recent Iceland K road/adventure recommendations?

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gasman4u

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I'll be headed to Iceland in June for a family trip and wanted to know if there were any "must see" K roads I should check out. I'm planning on renting whatever rig is necessary to get us the core memories I am looking to pass along to my kids for this trip and know it's going to be very expensive. I've seen a couple options for 34 inch tire "super jeeps" and some smaller LC 250s/prado options too. I'm a 200 guy and admittedly I was REALLY hoping to get into a 200 rental for this trip, but I don't think that's an option. Anyways, any insight you have would be appreciated as I've messaged one of the Iceland guys already to pick his brain on this too. TIA.

EDIT: should I bring my own navigation software/equipment (OnX, etc)? Any other small scale kit I should bring for navigating? Again - Thank you.

EDIT 2: I've pulled the trigger on a 34" tire LC rental.
 
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I took the family there again this past July and we rented a 2025 LC250. The 2.8 turbo diesel and 8 speed auto was great. For the whole trip I averaged about 26mpg. Plenty of room and comfy for the three of us. For a few bucks I added the Wi-Fi module and ran my tablet and phones from that wifi. There were very few locations that we didn't have a WiFi signal. Not always the strings but worked. For the most part the F roads are like our country dirt roads or forest service roads.

For iceland road conditions
umferdin.is/en

For weather download the vedur app.
 
jwbc84 said:
I took the family there again this past July and we rented a 2025 LC250. The 2.8 turbo diesel and 8 speed auto was great. For the whole trip I averaged about 26mpg. Plenty of room and comfy for the three of us. For a few bucks I added the Wi-Fi module and ran my tablet and phones from that wifi. There were very few locations that we didn't have a WiFi signal. Not always the strings but worked. For the most part the F roads are like our country dirt roads or forest service roads.

For iceland road conditions
umferdin.is/en

For weather download the vedur app.
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Thanks for this! I saw one of the 250 diesel variants in Honduras recently and thought that was interesting, but didn't pursue it really. I got the "wifi" add on and the "gps" add on too (fwiw). My hesitation in just booking a 250 is the river crossings I think we will be doing. I am hoping this trip builds core memories and will be another feather in the hat for my kids and the LC platform overall. Again, thank you!
 
Do you know which F roads you are thinking of driving? The water crossings are usually rather shallow and over the last few years more and more bridges are going in.
 
Tentative F road routing so far (fluid for sure at this point):
F208
F905/910
F35
F249
 
My wife and I rented a Suzuki Jimny there a few years back with a tent and had a blast. That little truck took us a lot of places and the scenery is unreal. Let me see if she (the navigator) has our route. She also found some great restaurants along the way.
 
DrRock said:
My wife and I rented a Suzuki Jimny there a few years back with a tent and had a blast. That little truck took us a lot of places and the scenery is unreal. Let me see if she (the navigator) has our route. She also found some great restaurants along the way.
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Thanks for this! If you could find it, that’d be awesome. We are looking forward to it.
 
The saga opens…

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The habit of always checking “your” gear was important as I rented a gps and a hotspot with this 150 on 35’s. Neither unit was functional which lead to a couple trips back to the rental counter after a zombie-like arrival state to KEF due to flight times, etc.

This rig needs and alignment and parking brake cable attention. Otherwise, the Toyota diesel is pretty good so far. If it were mine, I’d be all over this - as it is, I may mention it at drop off to deaf ears.
 
Sitrep day 2:
This mofo rubs like you wouldn’t believe while reversing and maneuvering. Some of the euro-stares I get in parking lots are amazing. Also, I’m intermittently asking a lot of the parking pawl. I didn’t test 4LO or the CDL at pickup. I’m optimistic the 78k kilo’s on the clock have had at least a few cycles of each. Given it’s a rental however, I’m not so sure.
 
gasman4u said:
Sitrep day 2:
This mofo rubs like you wouldn’t believe while reversing and maneuvering. Some of the euro-stares I get in parking lots are amazing. Also, I’m intermittently asking a lot of the parking pawl. I didn’t test 4LO or the CDL at pickup. I’m optimistic the 78k kilo’s on the clock have had at least a few cycles of each. Given it’s a rental however, I’m not so sure.
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Just guessing here, but I bet “drive it like you rented it” takes on a whole new meaning in Alaska Iceland.
 
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Ditcherman said:
Just guessing here, but I bet “drive it like you rented it” takes on a whole new meaning in Alaska.
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This is Iceland, but YES!
 
Unsolicited pseudo trip report continues as I did a part of F208 today. Some of it remains closed as there’s still a ton of ice covering parts of it so I cannot complete the circuit I planned. Anyways, rig did just fine today and CDL was cycled and apparently works as designed per the little yellow dash indicator. I was also grateful for the 35’s as I was able to take a lot of the terrain easily I saw Dacia dusters, rav4’s struggling with. First smaller river crossing was awesome too. Kids loved it - I did too.

My better half talked me into bringing a drone for video footage. Below is a screen grab from one of the videos and it views like a Prado commercial imo. If there’s interest, I can try and figure out how to post to YT, etc. The wind was nuts at certain times and the gimbal (I think) was working overtime to keep the drone upright. Quite impressive technology tbh.

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Today we tackled as much of the south entrance, but northbound F208 as we could (entrance near Vik). The WhatsApp group indicating today was the first day it was open proved to be incorrect as the road was shut well and good. Bummer. Anyway, we got some more F road miles under our belt, another couple water crossings, saw some awesome sights, and some more killer footage from the drone. F208 is accomplished as far as I’m concerned.
 
Topped up today with diesel at 255.9 IKR/L. My math puts that at $7.67/gallon. For diesel.
 
Funny. That felt like a lot when I was there last summer but it is now what we are paying for diesel in CA.
 
jwbc84 said:
Funny. That felt like a lot when I was there last summer but it is now what we are paying for diesel in CA.
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booo

Lots of reasons for this. I am sure you’re plugged in and figure out why CA prices are heads and shoulders above conus gas prices.
 
I am and and it is unfortunate. I don't want to derail your thread with that nonsense though. Thank you for sharing your trip details so far. I am hoping I can take the family back a couple more years and spend even more time on the F roads with camping in the interior of the island. We rented a 2025 LC250 and averaged about 26mph(if I converted correctly). Please keep posting the pics! Also make sure you pay for parking at the tourist stops. There are cameras taking pictures and if you don't pay you'll get a bill later!
 
No recent K road adventures just now. Just amazing sights, waterfalls, natural rugged beauty, and IKR prices that would make my grandparents say “bless your heart” when presented with the bill (best case response here). I’ve taken some more amazing drone footage and will post screenshots and maybe links (need to figure out YT) for videos that are fantastic watching.

I’m getting around….9.1 km/L per the trip computer which converts to something ridiculously efficient like 26-27 mpg assuming the cpu is correct (spoiler - it isn’t). The tires are 35” which is a heck of a lot bigger than the stock tires which the cpu calculates for. If I was smarter, I’d look on the door placard for the size there and post it along with the current tire size and make the math easy. I’m not, so I won’t. I’ll be just fine in my land of make believe pretending like I’m sailing along getting 27 mpg on 35s in a fully laiden 150 Prado paying close to $8/gallon for diesel.

Today was another fun filled adventure and we wound up in Husavik after passing an F road where they were actively closing it due to deteriorating road conditions apparently (I can’t remember - F88? Best guess here) just off route 1. As I type, I’m enjoying a happy hour ($8/pint) waiting for a whale watching tour. I am optimistic I’ll be able to catch at least one more F road set of shenanigans this trip.
 
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