UHF, tyre deflaters, pressure gauge, a notebook and pen, trailer keys and a few other odds and sods.

When I'm out somewhere, like for a long cycle ride event where I drove to the start, I then put all sorts of other things in there too like wallet, phone, all keys other than the car key and FOB itself, etc.

It might not be as much storage as under the drivers seat but a heck of a lot easier to get at, so for everyday benefit it faaar outweighs the Ex-box. This is of course entirely in my opinion and for my lifestyle.

My two-peneth.

Thats interesting, never seen the Dolium 'safe' before, actually quite like the idea. Same, same but different from the Ex box.

As far as compare and contrast goes surely they are just different things, with different purposes.

Ex box if you want to get the ECU up high and some extra, albeit, vague 'safe' storage. They're not exactly inconspicuous and raise the centre console considerably.

Dolium if you want some 'safe(er)' storage that would probably even pass a cursory glance by someone who knows a landy as not really being there. As far as I can see it wasn't drilled for nor marketed as an ECU replacement solution, not even sure you could fit the ECU in there if you wanted and didn't look like it would be much higher than it already is.

Attach the ECU to the roof and weld a steel box to the chassis - best of both worlds.

What's the price difference?

Good to see that there are more seemingly well thought out products around though.

ian.

If you install an XBox you free up a lot of room under the driver's seat. You also create an extremely comfortable arm rest. I have put a compressor and all ancillaries under the seat where all the electrics used to be.

Originally Posted by carlschmid2002

If you install an XBox you free up a lot of room under the driver's seat. You also create an extremely comfortable arm rest. I have put a compressor and all ancillaries under the seat where all the electrics used to be.

Not intending to get into a pi55ing competition or anything, just pointing out facts someone that hasn't seen the safe might not know. The safe also lifts the cubby the same amount as the Ex-box so makes for the same comfortable arm rest. In fact, it's almost the same box, mounted the same way, just with a hidden key to enable locking it.

Without knowing there was a safe there, but noticing the cubby is higher than stock, won't help if you don't also know how to access the key lock and also have the key.

I can't recall off-hand the price differences but a quick check of Mulgo's web site would sort that out. The Ex-box will be more expensive because I would think it comes with additional stuff to mount the relocated electrical bits and probably has holes drilled and grommets to enable cables to come through. Then again the safe has the lock and keys so maybe evens things out.

I do agree that being able to mount a decent compressor under the drivers seat is a good thing about using an Ex-box to free up that space, but once again I use a compressor faaar less than I do the safe. The safe is like a glove-box without the disorganisation of the cubby chamber. The compressor will get mounted out back, underneath or inside a front guard somewhere. Tank will go underneath somewhere.

Defender Mike has a Dolmio safe too, after considering the Mulgo Ex-box for a while. Both are excellent products so the choice is a tough one.

I've got the Xbox and very happy with it.

It still provides some storage as the electric only half fill it. (FYI - the ECU is in the engine bay)

Under the drivers seat is freed up and gives excelant storage. One of the members on here had an access hole cut int the the drivers seat box with lockable door installed ( by Mulgo ) to make access easy.

At the Cape this year I had 3 or 4 inches of water splashing about in the front foot wells after Nolan's brook......that's when you are thankfully for the Xbox.

Just wondering, in concern with water getting into the electrics under the seat.
I can understand the desire to move these, thus a good opportunity to create space etc, but, wouldn't it also be just as wise/cheaper to just silicone the box properly, thus keeping the water out? The top cover can also be "water proofed". Of course this option doesn't create storage, which seems to be a priority.

So is there a main reason for not using silastic?

Both of these options must also move the cubby box backwards as well as upwards? I find with the std setup that drinks bottles and the like interfere with the gearstick, so higher would be worse?

How easy is relocating the electronic stuff to an Xbox? I'd like to free up the space under the drivers seat too but one look under there and I thought this is stuff ye should not tamper with

Originally Posted by Samblers

Both of these options must also move the cubby box backwards as well as upwards? I find with the std setup that drinks bottles and the like interfere with the gearstick, so higher would be worse?

How easy is relocating the electronic stuff to an Xbox? I'd like to free up the space under the drivers seat too but one look under there and I thought this is stuff ye should not tamper with

Looks like a nightmare, but once you start and tackle each component bit by bit, it nots not to tough.

The Xbox has all the brackets, rivnuts, holes and good set of instructions.

Many have done it without any real problems.