Now who doesn’t love to crawl rocks or splash through a mud-filled trench aboard their SUV?
However, one must remember that simply buying an SUV and attending a few offroading sessions doesn’t guarantee a fun-filled day in the great outdoors.
Apart from having the right set of offroading skills, one must also ensure their offroad vehicle has the right set of attachments installed. That’s the only way to make a vehicle off-road ready. With the right set of offroading attachments, you can even make a 1st generation JDM Miata offroad-ready.
Off-road attachments to make your car off-road ready
So what are the basic offroad attachments that a vehicle should have before the owner even thinks of hitting a trail with their car?
Well, go through the following sections to know more.
Offroad tires
You cannot hit an off-road trail when your car is wearing regular tires. Offroad trails can be conquered only with off-road tires. The reason is simple. Offroad tires are made with multiple compounds and have different tread patterns. Together, these two separate attributes allow a vehicle to have the traction needed for conquering uneven surfaces like ice, mud, slush, snow, mud, and sand.
A suspension lift kit for offroad vehicles
Off-road vehicles cannot even function properly on novice-level trails let alone hardcore trails without a lift kit.
What’s that?
A lift kit lifts your vehicle to safe levels so that the suspension system of the vehicle doesn’t bottom out. Additionally, with the help of the increased ground clearance, you would not scrape the underside of your vehicle whenever you drive over an undulation.
Lift kits often come with heavy-duty bushings and suspensions. It is best that you install the aftermarket attachments that came with the lift kit you bought for your vehicle.
Additionally, don’t forget to replace the stock rubber bushings of your vehicle with polyurethane bushings since the latter offers impressive tensile strength and operational life.
A winch
An off-road vehicle without a winch?
Well, that’s unnatural, to be honest. Sure, you can venture into the great outdoors without a winch installed in your car. But if you get stuck in a sticky situation where your car is either stuck or is unable to progress without taking help from another fellow off-roader, you would wish that your car had a heavy-duty winch installed in it.
Just make sure the motor of the winch is suitable for the overall weight of your car. Additionally, the winch should come with a heavy-duty hook and at least 20 meters of heavy-duty steel cable.
Light bars
Off-road vehicles cannot simply rely on just their stock headlights when exploring the great outdoors especially when one has to drive through a trail at night. One would need to install one or multiple light bars at the hood of their car. Additional units should also be installed and pointed at the sides and rear of the car so that the driver has 360 degrees of illumination.
A snorkel
It is no news that off-road vehicles often need to cross creeks and even rivers. Without a snorkel, your car’s air inlet will suck in water. The outcome is that your car will be left with a damaged engine and associated components. To keep that from happening, install a snorkel. The snorkel’s top end acts as the air inlet thereby letting your car ‘breathe’ and function even when the entire car is underwater!
A connected vehicle device
Really? A connected vehicle device?
Yes. A connected vehicle device like a GPS tracker for car does more than track cars in real time. A modern-day GPS tracker or a simple car tracker gathers pertinent vehicle-related data from the ECU of a vehicle through its OBD 2 port. This is an important feature especially when you, your loved ones, and your vehicle are off the beaten path and away from any help on an offroad trail. With a connected vehicle device, you will be able to monitor your vehicle’s health. And if things start to look suspicious, you can cut the offroad trip short and fix the vehicle at the nearest authorized service center.
Additional equipment to make an off-road-ready car
You can also add quite a few additional offroad attachments to your vehicle to make it ready for all kinds of trails. For instance, you can add a skid plate to your vehicle in a bid to keep the radiator, the engine pan as well and the differentials of your car protected from rocks as well as sharp objects while approaching or leaving an inclination.
Additionally, attaching front and rear bull bars would help you to move obstacles from the path of your vehicle. Furthermore, you should not forget off-road compatible roof racks. Offroad compatible roof racks are one of the best road trip accessories one can install on their car in a bid to make it ideal for the great outdoors.
With that stated and out of the way, the post concludes!