And a big AMEN to the not Kitting out your ride immediately. I have been offroading for a many years. One thing that I have learned is "Just start doing it and adapt as you need" I know that my rig is different then someone else's. This is true, however mine does what I do exceptionally well. Lesson is to start, figure out what you like, adapt accordingly.

Myth: A rooftop tent is necessary for offroad travel, and you should leave it on year round just to make sure everyone knows you have a hobby and income.

I'm in Iowa (USA) and I was told I needed a lift kit, winch, and mud tires before I even thought about offroading. As a woman never having owned a 4wd vehicle I believed it: until I had a frank conversation with a manager at Discount Tire. He asked if I was planning on taking a long trip to Moab or somewhere other than Iowa... no. Do you plan on buying new rims and tires to alternate for winter/highway driving miles? No . I drive 100 miles daily round trip to and from work with this vehicle. He recommended leaving my current stock vehicle alone. I was grateful.

"Soft roading" I've been trying to come up with a good simple phrase for this for a while but your soft roaders is just perfect!

Your first myth is similar to something I tell people about companies that make fishing gear. There are hundreds, if not thousands of companies making fishing gear, but none of them are trying to catch fish they're trying to catch fishermen. ;-) Hello from Kingman, Arizona in the United States.

Re locking hubs. I worked for a long time in a job driving off road heaps. I hated free wheeling hubs and left them locked always. I found you were already in trouble by the time you remembered them. Then you were often walking through mud to lock them or in a recovery situation.

Myth:11, soft rope is actually safer than steel cable. When it snaps it doesn’t carry the weight that steel cable does and won’t damage as much as steel. My experience is being a tow truck driver with both steel cable and soft rope. Soft rope snaps more. But is less dangerous.

Myth: if you rev your engine twice before you dump the clutch it will better your chance of getting through the bog/obstacle

Hang on are you saying I no longer need to sell my house and all my belongings to buy a 100k four wheel drive, chop the back off it to extend the chassis do a gvm upgrade stick another 80k into it with canopies, roof top tents, lithium batteries, inverters, coffee machines, beer kegs etc so I can have fun even though I won’t be able to afford the fuel to actually go anywhere. Boy that’s lucky I guess I can stick with my old Hj47 a swag and an esky. Good video mate 👍keeping it real

#16. Driving within an hour away from a major city is "Overlanding."

Your honesty is refreshing, when virtually everyone else is trying to sell us stuff…

Spot on! Our stock Gen 2 Pajero took us from Inuvik to southern California to Prudhoe Bay. The Current 80 series is getting built over time, but it's still taking us to amazing places as the build up takes place.

well done and explained yes you can do it with a stock 4x4 but you will need a aircompressor to let the tires down and up for the high way

Hi Ronny, I admire your honesty. I have a 2009 pre upgrade 76 with just a 2in lift and a 3in exhaust. I live in the Kimbererly and have been down every rough, rock strewn and shitty road up here you could imangine, towing a leaf sprung camper trailer with my wife and 2 kids and we have done it with relative ease. Having a fully kitted out car like yours would be great (yes I'm jealous...) but it's not essential to experiance this great state of ours. Thanks for the content you create. always enjoy your vids.

Myth 10 was the eye opener for me as I always believed that you only engaged the front hubs when you are in 4wd, thanks for another great informative video Ronny mate your a legend 👍👍

Myth 11. Blinker fluid lasts forever

Great videos....keep up the good work Ron....👍

You need a full kitted rig when you want a full kitted rig. The only true thing you need is a reliable 4x4, a way to call for support if something happens (CB, UHF, SatPhone) .. And the mindset of safety (don't over work the capabilities of the rig you take up there. Ride according to the limits you have)

I enjoyed that you filmed this at different locations and times. Really good to mix it up and to create an episode that was smooth to watch.

Ronny speaks common sense. I’ve been stuck in the Pilbara for 7 months and am heading home in 4 weeks. After lockdown I bought a hemi 2006 Jeep grand Cherokee in Perth. It was 100% bog stock with 69000km running continental tyres. Didn’t even have a tow bar. I’ve gone all over the place with it whilst over here. On dirt roads I’ve just let the tyres down a little - and best thing is it’s fully locked in low range. I just bought some camping gear and have had a ball. Can’t wait to get back and hit all the blue mountain tracks and south coast tracks. Just pack a swag, a billy and get out there. You’ll realise you don’t need all the fancy gear🤘🤘

Thanks for saying it like it is ronny. We all get sucked into the pit but honestly its fun doing your ride up.

Thanks for another awesome video Ron. I've said before but you really are appreciated here. U really take your time and explain things . You give the reasons behind your comments, u aren't just throwing stuff out there and telling everyone to follow your advice. Your casual laid back style is like chatting with one of my buddies. We love you in the USA, keep it up brother 👍

great show as usual ronny . i have a 2010 ifs hilux the trouble with ifs is the cv boot rubbers are deliberatly made of poor quality rubber and die from fatigue. secondly i regularly drive off track gold prospecting and the cv boots are prone to being punctured by sticks

"Miffs" 😆 Great information in these two videos. Thanks Ronny!

97 4runner with 250,000 miles, simple 3 inch lift, 33 inch AT's, full size spare, compressor and tow strap. That's all I have, that's all I can afford and that's all I need. Might get winch, front bumper, rock sliders and rear locker to do some stuff at Moab after I get more experience.

80 k/h on corrugated road 200 k west of alice springs in a troopy, smooth ride until a bend then 4 wheel drift across road, lucky i was on the inside of the bend. lesson learnt. the height and distance between corrugations can vary on bends. when riding the tops of corrugations you have half the traction on the road. never thought of airing down, great advice Ronny.

Amen to Number 1, I use to drive a little AWD Honda Element in the desert around Southern Nevada and Arizona. People would comment all the time "How the hell did you get that thing out here?" Or "You must be lost." I would smile, looking at their $10k Suspensions and crazy snorkels (in an area that only rains a few inches a year). It ain't what ya drive kid.

Yes please, a video about the best way to drive on corrugation. Thanks Ronny!

Thanks Ronny, have a great week!

👍👍 like the first one specially. You don't need every accessory to go off-road. But you do need to know your limits( which is the most important thing so you don't end up regretting the experience.)

I wondered why my wife subscribed me to your channel?!?!?! She alerts me with EXTRA emphasis when an upload such as this appears. You and I live in different worlds but in very closely the same 4x4 off-road environment. Sadly, she thinks most of my off-road expenses and precautions are unnecessary. I own (and preciously maintain a 1993 Land Rover Defender 90). It is as close to ‘stock’ as it can be in this modern world. I have an emergency tire repair kit, an air compressor for tires and such, six recovery points equally split between both ends, a Yankum recovery rope, hard and soft shackles and a spare tire jack and lugnut wrench that fits and works. I carry emergency tools and know how to use them. There is both grease and blood equally smooched into the tool grips. Governments and laws of the lands vary but I also carry with me a personal weapon to defend myself against dinosaurs, hippopotamus, alligators , bison, grizzly bears, mosquitos, no-see ‘ums or unfriendly camping neighbors. Hopefully I’ll see you on the trail. My radio will be be blasting AC-DC’s, “Highway to Hell”. I will not be offended if you or anyone else asks me to turn in down; or, calls me, ‘old man’.

Thanks Ronny Dahl, always appreciate your tips n tricks and myth videos :D Make me an informed amateur instead of just an amateur!

enjoyed it ol boy. great info as always.

Great Video! Thanks Ronny and team.

you are a legend mate, keep up the sensational work. always a good day when a new video is up

This why we love and respect you Ronnie...... On popular demand, do a video on how to handle long corrugated road..... Also, how much of pressure should be maintained when one is driving on a delapidated tarmac.... or a route having both good tarmac and worn out and broken roads at regular intervals.....

Top notch filming there Ronny! Loved this episode.

Hi there Ronny, Aussie in Japan here. First of all I’d like to thank you for making these videos. I’ve learned so much from them. Since I’m about to buy my first 4x4 I was not sure what to get, I sure do now thanks to all the useful information you have given. I’ll be joining a 4x4 club here that has 400 members, thanks to your videos I can at least join them now not looking so clueless :-)

Hubs locked in is not something I have to worry about with the 90 series but with the 60 we generally left them locked. It's pretty easy to hit some tough sections of track and forget you haven't locked the hubs. After doing this once or twice and wondering why the going was so difficult, I just left them locked all the time.

Single best modification is lockers front and back. 4WD action demonstrated this beautifully with an old Lux with lockers and 30” road tyres keeping up with an old GQ on 35” muddies and no lockers. After lockers, a decent set of light truck all terrain tyres. Lastly, the most useful recovery gear being simply a decent tyre deflator and compressor. Really love your no nonsense practical approach Ronny. Keep it up.

People say to me when on long desert hauls, " just throw you stuff on the back of the ute" the most important thing is to cover your load, I have lost so much stuff off roof racks and ute backs. Now I use gorilla nets on the roof and tray for firewood, swags and storage boxes. Straps are good but they fail on soft swags and can come loose, timber can shift, loads move. Cover your load I reckon.

With using 4wd on gravel roads, its important to make sure its in locked 4wd, even if you have a constant 4wd vehicle like a Landcruiser or Prado. Reason for this is its often the trigger for different systems in the vehicle that changes the way that the vehicle behaves. For example, with the 100 and 200 series, if you lock the centre diff, it changes the behavior of the ABS system to allow more wheel lock up when your hard on the anchors. Normal road spec ABS on gravel is garbage- it detects the wheel locking up and releases it and increases your braking distance. By engaging the centre diff lock your eliminating a lot of the wheel speed difference between the two ends of the car, your distributing the brake force more evenly too via the mechanical connection in the transfer case and the ABS system allows the wheels to lock up more, which helps build a berm of dirt/sand/gravel in front of your wheels and slows you down better. On loose gravel roads, if I fully panic brake my 100 series with the centre diff locked, its literally 1/2 the stopping distance than if i do the same thing with the centre diff unlocked

Awesome video thank you for your ideas

Brilliant video, so glad content like this is being put up, if only to make people safer. P.s. locking hubs and too fast on corrugations were my two here (back in the day I should say ;-) )

Thank you, your first listed Myth is one I have always believed in. I go overlanding, boondocking or whatever you want to call it regularly mostly on weekend trips. We do beaches, sand dunes, mountain trails and most places are accessible with an unmodified stock off-road vehicle. There have been a few times I have had to resort to using my diff-lock, but that too came standard with my car and I could have made it through without the diff-lock, just would have been harder. Only upgrade I tell people they must have is a good all terrain tire. It's a pain having to change a flat tire on a narrow mountain road with a 1 km drop on the edge. I drive a stock Ranger Wildtrack with only a few cosmetic changes and a custom tow-bar. Very few places I can't go to. Modifications are needed only if you intentionally want to challenge yourself by taking the hardest path possible to get to your destination.

"Fall into the pit the rest of us have"

I am loving the Maxxis tyres, just got them on my vehicle. I can see why you like them, loving them so far, very impressed.

Great video mate. There certainly is a lot of myths out there and it’s even worse when you try tell someone that what they are doing is not only wrong but dangerous but they just don’t want to listen because they have been doing it for 10 years and that’s how they were taught to do it. Keep on educating us brother.

Great stuff mate thanks

But thats USA youtubers for you. 100s of youtube videos on "How to build an overland vehicle" but not a single video of them overlanding, just driving to a camping site down the way.

Hearing myth 1 busted was quite helpful for me atm. You’ve reminded me of the KISS principle in most, if not all of these myths. Thank you sir.

Thanks for that trailer tyre one! I recently rented an off-road trailer for a camping trip and it had chunky off-road tyres and I spent a lot of time wondering why it needed them instead of normal road tyres, seeing as they aren’t drive wheels, but this video helped clarify 👌🏽

Please do a video of "Not Myths".. A video about very important things that one should be doing.. will come really helpful for beginners like me.

Thank goodness for a bit of reality and honesty. Grant

Did a 4wd course a while back and the instructor was very definite about sticking the vehicle in 4wd as soon as you hit dirt and to also air down. I heard a salesman in a well known 4wd accessory place saying that the winch ropes should be changed every couple of years due to UV damage. I watch a lot of yachting videos and a lot of them are using dyneema rope for their standing rigging. It would be way more exposed to the elements than a winch rope and would, I think, be under a lot more constant load as well. Pretty sure that they said that they are good for 7 years or more, from memory. My vehicle has an AWD setting which basically doesn't engage the centre diff. I was doing some fairly easy sand tracks so I chucked it into AWD from 4wd as there didn't seem a lot of point in using the centre diff for no real reason. Of course I then hit a couple of big soft sand patches, one on a steep uphill, which I thought would bog it for sure. Was pretty amazed at just how good it was tbh. Bit of hesitation then the traction control and other systems kicked in and it went straight through it. There was another 4wd in front of me that had everything locked in and it made it harder work of one patch, but it was a heavier vehicle. I would be very interested to see a comparo of the two settings by someone who is good enough to evaluate them properly.

Loved the vid mate. Very informative and straight to the point every time. 👌New subscriber,

Liked before watch, already know what's coming...

That was a great presentation!

IFS any day mate. Once stock Prado. $12k upgrades 2inch lift, brake upgrade, underbody protection, tyres, other electronic things, and yes twin locked. $32k all up. Now let me tell ya.....I go anywhere and up anything. I have to ask those big solid axle cars to move so I can quickly pass. Some of those rigs are $100k plus. I'm about 2.8ton semi loaded and have the comfort of IFS, wheel lifts look good too. Yes lockers are needed, but all rigs need em. May be a Prado but it's still a land cruiser. 180 ltr stock tank is gold, no Jerry's needed, almost 2k KMs highway use. Good at taking kids to soccer too, all that boot space for shopping.

Thanks! It’s interesting to see almost the same myths in Australia as we get in the States. You Australians have learned a thing or two about off-roading!

You Aussies are awesome!!

Love your work. .My only complaint is those bloody ADDS every minute. Thanks Ronny..

Mate, I've just found your channel in the last week or so. Great info and a severe lack of tool compared to other fourby channels. Love your work bloke! P.S. That truck needs 2 more wheels to live up to it's name...

This is someone I’d be happy to go 4 wheel driving with.

Myth 15: If you crack a cold one and say "IMA SEND IT" youll make it through anything 😂

Fantastic video!

You are putting out some great tech vids ATM Ronny, keep it up! About the locking hubs, I’ve bought three 70 series land cruisers new and Toyota insisted that the first 1000km had to be done with the hubs in to ‘bed’ them in.

I love your honesty and myth busting videos.

Fantastic tips!! Thanks for addressing the ifs vs. SA myth. That one drives me batty.

great content as usual.

Biggest myth of all: "I've got a huge V8 and plenty of neddies under the bonnet.....so I don't need to lower my tyre pressures for sand etc".......hahahaha

I like your shots! Great video. 👍

Much needed video

Thanks for honesty

Ronny. Thank you for making such good and informative 4x4 videos! I am new to the hobby and me and my wife like to go on trips to places others cant go. I enjoy the fact that you seem to be aware of what is really essential and practical unlike a lot of other 4x4 channels which seems to be really just "gear porn".

The IFS-myth is particularly funny considering that one of the best offroaders out there, the HMMWV, has independent suspension - front and rear.

Very nice.

Good video and good info well done.

Hey Ronny, thank you for debunking the myths, I enjoy watching your videos very much and appreciate the honest advice. I have one question which I have gotten conflicting advice for from different people. The question is Should you drive in high range or low range when you are driving in soft sand? Some people say that you are putting too much stress on the gearbox if you are in high range, others say the opposite is true. When I go 4 wheeling it's usually on the beach as I would be trying to find a quite fishing spot. The only times I have used low range would be if I was stuck in soft sand or if I was driving on either soft or compacted sand dunes with many tricky bends where low speed is required to prevent damage to the ute. What is your advice for driving in soft sand or tricky sections where driving slow is a must? Thanks in advance.

Nice to see some honest comment! Particularly about keeping the weight down, besides making it harder to recover don"t forget if the worst happens that insurance companies pick up your vehicle and all your gear and weigh it, over GMV and no cover!! Keep up the good work. Cheers Steve

Its about time someone did a video like this..

watching your videos makes me miss home in WA

Love watching these myths getting solved , very informative and true information , only thing I'd say is a few small mods and simple toolkit and gear to make 4x4 ing easier are worth it worth but no need to go over the top unless your really out in the sticks or it's your passion and you do it anytime you can 👍

A corrugation vid. Great idea.

Awesome brother

#8 is awesome. We're all in the same pit brother. You'll find me on the bottom by the bilge pump. #9 is good too (never new that). Excellent video really enjoyed it. Good production too, new studio is starting to pay off. Thanks mate(s)

Great video. When u do the corrugation video could u please mention slowing right down when passing trucks? Sick to death of 4x4s among others passing us flat out and showering us in rocks chipping windscreens and paint. Thanks mate keep up the good work

Man, I love your videos ! I've learned so much just by watching them... Makes me wanna hit the trails way more often ! Have you ever thought about doing a video with Andrew from 4xOverland?

Nice work mate🇦🇺👍🤠🍺

Great video 👍👍

Man you the best!!

Honestly if your vehicle uses way more fuel in 4 wheel drive or with locked hubs go check your front CVs. I'll also add that if you notice your vehicle pulling to one side after a trip check both your hubs are unlocked before you take it in for a wheel alignment.

thanks for your tips, grettings from Ecuador!

Video on corrugations please! It's what I (and probably most people) dread the most!!!

just subscribed to your channel and have found the information you have given very ,very usefull . really enjoy your channel keep it up.

I learn to much from ur videos thanks

i just came back to this video and was reminded about how much I appreciate this kind of info. Although, in my 1991 hilux, if I left the hubs locked, I could feel the drag going at highway speeds. I lost my manual, but I am pretty sure that toyota on the 1991 hilux recommends unlocking the hubs above a certain speed. When my kids were little, they loved getting out and dealing with the hubs and airing up and down. good times.

I know a bunch of old diggers who laugh at todays modified 4wd's. Think, don't drive through it drive around it, have a plan etc... old Land Cruiser or Land Rover with cookie cutters will take you anywhere is the message

He kept saying "Corrugations" I was wondering what he was talking about... we call em "Washboard" in South Carolina

very helpful Thanks Ronny. Do you have a video on driving on corrugations be great to know more.