Ever wondered what you might need to add to your 4WD to get further offroad?

What if we told you that for less than five hundred dollars you can turn your average 4WD into a much more capable vehicle on the most hardcore trails without even modifying your suspension, tyres or your drivetrain? You’d probably call us mad, unless you’ve been to one of our premiere camping stores where you can get a Domin8r Xtreme Winch and Complete Recovery Kit in a combo deal.

This kit contains absolutely everything you need to get even full sized 4WD’s out of some serious trouble. A Domin8r Xtreme 12,000lb Winch offers tons of straight up pulling power for getting your rig out of trouble anywhere you are driving 12,000lb works out to be around 4500kg for a straight line pull this is over 1000kg on top of what many larger 4WD’s weigh fully loaded to their legal maximum weight.

But despite what some movies portray as being the norm with regards to how you might use a winch, it is an excellent idea to bring a recovery kit with you, this is why we have the Hercules Complete Recovery Kit, which includes absolutely everything you need to assist your winch with every type of recovery possible.

Starting with the first and arguably most important accessory in the bag, a Kwiky Tyre Deflator this awesome little device offers the perfect solution for accurately and quickly decreasing your tyre pressures, to the ideal pressures for the terrain you are driving on, for instance sand requires dramatically decreased pressures to increase the surface area on the surface you are driving on, and allowing your tyres to float over the terrain.

Often this is one of the only things you require to do when you head off the hard surfaces, but if you manage to find some seriously soft terrain, that holds your 4WD down, then pulling out a shovel and clearing the areas beneath your 4WD that are being hung up, this is made easy with the kits included folding shovel, which packs small but gives you the reach you need to remove sand, mud, clay and soil from high siding your vehicle!

Shovels are great tools for packing tracks that are just a little bit more hardcore than you can manage, as well as doubling as a toilet shovel, great for trips into the great unknown.

When all else fails and you need a pull free from trouble on the tracks, then this is where the powerful pulling 12,000lb winch comes in. Coupled with the tree trunk protector there isn’t a lot you cannot recover with this powerful winch. But for the more clever 4WDers there is always the ability to extend your winch with the rated winch extension strap which allows you to extend your recovery range out to 40m from the front of your vehicle, or for use in shorter recoveries allowing you to keep most of your winch cable retracted during a recovery and even redirecting a recovery or extending out an anchor point. Taking advantage of the mechanical gains you can achieve with a snatch block pulley returning the winch cable back to an anchor point on the front of the vehicle!

And finally the ever vital Winch Dampener is included in the kit to increase your safety on the tracks, this clever accessory acts as an air brake for your metal recovery components in the case of a failure meaning they aren’t flying through the air like a cannonball, additionally the pockets on the dampener allow you to weigh it down dragging any components to the ground preventing them from hitting someone’s vital organs, and resulting in less serious injuries if any at all!  

The final accessory in the kit is an Adventure Kings Snatch Strap and rated shackles, these have been used for decades on the tracks, and work in the same way as a bungee cord or an elastic band by storing up kinetic energy from a moving vehicle and then in a controlled manner, releasing the stored energy in a pulling force freeing the stuck vehicle and getting everyone back on track.

The only thing you need to get your 4WD kitted out with a winch is a sturdy rated cradle or a strong steel bull bar to mount it to enabling you to get the most stable mounting surface to handle the load.  

To find out more about the entire range of gear available to get your 4WD out of trouble head to www.4WDSupacentre.com.au call our expert team on 1800 88 39 64 to speak with an expert and get the best setup for your vehicle or drop into our store to touch and feel the gear and see the quality for yourself.