Keeping up on maintenance on your vehicle, can take a variety of forms, this applies even if you aren’t mechanically minded. Focusing on the small details can make spending time in your 4WD lots more enjoyable and can potentially even prolong the overall life of our off-road vehicles.   If you’ve been to the…

There are a lot of tips and tricks to getting a campsite to be the envy of all other campers around, with top quality gear now becoming more and more affordable and easily available online. We’re going to cover 5 of our favorite top tips to turn your campsite into one tip-top setup for less…

When journeying via the roads less travelled, there are many obstacles and perils of travel that can stop your travels dead in your tracks and prevent you from getting to camp. So we are going to show you some awesome bushman tips and tricks to make sure you get to where you are going no…

When getting started with what will become a life-long obsession with off road driving, it’s easy to be confused about which low range gear to choose when the tracks get a bit challenging. So we are going break down the basics to help you choose the correct gear for the situation you are in! It…

The end of summer hit most of us pretty hard and some of us are even facing losing an hour of usable light with the end of daylight savings approaching extremely fast. It’s nearly going to be impossible to get out and explore the vast and untamed tracks around unless you are prepared to illuminate…

  Cooking on a grill or BBQ is something we all love to do, whether it be at home or while out camping in the bush. The trouble is, wanting to cater to both situations can be expensive as we usually need separate gear to take camping most of the time because the stuff we…

Here at 4WD Supacentre, we sell a large range of exhaust systems to suit most popular 4WDs. Every single one of our exhausts are hand-built right here in Australia, by Berklee Exhausts in their factory in Ballarat. These ultra-clever 4×4 exhausts are designed to bolt straight up to a large range of popular 4x4s, with…

  Who doesn’t love a good roast? Lamb, pork, chicken, beef; you name it! When you have a big crew of family and friends at a good camping spot, nothing is more enjoyable than sharing a meal around the campfire. Roasting meat over the fire is something that human beings have been enjoying since time…

A dual battery system in your 4×4 lets you run all sorts of 12v gear, like portable fridges, LED camp lights and inverters. That’s all the kind of camping gear that makes camping more enjoyable and comfortable, and there’d be few campers out there who don’t already have a dual battery system or aren’t planning…

Technology has greatly benefited 4WDing in the last couple of years, and one of our favourite bits of new technology has been the introduction of synthetic winch rope as standard right across the entire range of our winches here at 4WD Supacentre. Even as recent as five years ago, the vast majority of winches came…

If you own a modern turbo-diesel 4WD then what we’re about to tell you, will be plain scary. We don’t tell you this to alarm you, but rather to arm you with the knowledge that you need to ensure your pride and joy doesn’t end up on the back of a tow-truck. Every single week…

Camping is a seriously addictive past-time! There’s nothing like leaving the hustle and bustle of everyday life behind and heading out to your favourite local campsite for some much-needed rest and relaxation. Australia is blessed with some absolutely incredible camping opportunities, from beautiful river-front bush campsites to jaw-dropping beachfront sites nestled in the sand-dunes. You…

  For most of us, Cape York is a long way away, and good preparation is essential to make sure have an enjoyable time away with your family and friends, rather than have it become a nightmare. Some people tend to overthink the Cape a bit, though. It’s easy to get caught up in wanting…

When you are just starting out going camping, there are many pitfalls that people fall into through lack of experience. These are just a few helpful tips for getting more from your campsite and preventing some of the trip ruining mistakes many beginners make! 1.Open Camp Fire There is a fantastic ideal, that is spread…

We all want to make the most of the time we have when we’re out camping at our favourite bush or beach campsites, right? One of the biggest complaints we hear here at 4WD Supacentre relates to the time it takes to set up or pack away all your camping gear. Our aim at 4WD…

What is UHF UHF stands for Ultra High Frequency Radio, this is a service cost free civilian radio frequency and is commonly found on 4WD’s, semi-trailers, construction and mining equipment and other land based vehicles. There are many different types of UHF radio, but all transmit and receive in specified frequencies(477 MHz band). Radio waves in the…

  Once you start touring around this wide brown land we call home, you’ll get over refilling your esky with ice every couple of days pretty quickly, especially when you’re pulling out soggy bacon the next morning. The best solution to cold drinks without ice? A portable fridge in the back of your 4WD!  …

It’s easy to pile gear inside the back of your vehicle, but the more gear you need to take with you, the more difficult packing becomes, and shortly you become a puzzle master, finding which piece fits best where! Packing is a somewhat tedious task and one of the biggest issues people face when packing…

A 4WD winch has always been considered one of the pinnacle identifiers of having a kitted out 4WD vehicle and if you have a 4WD winch (or two) fitted to your vehicle the uninitiated could easily consider you a gnarly 4WDer and someone who hits unbelievably tough tracks, and lived to tell the tale! However…

When you hit the tracks or beaches fully loaded, it’s easy to feel like your 4WD is a bit sluggish, heavy and lethargic, with a couple of hundred kilos of gear and the whole family on board, no matter how grunty your motors specs are, there still may be much left to be desired, particularly…