Article from Travel Outback Australia. But are we going the RIGHT way?” Gary’s knuckles whiten on the wheel. “Well.” I hesitate. “Actually…” The HEMA app says there’s no road, but it’s impossible to argue with …
Survival First Aid Kits
Article from Travel Outback Australia Travelling in remote places often means you are away from any help when something goes wrong. A simple survival first aid kit could save your life or that of someone …
River Crossing: Dangerous But Rewarding If You Can Do It Right
Article from: Travel Outback Australia “Outback Australia as beautiful and amazing as it is … can be an unforgiving place. I am all for off-road adventures and thrill-seeking expeditions, but safety has to come first. …
The day our Dometic Waeco fridge saved our Bacon
So our #MobileHQGU gets a lot of blacktop miles these days, but whenever possible it still gets a pounding off-road and has for a number of years. If a Nissan Patrol could talk it’d have …
5 Ways to Manage the Cost of your Insurance
In the last few weeks we released some information about the adjustments to our underwriting criteria and it drove a range of questions on premiums from readers. We have long noted that as a specialist …
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 …
How We Used Solar Power To Stay Off The Grid For Six Months
Dean and Shay are The Gathering Folk, a young family who are on a journey around Australia to discover ways to live a sustainable, community-focused life with an emphasis on learning and having fun. After …
X Marks The Spot
Toyota ups the ante in 2018 with Rugged, Rogue and Rugged X. Ford’s Ranger is killing it in Wildtrak form, and nobody has noticed it more than Toyota. Some 35,297 HiLux 4WDs found new homes …
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 …
Solar Shower Bags; Do They Actually Work?
Having a shower when you are camping takes comfort to a totally new level. I’ll never forget the first time we boiled a big pot of water over the fire and used a cheap 12V …
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 …
7 Depressing things you should do after the Christmas break
Which bright spark thought up the saying “all good things must come to an end” – pretty sombre stuff right? Kind of like getting back home from your big trip during the Christmas break. …
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 …
Fuel Tank Buyers’ Guide
A factory-fitted fuel tank has the potential to leave you high and dry on your next cross-country expedition. The restricted capacity of some OE tanks – on average sitting at around the 80-litre mark – …
2018 Haval H9 Review
Haval is here, and their proper 4WD offering has been improved. It’s called the H9, and is a seven-seat 4X4 roughly the same size as a Ford Everest. The brand is new to Australia, but …
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 …
2018 Mahindra PikUp Launched
MAHINDRA Automotive Australia Pty Ltd (MAAPL) has launched the next generation of its venerable PikUp, with a raft of updates including a new six-speed transmission, more grunt from its 2.2-litre turbo-diesel donk, and revised interior …