My new D-max

Well done on the purchase of the Dmax Dave. It's a great truck. Whilst on paper it looks a bit down on power compared to other utes, we've never felt like it has lacked power. Can be a bit noisey though. Now 20,000km on clock.

We have taken our LS Terrain through the Gibb River road, Kalumburu, Bungles, Mitchell Plateau and used it for weekend camping and we love it. The only damage was a chipped windscreen from a road train.

We live in Darwin, so choice of aftermarket suppliers are limited. We mainly used ARB for bullbar, canopy and roofrack which we are happy with, although being ARB take your wallet. TJM put on their Airtech snorkel. And we changed the tyres to Duelers 697 LT AT which improvs ride and road noise considerably in our experience. My cousin installed a Redarc isolator for our dual battery (in the tray).

All this added weight has progressively made the suspension sag a fair bit over 18 months and whilst fully loaded through the Kimberley's we sagged a fair bit. It's going in for an OME suspension upgrade next week.
All up, we are very happy. Future mods; maybe a secondary fuel filtration unit.

Enjoy your Dmax. Saw plenty of them in the Kimberley's. and the local councils up that way are also starting to use them in Broome Derby and Kununurra.

Happy travels.

Hi Dave, the D-Max should serve you well they have proved to be very reliable in off road endurance events such as the Australasian Safari and Dakar, we watched them with great interest for 3 years before buying our Space Cab a few months ago, in my Blog there are a couple of entries on a couple of things we have started modifying on ours, and a few more in the pipeline yet to be posted. Good luck, cheers, Kanga.

I have a Spacecab LSU purchased in April 2013 now just ticked over 44k KMs.
So far 265 75 16" on steel in place of 17" alloys (sold them to a new home), Ally canopy as there were none available when I purchased - love Ally as I can drill and weld and do stuff, OE bull bar which is ordinary at best, ARB 300kg suspension, ARB rear step/tow bar (sold the shiny one to a new home), Safari snorkel, sidesteps replaced by rock sliders (can't seem to sell them) and just recently a 135L fuel tank in place of the 76L (which I am trying to sell). I am using an Arkpak battery box behind the drivers seat and it appears to be working ok - a friend managed to squeeze another battery under the bonnet but at this stage I'll stick to my setup. The Engel sits behind the passenger seat (I don't have passengers). The rear tub was sprayed with some "tough" paint stuff and this also appears to be working ok. I have also put the mandatory uhf on the centre console.
So here goes nothing - if you intend to use it as a ute to do stuff then forget the rear drawers - waste of time - use tubs. Canopy - plenty available now but I like mine because it can be worked on easily (and its checker plate and doesn't scratch).Suspension - with the lift it is still pretty comfortable for a baby truck. Bullbar - anything is better than the OE bar. Battery - if you wish to move some stuff then it fits under the bonnet LHS in front of the fuel filter. A real downer are the headlights. The projector lights - high beam is barely adequate and low beam is downright dangerous.
So far if I drive really christian I can get down to the low 8's as an average and just to stuff around I managed 7.5 average on the dash readout a week ago but I would have pushed me off the road for being a slow b*stard. A couple of desert trips fully loaded and left in 4wd H for a week saw 10.8 and I'm very happy. Similar up to Darwin and back a couple of times last 6mths has seen low 10's.....seems pretty good especially with the tyres and lift and canopy and......all the other stuff that we accumulate
So far all is good and with any luck it will continue to perform as well as it has so far. rgds

Hi David, we have clocked up 50,000 on ours since Sept 2012 LS-T, GRR and the Gulf towing our camper and a trip down to Vic and SA towing our Jayco Sterling Outback.
Up grades:- Sax 3SDS suspension the best thing we have done to it (do not need to use WDH), DP chip and exhaust now around 150 Kw and 470 Nm tows the van with ease worst economy 16Lp100. Fitted a set of Drifta draws great stuff. Second battery in the tub. Great vehicle, you will not regret your purchase.

http://www.4wdaction.com.au/forum/viewforum.php?f=56

The colorado and isuzu forums are near the bottom, both should have plenty of info, the colly being fairly similar to the isuzu, suspension etc are the same.

Theres quite a bit of info on both as the models are slowly gaining popularity.