AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION
It isn’t the easiest thing to break a modern 4WD vehicle. Oh sure, it CAN be done, but then you’d have to be some sort of monetary masochist to do it deliberately – they’re not cheap to fix!
Today’s 4WDs don’t typically go places where they would expect to come to grief, which is a far cry from the earlier days of rough and tumble “let’s take the ute flying through the forest” activities as made famous by Toyota NZ’s infamous Barry Crump and Scotty ads of the ‘80s.
Back then of course, 4WDs – and particularly the utes – could be meddled with by all who owned them, frequently in the backyard, almost as part of a mechanical coming of age for
