Land Rover Discovery 3 & 4
The Disco 3 has a flat folding seat configuration - providing a 7 foot deep cargo area - most people can lay out comfortably in the back. (sleeps 1 or 2 inside if empty). Its seriously comfortable in the rough stuff and the Ford built 2.7litre V6 Diesel is powerful and responsive.
Some confusion exists around the roof strength as it has a factory 70kg roof load rating, (more on this here) The Disco has probably got the strongest roof I've seen with 4 x M10 Bolt mounts each side. The M10 Rack bolts are 'hidden' under a tapped m6 Bolt and painted in..
Tough Touring have designing the Lowest, Lightest and Strongest roof top tent racks and Platform roof racks on the market for the Land Rover Disco 3 and The Disco 4.
See it here -"Tough Touring Discovery 3 and 4 roof rack" - available now as a Roof Top tent rack and also a platform rack -
Fitting a Pole Less Wing awning to a Disco
If you're wanting to fit poleless awnings to your existing roof rack without a tent:
Tough Touring Awning to rack brackets allow fitment of Most quality 270 Degree Swing out poleless awnings to common platform and basket touring racks like the Rhino Pioneer, Front runner slimline 2 and ARB base. There is a huge range available for almost any rack on the market listed on our 'Awning brackets page'
If You want to fit a Pole Less awning to your rack and your running an ABS/ Plastic / Chinese Manufactured or Fibreglass Tent
Composite tents (Plastic, Fibreglass) and many lower profile tents cant handle the twist forces of pole less awnings... If you want to run an awning with one of these type of tents you have to mount the awning to the rack, then mount the tent independently... Its a tricky install requiring a much wider rack and 'cupping' brackets to make it work. This type of Install is is called "Independent awning and Tent to rack installation" and more information on this can be found here - in particular watch the video on the page.
Installing a Dual Battery System in a Disco
If you want to run a fridge in the Disco - The Back seat behind the driver can be folded flat and happens to be exactly the same size as a 40L Engel Fridge. You can mount the fridge straight to where that seat was, forward behind the drivers seat with easy access to drinks etc via the rear drivers side door.
There is a Lifepo 4 Battery that fits perfectly under the flush fold seats!
Tough touring imports a slimline 100Amphr Lifepo 4 battery that fits perfectly under the Disco 3 Flush Folding rear passenger seats - you can fit a battery under each seat out of the way in there. Its such a perfect fit you don't even need clamps.
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Batteries listed here - AGA 'Forever powered' 100amphr Lifepo 4...
If your just wanting to run a basic 12 volt system, No solar panel to run a fridge etc, we build a kit for this specifically for the disco. More on this here.
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If you want to up the power to a 240Volt Inverted unit - we build
Renewable Power stations that will blow your mind / More on our Portable 'RPS' systems here ​
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Rooftop tents: what's our favorite rooftop tent for the Disco 3 & 4?
While there are over 30 RTT available on the Australia Market - our range of 5 Hardshell Rooftop tents listed here are our top picks for the Disco at the moment - Based on Versatility/Install/ Low Profile /Comfort / storage and Carrying Gear.
Add a rear bar with Dual Jerry can holders, Spare Tyre and Chainsaw mount to keep all the Dirty Gear out of the truck.
