OVERLAND Mitsubishi Montero TINY HOME Walk Around Tour

Hey guys, my name is Lindbergh and I'm Carissa and we are Gone Dirtin' and this is our 1999 Mitsubishi Montero. Let's go take a look at it. This is our adventure rig. It's very beat up. It's got 240,000 miles on it and we absolutely love it. I mean look at where we are. This is where it's taken us. We've probably put about 60,000 miles on this thing since we've owned it. Was it four years ago? Oh yeah, probably more miles than that too. Probably more miles than that and then maybe like 100 and 120 nights if not more in the tent or in various tents here. But yeah, we're going to talk about the outside first, what we've done to it and we'll just dig into everything else of what have we done and things and where we've improved and where we could be improved and stuff like that and we'll just get right into it. So let's first things first. This is our adventure driven design bumper and yeah, it's made in Arizona with a very small company. One person company actually and he welded it together for us and we had it powder coated this silver that almost matches the sides of the truck. Almost quite and then we also have the ADD rock sliders. Yep and then I'm gonna move over here. Tires, suspension. Yeah, so we have right here, we've got Toyo tires. We've got Toyo tires. These are the AT3s. We're pretty happy with these actually. When we came from KO2s and coming from KO2s, this was pretty easy. It's pretty basically the same tire. These are just as quiet and they also last longer and of course we have the most important piece of this whole rig. These Wilk Racing TE37s. This is Overland Couture right here. The best wheels ever made for an Overland rig. I mean or any import vehicle really. These things, these wheels, these wheel design could look literally good on any car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything. Anything. So Nada, RX-7, Supra, anything. Saturn. 240SX. 240SX. Yeah, just throw some TEs on it. Everything. Minivan. You got it. Done. All right. So. Slamdelica. Slamdelica. Maybe an Overland Delica. Overland Delica. Yeah, yeah. Slammed one. Yeah, yeah. All right. Suspension. Suspension we have. What was it? Old Man EMU. Shock Springs. Fan Handle Bars. And they've lasted us this whole time and it's been fantastic. Engine wise, completely 100% bone stock. This thing's slow but it's reliable. We didn't want to do any power mods on it just because you knew the minute you put on a power mod it's just gonna. We just felt like we didn't really need it either. I mean a lot of people upgrade the gearing on these vehicles which ours, you know, we could benefit on certain uphills and climbs. Like sometimes we hit some hard trails but for the most part we really don't. Like the trails here in the U.S. that we've hit, they're pretty calm so we don't really need gearing upgraded or anything like that. And we're also not rock climbers. We're rock crawlers. We just don't need to rock crawl anywhere and in most of the trails for the campsites that we do go to. Some could be tough but they're not rock crawly tough. Yeah. Yeah. So we're in it to chill. We're in it to chill. There's no stress in here. This is a zero stress mobile. All right. So let's talk about, let's keep going down. We got the Voyager rack right here on top of the vehicle that mounts right into the rain gutters. And then we have PIA lights for those nights that we roll in really late and we're getting to camp super late and it lights up the road for us really well. Another thing on to, do you have something else to say? We have these rock slider thingies. Yeah the rock sliders are great. So these things came with our truck and we've just never taken them off because they're so freaking good. Yeah. And they are. They're scratched up. Rock auto rock sliders and you can still get them from a website that looks like it's from 1999. Nice. Nice. Yeah. Living in the 90s. And then we have max tracks up here which are recovery tracks. So if we ever have an issue on a trail, we've been high centered before just having fun crawling around not for a camp day and we needed these. It helped us out. And also we have actually rarely used this for ourselves. Yeah, like maybe twice, three times, something like that. But we have helped other people out that have been stuck in sand at the beach. Gosh, I mean mud. We've helped a lot of people out with these. So this is more of an insurance thing than it is anything else. It's nice to have. They are expensive but it's worth the price in gold because for one, these little pegs, when you get the knockoff ones, these pegs will burn off super duper easy. Yeah. And then also the orange, the orange will not sun damage over time. We've had these on for our rig for about like two years now. At least, yeah. Yeah. And then we've had a knockoff before this and those knockoffs, yellow, they sun faded half a year. Probably. Oh, and this is Stella, by the way, in case you haven't met our dogs. This is Abella. Stella, Stella. Oh, don't touch the lens. Let me see the lens. Oh, it's a little wipe. No, that's fine. It's fine. Okay, let's jump in the front seat. It's getting dark. Yeah. So this is all, we've kept this all pretty simple. It's pretty much stock in here. The only things we really, our most major mod, our most major mod is these seat beads. These seat beads. They're great. It feels like a massage chair and who doesn't like a massage chair on hours of driving? It's pretty great. And then I have this little pillow because Lindbergh does a lot of the driving and I like really good naps. My chin leans just nicely on here. I don't know. Why don't you demonstrate that? Oh, okay. We'll have it happen. Oh, yeah. Good night. Good night. So anyways, these seat beads, they're fantastic. For one, they keep, you just wiggle your butt around this and it keeps blood flow going. And also the most important thing is that it helps with swamp ass. Zero swamp ass going on in this seat or any of these seats. If you have the seat beads, those New York taxi drivers, they knew something and they did it for a long time for the right reason. And this is the reason why New York taxi drivers thumbs up. We also have a screen in here. BPA auto in SoCal got an Alpine screen in here. They also built our rear box that we're about to show you guys. And yeah, that's pretty much it for the front. And then also this is this comes from my racing roots right here. So this is a fire stick, an element fire stick. It's our fire extinguisher. It's a one use fire extinguisher. And the great thing about it is that it does it never expires ever, ever. And also works in zero, zero oxygen like environment. So if, if the, if the fire, if there's a fire going, it really just puts everything out. So this is our insurance and never have to use this so far. And if we did, it wouldn't be here, but it never expires, which is the most important thing. Like if you have a, um, a regular fire extinguisher, it does expire and you have to get it redone or buy a new one. This one it's lightweight, never expires and you never have to replace it. They're awesome. They're a little expensive though, like 80 bucks a pop or something like that. But for something you never have to buy again, it's worth it. So we'll move on to the inside over here. Yeah. Power water. We're going to do a little bit of both. Um, so yeah, this is what we use for our drinking water. We fill up a Yeti roadie. It's a 20 liter and we took the original drain tap and we Limburg found this home Depot tap to where we can have water. We just turn it here. It goes out, um, towels. We also have, gosh, I don't know if we should talk about the fill up stuff. Okay. Okay. Um, other things down here, it's kind of like tucked away. We have this really nice box and everything, but back here is going to be our tools recovery. Um, and then, and this is our, our bathing stuff. So whenever we stop for showers, all of our, our bathing stuff is there. This is our medicine cabinet. Basically all like our medicine is in here. Cold medicine, like just to prepare, like if we're on the road for a month, we want to make sure that we have cold medicine and stocked on us for all that. And then, um, airing up our tires, re-inflating our tires, deflating our tires. We also have the ARB, what's it called? The ARB, the tire deflator. No, something like that. So this box here is, uh, is built, um, by BP, BP Auto Sound in Orange, California. A good, by a good friend of ours, Ivan. Uh, he built all of this and also the drawer system, um, as well. This was a, this was a later on edition. We actually had this third backseat here for a long, long time. Uh, until we decided until we came actually, we started traveling on the road way longer than we should have. Yeah. I mean, I should have, but like way longer than yeah. Intended. And so we needed more space, more storage and things like that. So we have our water here and stuff like that. And then this also flips up and this is where our power systems are. Um, this, this is where our power system is, um, is, is has its home. Uh, we have a 100 amp hour, uh, just regular AGM battery. And then we also have a full Renogy suite of the solar charger, the MPPT solar charger, charge controller, and a 700 watt Renogy inverter. Uh, we decided to go at 700 cause we don't really need anything too extravagant on this rig. If we had say a bigger rig or a van, then 700, we'd maybe go a thousand, 2000, who knows what your, your, your power needs are. But with our current setup, we have a fridge over here, a Dometic fridge, uh, with our current setup, as long as we have, um, what was it? Well, as long as we have sun every other day, we can stay out indefinitely. And on top of our, uh, tent, we have two 160 watt Renogy solar panels that goes straight to this stuff. So we've been extremely happy with this setup. Um, and also I forgot, we have a battery isolator in our engine bay for the, um, starter battery. And, and that battery isolator also charges our secondary battery or a cone. We call it a house battery, um, and while we're driving. So if we're driving or if it's, um, if it's cloudy or something like that, we can keep the engine running and charge too. We've never had to do that. Luckily, we mostly travel in the West and the Southwest where it's nice and blue like today. Um, and we have sun pretty much every day. So unlimited free power. It's absolutely fantastic. Uh, this is, this is a little, I have a little Velcro thing right here. This is for our cameras. We charge our cameras here. We plug in a little micro USB plug here, and it just sits there and we chug along and while we're driving and charging our camera batteries and whatever we want. So we've been really happy with this. Yeah. So let's move on up. All right. So this is the business end start of the business. We had, this is a five pound, uh, propane tank. This lasts us at least three months of traveling. We travel, you know, um, once every month for a week or so. Or if we have other travel plans, we were out for like a month or longer. This has been great for us. Um, and it's, this is, we get a lot, a ton of questions with this whole Mount. This is a custom Mount. Um, from a friend in, on Instagram and from on Facebook. Oh, somewhere around here from the Montero community. He custom made this and we bought it from him and we have absolutely loved it ever since. Uh, this is a relatively new edition, slightly. This is a Blue Ridge Overland like tire bag. And this is where our trash is. And this is where we store trash and everything else. We used to have a trasharoo and we rent through no joke, three trasharoos in a year because these straps up here would just be and disintegrate in the sun. Um, trash shoes are super cheap. They do the job, but they're pretty shit. Um, so yeah, let's go. Let's open, open this up. And this is my kitchen, my office, his happy place and my happy place. I sit here pretty much every single day for to have coffee and whatnot. So let's start over here. So this is a new addition as well. This is a packed, um, packed one travel bag. Um, this is for clothes, but we have a place for clothes. So, but we didn't have a home for our, our, our shoes that aren't on us right now. So like our hiking shoes or sandals or even, uh, camp shoes and they all fit in here and they slide in here perfectly just like that. This is my dry pantry. So ingredients, um, like, like rice and breads and anything I need pretty quick access to, but also changes out between, um, trips. Uh, it happens here. And then this is our Pelican air, a camera case. This is where both of our cameras are, our lenses and everything. We are very happy with this. Um, yeah, I never had a Pelican before until this one. And this one is incredible. Uh, all right. These are, these two are, this is where our, um, back hiking backpacks are is where they stay. This is a, we call it the attic, uh, Jack jackets, hats, anything that we need quick access to when it gets colder and whatever it we throw it up there in the very important bag. This is our snacks bag. There's nothing more important. This one, uh, it used to be someplace harder to get to, but then we realized that we've need access to snacks a ton. So this is a very quick access snack bag. All right, let's go into the drawers. So this, this again, this, this again was built by BP sound auto sound in, um, in orange, uh, by Ivan. And we absolutely love this thing. Uh, it's custom built and he's, he's great. Um, so yeah, so this top drawer, this is our, our, our, our plates, our bowls, our cups. This is where all this lays and also my cast iron. Um, so that's that. And then the next drawer is our clothes. So this is our, this is literally all the clothes that we bring for a week, for a month, for a couple of days, whatever it is, it just, this drawer is it like, if you cannot pack more, uh, if you pack less than this, that's great. If you pack more, we have a problem. So these are our toiletries and then these are our clothes. We love this stuff. Um, it's great. Yeah. And then also like we have jackets, anything that's heavier items for cold weather, we do stash on the side on these sides right here. Um, just cause those are so bulky. We don't need them all the time unless we're in winter area. So let's see the sides and pull it out. And then our sides go up like this. And this is where our cold weather stuff is. Yeah. So we have some cold weather stuff in there. We have a table in there. We have trekking poles. We have our tables in there. Oh, I didn't hear you. Yeah, you didn't listen. Oh, I'm in trouble. Just kidding. Actually, I think what else is in here? That's pretty much it. It's just like a bunch of miscellaneous stuff on top of that. And then bottom drawer. Bottom drawer. Miscellaneous drawer. So this is, this is all my kitchen stuff right here. Like knives, knives and, um, anything I use for all my cooking. It's right here. And this right here is basically called the junk drawer. The rest of it. So we have our, uh, our jet boil for coffees and teas in the morning. Um, and anything else. This is our first aid kit right here. And these are shopping bags, um, packable shopping bags. And we love these because they hold a ton. So yeah, that's that. We love this drawer. This is a very important drawer that's access every day. And this is my, one of my favorite drawers. This is awesome drawer right here. This is my pantry. This is where I create my concoction. So right here, this is my dry pantry. This is all my ingredients are right here. Raw ingredients, like seasoning and stuff like that. Um, herbs, whatever. Right. And then this is my right here. This is my, my pots and pans that I use. Um, and then right here, these are wet seasonings. So I have, I carry two oils with me. I have olive oil and this is olive oil. And then this is vegetable oil. And I also have very important seasoning as well. It is soy sauce. Very, very important as an Asian. And then this is my magic ingredient for everything. It's fish sauce. Um, I also just a new recent addition is sesame oil. Um, been cooking a lot of Korean stuff lately and then Korean stuff just needs sesame oil. It's great. So over here, it's just like everything else. Salt, sugar, pepper, uh, spices, whatever. Um, this is my agave, but yeah. And then that's that. And right here, this is my camp chef mountaineer stuff. This is where the magic happens. Um, we had a lot of, of, of stoves before this one, we had a camp, another camp chef one before this one, this one, the best way to say it is that this is like a Ferrari of camp stoves. This thing is thirsty, but it burns super hot and, and will boil so quickly. Um, if you want to know numbers, like if you want to talk horsepower, like a regular base level camp stove is going to run you about 6,000 BTUs and this one runs at 25,000 BTUs each burner. So it's a Ferrari and I love it. So it's Sears meats and all that stuff real well. So yeah, that's that, that's the back. Um, and then up here is our roof nest sparrow eye and it's super comfy and we love it. Both our girls stay up there with us, man. Yeah. It's super comfy. Yeah. So let's go over here and then, and then I'll take that. Okay. So see mom was tripped. Um, so this is, and then we're going to get into our last bit over here. You go over this guy. No, let's talk about that. Um, this is our Rhino rack Sunseeker awning. It's great for those times where it's sunny, there's no shade anywhere. And we just want to sit and chill, relax, have shade and not get sunburned, which Lindbergh hates the sun. So it's very important on the side here. Um, we have the Dometic 55 liter 55, 55 fridge. It, um, is awesome. It makes ice actually, you guys. So we're kind of low on food. I think we haven't refilled food for like, gosh, has it been two weeks? I think it's been two weeks. I think it's been two weeks. It's almost two weeks. Almost like a week, week and a half. Um, other than that, Dometic is amazing. We love it. It plugs right into our power system and just keeps going and going as long as we have sun. Um, other than that, we also have this awesome, um, this is our gray water. So we use this for cooking. We use it for washing our hands, especially between stops with COVID and everything. Now we're constantly washing our hands. We have hand soap. We have dish soap, both of which are biodegradable and good for the environment. We do not wash our dishes in streams. We wash them on land, let the soap dry on land because that's how it biodegrades. Um, should I demonstrate? Yeah, let's turn that on. All right. So this is how it goes. It's literally just a button. Wash those hands. And this thing, uh, I found it on Amazon and it's USB rechargeable. And I kind of hacked it together with this thing and it's been absolutely incredible. For those wondering, I will probably link this to on Amazon, on an Amazon link. So check it out in the description below and yeah. So we use this for hand drying. Um, we also have toilet paper up here. Lindbergh really likes a bidet. So I actually got him a tushy. Well, it has air in it or the suction is wrong right now, but it airs up or you put water in it and like expand. So we have a bidet at home and if you've never used a bidet, join the civilized world and use a bidet. For some reason, America thinks bidets are just not, it's just weird. They think it's weird. You don't want things touching your butt. Yeah. You don't want things on your butthole, but the rest of the civilized world, they have really, really clean buttholes. It's really nice. So if you don't have a bidet, I would recommend using one, trying one first time. But then when you're out here in this amazing place, you also want a clean butthole. You don't want a dirty butthole because dirty buttholes lead to all kinds of bad things. Yeah. You don't want that. Yeah. And also we have this little Yeti pouch. I mean, we bought this for our paddle board, what we store in it. I guess I don't really have to open it, but it's like toothbrushes, toothpaste. This is our brush for scrubbing dishes. All of this is great because it just degrades and it leaves very little behind. These heads are replaceable. Oh, that's horse hair. That's new to me. Is that it in here, right? That's pretty much it. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's about wraps it up. So this is our adventure rig and this is our campsite for today. Yes. The sun just set, you guys. The sun just set. But we shared sunset with you. We decided to record right when it was beautiful and red mountains. And we hope you enjoyed our tour. If you have any questions, please comment below and we'd be happy to answer any questions. Yeah. And so like, subscribe, do all that stuff that you would normally do with Instagram and there's more videos to come. These are ladies. This is a Kaya. Oh no, this is a Stella and this is a Kaya stretching. Stella is two, Kaya is eight and they both crazy. Yeah. So that's that. See you next time.