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This weekend my son and I installed a proper fire extinguisher in our rig. For about a year we have been driving around with a cheap Kiddie extinguisher rolling around in our recovery box in the bad of the truck. I really wanted to find a suitable way to mount the extinguisher closer to the...

Greetings - My name is Bennett. I just joined Overland Bound and received the membership kit last weekend; member #1535! I have been following along on the forums for about a year, just recently started posting a few things. My son (9 years old) and I did our first 4x4 trip last summer in...

There is an important distinction on iOS devices here. If you have an iPhone or iPad with just wifi you do not have a GPS chip in the device. You need a device that **can** have a SIM card installed to get "off the grid" location updates for Gaia or any other GPS apps. That said, as others have...

Received member kit Friday; #1535 here!

Battling bits and bytes, trying to escape this concrete jungle!

The solution on iOS is to go in the OB Talk app and access the settings from the menu. In there you will find a "Clear Cache" option near the bottom. Using this, I reduced storage from 440mb to 97mb tonight. I did not find an option to have the cache cleared automatically, so you just have to...

I am running the OB Talk app on an iPhone. I removed the app this morning and reinstalled. With light browsing today the reported storage used went from under 100k to over 200k. It seems like it will keep growing as more photos and videos are viewed in the app. Before I removed the app this...

Similar here. 1.6gb; fifth largest storage use on my phone. My hunch is that the app stores all downloaded images from forum posts viewed and isn't doing a good job of cleaning up after itself.

I have a 2007 Tacoma DCLB and really need to clean the years of dirt and grime off the engine bay. What is the best way to do this? Also, do I need to worry about spraying water in there with the battery and electronics? Appreciate any suggestions or tips you can offer. Cheers -- Bennett