Pressure Gauges

[Matt76]

I use a repco tyre guage I think, and have one of the arb ones (free with my bullbar) to deflate the tyres.

I do love my 4wd magazines and DVD's but am sick to death with them teling us what great new products they are sponsored by this week. Even the comparo's are a load of shit because no one has the balls to say a product is crap, nor have they got the balls to tell us what is actually the best because they are usually sponsored by the other brands.


A true comparo would be handing around a product to a few of us to use and abuse and give a totally unbiased opinion. C'mon ARB etc, give us a go!

 

[KraftyPg]

I use a repco tyre guage I think, and have one of the arb ones (free with my bullbar) to deflate the tyres.

I do love my 4wd magazines and DVD's but am sick to death with them teling us what great new products they are sponsored by this week. Even the comparo's are a load of shit because no one has the balls to say a product is crap, nor have they got the balls to tell us what is actually the best because they are usually sponsored by the other brands.


A true comparo would be handing around a product to a few of us to use and abuse and give a totally unbiased opinion. C'mon ARB etc, give us a go!

The one thing I really liked about last weeks MR4X4 show was that he asked some magazine reviewer who just happened to be on the same beach what he thought of the new X-Trail he was testing and the reviewer said it was brilliant. I don't wish to get into an argument as to whether he's right or wrong but when a show that is sponsored by Nissan just happens upon a reviewer driving a different model Nissan do they really expect us to believe the review was as honest as it could be.

 

[Old.Tony]

Computer magazines would review a product and invariably there'd be a large advertisement for that product placed conspiciously nearby. The review itself was done partly because the product was offered up for a look, partly because there was interest in the product, and partly because the reviewer was getting a freeby.

The reviews were generally quite favourable, because to do otherwise meant the withdrawal of the advertising dollar.

 

[SOLID D22]

Well then lets put in a partition to nissan to test drive the really good x trail.

 

[KraftyPg]

There is no doubt about it reviews are done because items are given to the reviewer free of charge to test. I know in the computer industry the mags just put out the request and the companies who want to take part do and that does make for some biased reviews although I have read some really bad ones as well.

In some ways it's like resume's if you ever got a bad reference for your resume when you were looking for a job you wouldn't use it in case the prospective employer agreed with it, the only real difference is no one pays you to put their reference in your resume.