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Yes the kitchen and box is glued and screwed. Had to use fairly small screws 6g*25mm as the ply is only 12mm thick, not much to screw into end on. All of the screw holes were drilled and countersunk to avoid splitting. The front of the storage box is reinforced with some extra layers of ply and now has two big grab handles fitted. It can be heavy when it is full.
Cooper tyres on the trailer might seem like an over kill, but basically I have eight tyres for my car. Just before 10,000K service I will put the two spare tyres onto the rear of the Prado. The camper tyres will then become the spares, and the tyres from the Prado rear go to the camper. Toyota will be able to see the condition of the front tyres at the service in case there is any wheel alignment problems, they will then swap the front/rears and rebalance the new front tyres (which just came from the camper). When the tyres start to wear out (hopefully a number of years away) I will probably just replace the 4 worst ones and then keep the others for a bit longer.
I am still thinking about the space on the drawbar, I would like to add a stone guard and a rack for our bikes then make up a slim box in the remaining space. The current task is fridge slide and drawer for the Prado.
Yes the kitchen and box is glued and screwed. Had to use fairly small screws 6g*25mm as the ply is only 12mm thick, not much to screw into end on. All of the screw holes were drilled and countersunk to avoid splitting. The front of the storage box is reinforced with some extra layers of ply and now has two big grab handles fitted. It can be heavy when it is full.
Cooper tyres on the trailer might seem like an over kill, but basically I have eight tyres for my car. Just before 10,000K service I will put the two spare tyres onto the rear of the Prado. The camper tyres will then become the spares, and the tyres from the Prado rear go to the camper. Toyota will be able to see the condition of the front tyres at the service in case there is any wheel alignment problems, they will then swap the front/rears and rebalance the new front tyres (which just came from the camper). When the tyres start to wear out (hopefully a number of years away) I will probably just replace the 4 worst ones and then keep the others for a bit longer.
I am still thinking about the space on the drawbar, I would like to add a stone guard and a rack for our bikes then make up a slim box in the remaining space. The current task is fridge slide and drawer for the Prado.
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