How Much Should I Budget For Accessories?

[figjam76]

I am Looking at buying a D3 or a D4 and wanted to know how much I should budget to have the following accessories installed as I want to set it up for touring. Will also be towing a camper trailer as well

• Bullbar
• Dual Wheel carrier and tow hitch
• Long range fuel tank
• Llams kit
• Traxide dual batter system with anderson plug
• Snorkle
• Cargo barrier
• Roof rack

I am sure there are other things that I have missed please include those as well

[Tombie]

Family of 4?
Reconsider the dual rear wheel carrier..
A single is a lot lighter - otherwise you'll find GVM issues (not a LR specific case)

I'd err on the side of caution at $7-8k

[Redback]

I am Looking at buying a D3 or a D4 and wanted to know how much I should budget to have the following accessories installed as I want to set it up for touring. Will also be towing a camper trailer as well

• Bullbar........................................... ..............$1800 fitted
• Dual Wheel carrier and tow hitch.....................$3000 fitted, and thats without a rearbar, $4000 + with a rear bar especially if you go Kaymar.
• Long range fuel tank......................................$1500 fitted
• Llams kit............................................... .......$595...fit yourself
• Traxide dual batter system with anderson plug..$400...fit yourself
• Snorkle........................................... .............$700.. fitted
• Cargo barrier
• Roof rack, Rhino Platform.......................................... ...........$1100..fit yourself

I am sure there are other things that I have missed please include those as well

We regret geting the Kaymar rear bar with dual carriers, we would have still gotten two carries though, the rear bar has saved the back of the car a few times though, we do one carrier on most trip, we only use the second carrier if going remote for longer times away(ie)3 weeks or more.

Anyway the above will give you an idea of costs, expect to pay more if going ARB, my costs are through Opposite Lock.

Baz.

[shanegtr]

I added all this stuff up recently when I brought my D3. Your looking an easy 7 grand for it all. I ended up buying one that had it all except the front bar

[BobD]

I bought my D4 second hand with ECB colour coded bull bar, Kaymar rear bar, long range fuel tank, rubber floor mats and electronic locking rear diff. I then added UHF, Traxide, Llams, Rhino bars and track, awning, snorkel, GOE compressor guard and custom front bash plate designed by Gordon, GOE 18 inch wheels and currently Bridgestone D697 285x60R18 LT tyres. It has the cruddy genuine Land Rover wind deflectors on all windows as well, which I reckon are a waste of money but others here love. They were on the car when I bought it but my wife wouldn't let me remove them.


The Kaymar rear bar is heavy, expensive and great protection but I wouldn't get another one due to the weight. You need the lightest solution possible for the spare wheel when you get a LR tank so the type that fits the existing rear bumper seems like the go. I like the lighter weight of the aluminium ECB bar so I have no problem with that over an ARB bar.


We have done Cape York, Darwin, Litchfield, Kakadu, Binns Track, Central Australia twice, Great Central Road twice, and Plenty Hwy plus plenty of other gravel to get to Cape York, three trips across the Nullabor, many 1600km weekends to visit my daughter in Esperance, too many off road adventures to count. The car is brilliant for everything and still drives like new after 165,000km.


Bob

[p38arover]

The Kaymar rear bar is heavy, expensive and great protection but I wouldn't get another one due to the weight. You need the lightest solution possible for the spare wheel when you get a LR tank

If I could come up with an alternative for the spare wheel (mine would normally go underfloor where the LPG tank is), I'd sell my Kaymar rear bar and wheel carrier.

[figjam76]

Thanks guys for the information. We are a family of 6 so need to look at the seven seater. I would be best to focus on keeping the vehicle as light as possible by looking at an Alloy bullbar and so on. What other options are there for a dual wheel carrier as this is something that I will need as most of my driving will be done between Nhulunbuy and Darwin.

[letherm]

Thanks guys for the information. We are a family of 6 so need to look at the seven seater. I would be best to focus on keeping the vehicle as light as possible by looking at an Alloy bullbar and so on. What other options are there for a dual wheel carrier as this is something that I will need as most of my driving will be done between Nhulunbuy and Darwin.

I'm no expert, far from it, but I've seen comment on this forum previously that suggested it would be better to take a suitable trailer along and that overcomes most of the GVM issues. Just a thought

Martin

[shanegtr]

Thanks guys for the information. We are a family of 6 so need to look at the seven seater. I would be best to focus on keeping the vehicle as light as possible by looking at an Alloy bullbar and so on. What other options are there for a dual wheel carrier as this is something that I will need as most of my driving will be done between Nhulunbuy and Darwin.

Im a family of 6 as well, will you be towing a trailer? If you are and worried about weight then it might pay to throw some of the extra stuff back there

[LandyAndy]

I just spent the $6000 I got for my D2 on bits for the D4.
It went on the following.
OL Winch Bullbar(ordered,fitting soon)
Fyrlyt Spotties.
Engel fridge slide to suit my 80lt Engel in the D4(making my own fitout)
Redarc trailer brake controler
UHF/antena
Full Drivesafe dual battery system with trailer conection.
Yellow top Optima battery to suit.
I should have JUST enough coins left to buy a Hema7 navigator as I opted out of factory GPS.
Andrew