For me it's more like the other DVD was like 5-10yrs ago. More about the trip, what was there and the history of the place rather than "my brilliant ### winch" or "superb &&& awning" that it has become.
And when the wife says she prefers Roothy's new DVD, who am I to disagree......?!
Talking about the ute, there seems to me that there is a fine line between momentum and speed that many don't/can't comprehend. For instance a mate who'd just bought a 4WD and came down here from the Goldy for hols asked me to run him through sand driving. Sure I says, the normal things follow as we do them; pressures, gear selection, track etiquette and so on."You ready?" "Yep" "Righto then, count to five then follow me..........."
Damn, he doesn't have a radio and I can't see him once I get to the end of the access track. No biggie, I figure he's just counting long. Sure enough he comes bounding over the last dune, nearly airborne with a wicked grin I could see from 200m away. When he gets to me I start by warning him he should expect a bollocking for that entrance but we needed to recount the steps.
Pressure? 18PSI like you said.
Did you see someone else and decide to wait to give them a clear track? Nope, just wanted to make sure you were clear is all.
Fair enough I said so, gear? Second.
Second low yeah? Second what?
Even though I'd shown him earlier that day what the stubby lever did, he said he figured that momentum=speed and that second low=second slow which would be about 40kph!
Yes, I took him for another drive with me driving him first then him driving, tinkered with pressures to show him the difference and so on over the next hour or so. No worries Matt, I'm going back to town to grab a widget, be back soon. Off at warp speed! Needles to say I had a couple of blokes wander over to voice their opinions of his driving prowess and displeasure at being covered in sand so I invited them to pass it to him first hand when he returned, which he did in the manner he left. I think offering to give his 2 week old, $48k truck a Tasman Sea bath if he continued got through as he led when we left at a steady 2ND low pace!
My point being that you can describe the difference between the two until you're blue in the face, some just don't get it unless the right motivation is applied. And if the truck just keeps getting fixed as "the price of R&D" I'd suggest that the appropriate motivation hadn't been yet applied.
He seems like a nice enough bloke but to me he doesn't seem to have the prowess and insight that the years of driving he claims to have should've brought him.
YMMV.
