UK plates on the car are likely to give you trouble with Iran, even if you're on an Irish passport.
Mongolia generates a massive detour here, and you would save yourself a large amount of trouble if you left that for a later date and went Georgia-Iran-Pakistan, or alternatively Georgia to Azerbaijan (bit of an asterisk currently) to Kazakhstan by ferry, then do all the stans you want, and join a group drive from the Kyrgyzstan border through China (Xinjiang, Tibet etc.) to Laos. Also bypasses Myanmar which you is not in your itinerary, and currently not accessible overland from the west, so no way to go from India to Malaysia except by cargo boat.
The boat from East Timor to Australia used to be a one-way circle, so it would go from Dili all the way up to Singapore before going down to Darwin. Not sure if that boat is even still sailing. Might be much simpler to arrange container shipping from MY (definitely don't drive your own vehicle into SG if you can avoid it) and do some lightweight island-hopping in Indonesia while the car is slowly sailing down under.
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