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Is that number large enough to seriously hurt Garmin? They are a very large company.

Checking to make sure there are no parasitic loads on the house bank is always a good move if your finding they are not lasting as long as they should. Sometimes a few owner installed devices may have bypassed the shunt for the battery monitor. If one of those has a constant draw ( either due to failure or simply thats how it operates but you cant easily measure it ) then you will get erroneous readings on your battery monitor. Another thing I have found to be a useful method of maintaining your batteries is to do a big charge early morning, get those batteries up to the absorption state (

Is your Hilux the D-4D motor? You can get them remapped quite reasonably by DPS in Matamata and they perform considerably better and you will also find you get better mileage. Its a proper remap, not "chip tuning" On a long trip towing you really notice the difference. But more importantly, get out, get it wet and have some fun. Taking an extra few minutes to get there is not the end of the world.

Good news. So if you came up that hill at 90 the braking performance should be pretty reasonable also? Is it on a braked trailer? Now to get it wet!.

A firm offer of $15K may very well swing him. Cash under the sellers nose can make a huge difference ( Realistically, how long will it take to sell at $18.5K? Who knows, and the seller sure does not want to be faffing around for 2 years trying to sell. Very very sage advice from Ed, there are some shocking trailers out there. If your a good engineer, you can quite easily make a moderate trailer good, if its full of rust throughout, no amount of patching will suffice and you are going to have to buy or build another trailer..

Negatives of larger are of course towing and storing. Do you have sufficient room to park a 25' yacht on trailer? Is your tow vehicle heavy enough? Most FWD cars would be getting a bit uncomfortable with a 2T plus load on the back. In fact, ( I realize you have a Hilux but will you always have utes? ) I believe that is past the tow rating of most cars, and many light SUV's. The Trojan linked above is around 1500KG hull weight, add in a tandem trailer (maybe 300KG, probably more? ) and some basic gear, provisions, water, anchor and battery, a battery or two and your probably getting well past

As Wheels noted, Benzalkonium Chloride is the safer and preferred way to go. I source mine from Hamilton Chemicals, in 80%w/w concentration for about $60 for 20L. This is considerably cheaper than the commercially marketed products such as 30 seconds spray and walk away, and wet'n'forget, which are about that price for 5L or 10-20%w/w concentration and a bit of dye. Whats most important is that 30 seconds, wet'n'forget and some others make both the Sodium Hypochlorite AND the Benzalkonium Chloride products. READ THE LABEL. check what your getting. Example being 30 seconds outdoor cleaner

Is wet chemical not a product that reacts with the fat and forms some form of non flammable surface to the fat? I have first hand experience of a DP extinguisher on a fat fire - it sure worked, but then the bastard decided to reignite as the powder dispersed on the surface. CO2 has a similar effect and water is just plain dangerous as mentioned above. Whats best is a Wife who does not forget she turned a pan of oil on 30 minutes ago and then went outside!. The outcome was ok though, the DP extinguisher quenched the flames that were starting to get into the wood behind the stove and now we

Actually I did do something boat related - I spent a while rebuilding a holley 600 off ma jet boat. And then gave up because it is more than fiddly, and the boats not been used much anymore anyway!

Built a pair of subwoofer cabinets, twin 21" B&C 21SW152, massive massive cabinets, discovered that my crown plate amplifiers do not drive a 2 ohm load ( as they are supposed to... ) and then decided to tidy the garage up. Currently there is a huge amount of my garage contents out on the driveway, and I am too stuffed to bother continuing.