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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324  
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It's mentioned elsewhere that they are made by Safari Equip. Darren 110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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26th Feb 2014 4:15pm |
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| nakatanenga Member Since: 12 Nov 2010 Location: Neumarkt Posts: 546 
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Our current webshop is not able to be run as multilangual, but guess, we are working on a new shop system. This will take a while because of lots of reasons (PIA to be honest
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Currently we have a couple of thousand part no's online an not only "a dozen" like market participant Entrequ Our Distributor in the UK is www.overlander4x4.com and their site is english. I personally try to help with technical questions, "teasers", product facts, international inquiries etc as good as i can. WANTED: SII or SIII in max 1.5k |
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26th Feb 2014 5:14pm |
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| sven Member Since: 29 Dec 2011 Location: Oslo Posts: 80  
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For my 90 SVX softtop it seems like a single pivot spare wheel carrier is the only option.
The upper mount of the Safari Equip carrier is in conflict with the softtop fastener fixing. Have tried to get hold of a Sonic/Allisport but with no luck. Anyone? 2009 Land Rover Defender 90 SVX Soft top 60th Anniversary Edition |
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4th Mar 2014 7:42am |
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| domcoutts Member Since: 08 Dec 2011 Location: Kent Posts: 111 
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Just to add to the two previous posts... Really need a carrier for my DC with drop down tailgate that is single pivot and doesn't require support from/or drilling into the bodywork. Come on manufacturers!!!
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7th Mar 2014 5:10pm |
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| SailingTom Member Since: 19 Nov 2013 Location: ESSEX Posts: 1722
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I'm another like the above posts as the upper mounts all wont work with my soft top.
The Sonic one seemed perfect (despite the cost) Surely its proving if even on here, with the amount of pickup owners that there is a market for a more budget version to the same concept. I'd buy one if it was around the price of the standard ones! as it is im not going to have a spare in my next one despite wanting one. Maybe nakatanenga could consider producing the same one there planning with a bar to secure shut like the extreme one pictured for all us owners with tailgates 
It will be less work than the one for rear doors honest! 
P.s I've also pm'd nakatanenga to see if there are any plans/ could be plans for a tailgate version of there new wheel carrier. Ive also said ill happily send a design if they wish so we will have to see. If not ill have a word with another maker of defender steel products who could definitely make/ design one if the interest was there. Cheers Tom Defender puma dormobile camper |
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7th Mar 2014 5:58pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018 
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http://rijidijoffroad.bounce.com.au/#/kit-page/4551195113
These guys make a good kit,just need to get someone to assemble/weld in uk. Particularly like the bearing used. I'd just be after a version compatible with a rear step bumper. |
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8th Mar 2014 6:05am |
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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8581
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The Nakatanenga and Safari Equip single pivot wheel carriers are designed to work with a hinged rear door. Now the mount which goes on the door is below the 'waist' level of the back of a Defender.
My understanding is that a standard Safari Equip wheel carrier will work with a hinged rear half door on a pick up if it is the reinforced type. Now if that is the case I would imagine that the Nakatanenga and Safari Equip single pivot would work with a hinged half door. To convert a single pivot wheel carrier to work with a drop down tail gate? Please remember that this is a minority market and Safari Equip already does one version already for a drop down tail gate, which does require some drilling. Now is it commercially viable to alter a Nakatanenga or Safari Equip single pivot to work with a drop down tailgate?? Personally I would have doubts about it being a commercially available option. There again I may well be wrong. Brendan |
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8th Mar 2014 8:22pm |
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| SailingTom Member Since: 19 Nov 2013 Location: ESSEX Posts: 1722
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Your probably right Brendan
Might be worth a survey to see though as seems to be interest form people wanting such a product, I've spoken to people who have said the same and then seeing others wanting similar on here also shows interest. I'm not sure it would be a minority market though as the sonic is the only carrier for people with drop down tailgates and hoods that allows them to fit properly (not just soft tops but all double cabs/ pickups with 3/4 hoods included of which there are a great many). along with many owners who equally don't want to drill extra holes for mounting? It might be a case of if the product was available you'd be surprised as I cant be the only one who would like a £200- £500 range sonic equivalent? I'm sure the Sonic would have sold even more if it was cheaper. It must prove the demand in how quickly they always sell second hand? Also i'd of thought it would make more commercial sense having 2 options of the same carrier and im certain that a tailgate version would be cheaper to produce than the door version, the big plus being that there would be no real competition for it either presuming it could be a similar cost, compared to the only other being a different price range all together. Dont take it as a dig, its just personally i think its a missed opportunity. Cheers Tom  Defender puma dormobile camper |
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8th Mar 2014 9:32pm |
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| d j hutton Member Since: 30 Jul 2009 Location: Dorset Posts: 1044  
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Got one of these on the 90 and its been great, been on probably 7 years. Some powder coat coming off on sharp angles but I took the option of galvanising then powder coat. Don't know whether they still offer that option but it means no rust, even if you chip the powder coat. DJ I'd be interested in getting a modification for a radio aerial mount, any more details on that Brendan? 1989 200tdi 90 csw 2011 110 usw Orkney grey Buy British 🇬🇧 Defender Clothing Designs available at http://www.rangesports.com/acatalog/Defender-Stuff.html |
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8th Mar 2014 9:59pm |
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| domcoutts Member Since: 08 Dec 2011 Location: Kent Posts: 111
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I second this! ... It seems bizarre to me that there are so many single pivot options available for those with doors, when the wheel already has an exterior mount, whilst those of us who have no existing method of mounting the spare outside of the vehicle, are presented soley with the hugely expensive and completely elusive Sonic carrier. The load area is severely restricted whilst the spare remains in its original place, it's not an exciting bolt-on toy we're after, it's a vital modification! Until I can find a solution, my spare remains in the shed, where it's of absolutely no use whatsoever. I fitted a carrier to a previous vehicle that required fixing to the bodywork... When it bent and tore the bodywork after someone decided to stand on it for a better view at the point-to-point, I'm not doing it again! I really don't see that it would take much to attach a longer arm and carrier to a hefty pivot. And as Tom rightly points out, it requires far less engineering to create a carrier arm that is simply latched closed across the tailgate than one that has to open and close securely in tandem with a door! I've said it before, but literally almost every pick up and 4x4 you comes across in Africa has one, if not two, single pivot wheel carriers attached to their rear end. Substantial, with well-engineered components and mechanisms, they are ten to a penny, readily available and I'm certain, very affordable. Why therefore does it feel like I'm asking the impossible!? |
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9th Mar 2014 12:04am |
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| wimvanzomeren Member Since: 21 Jan 2021 Location: Leusden Posts: 2  
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Do you know where to buy? |
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