Huggies 05 GXL

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Me and my family have converted from the darkside after alot of looking around this website and finaly bought ourselves a prado.
I have always owned nissans and zooks , but when it has come time we want to start traveling and my last nissan wasnt set up for it and it liked to drink as much as i did .

so we bought this


It came with the bullbar ,ipfs, roofracks, the direct injection gas and a gme uhf
I changed the lights over for my lightforces.
With the proceeds of the nissan getting sold i went and bought some stuff for the prado
which i got all the iron man stuff from climax suspension and he realy looked after me



and a suspension kit which i didnt get pics of before i fitted it
and some stuff for the camper


This is how she sits as of today


and a flex pic

old measurement was front 720 and rear 770
now it sits 815 front and 820 rear

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hey huggie good to see another local on the seen, you wont be dissapointed with the ironman setup in happy with mine, nice looinkg setup as well, i gather by the fotos you r a terrace fella, cheers samo :wink:

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hey huggie good to see another local on the seen, you wont be dissapointed with the ironman setup in happy with mine, nice looinkg setup as well, i gather by the fotos you r a terrace fella, cheers samo :wink:

thanks samo , so far im happy with it see what happens after i get back from fraser in a little over a months time .
Yes and worst luck im from the terrace but please try not to hold that against me :twisted:

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huggie , just put my ironman kit through some verticals, pivots and hangtime , she danced like a ballarina...
for all too see on the side of a steep hill... they are well matched on the prados.. butane..

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snorkle and awning fitted so its ready for fraser in little less then 3 weeks time

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im sitting on the gold coast drinking beer and we are 2200km into our 2 week trip away. we drove straight from newcastle to fraser in one hit towing our camper. the prado ran well but was using about 20l per 100. on the island we went to the lighthouse on sunday and played on the rocks on the way . the rest of the week we explored most of the island and done fishing inbetween .i can not fault the way suspension or the car went it was just a pity i couldnt fill up on lpg as fuel was 1.90l up there . ill up.oad some picks when i get home later in the week

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looking good huggie, the awning is a gr8 bit of kit, makes for easy times when you need some shelter from the elements, what did the awning cost you, mine was about $400 2 years ago, its an open sky which is the same as yours and the arb. Enjoy fraser while ya there ya lucky bugger.cheers samo

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looking good huggie, the awning is a gr8 bit of kit, makes for easy times when you need some shelter from the elements, what did the awning cost you, mine was about $400 2 years ago, its an open sky which is the same as yours and the arb. Enjoy fraser while ya there ya lucky bugger.cheers samo

the awning is an ironman one i wont say what i payed but i realy got looked after by climax suspension and it has been good with all the sun we have had so far .I have booked the prado into get extractors on thursday as the chk chkl chk sound is getting worse and the fuel ecom seems to be getting worse the longer we travel

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the extractors are on and there is no more noise , i got pacemaker extractors fitted .
here some pics from fraser

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Nice Work Huggie, were was picture 2,3,4 looks like Nghala rocks????

How were the inland tracks, what was the conditions like??

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Well done Huggie, good to hear all went well and thanks for sharing it with us. 20lt fuel economy when towing, plus racks and awning sounds about right (so my brother tells me).

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Nice Work Huggie, were was picture 2,3,4 looks like Nghala rocks????

How were the inland tracks, what was the conditions like??

yeah you are right it was . The inland tracks were good except the track from happy valley to the fresh water lake out that way was starting to get a little iffy but fun and one of the tracks to lake wabby was starting to get a little washed out . But other then that the island seemed to be in good condition

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Well done Huggie, good to hear all went well and thanks for sharing it with us. 20lt fuel economy when towing, plus racks and awning sounds about right (so my brother tells me).

Im hoping that with the new extractors it will be doing a little better . The camper was packed as much as we could get into it , and the car had 2x 40l engles in it and all the junk you need for a 4y/o and a 1 y/o . We also over packed with food stuff so yeah we had a big load on .
One thing i learnt is i will never go back with a 1 y/o as i had to carry him everywhere on my shoulders and now im paying for it . But plans are in action to go again next year .

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So if u were up on the rocks was the first section of nghala easy to get through, I know it was washed out some time ago?

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So if u were up on the rocks was the first section of nghala easy to get through, I know it was washed out some time ago?

yeah the first part was ok with only one part 1/2 way through looking like it was about to wash away part of the track .I just took it easy and anything i wasnt sure on i walked first as i had the family with me