Customizing my discovery

To summarise, I got completely carried away. And what I ended up with was my dream overlander and the perfect* car for the challenge of getting me from Vancouver to Alaska and down to the bottom of South America (in my opinion at least).

*Assuming it holds up mechanically – I certainly hope it doesn’t give me a lot of problems.  

List of equipment and modifications as follows:  

-       Front bull bar

-       Smittybilt 9,500lb winch with remote

-       Full length roof rack

-       Safari snorkel

-       60 litre fridge on sliders

-       Dual battery system on custom tray to power fridge

-       Suspension kit (2” lift)

-       Jerry can holders (2x 20 litre fuel and 2x 20 litre water)

-       2.5m x 2m awning

-       Hi lift jack and mounted to front bar  

-       Rock sliders

-       Roof-top tent

-       Replaced 18” rims with 16’s and BF Goodrich K02 rubber

-       Custom rear drawers

-       New stereo head unit for Bluetooth

-       Front spotlights

-       Compressor for airing up tires

-       Chains for the snowy Alaskan roads

-       Rear tow point

-       Mounted fire extinguisher (a requirement in some Central American countries)  

When I picked up the car, it was completely standard. From the information I have and how how it was set up, the car started its life as a soccer mum car used sparingly around the streets of Vancouver. It’s now been transformed completely.  

Once again, thanks again to Fab and the guys at West Coast Off-Roaders for doing an amazing job turning my Disco into a dream overlander!

I think that’s enough, I think I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking for this post

Photo credits largely to West Coast Off Roaders (given I was on the other side of the world while much of this was being done).

PS thanks to Kevin at WCOR for accidentally buying the lemon donor car for a bunch of my parts. I owe you mate