Carrying spare fuel

I asked local LR agent about fitting an extra fuel tank to my 2005 Defender 110. They don't want to do this, saying that the addition of a filler inlet on RHS behind passenger door will "spoil the bodywork".

Instead, they suggest the frequently-found option of brackets for two jerry cans on the back door. That, of course, is where the spare wheel is. I don't want to put the spare, on the bonnet. Putting it on a roof rack is another possibility, but since it weighs 32 kg. and since, for the conditions under which I sometimes go off road, the maximum recommended total weight on the roof (including the rack itself) is 30 kg., I don't want the wheel up there, either.

LR here also talked about putting jerry-can racks on the sides (????) of the vehicle. I suppose that could be done (cans could fit alongside the rear windows), but I've never seen it and it would make for an awfully wide rear end.

Any thoughts?

30kg max on the roof???
ive had at least 300kgs on the roof of mine.
carried all sorts on the roof. inc a boat!

Is your roofrack made out of balsa?

Hi Popotla,

Re extra fuel tanks, we had a 46 ltr alu additional fuel tank added to our 95 110 by Allisport, which goes between the filler and the fuel tank itself and basically just makes your original tank bigger. Nice and simple, but I did have to replace the fuel hose they added between the bottom of both tanks as it wasn't the best quality.
www.allisport.com

Re jerry cans on the side of your Landy. To see what they might look like check out the right hand picture at the top left of the page on the link below. You can see the back of a red 90 with jerry cans over the rear windows - these guys had 2 cans on each side.
http://www.nomadafrik.com/Archive/9-11december.html

Putting jerry cans on the roof rack is no problem at all - unless it IS made out of balsa wood! - but a pain getting up and down of course. We also had 4 jerry cans up on our roof rack and the missus did not enjoy passing them upto me when they were full!

Ah yes the 2 jerry cans look much nicer than the extra filler on the bodywork!