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Here are pics of my old D3 and the new D4 from stock to bush useful.

Hoping to get to all the places i missed in the D3! Awesome cars! Why would you buy a Cruiser??????[IMG][IMG][/IMG][/IMG]

Pics of my old D3 and new D4 from factory to bush useful. Both been awesome cars, why you would buy a Toyota is beyond me!

Hi all
Sorry for the thumb nails, didn't mean to upload these, meant to upload normal photo files. Tried the link to flickr but wanted pics up rather then link, followed instructions to keep them below the 130kb size which i did but still ended up with thumb nails instead of pics like very first post on here (red D4)

If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong that would be great, if the administrator wants to remove this post due to the 5 thumbnails thats fine as i will endeavour to post again.

IF you click on the thumbnails, they open up to full size.

Originally Posted by captcam68

Pics of my old D3 and new D4 from factory to bush useful. Both been awesome cars, why you would buy a Toyota is beyond me!

Looks good - well set up for touring.

Interesting looking tail light you've got on your spare wheel carrier. Wonder where I've seen that before ...........

Wanted a tail light to match the OEM lights as much as possible so after a bit of digging found it in the LED Technologies catalogue and ordered thru Auto1 about $85 but fully submersible etc. Still testing the mounting location for the light bar as there is a bit of wind noise over 85 k's but absolutely blows away the 4 100w halogens on the old D3!

Yes - I was being smart when I asked where I had seen that light before.

Pic below is of the back end of mine.



Also found on the same web-site where you found yours, but I purchased directly from them.

Lightbar on or under the roofrack definitely out-performs any number of spotlights up there, but wind noise is a problem.

Until recently, I had a Baja Designs 40 inch single row LED bar mounted under my roofrack - but some mongrel where I stay in Perth has decided that he needed it more than I did.

I will eventually replace with another, but will probably make up a different mounting system for it, both to keep it more out of the wind and also to make sure that it is virtually impossible for anyone without an angle grinder to get it off.

I drive regularly between Perth & Kalgoorlie, with many of these trips being at night. The LED bar is worth its weight in gold on these trips.

If you mount a bit of steel plate (probably only needs to be about 3mm steel or you could use aluminium) to the bottom of your roofrack, full width (or close to it) sticking out forward of your roofrack by about 6 inches or so - then mount your light bar above this, as close to the plate (low) as possible. The plate will act to stop glare off your bonnet, and will also reduce wind noise. I'm thinking of doing something similar, but will also be enclosing the ends (mounting brackets / bolts) in steel box sections with the end caps mig welded into position once light bar adjustment is set where I want it and all bolts tightened etc.

I know it's been shown before, but the D4 at Blue Rag Range Tk, at the Trig.



Track was rough, but not difficult. Found Billy Goat Bluff, which we did the next day (Christmas Day) to be much more difficult, more so than what I recalled from my 2005 trip.

We were then suppose to make Bluff Hut that evening, but a big tree down meant a back-tracking to Howitt's Hut for the night.



Great spot, as there was only 2 other cars there, I suspect due to the to fallen tree. Lucky for the spare 20L I carried; the back-tracking would have meant being out of fuel, or a long detour.