Good quality 4WDing gear isn’t usually determined by its price tag, so working out what is good and what is not can be a bit confusing and if you yourself are not a 4WDer, you’d easily be confused looking for a gift for the 4WDer in your family so these are 5 AWESOME ideas to grab as gifts for the 4WDer in your family!

1-Hercules Essential Recovery Kit

As the name suggests, this kit contains all the 4WD recovery Essentials, which can help with winching, snatch strap recoveries, towing and much more.

All of the components in the Hercules kit are rated to be safe for 4WD recoveries, and everything neatly stashes away in the included recovery damper.

The Hercules Essential recovery kit includes;

1 x Snatch Block, 8,000kg

1 x Snatch Strap, 8,000kg, 9m x 60mm

1 x Tree Trunk Protector, 10,000kg, 3m x 75mm

1 x Extension Strap, 5,000kg

2 x Bow Shackles 4.7T each

1 x Winch Dampener

A recovery kit is like a good first aid kit, except any serious 4WDer will tend to use their recovery kit far more often. This is the reason why the Hercules kits pay particular attention to detail when they designed these kits!

2-Offroad Jack

The Advent of traction control and extremely grippy tyres with excellent road holding abilities, this has meant that large lift kits are no longer essential to getting your vehicle up and over off-road obstacles.

There are however, a handful of limitations to having a lower ground clearance 4WD, one of those being the lack of ability to clear large boulders, and also high siding on rutted sections of track. By using an offroad 4WD jack like the Hercules offroad jack, they can pick their vehicle up and out of the sticky terrain, then being able to pack underneath their tyres to simply drive out of trouble!

3-LED Lightbars

When driving off road at night time, terrain features and other hazards like animals, that may be on the road ahead. No matter what vehicle you are driving you will find that your headlights are somewhat lacking and will not provide a satisfying amount of light to illuminate the tracks.

This is where LED lightbars come into their own, a powerful and bright LED lightbar offers plenty of additional spread and throw of light and when looking at the performance of the Domin8r LED Lightbars, you will find that even the smallest of the group with the 22” Domin8r LED Lightbar offers over an incredible 5400 Lumens of bright white light and can spread that light a massive 140° wide.

4- EDS computer

This clever device is a revolution, when you are 4WDing in remote areas, far from the help of the nearest mechanic, you simply plug the device in and are instantly able to diagnose engine trouble with the flick of a switch, as well as being able to recognize minute changes in your engine temperature.

The Engine Data Scan, is a simple plug and play device that operates with the vehicles OBDII interface, and taps into all of the vehicles sensors, acting like a black box recorder, also with the ability to check fault codes and check engine lights. Meaning your 4WDer friend can keep their 4WD running smoothly no matter where they are, without the expensive fees mechanics charge to operate similar diagnostics computers.

5-First Aid Kit

Just like a 4WD recovery Kit, it is very important for a 4WDer to carry and know how to use a comprehensive first aid kit.

Without the ability for fast access from paramedics or an ambulance, it is very important to know how to treat everything from snakebites, to head wounds, lacerations, and everything else in between.

4WD Supacentre offers, plenty of options of first aid kits that can help 4WDers patch up friends on the tracks; starting with the Adventurer rescue swag, a full comprehensive system that integrates QR codes, to allow you to utilize your smart phone and an offline app, to receive assistance in undertaking first aid practices.

The next in the lineup is the Survival Vehicle First Aid Kit which contains over 100 vehicle specific first aid components, the survival first aid kits utilize a clever one-of-a-kind pressure bandage that utilizes a stretch indicator to ensure you have the exact right pressure on a wound like a snake bite. The correct pressure is critical to survival.