Defender Dimensions

[eeyore]

Hi all,

Would someone be willing to post a few of the interior dimensions for the 110 wagon? I'm trying to get a sense of how I could possibly fit out a 110 wagon to sleep two in the back while having external access to a pantry / camping boxes in some narrow-ish shelving via a gullwing hatch (ie the hatches that replace the rear windows). Also need to work out where to locate a fridge without compromising head space above the bed (eg perhaps have the fridge beside the bed, sitting on the same false floor, and access via a rear passenger door).

Anyway, I'm after the following in the payload area behind the rear seats:

> width of wagon floor (measured above intrusion of the wheel boxes)

> height from top of wheel boxes to roof

> height of floor to roof

Also, I need the height from the footwell of the rear seats to the roof.

Any help, or just general suggestions about fitout, much appreciated :).

Thanks

[130man]

Hi Eeyore. I can't help with the dimensions as I no longer have the Wagon but when I did I had it set up to sleep two in the back. First I removed the rear seat and created a frame level with the top of the wheel arches in the rear. Then I made a false floor in sections, so it could be installed and removed easily, The fridge sat behind the front passenger seat so it could be accessed easily through the LHS rear door. There was enough space for our feet between the fridge [ A small Engel ] and the RHS door. I am quite tall so I needed all the length so had the Drivers side to sleep on while my wife, a good bit shorter, fitted easily on the passenger side. This was before I became aware of sliding drawers so I made up plywood boxes that the sections of false floor covered,acting as removable lids. These days, I would install a load barrier behind the front seats. The idea of the hatch through the sliding rear window spaces, is very appealing. I think there is a thread on that job here on the forum. When we camped, we threw the luggage , etc, on to the front seats. I made removable fly screens that fitted the window spaces so we could have plenty of ventilation.. Hope this is useful. Cheers, 130man.

[87County]

Hi eeyore -

abt 1.5m at the widest, just over 1.8m length (or more if you slide the seat forward), abt 950mm on top of the wheel arches

as you can see I've hinged the front sections of the false floor to fold back to permit easy refit of the rear seats if needed

securing the folding table at the rear of the hinge point provides a handy load divider/barrier

huge amount of storage under the false floor

TIP - don't glue the marine carpet - screw it down with stitchings (aka button heads) @ 200mm c/c - much easier to replace when the carpet deteriorates (which it does)

... this setup has proved to be very practical for extended trips....

HTH


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/04/1641.jpg


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/04/1642.jpg

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[eeyore]

Thank you both for your replies. Your descriptions and / or photos are pretty much what I have in mind. My concern is our 40lt Primus fridge might be too much of a space hog and make it a bit squashed for sleeping. Looking at your photos 87County, I even wonder whether a smaller fridge might fit in the space where the cubby box between the two front seats is?

Just to explain; my partner and I currently have a Disco we've fitted out so we can sleep in the back of it - the bed base is in 3 sections, with the last folding down to rest against the backs of the fronts seats which are moved forward to the end of their travel. This works quite well except now we have a fridge which has to sit outside with the bed in use. The height of the false floor (to allow for drawers underneath)also means there isn't a lot of headroom. We're getting a bit tired of trying to stuff the rest of the stuff onto the (folded forward) front seats too.

All this is just a long-winded way of saying we're trying to decide if we replace the disco with a 110 and try fitting it out in a similar way with the (hopefully) end result of more room and easier set up, or whether we get a ute and have some sort of canopy / camper...

[slug_burner]

Place the fridge under the false floor you will be sleeping on, there is a step of approx 125mm between the floor space for the back seats and the load space behind the back seats, foot-well is 460mm.

Here are some approx dimensions
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/04/1536.jpg

[87County]

... sounds like you're heading towards towing a camper-trailer :)

if you do end up going down that route there's no need to get one of those huge things festooned with jerry cans, water tanks and slide-away gourmet kitchens etc etc that literally weigh a tonne - to keep it simple you can just get an oztrail camper tent and put it on an ordinary unbraked box trailer and leave the fridge in the disco or 110 ;)

[eeyore]

Wow, slug_burner that's terrific; thanks so much. You've alieved my temptation to sneak into my local LR dealership with a tape measure, notebook and an unconvincing excuse :).

As for the camper trailer, obviously 87County has never seen me attempt to reverse a trailer around a curve :o. The trend line is definitely in that direction though; camping vehicles have progressed from bicycles to motorbikes to Pajero iOs to Discos...