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Home on the range

As regular readers will know by now, at the end of last year, we had agreed to sell our house in Auckland and move to the South Island, the true Mecca for Overlanding in New Zealand.

Whilst we had done many trips away over the years, this was the big one! The Prado was not only going to be our means of transport but our home for the foreseeable future.

This is the story of what we did to create our Overlanding home.

Mechanical

The Prado has always been regularly serviced by me and my father before, but I wanted to make sure that we weren’t going to run into any unexpected maintenance issues on

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