Thread: School me on the SR5

Also it’s about the last thing to worry about with one, it’s about the only thing I have yet to fix on one

SR5 premium buys you only bling and tat and adds 2 tenths of bugger all to what a Hilux is really all about.

I bought a 2014 MY12 SR spec Hilux on a run out deal for $34k in Perth. Bloody good buy.

Then I spent $25k turning it into the truck I’ve always wanted! There’s no getting around the fact they aren’t gonna go where a Land Rover will go in standard trim. So now is has diff locks front and rear, GVM suspension upgrade & 2.5” lift, bash plates, snorkel, custom tray and canopy, 4 AGM batteries, 2 fridge freezers, big ass compressor, bull bar, 11000lb winch, 50l water bladder, Coopers, etc etc etc. And I can sleep in it. And it will go where the Land Rover will go, almost.

Not a hint of bling though. Just hard case ruggedness. 67000km of Outback and 35000km of NZ, its earned its stripes alright. None of that will help with a decision about the SR5 though, sorry, just an ecuse to share my unnatural love of Hiluxes.

Here’s my African Hilux, lived in (on) this for 3 years.



And the current one...

Originally Posted by Flyblown

SR5 premium buys you only bling and tat and adds 2 tenths of bugger all to what a Hilux is really all about.

I bought a 2014 MY12 SR spec Hilux on a run out deal for $34k in Perth. Bloody good buy.

Then I spent $25k turning it into the truck I’ve always wanted! There’s no getting around the fact they aren’t gonna go where a Land Rover will go in standard trim. So now is has diff locks front and rear, GVM suspension upgrade & 2.5” lift, bash plates, snorkel, custom tray and canopy, 4 AGM batteries, 2 fridge freezers, big ass compressor, bull bar, 11000lb winch, 50l water bladder, Coopers, etc etc etc. And I can sleep in it. And it will go where the Land Rover will go, almost.

Not a hint of bling though. Just hard case ruggedness. 67000km of Outback and 35000km of NZ, its earned its stripes alright. None of that will help with a decision about the SR5 though, sorry, just an ecuse to share my unnatural love of Hiluxes.

Here’s my African Hilux, lived in (on) this for 3 years.

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And the current one...

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Thats a pretty cool set up truck but I have to ask how the fuck you get into that tent sober let alone after a few celebratorys !

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Thats a pretty cool set up truck but I have to ask how the fuck you get into that tent sober let alone after a few celebratorys !

Ah yes, we were young and agile, in those days... what a little love nest that tent was, we’d head up the ladder on the front, tucked in behind the bull bar you can’t see it in the photo. Never once fell out, no matter how banjaxxed, and on several occasions pretty much jumped all the way in without touching sides, with a cape buffalo or hippo on our tail. Still got that roof tent, its sitting in the shed taking up space... selling that truck was a very sad day, it carried on for years in East Africa until it was sold again. Probably still going. 1993 Hilux Raider, SA made, 4Y 2.2 petrol engine, factory diff lock. Cape to the Sahara and back again and everywhere in between. Good times.

Typical Tanzanian road in the Selous area.... 4 days to do 380km. Take yer time!