Modifications Overview | One Life, Live it

Day one – The arrival and start of modification

10:00, ready to go to the Land Rover dealer to finally pick-up OLLI, the new Defender.Arrived exactly on agreed time,

Day two – mod’s continued

08:00 Early start to continue the needed modifications

Day three – T-Day

Today was the heavy load day. installing the toptent

Day four – A bit relaxing

All tired from past days, we did a bit easy today.

Day five – Wet

Back to work, so less time to work on Olli.

TC-Day!

Today is TC-Day… Technical Checkup or MOT to get Olli legal on the road

Some more hours

Did some more hours work…

Small things

Over the last day’s not much has changed

Heights and depths

Measurements are taken…

Raised Cubby Box

In need for an extra space to fit the extra electrics, an box needed to be made

Worklight and quick release cubbybox

Yesterday and today we modified the way the cubbybox is attached to the “techroom”

Tinted Windows

A free day due to Belgian National Day. So what better to do but working on Olli

Isolation Part 1

Cooler temperatures and some hours without rain. Ideal to install the isolation.

Isolation Part 2

Went this afternoon to Peter from Verreweg to collect the interiour storage cabinets

Lightbar and lights

No more rain. Time to install the light-bar and the lights

Let there be light

Wiring done… Let there be LIGHT…

Cabinets

Last 3 days was working on the cabinets from verreweg.be

Interior work

Sunday, neighbors are gone… we can make noise….

Mattress and Treesliders

Sleeping and sliding is now possible…

“War” Lights

Well…. That’s what I call them when using that red light at night 🙂

Raised air-intake and exterior table

Today we’ve taken the time to install the raised air-intake and make the exterior table to attach on the cargo-rails.

Details I

Sunday, so we can’t make loud noise…

Skid-plate – Outdoor table 2.0 – stickers

Productive afternoon today….

Water tank and table 3.0rc

Last works to do before the first test

Blackout

Keep out the light and isolate

Last additions before the trip

Some last (not final) additions before we’re of to the Alps

Switch changes

After the first long trip it was clear some of the switches needed to change

Eberspacher Airtronic D4

As we want to use Olli all year for camping, some internal extra heating is needed

Snow Cowl

Klaar maken voor de winter

Mirror Gloves / Spiegelwanten

Met de winter voor de deur dachten we ook aan verwarmde spiegels… With winter in front of us we were

Bonnet Checkerplat / Motorkap traanplaat

For future plans we need to re-enforce the bonnet. Voor onze toekamst plannen is het nodig om de motorkap te

HD suspension

Still suffering from a shacking defender, and a dealer who is unable to find the root cause we decided to

New Rims / Nieuwe velgen

I ordered the first rims with a wrong part number.

Side-locker

Finaly some time to install the goodies that arrived earlier from Nakatanenga. Eindelijk tijd om de extra’s te installeren die

Delta-Bag

Can’t have enough storage / Je kan nooit genoeg opslagruimte hebben

Some last minute addons before we head to Portugal

Een paar nodige aanpassingen voor ons vertrek naar Portugal A few needed adjustments before we head to Portugal

New Table / Nieuwe Tafel

What to do with some spare time Wat te doen met wat vrije tijd

Off-Grid

Gisteren bijna 2u een aangenaam gesprek gehad met Klaas van Eberco, over de keuze van inverter, lader, zonnepaneel ed. Yesterday

Zonnepaneel / Solar Panel

Eindelijk kwamen tijd en onderdelen samen om er aan te beginnen. Finally time and parts came together to start the

New rear windows

After a new experience a new solution was needed

(Storage)Space, the final frontier

Where does the maximum storage ends, and can it be expanded?