Gobi-X rear carrier bumper for Hilux Vigo
It had been nearly a year since a hefty pole jumped out of a blind spot during a night-time reversing .manoeuvre in the Hilux. Bakkies with canopies are hard enough to see out of at the best of times, and this wasn’t one of those times. The resultant crunch put the standard chrome rear bumper badly out of sorts, and it was removed while the insurance machine was put into slow progress. The usual optimistic panel-beating quotes were ignored by the service provider in favour of a paltry payout, confirming my idea of what needed to happen: the fitment of a decent replacement steel item that could handle a heavy towing load and be used for recoveries
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Uganda The Pearl Of Africa
This trip, the very last in the series of stories from Dan Grec’s two-year Africa round trip, details a scary mishap and some extraordinary wildlife encounters
Chewy, But Edible
Take another look at those garden pests
Auto Perfection?
Adding a six-speed auto to Mahindra’s workhorse ups the game for this value proposition
Defenders On Tour
The second 2019 Defender Trophy event kicked off in Limpopo and was unique in that participants camped in three different countries…
Rad Rig The Dream Catcher
Motorhome world’s one-of-a-kind luxury globetrotter
The Difference Between An Overlander And An Offroader
A very important distinction needs to be made between the offroader and the overland traveller; often the two are thought to be the same.
Steelmate TP-S9
Solar powered TPMS (External sensor)
Light on the dark side
VW AMAROK DARK LABEL
Monkey business!
Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) are the most widespread of the African monkeys; occurring from the Ethiopian Rift Valley, highlands east of the Rift, and southern Somalia, through the eastern lowlands of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia (east of the Luangwa Valley), Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and all nine provinces in South Africa.
GREAT ZOOKS
There are a few mishaps as a bunch of Jimnys tackle one of Lesotho’s premier off-road challenges, Baboon’s Pass
