The 4WDTribe Podcast

Send Andy a text: Click here Do you need to upgrade your intercooler? Join the banter with Andy and Craig Maxwell from Cross Country 4x4 as they talk all things intercooler. The guys at Cross Country 4x4 have made over 10,000 performance intercoolers and really know their stuff. Full disclosure Andy has had the twin fan upgrade on his 79 Series Toyota for around 3-4 years now. As usual no sponsors...

Send Andy a text: Click here Merry Christmas everyone. In this episode I do a wrap of the year and talk about the podcast over the last 12 months. As well as: The Flinders ranges Back of Bourke Darling River Toilet Paper Firepits Tyre Pressure Monitors Camping and Caravan Etiquette Stationstays SA

Send Andy a text: Click here *WARNING* Elodie drops a couple of F Bombs late in this episode but they are totally in context so I left them in. I met Elodie at Seven Spirit Bay and she embodies the impact "Backpackers" have on our 4WDing experiences around Australia. We meet them at pubs, roadhouses, resorts, and they are so entwined in the 4WD Tribe experience that when covid hit and th...

Send Andy a text: Click here This episode covers a recent fishing trip to the Coburg Peninsula, Arnhem Land N.T. There are pictures (luckily, after all it is fishing). You can see at: Instagram @4wdtribe My mate from this years Oombulgurri trip, Bob and I head out of Darwin by plane to Seven Spirit Bay in Arnhem Land. Seven Spirit Bay is operated as a fishing lodge in tandem with "The Barra L...

Send Andy a text: Click here Danie is one of the nicest 4WD'ers you'll ever meet. She's a heavy vehicle mechanic in the R.A.A.F. Works on her own 75 Series. Works along side her partner at JRACE Industries in Townsville.  Loves camping and 4WD'ing. Tows a Patriot Camper Trailer. Has a dog named MARS. Danie aslo has over 111,000 followers on Instagram and has had over 2,000,000...

Send Andy a text: Click here Danny Beyer A.K.A. Danno Bananno founder of the Facebook group  "Tag Along Caravanning,Camping & 4X4 Australia" Danny sold up the family home bought a Kedron Caravan and hit the road full time. He's a wealth of knowledge about travelling in a van with a family and having a cracker time doing it. We talk about: -Tag a long touring with other like mind...

Send Andy a text: Click here If you've ever thought about getting your pride and joy 4WD tuned, you need to listen to this episode. Glen and I talk Performance Tuning your 4WD. Glen has an absolute wealth of knowledge about tuning a car for performance. In fact these days he trains mechanics from all over Australia exactly how to do that. In fact, I don't know anyone better qualified in...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode I chat to Glen Haddon. Glen and I have virtual campfire chat about life, the universe and everything. We start at Glen's childhood when the outdoor obsession started and follow the curve as Glen attacks life. Glen has been around the 4WD scene for yonks! Glen's passion for 4WD'ing from youth led him to appear in the early 4WD Action DVD&a...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode I have a cracking yarn with Chris Mata. I met Chris on the recent Oombulgurri Track expedition. We reminisce about all the grief Oomby caused our cars and we update on Chris's journey.  Chris bought a Ranger and spent a bomb kitting it out with all the stuff he THOUGHT he needed to travel Australia. As you do.  We talk about what worked, what didn&...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode Andy covers off on the toilet paper pollution epidemic at campsites and roadsides all over Australia. Is it the newbies? The lazies? The don't cares?  No-one will ever own up to it anyway but it's getting worse! We have a choice, we are either part of the problem or part of the solution, but you get to choose. So here's an easy SOLUTION....

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode I interview Jol Fleming in Alice Springs. Jol suffered a motor vehicle accident in 1981, inflicting him with Tetraplegia/Quadraplegia. Since then Jol has achieved so much by running a 4WD Training Business and training over 8,000 people, Awarded Gold Medal Status with C.A.M.S, Awarded Regional Territorian of the year. Joe was also instrumental in helpin...

Send Andy a text: Click here Firstly: In this episode Andy makes a mistake first up. He says the journey is 600k's, it's not, it is way better, more like around 900 k's. It is around 600 k's between your first two fuel stops though, so be prepared! I talk about my love for the Flinders Ranges and how under rated they are. So many drive past on their way somewhere else. This is...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode Andy chats with ZONE RV Founder Dave Biggar. These days ZONE RV are one of the major premium Off-Road caravan manufactures on OZ. But it wasn't always that way. We go back to the beginning when Composite Caravans were just a thought bubble in Daves mind to today where they operate at premium price points with Caravans selling regularly up to $250,0...

Send Andy a text: Click here If you have any inkling of heading to WA in a 4WD you need to join me for a yarn with Jed Currey. Jed operates a Tag a Long 4WD business that hits Oombulgurri, Queen Victoria Desert, Goldfields Region and Dirk Hartog Island just to name a few WA regions. Jed has been a 4WD business for years and has a wealth of knowledge. We talk vehicle prep, tyres, maintenance and mo...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode Andy talks to Traditional Owner and Balangara man Colin Morgan while on the Oombulgurri Track In the Kimberley region of W.A. This is day 11 of 15 and we are near Oomeri a place of special rock art and waterholes. Colin and Andy talk about how the 4WD Track tag along business started and which 4WD you tubers were partly responsible. We yarn about the Oo...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode host Andy talks to...well host Andy. In a first Andy tells the whole story. After recently completing the Oombulgurri Track in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia there were a few episodes to load. I thought the best way was to preface it with a warts and all account from a customer who just paid, drove and completed the track. The Oombulgurri Tra...

Send Andy a text: Click here Jump into this episode with Roy Smith a quintessential Aussie Bloke who has been on the road over 35 years travelling with his trusty 1976, F350 and modified 36 foot horse float. Roy has painted signs and murals all over country Australia. If you've done any sort of travelling around this country you've probably seen Roy's work. The Lions Den Pub in FNQ,...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode host (Andy Ireland) has a yarn at the Helicopter airfield at the Bungle Bungles with base manager Leigh Collins. Leigh's only a young fellah but does a great job of managing the operations at the famed Bungle Bungles in the Purnululu National Park W.A. We talk how you you get to be a Helicopter Pilot. How the crew live at the remote airfield and wh...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode I talk to Bazza (Barry Burrowes). On a recent 4WD trip to the N.T. I called into the Policeman's Museum in Timber Creek. I found Bazza the Curator/Caretaker. What a man! Bazza's in his eighties doing an amazing job showing the tourists through and recounting all with tales of daring and adventure.  Bazza's local knowledge is excellent and...

Send Andy a text: Click here If you have a few surfboards on the roof of the fourby and are heading to WA, this ones for you. If you just enjoy a 4WD yarn  for the first 22 minutes in this episode Wooly and I get totally absorbed talking 4WD stuff and numerous misadventures. Wooly is certainly a colourful character of the 4WDTribe. Wooly is also a WA surfing identity and runs a successful shop, su...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this Episode Andy travels to Bendleby Ranges to catch up with Warren Luckraft patriarch  of the family operating Bendleby Ranges today. They yarn about the History of the property back to early settlement and through to how the property transformed into the tourist powerhouse it is today. Warren tells a great story about growing up out there and the history to prese...

Send Andy a text: Click here In this episode Andy and Michelle Reynolds have a good old yarn around the campsite up at Willow Springs Station. They talk all about the history, what it was like growing up on a sheep station, how the property morphed into the outstanding tourist destination it is today and what a visiting 4WD'er can expect. Of course the discussion heads around to Skytrek the i...