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I’m peaked at the 8-9 gallon add on. The OEM tundra additional tank adds somewhere around 10 gallons. I think that’s a great option to have for our vehicle. Any larger then it just adds more complexity with probably needing to change the rear spring to handle the additional weight.
Just pointless post: I too am interesting in increasing my range. 33 gallons may be an overkill and I'd worry about it hanging too low in the rear and affecting my departure angle.
Considering I was eking out about 15 MPH on my last trip up to South Lake Tahoe, I'd be happy with a 500 to 600 mile range between fill ups.
In my honest opinion, the biggest waste of time in ones life is sitting at a gas station filling up your gas tank. Unless you can combine that with a bathroom/snack stop.
Also because my rig is a daily driver, only needing to fill up once or so a month would be nice instead of every week or every other week. This especially nice when I have time to go on base (Camp Pendleton) to fill up (read: cheap gas)!
OEM Prado sub-tank is 63L aka 16.6 gallons. It's very substantial, almost like having a second full tank. Main tank is 87L aka 23 gallons we have in our GX.
16.6 gallons of extra gas is about 100lbs, BFD. You'd get the same "problem" or worse if you put one or two people in the 3rd row.
It's not about the length of your trip, or how much **** your bladder can hold, it's about how often you have to fill up your tank in your day-to-day life. Or for those aussies or arabians crossing the nafud, how tough a journey you can take on your own when there is nothing for hundreds of miles in every direction. Personally I'm not storming the desert, but I'd love to only fill up 30x a year instead of 50x.
I'd probably pass on an aftermarket tank that's almost $2k even with a few extra gallon capacity. But it's nice to see the OEM parts aren't that expensive. For at or under $1k I think it's a pretty compelling upgrade. I'll gladly let one of y'all be a guinea pig first though.
Will the Prado tailgate fit? If so, that's an interesting idea!
Je ne sais pas...
Dimensions appear to be the same in most respects. Surrounding bodywork, taillights, bumper, virtually identical. In fact it looks like the 150 prados without the door mount spare are using the GX door.
However sourcing and shipping the door would be particularly painful.
Also it seems there is no reason you couldn't mount straight to the GX door, that is of course if you don't mind tearing up your factory door (or perhaps a junkyard door). The whole reason for the side-swing door is to accommodate the weight of a full-size spare.
I wish I could just import a new Prado altogether.
You probably couldn’t just mount the Prado door with the spare tire directly to the GX. Those trucks with backdoor spare tires have extra re-enforced mounts to hold the extra weight. I don’t think the current GX have this heavy duty mounts.
+1 ...from what I have read you wouldn't want to try mounting tire on the existing GX rear door that wasn't designed for rear tire.
Originally Posted by bbqsoup
You probably couldn’t just mount the Prado door with the spare tire directly to the GX. Those trucks with backdoor spare tires have extra re-enforced mounts to hold the extra weight. I don’t think the current GX have this heavy duty mounts.
You may also have an issue if you have a reverse camera. There may not be a mount or wiring for it on the Prado tailgate.
Just as another though, one may be able to source a tailgate from South America. There are Prado's down there also. One may just need a connection down there.
Que habla español anyone?
You probably couldn’t just mount the Prado door with the spare tire directly to the GX. Those trucks with backdoor spare tires have extra re-enforced mounts to hold the extra weight. I don’t think the current GX have this heavy duty mounts.
It's the exact same two four-bolt hinges on the Prado and GX. I believe the same strut too.
It would be surprising if Toyota decided to engineer a completely different set of hinges for the Prado gate vs the GX gate/spareless prado gate.
Now, whether or not the actual GX door itself is reinforced to hold a full-size spare is another story. It would take a lot of fab work to mount a tire to a GX door, let alone making it look good. Hence the idea of just swapping to the Prado door.
Again the whole idea of the side-swing door on the Prado/GX is to accommodate a door-mounted spare. Lexus just deletes the spare from the door.
02-23-19 | 02:19 PM
You'd get the same "problem" or worse if you put one or two people in the 3rd row.
