Airless Tires From Michelin — Glimpse at the future?

Check out this radical new tire design by Michelin. Apparently, this new tire concept was unveiled at the Philadelphia car show.

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Buyers Guide: Spotlights For Your 4X4

Auxiliary lights, spotties, whatever you want to call them, are one of the first modification people seem to make to their 4X4. For someone driving an older 4X4 I can understand it. The driving lights on older rigs like 40/60 series Landcruisers are just plain shithouse.

These days new rigs actually come with some pretty decent lighting, right out of the box, so there would be a heap of other mods I’d make before lights. But this is not a ‘why you shouldn’t fit spotties on your rig’ article, so let’s take a closer look at how you can pick the right auxiliary lights for your rig…

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Cable V’s Rope For Your Winch

For a long time we had a choice between cable or cable to use with our winches. That was until some enterprising individual obviously had enough of cable splinters and lugging around all that extra weight and decided to come up with an alternative. Often referred to as plasma rope — it’s still essentially just a synthetic rope. So which is better? Lets take a look.

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Bull Bar or Winch Bar – What’s The Difference?

A pretty common question I get asked when talking about bull bars is what’s the difference between a winch bar and a bull bar so I thought I’d put up a quick post explaining the difference. Simply put, a winch bar has the provision for fitting a winch. They’re designed to cater for the most popular models making installation a breeze. They are re-enforced where then need to be, in order to cope with the huge forces a winch generates and have pre-cut slots on the front of the bar to allow for the cable/rope.

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Selecting The Right Type Of Bull Bar

Bull bars come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Purchasing a bull bar for your rig isn’t a small investment so it’s important to know exactly what your hard earned cash is getting you. I’ve detailed below so of the important elements to a quality new front bar.

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How To: Installing a Body Lift in Your 4X4

Installing a body lift kit in your 4X4 is one of the easier modifications you can complete to give your wheel wells that little bit of extra clearance for larger rubber. The install differs slightly from 4X4 to 4X4, but the process is pretty much the same…

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Install a Dual Battery System

If your into all the high tech wizardry of modern day camping, or if you’ve tacked on an electric winch to your off road chariot, you’ll probably want to invest in a 2nd battery for your 4X4.

Most large 4X4’s produced after 1980 will have a spot already available for a 2nd batter, and this mod is one of the easiest you can make to your 4X4. For older and smaller 4X4’s you might have a little more work to do…

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Buyers Guide: Off Road Tires

With number of different brands of off road tires changing so fast, if I was to publish a review on the specific products available right now, by tomorrow it would already be out of date. So rather than do that, I thought I’d share some more generic insight into what you should look for in an off road tire, so at the time of purchase, you can make an informed choice.

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4X4 Car Hire

There are a couple of reasons why you might consider hiring a 4X4 over a car. You might need to tow something (trailer, horse float), you might be on holiday and want to do some off-roading
you might only get the urge to 4X4 once a year.

Whatever your reason for looking to hire a 4X4 there are a few things to look out for other than just the cost. Here are some of them.

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Preparing your 4×4 for the Winter Season

It’s just about that time again—the kids are going back to school. Halloween decorations are going up—soon to be replaced by Thanksgiving/Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanzaa offerings. We’re smack in the middle of fall now, but soon Old Man Winter will arrive to stall engines, freeze your metal tools, and make a simple tire change turn into a dangerous game of ‘avoid the ice slicks’!

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