Building an Overlanding Rig on a Budget: Tips and Tricks (Vehicle Selection, Initial and Final Mods)

[@midnightadventureswa]

Well done explaining that you don’t have to spend a whole bunch of money and having a very expensive vehicle to go over Landing thank you for madding this a point and letting people know to do some home work on what they want to with they vehicle? Great job 😊

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

Appreciate it!

[@vicfanwi]

Good afternoon Fletch!! Bill and I just got back from an overnighter in the Nicolet Forest near Blackwell!! It was awesome!! Woke up with 2" of fresh snow and more coming down!!

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

Super jealous! Glad you had a good trip!

[@AdamEisan]

Subbed. Fellow Nissan guy here. On my 2nd Titan (2019 Midnight SV). Had it a couple years now and finally getting around to starting to mod/build it out. Added a Leer topper this past month and just ordered some Sherpa load bars to go up top for mounting things like recovery boards, etc. Next project is building a customer drawer/sleeping deck system. Then hopefully new tires. I like your advice on just getting out there and finding your limitations. That was why I opted to go for the topper first before new tires... I can find less aggressive trails/service roads for now and still get the family out to the woods. Then when I can upgrade the tires and suspension I can start hitting up more technical trails.

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

Love it! Nissans are so underrated, but they're great vehicles. Those Titans are sweet too. Welcome to the channel!

[@darksideemt]

I will say I believe there are certain things you shouldn't go budget on because you will just end up changing and buying better down the road anyways. Bed rack comes to mind mostly and storage for your gear.

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

Agreed. It took me a while to learn this, but I'm finally starting to a bit, :D.

[@Wade_the_Xterra]

Awesome well done brother good and very useful info as always man! Can't wait to meet ya at Moore Expo as a Storyteller maybe we can get up with Chris and have some Nissan's all together for a group picture 😆

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

Thanks man! Will be great to see you there and I'm sure we'll be able to get some pictures!

[@nolehopkins1077]

Great video.

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

Thanks!

[@8stringwrshpleader]

I've been looking through your Nissan Forhtier videos to try and find out where you got the front and rear bumpers. I realized you bought it with some mods already installed. Do you know what brand or where to source those bumpers? I'm getting a frontier soon and want to start with some bolt on mods and simple stuff like a new stereo and LED bulb swaps. Could you point me in the right direction where I could source some of these parts? I've been looking on Ebay but cant find bolt on parts for a frontier and I cant seem to find the Nismo stuff for the 2nd Gen frontiers either. Should I be looking on AliExpress or somethings?

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

Good questions. So, the truck has all P&P Engineering armor and bumpers on it. The reason I don't talk about it a lot is that, unfortunately, a lot of people have had really bad experiences buying from them. They pay tons of money and then never get their stuff or experience 8-10 month lead times when the original estimate was 3-4 months. Also, I bought this truck from the owner of that company and he had screwed something up when doing the timing chain guides which he owned up to and said he would fix it, but then after months of me trying to get him to do something to resolve the issue, he started accusing me of somehow sabotaging the truck and started threatening to just stick me with it (which is essentially what happened). So, I would love to be able to recommend them since there's not a lot of aftermarket support for Nissan's but I just can't. It was a pretty awful experience and I wouldn't want anyone else to have to deal with it. For stereo, I did an Eonon unit in both my Frontier and the Xterra I had before. For how cheap they are, they work pretty well. Here's a video I did showing the headunit in more detail (link in the description of that video to the unit I had): kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ-4Y42Xga6CiKMsi=N3y1fhHL9p8whmH-. For LED headlights, I had these and they were great (looks like there's a 50% off coupon right now too that makes them about $25): amzn.to/3SriRpB. If you were talking interior lights, here's a cheap kit to replace all interior with LED: amzn.to/46e9Ljr. For reputable 2nd gen parts, there are a few manufacturers but a lot of them have folded. If you have more specific questions, feel free to shoot me an email at [e-mail] and I'll do my best to help!

[@nolehopkins1077]

What's the Facebook group again. I'm a new dude looking to get into this hobby

[@midnightadventureswa]

Newbie overlanding

[@nolehopkins1077]

@@midnightadventureswa thanks just waiting for approval now.

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

You're in!

[@nolehopkins1077]

@@AllThingsOverlanding yup was approved a few hours ago. Thanks man

[@nolehopkins1077]

Nevermind I found it. Lol

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

:D