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I’m sure you’ve seen, and even worse, heard it. The awful sound of a car nose or underneath crunching and scraping on a driveway or slope. At best, it’ll be a minor scrape nobody can see but you, the owner, know it’s there. At worse, you could damage the vehicle’s front bumper or nose, even…

Reader question: I am about to get a new caravan which should be about 3300 kg max when loaded. I currently tow with a Discovery 5 TD6. Other Disco owenrs find that it tows this sort of van very well. However am considering replacing the Disco with a new LC 300 or a RAM or…

Reader question: Hello Robert..Ive just watched your Sand Driving tyre pressure vid on YouTube. Excellent demonstration. Thank you..I have one question for you?Does the weight of the vehicle determine how much you can drop your pressures? If you have a box trailer at home running say 30psi in the tyres empty.. if you go and…

I have produced a lot of content explaining how towing works; what the weights are, what causes sway, offroad driving and much more. There’s also a calculator to give you an idea of likely weights for your rig. But nothing will replace careful measurement of your rig on a set of purpose-designed scales operated by…

Do you travel in remote areas, outside mobile phone reception, yet also want or need high-speed Internet access? Maybe Starlink is for you. It’s a satellite-based high-speed Internet access system, and there’s coverage pretty much everywhere in the world. You will need to carry a satellite dish and a means to power it, usually a…

If you want to better your laptimes, then you need help because despite what we may think, few of us are born quick and even those that are benefit from assistance. In the early days that’s instruction, but when you’re chasing tenths or less you must have data. Unfortunately, even in 2023 datalogging for amateur…

So you’ve got a Fuso Canter, Isuzu N-Series or Hino 4×4 truck – but it’ll need the rear wheels converted to singles. Which set of wheels and tyre dimensions is best? Watch this video for all the background you need.

We’ve had revolutions before. At some point in the distant past, Grog and friends, living in temperate climates and on a chilly night, left their cave and went to investigate a big red crackling apparition…and got warm. Later, Grog’s descendants accidentally dropped some meat in the fire, noticed it a bit later, decided to taste…

There’s no question mark at the end of the “what’s he compensating for” trope. Everyone knows what it is; a statement. A direct reflection on the size of his penis and the need to offset performance elsewhere by an eye-rolling, ostentatious display of wealth by a man to compensate for his physically plain if not…

Reader question: Hi Robert – thought I’d as you a question please, as you seem to have broad coverage of lots of car topics. I’ve got a 6 month old LC300 GXL, to which I have fitted a set of Cooper AT3 LTX tyres, and added a bullbar and a winch. The new tyres are…