There is a little secret that I haven’t really let many people in on. It’s funny how a car guy’s brain works – they never want to publicise any type of vehicular failure for fear …
Staff Profile: Ben Ellevsen
Ben recently joined our team as our Sales and Service Manager and drives a pretty tough touring Prado! First Car? – VH Holden Commodore, soon after a Toyota 4runner. First Camping Experience? – As a kid, …
Policy Changes – Water Crossing Claims
Those of you that follow our blogs regularly would have come across our Club 4X4 Crash Index that we published in 2017. In that article, we divulged with transparency how our growing portfolio has performed from …
Motorbiking Outback
When Gary told me he wanted to buy a Harley Davidson, I was skeptical. Apart from teasing him about having a mid-life crisis, I wasn’t a fan of motorbikes. To me, Harleys were loud and …
Club 4X4 End of Year Customer Satisfaction Results
In mid 2017, we shared the results of our inaugural Club 4X4 Net Promoter Score Customer Service Survey. At the time, we were pleased to have set a very high benchmark for ourselves in the …
Isuzu I-Venture Club on Fraser Island
Sometimes in this caper as a 4×4 journo, opportunities arise that make my mates jealous – “So you’re getting paid to do what?” is how the conversation tends to go. Such an interaction happened recently …
Travelling With Kids In The Summer
Six Top Tips For Keeping Little Minds Growing And Happy Our adventure around Australia leaped into action with an offer of an eight month contract for Brett. With this offer we negotiated and turned the …
5 Top Off-Road Towing Tips
Tips for successfully navigating roads less travelled with a van or trailer in tow. Exploring nature’s playground sometimes requires a little extra effort. Like taking a dirt road and venturing on less travelled routes. Usually …
The History of the Canning Stock Road With Phil Bianchi
Phil Bianchi is a historian and 4 wheel driver who has documented a lot of history of the Canning Stock Route and he has driven the route many times. From Wiluna to Halls Creek, it …
5 Outback Travel Mistakes To Avoid
Hardly a week goes by without us getting emails from travellers saying something like this: We’re flying in to Alice Springs on the 9th and then out on the 12th. We want to hire a 4WD drive …
Secrets Of The Gascoyne
A place full of mystery from an ancient past… Ningaloo Homestead Travelling the North West Coastal Highway, on a tour through the Gascoyne and midway along the endless stretch of the Western Australian coastline, is …
HERE’S A FLAMIN’ GOOD TABLE
The Uniflame Campfire Table is simple in design but far from average… If there was one camping accessory that we’ve tried a number of over the years, tables would be high up on the list. …
Family Vacation Tips To Keep The Whole Family Happy
They say that it’s not always about the destination, but often the journey itself and this can be especially true during family holidays. We can all remember complaining about having to share confined spaces with …
Steep Point Fishing
Asides from being an incredible adventure and the most western point of Australian mainland, Steep Point is very well known for its fishing. So much so that it’s often referred to as the best land …
Lerderderg State Park: Melbourne’s 4×4 Escapes
Not much more than an hour north of Melbourne, via Bacchus Marsh, this 201.8km² state park is popular with off-road tourers, campers, anglers, rock-climbers and bushwalkers. The Lerderderg River cuts a path through the main …
Lake Pedder – A Jewel In The Wilderness
Tasmania is famous for their wilderness regions and among the amazing forests is Lake Pedder. When I was a young student at the Australian National University, back in the early 1970s, the Canberra campus atmosphere …
Going To The Toilet When There Is No Toilet
Here is my dirty little secret… I’d much prefer to go to the “toilet” in the bush than in a dark, smelly, cobweb filled pit toilet or filthy public toilet. Now, I have not always …
Can Fraser Island Be A Crowd-free Oasis?
Fraser Island is chock full of sand, dingoes and … backpackers? Thankfully there are places to avoid at least one of these and enjoy this amazing area in peace. It’s no wonder Fraser Island is …
Climbing Uluru To Be Banned October 2019
Climbing Uluru will be banned by October 2019, in a unanimous decision by the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board. “Some people in tourism and government for example might have been saying we need to keep …
Discovering Kalgoorlie – Boulder
I’m rarely lost for words but right then, I was speechless. Standing at the top of Kalgoorlie’s Super Pit for the first time, I was awe struck. I’d been warned it was big. However, it …
Exploring the Gawler Ranges – A Complete Guide
We had to stop counting wombats. They seemed to be everywhere, their chubby brown bodies lazing on the sides of burrows, soaking up the afternoon sun. As we wound our way into the Gawler Ranges …
GPS Tracking – Big Brother or the Ultimate in Vehicle Safety
I’m not sure about all you out there, but as a fourby enthusiast, as well as a general gear-head my biggest fear has ALWAYS been losing my pride and joy to a thief. I have always updated …
Chambers Pillar – A Complete Travel Guide
As soon as Chambers Pillar rises in the distance, you can’t help but marvel at its striking red and white walls, contrasting with the sky’s deep blue. At around 150 km from Alice Springs, Chambers Pillar …
Lake Ballard – Goldfields Western Australia
From the moment I first heard about Lake Ballard, I had to see it. A surreal landscape where the metal statuettes of 51 residents of an outback town inhabit ten square kilometres of a shimmering …
What do you do when it all goes wrong?
This week we are please to change things up a little bit. This yarn (and the beautiful photos that accompany it) was written by one of our customers, Peter Wright, who while holding the copyright …