車宿美學 豐田考斯特房車改裝——巴士之旅！

Hi, I'm Byron. I'm Aliera. This is our 2001 HZB-50 Toyota Coaster. And we converted from a school bus into a motorhome. Thank you. So this is our door. It's a Karmat caravan door. We replaced this original bus door with the caravan door so that we would have a fly screen for air flow and separate. And it also gives us permanent ventilation which we needed for the gas complex. We also cut out the original door opening mechanism and the original floor. It was full of rust and all that sort of stuff. So we cut it all out and we designed and made this new aluminium checker plate door. It's fully sealed. So when you get this all dirty then you can get into the bus all nice and clean. To also keep the bus nice and organized, we put lots of storage in. And starting with the storage, we've got a nice big drawer here to put all our beachgoing bits and pieces in there. So there's snorkels, there's flippers, there's towels, there's mats. In that one. And in this side, we've just got a shoe organizer so we can put our dirty shoes inside there. So up the front, we have built our own little center console here. So we just thought we were going to need a lot of space while we were driving to put all the bits and pieces, our drink bottles, our wallets, toilet paper. It also holds a fair bit of stuff inside here. We've made it to have two separate consoles, one for the driver, one for the passenger. So you can throw all of your bits and pieces in the front without things moving around. So we've installed a 3,000-watt 24-volt inverter charger. So it's an off-grid power inverter. So it'll take... You can see on the screen here, it will select the best voltage to... or the best input to charge the batteries and supply everything. We found that all of the production line campers were using these systems. They're very easy to use. You just plug and play. They're quite cheap compared to all of the other brands that sell all types of bits and pieces. And so far in the four years that we've been building this bus, we've had no problems with the inverter. So the fridge that we're using is an Electrolux RM2610. This is quite an old fridge. We actually got it off a guy who pulled apart an old bus to renovate it, and he just gave it to us. It's a three-way fridge, so it can operate on 12-volt, 240 or gas. It's about 110 litres, and it has served us very well. We keep a lot of food in here, so we can go off-grid for a couple of days, and it stays nice and cool, and we can even have ice cream. We've got two main seating areas. This we called the recliner because our original idea was that we could push the passenger seat forwards, and then that would give us a nice backrest to have a seating area. But since we've been on the road, we mostly just use it to sit on it while we're browsing in the fridge. Then we have the main couch area, which we've built in lots of storage. We've got storage in the back here. We've got storage down here, and we've also got storage underneath, and our gas box, which we access from the outside. For the cushions, we just used cushions from their Swag mattresses from our local canvas shop, which I cut up and resized to fit on the couch. And then we've just used the linen from Spotlight to make covers, made them removable so that we can wash them if they get dirty on the road. So the oven and stove top that we're using is a Dometic DF 500 DIT, and this unit has three gas burners at the top and one electric burner. It also has a nice gas grill and a pretty big oven. So these are our overhead cupboards that we made just to give ourselves extra storage and also we just like the look of them as a feature in the bus. We used bullnose, hardwood bullnose and miter joints to make the frames and then attach rattan in the center. A tip if you're using rattan, make sure you wet it before you install it, and that helps you get a tighter finish. We were planning to put latches on them so they wouldn't open when we're driving, but we found maybe the weight of them or the hinges themselves are just enough they're keeping closed when we're driving and haven't opened once, which is great. And they're held sort of together with these steel brackets that Vaughn made which bolt directly into existing holes that were in the roof of the bus so it's really solid you can hang off it if you wanted to. The sink that we've used is a Clark sink. It's the one that comes with its own chopping board slash cover so it kind of turns into more bench space rather than just being a sink. And you can also throw your dishes in there and hide them if you're in a bit of a hurry. The sink was in the caboodle section of Bunnings rather than the normal sink section. Don't know why, but it was. The faucet that we've used is... We're not exactly sure exactly how it got there, but it was in the Bunnings throw-out rack and nothing wrong with it. It works just fine. And we've also incorporated a window that opens behind it so if you want to, you can have an outside shower. Just when you come back from the beach or something and you just need a quick rinse off, you can just do that. The plumbing that we've put in is the... or the S-bends and everything like that just so the smell doesn't come back up, which is quite important when you're in a small area. But that works really well. So we have made our drawers from scratch, which is definitely a good challenge, but I'd probably recommend getting a cabinetmaker to do them because there's a lot of work in there and it kind of takes you away from doing everything else. But the good side of doing your own drawers is that you feel very accomplished. There's a lot that went into these guys here, so we've got our soft-close drawer slides from Bunnings, so we get a really nice closing action. We've also got our RV Labs brushed...brushed stainless. Latches that work really well. So that all clips together really nicely. We have a selection of cupboards and we also incorporated a table that goes...that pulls out so we can sit on the couch and someone can sit on the bed or we can both sit on the couch and have something to eat and then it just tucks away. We've got a... obviously a cupboard underneath the sink and we've used the same kind of hardware as we used up in the overhead cupboards and then we used the same RV Labs. We have also made pull-out pantries which houses all of our food which is very handy. Instead of keeping it all in cupboards we can keep it all in the pantry and it's very easily accessed. So our hot water system we have used is up inside the drawers here and we've used a Truma Ultra Rapid The system uses 240 volts for gas to produce this hot water and so far it's had some really great success with some really toasty showers and some really cold nights so far. So for the curtains we just used this grey cotton It's pretty thick. I think it's just from the spotlight. We decided to go for roll-up curtains just so to maximise the light when they're open and not have sort of a bulky material obstructing the view. There we go. And we just put a little bit of rope up here to attach them but yeah, they come down pretty easily. And then I sewed a little bit of doweling in the bottom and that just makes it a little bit easier to line back up. So we have used a memory foam mattress to make it easier to get in and out because a spring mattress is kind of impossible to get in and out possible but it's going to destroy everything on the way in. It's slightly smaller than the width of a double bed just because we wanted to use a bed lifting mechanism to be able to have extra storage underneath the bed and because of that we just had to make the bed slightly skinnier so it missed all of the edges and wasn't wedged in there. The batteries we have used are 220 amp hour hard core AGM batteries. So far they've done us great. We haven't had any dramas with them. We've also used a king switch panel. The king switch panel that we used is a great little unit that has this display so you can turn each individual component on and then turn them all off at the same time. So the components that use this switch panel are all of the 12 volt accessories that we've used in the circuit. So there's a circuit that goes to the fridge. There's a circuit that goes to the water pump. There's some 12 volt lighting at the rear. The hot water system needs a 12 volt input and the max air roof fan uses a input as well. So next to the batteries under the bed we also have a shore flow water pump. So this is just a continuous flow caravan pump that's got its own pressure sensing so it shuts off automatically. So the bathroom that we have installed is custom made. We have installed a slide across door to keep it all nice and waterproof. The bathroom itself is all made out of a material called composite aluminium. It is sheets of aluminium that have a plastic bit in the middle and then aluminium on the outside. A lot of sign sign makers use it for their signs but it's also a really great material for building. We've used a standard 900 by 900 bathroom floor or shower base for the shower base. We just had to cut a little nick out of the corner. We've also installed this boat hatch to the back corner so we can still get in there and change out the tail lights if we need. We've just installed a Kamek RV shower and then we've just installed a mixer from Bunnings. It's just a pretty standard type of mixer. In the roof we have a Max Air brand skylight. It's got the lights in it as well as being able to fully open and fully lock closed. It does have a blackout blind and a mozzi net in the top. It's also where we keep a bit of our wet area stuff so just like the fishing rod and stuff like that once it's been used in the ocean we can give it a bit of wash off and we just hang wet towels and things like that in here. We have also got just a Coleman portable toilet. We don't really use it much except for in areas that require it to be fully self-sufficient so we just use it to tick the box really. This is our wardrobe. It's the part of the bus that's still not quite complete but we've got it at least to a functional stage for our first trip. So we've just got these little pull out baskets from Bunnings. That's little drawers and then a little rail along the top to hang our clothes. Our plan is to build more cupboards for the wardrobe in the same style as the overhead cupboards. So for the lighting we have used a six position icon or iconic. It's made by Klipsil and we've got our three switches for our three sections of light and our dimmable dimmers. And then as for the lights we've used a dimmable style LED down light from Bunnings. I can't remember exactly what brand it is but it's one of the most common ones that you'll find on the Bunnings shelves. We have used a Max Air roof fan in the roof. It's the model that opens and closes and does everything by itself. So this was a lot for ventilation and a lot for gas compliance. So gas compliance needed a permanent vent in the roof to be able to provide permanent ventilation to the vehicle. So for the outside we just opted for white screen rather than security screen just so it wouldn't interrupt the view out the windows. We got these made... So on the roof we have three pairs of roof racks. We've custom made these roof racks because we couldn't really find anything on the market that we were happy with. So we ended up designing our own and they work amazingly. So far we've done 7000Ks in the bus and they haven't moved a millimetre. We also wanted to be able to mount a Foyama F45 S series awning off the side. And the roof racks are just solid so they hold that really nicely. And then on the very top we have two 300 watt solar panels that seem to provide about 27 to 32 volts during the day at peak power which is exactly what our power system needs to be able to provide optimal battery charge. So for our gas we have used a system we've made ourselves which includes two 3.7kg gas bottles they are the same capacity bottle but they're just different sizes. And then we've used a regulator with a switch so we know when we're out of one gas bottle we can just jump to the next one. Two 70 litre water tanks from Custom Coaster Conversions. They're just plastic tanks that you can actually buy from most truck trailer supply businesses. They sell them for underneath their trucks and trailers. Then we've used we've made our own brackets up to mount into the chassis and that's all compliant with all of the caravan regs. We've got two on the left hand side for clean water and then we've got two on the right hand side for grey water. So basically 140 litres of clean 140 litres of grey. Down the back here we have our Honda posty wide which is CT 110 Nickname Papa Loves. We're towing it on our motorbike carrier that is a Moto brand and is a Moto 1500 so it's meant for a wife with a 1.5 metre wheel base. So that concludes the tour of our bus. If there's any questions comments or suggestions please don't hesitate to leave them. Reach out, say good day. And thanks for following along. Bye. Hi, I'm Bowen. It's undecisive. This is our 2001 HF V50 Touring Hilux. Hi, I'm Leo.