Touring Gear - About Us.

About Us

4x4 Touring Gear was founded in October 2001 when we started importing Kiwi Camping tents from New Zealand. Over the last few years our range has increased dramatically and our goal is to provide our customers with a single source for all necessary equipment for vehicle based travel, whether touring the UK, mainland Europe, Scandinavia, Africa or Asia. We have grown since those early days and now stock a diverse range of unique kit suitable for many outdoor users. This range of kit continues to grow.

Our equipment starts with quality ground tents, through storage solutions for equipment, water and fuel, refrigeration, first aid, cooking, lighting, tools, recovery equipment and more.

This equipment is here because it works, we know this because we use it ourselves. Some of it will wear out with use over time and need replacing, but we do not stock lots of budget equipment that will not take the rigours of travel in harsh environments, we make no apology for not selling cheap stuff, others can do this!! We aim to sell only quality equipment at reasonable prices and by doing so can offer fair advice, guarantees and back up.

Our policy is to stock the equipment so it can be delivered when you need it. We do not take your order then buy in from a supplier taking 3–4 weeks to deliver as some on-line suppliers will do. When you order from us we try to ensure you have the products within 3-4 days. There are some exceptions to this stocking policy and these should be clearly marked for your information in the product details. We also occasionally run out of stock, if this happens you will be notified as soon as possible, alternatively you are more than welcome to contact us prior to placing your order online.

We trade at various shows around the UK throughout the year, these dates are found on the shows page. If these are not convenient for you, please call us, we are happy to make appointments. Need your gear in a hurry? Again please call us. We are based in Cranfield, close to Bedford and Milton Keynes and are happy to make arrangements for collection if this helps.

Our Services

How can we help you?

Primarily our customers order online and we have very little interaction with them unless they are querying stock, confirming an order or asking us why we have stuffed up! (Very occasionally we get the odd spanner in the works, real people here.)

We supply goods to various organisations such as schools, local authorities and emergency services as well as camping folk and overlanders. These range from supplying spare parts for Coleman products through to a recent Full Provisoning service for a client based overseas.

This involved advice on selecting the relevant kit from our range and supplying all the items, ready packed, delivered to the vehicle builders. Between our service and that of the vehicle preperation company all the client had to do was fly in with his personal items and get in and drive away. We supplied from our own kit and also stocked the vehicle with all the items required for the camp kitchen including a basic supply of non perishable food stock. This saved the client lots of time and effort on basic jobs.

We can carry out fitting of rooftents and roofracks at our premises here or can organise fitting at the suppliers workshops. For example with Patriot roofracks a factory fitting option is available to have the rack fitted directly at Patriot. If you wanted a Big Country Roof Rack these can be fitted either here or at the suppliers.

We are happy to accept orders for goods that can be collected from us at a show if this is more convenient for you. Please advise us either by e-mail or telephone if you would like this service, we are happy to help.

Touring Gear.

March 2011