Hi, Tim from Outdoor Auto here.

I would like to introduce myself and my company, Outdoor Auto. I have been into 4WDs for many years after being introduced to 4WDing as a lad living in the Northern Territory Australia. My first car was a Suzuki Sierra and I have been hooked ever since.

My love of 4WDing lead me to work in sales and fitting for a couple of 4WD stores around Brisbane and eventually moved into wholesale aftermarket accessories. This was a great way to build knowledge of the accessory industry and the vehicles themselves. The one thing that struck me throughout this time was that owners of small 4WD’s (just like me) often had a hard time finding suitable accessories for their vehicles. I often meet people who were almost laughed out of stores across Australia by sales staff who told them that accessories just didn’t exist for their vehicle, or who just had no knowledge of accessories and parts for anything other than mainstream large 4WDs.

I knew through my experience in hunting down hard to find accessories that those products do exist and are often just not stocked by larger 4WD accessory suppliers who have a focus on larger turnover products. A niche market existed for a specialist supplier, like us, who know our market and our vehicles (and who work hard with their customers to grow that knowledge every day!)

So Outdoor Auto was born in late 2006 as a part time project to help owners of small 4WD’s who love getting outdoors and going off-road (just as much as any Patrol driver) to fit-out their vehicles. In July 2008 I left my ‘day job’ and went full time into the business and our product range and customer base continues to grow. We aim to source hard-to-get products from across the world and also support other small businesses by having custom Outdoor Auto designed pieces fabricated locally. We have the pleasure of supplying 4WD accessories across the globe while predominately basing our business from home and on-the-road.

We invite you to look at our available products but to also drop us a line or give us a call if there is anything you are looking for that we don’t yet supply. We aim to work in R&D with our customers to develop our product range and offer ‘Cash Backs’ on selected new products, to those customers willing to work with us on fitting instructions and product images. Our new-look website is being regularly updated and we hope to have a Blog running soon to keep everyone up to date with trip reports, product reviews and general information and updates, so add this site to your favourites and check in on us every so often.

I would also to take this opportunity to thank our customers and suppliers for their support over the last two and a half years. We wouldn’t be here without you and we look forward to the opportunity to “Get out there” with you all at some stage, if not in person than definitely in the Outdoor Auto spirit of adventure.

Tim Ford

Owner - Outdoor Auto

Ps. our blog is now up and running, click on the logo below.