How do you get your mojo back for your 4x4?

[Rumpig]

Well said Steffo, totally agree.
What's wrong with a wooden handled shovel.
Only $25.00 at your local hardware store.

got one hanging off the roofrack of my new 4wd, aswell as my 10 year old awning 

[loanrangie]

We go through marmite (vegemite) stages with our 4Runner - loving it or hating it...

Yes, it has it's faults (currently in the CBF to fix bin) as the head gaskets are leaking oil a bit, and is starting to get a bit tired all up with 328,000km on the body and chassis and unknown on the motor (we know it's had an engine swap at least once...). We'll get it sorted, as I have some spare heads here and a whole spare motor lined up...

What gets us liking the bugger again is:
A) Planning a trip - the trip to Tasmania, 6,000km door to door, was fantastic to plan (or not - we didn't have much of a plan)
B) Doing the trip, and seeing how well it does.

This realisation of how well it does makes us question what we replace it with, or do we replace it?

How many other 25 year old, 3.0 petrol, $3,000 4x4s can do that 6,000km trip averaging 14.5L/100km towing a 760kg camper trailer 95% of the time? OK we made sure we travelled light, but even so...

When you look at how much it costs to run (and has cost to run) you start to question what you do next - Quick guestimate is that we've spent about $3k on it in the last 3.5 years on modifications and non-maintenance repairs (HG's, improved exhaust and power steering pump) so really that's less than many people lose in depreciation in that time, and averaged over the 75,000km we've done, I'm quite happy with that as a number. We could probably still get around the $3k mark for it, on a good day...

Same , occasionally I hanker for a new you beaute 4by but at 3k in non major repairs in 11 years and get nearly 900klms from 80 ltrs nothing else will come close without spending over 50k for a vehicle to replace it.

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[edz]

Think I found your MO JO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8zrai2HzLA 

[nab]

haha that V8 Pajero sounds like the go...

Fixed the oil leak today and removed and prepped the side steps for some new paint. Took the old girl for a drive, much noisier that the other 2 cars but that diesel torque is pretty awesome.

[Bill]

Went down this road 2 months ago.
Decided it was time to sell our completley kitted out 11 year old Navara and upgrade.
It took 6 days to sell the Nav for the full asking price.
I have missed it every day since the new owner picked it up...
Bill

[Bird]

Same , occasionally I hanker for a new you beaute 4by

I can never find something that appeals to me to replace the GU with.
Add to that stories of new 4b's getting 1 tank of bad fuel and your up for a new home loan to repair your u beaut boat anchor.

[jclures]

I am still driving my 86 Nissan, and still love it. It has the odd upgrade though.

[trinityalyce]

I have the same issue with my XR6 at the moment... I love it, and people seem to get a kick out of seeing me (quite the "girly girl" in appearance, LOL) driving around in a trayback ute! The amusement value of the looks on peoples' faces never gets old. But I'm... kind of bored with it. I had grand plans when I bought it to kit it out with a custom timber tray and leather seats, but never got around to it and its too old to justify spending the money on aesthetics now. She goes well, is awesome to drive - I'd gladly do 800+ km's in a day driving that thing. It costs me practically nothing and as far as depreciation goes I haven't lost much money on it if I was to turn around and sell it tomorrow...

But what else do I get? Have been toying with the idea of buying a Suzi Jimny and building my own little off road car, but not sure the bank account would like us having 2 four wheel drives in the family, and probably wouldn't be as fun to drive on the bitumen.

[loanrangie]

I can never find something that appeals to me to replace the GU with.
Add to that stories of new 4b's getting 1 tank of bad fuel and your up for a new home loan to repair your u beaut boat anchor.

That is part of the problem plus i dont want to get finance for a new vehicle and dont like any of the jap/thai offerings, and i treat my disco like a ute most of the time and dont care about the bush pin stripes.

[Bird]

... dont like any of the jap/thai offerings, and i treat my disco like a ute most of the time and dont care about the bush pin stripes.

yea none of the banana backs are appealing 

[loanrangie]

Speaking of mojo, i just replaced all the rubbers on my 10yo koni gas/hydraulic shocks and its like a new car.
 Also replaced my leaking steering box so it no longer marks its territory.

[Bird]

Really struggling with this lately. I'm just about 95% ready to sell 4b and all camping gear up.

Running a snow trip up Skene for club in couple of weeks, and really have no interest in going.  Even planning what to take is turning me off. 

Last 3 trips I've done the weather has been pretty abysmal which hasn't helped.. I ****in hate camping in Shit weather.

Family never really show much interest in going - or lets put it this way they never say 'lets go camping next week'... If I arrange everything they will reluctantly tag along. None of my mates go camping or wheeling anymore, and the club that I'm in has 2 trips between now and Xmas.  Paying rego on Patrol and camper for nort.
Problem is I don't have any other hobbies.

Anyone else going through this?

[GeoffA]

....Problem is I don't have any other hobbies.

Have you tried crochet?....

Camping at any time is a raffle, weather-wise. Shoulda come to the national meet (for more than 5 mins).
Chin up.....things should get a bit more lively once we get through winter.

No going back, once you sell the car and camper....

 

[alnjan]

Really struggling with this lately. I'm just about 95% ready to sell 4b and all camping gear up.

Running a snow trip up Skene for club in couple of weeks, and really have no interest in going.  Even planning what to take is turning me off. 

Last 3 trips I've done the weather has been pretty abysmal which hasn't helped.. I ****in hate camping in Shit weather.

Family never really show much interest in going - or lets put it this way they never say 'lets go camping next week'... If I arrange everything they will reluctantly tag along. None of my mates go camping or wheeling anymore, and the club that I'm in has 2 trips between now and Xmas.  Paying rego on Patrol and camper for nort.
Problem is I don't have any other hobbies.

Anyone else going through this?

Similar.  Since 2008 have organised two 4x4 weekends a year, June and November.  That included not just organising the drives tracks locations etc, but to help make it a bit harder we ended up catering for the weekends as well while camping out.  Had a few good people helping with us end thankfully they have taken on organising the June long weekend for us for the last two years but the November weekend died off.  We reached a stage that by the time the weekends came around we were looking to just stay home and just too buggered to really enjoy the weekends.  Over the past two years I can't remember actually 4wding, due to number of reasons.  Still keen to get back into.  For me my interest has changed slightly in a different direction to what others want to do for the weekends but all is good.  I will get back into it.   One day.   Life and circumstances change.
 

[nab]

Really struggling with this lately. I'm just about 95% ready to sell 4b and all camping gear up.

Running a snow trip up Skene for club in couple of weeks, and really have no interest in going.  Even planning what to take is turning me off. 

Last 3 trips I've done the weather has been pretty abysmal which hasn't helped.. I ****in hate camping in Shit weather.

Family never really show much interest in going - or lets put it this way they never say 'lets go camping next week'... If I arrange everything they will reluctantly tag along. None of my mates go camping or wheeling anymore, and the club that I'm in has 2 trips between now and Xmas.  Paying rego on Patrol and camper for nort.
Problem is I don't have any other hobbies.

Anyone else going through this?

Thats sucks the big one. How old are the kids? Can you do an overnighter just you and some mates?

[Ragman]

FFS Nabs this is depressing, Go get a test drive in an Audi SQ7 and rip the cap out some beach.

[muzza01]

I repainted all the bar work recently including brush bars, bull bar and the rear wheel carrier bar.  It is the second time I have done it.  I just use a brush with a silicon based black enamel.  It looks unreal, and the silicon smooths out the brush strokes so it doesn't look like it has been done with a brush.

I too have done pretty much all the mods I can do on this Cruza.  I have had it for over 8.5 years now but there is nothing out there to replace it unless I spend upwards of $50k which isn't going to happen.

Sometimes you are much better off keeping what you own.

[D4D]

Really struggling with this lately. I'm just about 95% ready to sell 4b and all camping gear up.

Problem is I don't have any other hobbies.

Anyone else going through this?

Yep, still going through the same thing. NFI what to do with the Prado and camper. I watch a few 4wd videos and get the rush to go for a drive, then all the family stuff, weather etc. gets in the way. Plus the Outback does 90% of what the Prado can do as a family transport/tourer. These days we spend our time driving to places to ride MTB trails rather than 4wd tracks.

I've just done a clean up in the garage and sold a whole bunch of camping/4wd stuff that was surplus to fund some bike upgrades. Maybe do the same and get out on a bike. You're still in the bush and you're getting fit too. Lysterfield isn't too far away from you. Maybe we need a swaggers Lysty day?

[speewa158]

l having a New Heavy Duty clutch put in my Paj at 274K , that will put a bit of MOJO & aheap of $ as well 

[CorzaDry]

You sounds like me, the building part of the car is fun and you have grand plans on using it, but once it is done you just don't end up using it for some reason.

Life definitely gets in the way but best thing you can do is try to commit to a weekend and make it happen. Most of my mates don't seem interested anymore either, I guess I am lucky that I have a mrs who is itching to go camping most of the time. We just had a son so I am doing some camper upgrades atm so we can get out there once he is a little older.

[Redback]

Really struggling with this lately. I'm just about 95% ready to sell 4b and all camping gear up.

Running a snow trip up Skene for club in couple of weeks, and really have no interest in going.  Even planning what to take is turning me off. 

Last 3 trips I've done the weather has been pretty abysmal which hasn't helped.. I ****in hate camping in Shit weather.

Family never really show much interest in going - or lets put it this way they never say 'lets go camping next week'... If I arrange everything they will reluctantly tag along. None of my mates go camping or wheeling anymore, and the club that I'm in has 2 trips between now and Xmas.  Paying rego on Patrol and camper for nort.
Problem is I don't have any other hobbies.

Anyone else going through this?

Ya need to get back into bikes mate, restoring my old H2 has sparked my interests in camping with the bike and has also put a spark back into touring with both the 4B and bike.

I usually ask the daughter if she wants to go camping and usually replies with "lets take the bikes" mum can drag the camper along

[Steffo1]

Have a squiz at this perhaps, especially Nomads effort!

http://www.myswag.org/index.php?topic=52618.0

[achjimmy]

Ya need to get back into bikes mate, restoring my old H2 has sparked my interests in camping with the bike and has also put a spark back into touring with both the 4B and bike.

I usually ask the daughter if she wants to go camping and usually replies with "lets take the bikes" mum can drag the camper along

Yep just restoring them that's got me a bit interested ATM got a ducati pantah and Kawasaki A1 250

[achjimmy]

Keep the Paj mate. Unless you need the coin, Iam like that with a boat owes me nothing and reckon I'll miss it if it goes even though I use it rarely

[WilSurf]

Due to the kids having their sport commitments we are getting out less than before.
However if I go out I love it every time.
That's a good thing about being a member of a 4WD club, you are with like minded people/families.