“Mirror replacement” means the dash cam is built into a rearview-mirror-style unit. Instead of adding a separate camera, it replaces the mirror area with a camera.
A camera lens is the part that focuses the light so the camera can make a clear picture. Better lenses can help the image look sharper, especially at night.
This is a Jeep Wrangler from the YJ generation (1993). It’s a popular older off-road Jeep because it’s tough and easy to modify. The host says it started as a manual 5-speed with a small 2.5-liter engine, then became a project Jeep.
A manual five-speed means you drive by shifting gears yourself, and there are five gear choices. Off-road drivers like it because you can pick the gear that matches the terrain and control the vehicle more precisely.
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2.5 cylinder
The “2.5” is the engine size (2.5 liters). It’s describing the smaller engine that was in the Jeep before the V8 swap, and it generally means less power but a simpler setup.
A V8 swap means replacing the Jeep’s original engine with a V8. It’s a big project because you can’t just drop the engine in—you usually have to change other parts so the whole drivetrain works correctly.
Throttle body injection is an older style of fuel injection where fuel is controlled through one main throttle body. It’s simpler than newer fuel systems, which can help when doing an engine swap.
33-inch tires are bigger off-road tires. They help the Jeep clear obstacles and get over rough ground, but bigger tires can also require other changes so everything fits and drives correctly.
“37-inch tires” are huge off-road tires. They make the vehicle tougher on parts like the axle and gears because they’re heavier and create more force when you drive or launch.
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6.4 Hemi
That “6.4 Hemi” is a big V8 engine (6.4 liters) from Chrysler. People swap it into other vehicles because it makes a lot of power and there are lots of parts and guides to help you do it yourself.
An “eight speed transmission” is an automatic with eight gear ratios. Having more gears helps the engine stay in the right power range so the truck feels quicker and easier to drive.
A “Dana 44 rear axle” is the rear axle hardware in the drivetrain. Off-roaders like it because it’s a common, upgrade-friendly axle that can handle bigger tires and more torque than many stock setups.
The “ring gear” is part of the differential that helps transfer power to the wheels. If you do aggressive launches, it can get damaged from the sudden shock loads.
“Sport mode” is a button or setting that makes the car respond more aggressively. It usually keeps the transmission in lower gears longer so it feels quicker.
The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car built for fast driving and strong performance. People talk about it a lot because it’s a well-known model and many enthusiasts recognize it. In the podcast, it’s mentioned because someone’s family owned one.
“Wheel off” just means the wheel has been removed from the car. Here, the speaker is describing a safety trick: put the removed wheel under the car in case it falls.
A jackstand is the stand you put under a car to hold it up safely while you work. The point is to keep the car from falling—so people use extra precautions in case something goes wrong.
An SD card is a small storage card that records video. Here, the point is that you can either watch the saved footage later, or use the camera feed while you’re driving.
The Ford Expedition is a large SUV that can fit more people and luggage than smaller vehicles. It’s commonly used for bigger trips where you need space. In the podcast, it’s mentioned because it was part of expedition-style travel plans.
It’s basically a rear-view mirror that shows video from cameras. Instead of relying only on what you can see in the mirror, it can display what the cameras see to help you spot cars or obstacles around you.
Wide-angle cameras can see more area at once. That means you’re less likely to miss cars or obstacles that would normally be in your blind spots.
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night driving
Night driving is driving when it’s dark outside and it’s harder to see. Here, they’re talking about how a camera system can show you more of what’s behind you than a normal mirror can at night.
Running lights are the vehicle’s low-power exterior lights used for visibility and identification. Here, the speaker says that even using running lights (not full illumination), the camera screen can still show lane lines and objects behind the Jeep.
Tint refers to aftermarket or factory film/dye applied to glass to reduce light transmission. In this context, tint is mentioned as contributing to reduced visibility through the rear-view mirror at night.
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toggle flip switch
They’re describing a simple switch that changes how bright the mirror is. It helps prevent glare from bright headlights behind you by dimming the view.
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dims your mirror
Dimming the mirror means making it less bright to stop glare. They’re saying the mirror can be adjusted to avoid being blinded by bright headlights behind you.
Exposure value is basically how bright the camera picture gets. If bright headlights are in view, the system can automatically lower the brightness so it doesn’t look blinding.
A review mirror is what you use to see what’s behind you. Here, the speaker is saying they use the camera screen like a mirror so they can see better at night.
A cabover camper is a camper that sits on top of the truck’s cab area. It can affect where you can mount cameras because it changes what parts of the truck are covered or blocked.
The Ford F-350 is a heavy-duty truck people use for towing and carrying gear. Here it’s being used with a camper that you put on and take off, so the speaker wants a camera setup that’s easy to disconnect.
A bulkhead fitting is a sealed way to run a cable through a wall or divider. It helps keep the connection protected from the elements when you’re wiring a removable camper.
An extension wiring kit is extra wiring/harness parts that let you run the camera wires farther. It helps you set up the cameras so you can remove the camper without messing up the wiring.
A dashcam is a camera mounted inside your car that records while you’re driving. The host is saying Wolfbox’s products aim to be more useful than just recording all the time.
A cross member is a strong bar that connects the left and right sides of the vehicle’s structure. It’s a common place to mount gear because it’s sturdy.
Your front axle is the part that connects the front wheels to the rest of the truck/Jeep. When you’re off-roading, it moves as the suspension flexes, and a camera view can help you see what’s happening up front.
Axle flexing is how the suspension lets the axle move up and down when the terrain changes. It’s a key part of why off-roaders can keep tires on the ground over bumps and obstacles.
Front hubs are part of the 4x4 system that control whether the front wheels are connected to drive power. If they’re not engaged, the front wheels won’t pull like you expect.
The driveshaft is the spinning shaft that sends power from the drivetrain to the axles. If it hits a rock or gets damaged, it can make loud noises and may need to be taken out to fix.
A license plate light is the lamp that illuminates the rear license plate for visibility at night. The speaker mounts the camera near the license plate light area, implying a practical spot that keeps the camera aligned with the plate.
Headlight glare is when bright headlights make the camera image look washed out or hard to see. The host says if the camera is mounted too low, headlights can shine right into it.
A trailer hitch is the part of the vehicle used to tow things. The host says some people mount the rear camera there because it sits lower to the ground.
The Toyota 4Runner sits high, so a rear camera mounted up in the spoiler ends up giving a more “top-down” view. The host says that helps them see more of what’s going on behind them and reduces glare from headlights.
A rear camera is a camera mounted on the back of the vehicle. It shows what’s behind you on a screen, which is useful when you can’t see well through the normal rear view.
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4K
4K is a type of high-resolution video that looks sharper and more detailed than lower-resolution cameras. The speaker is saying the front camera is high enough quality to use the footage for off-roading videos.
A third camera means there’s an extra camera besides the front and rear. Here, it’s positioned so you can see the undercarriage/axle area, which can help you judge what’s happening when you’re off-roading.
The Ford Bronco is an SUV made for off-road driving, like dirt roads and trails. Newer Broncos can include helpful cameras that show what’s in front of the vehicle. The podcast mentions it because the speaker had one with a front-facing camera.
Suspension is what allows the wheels to move over bumps while keeping the vehicle under control. Off-road, it’s what helps the tires stay in contact with the ground.
A four-channel camera setup records from four angles at the same time. That makes it easier to see what’s happening to the truck while it goes over obstacles.
The rear drive shaft is the part that sends power to the rear wheels. When you’re climbing over rocks, it can be easier to hit the rear underside than the front.
A GoPro 360 camera records everything around it. Later, you can change the view angle in the video, which is handy for showing what’s happening while driving.
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inner cab perspective
An “inner cab perspective” means the camera view is positioned to show what’s happening from inside the cabin, often aimed toward the driver and dashboard area. This is useful for capturing context during incidents because it shows driver actions and passenger activity.
A G sensor is a small device that senses how hard the car is moving or getting hit. If something sudden happens, it can automatically turn the camera on and start recording.
A jump starter is a portable battery you keep in your vehicle. If your car battery dies, you connect it and it gives the car enough power to start again.
“4000 amps” is basically how strong the jump starter’s power is for starting a dead battery. More amps usually means it can start tougher situations more easily.
An integrated air compressor is an air pump built into the jump starter. That means you can inflate your tires on the spot, which is handy when you’re adjusting tire pressure off-road.
“12 volt accessories” are gadgets that plug into a car’s 12-volt power system. They’re asking if the jump starter can power those kinds of devices too.
A “cigarette lighter” outlet is the 12-volt plug in your car that powers small electronics. The speaker is saying some jump starters can provide power through that same-style outlet.
The car battery is the main battery that powers the car and helps it start. They had to connect their air pump to the battery because the jump starter wasn’t set up to power it easily.
A “level selector” is a way to pick different settings on a device. Instead of turning a knob smoothly, you choose set levels like low, medium, or high.
The Dacia Duster is a compact SUV, meaning it’s a small-to-mid sized vehicle with extra space and higher ground clearance than a car. It’s often chosen for practical driving and light off-road use. The podcast mentions it because someone was using a camera-related product in a Duster.
A rooftop tent is a camping tent that mounts on the roof of your vehicle. It’s popular for road trips and off-roading, and it can get dusty while it’s sitting outside.
Overlanding is traveling long distances in a vehicle with the mindset of being self-sufficient. It usually involves camping and being ready for rough or remote places.
Onboard air systems are built-in air compressors in a vehicle. They let you inflate tires (and sometimes other things) using air power without carrying a separate compressor.
Rock sliders are tough metal bars on the sides of an off-road truck. They help protect the lower body when you scrape over rocks or get hung up on uneven ground.
Motorized step sides are powered steps that come out when you need them to help you climb into the vehicle. They usually tuck away to keep the truck from scraping on trails.
Refresh rate is how often a screen updates the picture each second. A higher refresh rate can make video look smoother, especially when things are moving quickly.
This is basically how strong the device’s “brain” is. With more cameras running at the same time, it needs enough power to process and save everything smoothly.
This means the system can record from three different camera views at the same time. It’s useful for getting more complete coverage around the vehicle.
The OBD port is a plug in your car used for diagnostics. Some accessories can take power from it, which can make installation easier than cutting into wires.
This is a 12-volt power outlet in the vehicle for gadgets. It’s similar to the old cigarette-lighter style outlet, and it’s often an easy way to power accessories.
A front bumper camera is a camera mounted near the front of the car to help you see what’s ahead. The wiring has to survive heat and movement, so it may need protective covering.
The engine bay is the space under the hood where the engine lives. It gets hot, so parts and wires in that area can wear out faster without protection.
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Welcome one welcome all to the snail trail four by four podcast if you like going off
riding in Toyotas, wrenching on Toyotas, camping in Toyotas, maybe even poking a little bit
of fun at Toyotas and of course hearing about how fantastic review cameras are in Toyotas
then this is the podcast for you. That's right ladies and germs. My name is Tyler and
this guy over here joining me today on the snail trail four by four podcast and every
day almost is Mr. Jimmy jet. How are you doing buddy? Good. Thank you. How are you doing
pretty good? Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I'm finally awake. So that's good. Coffee finally hit
finally hit me. Yep. Yep. Took you long enough. It's like three o'clock in the afternoon.
Yeah. Finished my coffee. Let's see 357 hours ago somewhere on there. So
oh, that's not true. I might have a little left. He's looking at his WD 40. I finished my coffee
and then I dumped some horchata in it from lunch and yeah. So now I finished my horchata
coffee mix. Can I take a second and say how much I appreciate this? Okay. The WD 40 coffee mug.
Yeah. I love it. Everywhere I go. That is like people who are car people and I always know.
And it's one of the ways I've started testing. So like if I have to go into somewhere and I'm
like people here should be car people. Yeah. I'll try and bring this with me and have coffee and
drink out of it and people give me the people who are weird are car people. They look at me weird.
Yeah. They're like, wait a minute. Why are you drinking WD 40? Yeah. And then I get to explain
to them that no, it's a WD 40 coffee mug. Coffee cup thing. Yeah. Thermos. I don't know what you
want to call it. Whatever they call it. But yeah, I love this thing. Yeah. Good. I'm glad you
refound it. I forgot all about it there for a while and it was in the back of my little coffee
mug cabinet underneath the coffee maker and I was like, I need to bring that back out. Yeah.
And I'm using it like every day now. I would use mine more, but I think I want to get like a
sealable lid for it. That's my only gripe. Yeah. Sometimes I want super seal. It'll stop
splashes, but yeah. But if the mouth, the inlet or outlet is always open, right? It doesn't have
a seal. Oh, well then maybe mine's different. Well, you got the loser one. Yeah. I guess so.
Yeah. But these were for wheeling wine and whiskey's 100th episode. Something like that.
It was early on. I think it was, it was more than their one year. Yeah. I think it was their
hundredth episode when we were all on and I bought gifts for everybody for the most part. And I
bought you, the WD 41. I bought me, the PB blaster one. I bought Chris, the Cummings oil filter
looking one. And I forgot what I got. Jason, I don't remember what it was. Yeah. But it was
something. Something dodge. Something Jeep, I think. So yeah, they're fun. Definitely fun to
walk around with. I like the, I've always liked the PB blaster smell. I think they should make
a cologne like that, but it's fun. Yeah. To see when, see people double taking when you're drinking
that thinking you're drinking out of a Cummings oil filter. Yeah. Hold on. Yeah. Or like an aerosol
can looking thing. Yeah. Yeah. So you're welcome. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. These are cool. But I love
giving gifts. That's true. Just like I love giving away a Wolfbox G 900 tri pro. Oh, the
lip didn't close. I told you the way. My bad. I got napkins here. Well, we got napkins.
That one will be yours. We'll give this one away. We'll give this one away. This one has
a nice coffee sent to it. Yeah. Right. I have the WD sent, I think. Regardless, we've got a
G 900 tri pro to give away this month. Big thank you to Wolfbox. Big thank you to everybody
involved over there and to get entered for that. And you'll hear a lot about it in today's episode.
So I'm not going to dive into it, but to get entered into the giveaway, you can either go over
to I rate four by four, log on and sign in underneath. Well, you got the sign in,
then go down to the snail trail, four by four form, and then your sign up options are there.
Make sure you choose the gift box tier, or you can go over to our discord giveaway tier.
Jeez. Thank you. I need more coffee, apparently. Give away tier, or you can go over to the discord
and you can all the sign ups there are right there under one of those top threads.
Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, two different ways to get entered now for the month of giveaways,
for the gift box tier, once we open those up for the bias coffee tier, any kind of that stuff. So
check those out. And then you'll get to hear a lot more about stuff Wolfbox is doing here
in a little bit on the show. So let's see. We also have reviews, giveaways for reviews. So
we bribe you guys to leave us a review so that it helps the podcasting algorithms out there
feed us to more people. Hey, Katie, we end up in more people's mouths.
Ears. Ears. Sorry, I meant ears. That's what I meant. Ears. That's definitely what I meant.
It's about the only hole Tyler fits in. Hey, that kind of hurt.
But a little fair and true. So yeah, we got reviews out there. So just go leave us a review
on Apple podcasts. Last week checked, we were at 795 reviews. So we're getting really damn close
to that 800. There's only a few slots left. And so you got to go and sign up or leave us a review
to get entered for one of those spots. The cool thing about that though, is once you're signed
up once your leave a review once, you're already signed up for all the future giveaways we do
based on reviews. So we're doing a giveaway at 800, which is an on ex elite membership
and a swag pack from Jimmy Nines and vendors we've worked with throughout the years.
We're doing that again at 850 reviews. So if you sign up now, you get in for both reviews. If you
leave a review, I'm way, got too much coffee in my system. If you leave a review now, you're
automatically signed up for both giveaways, right? They 100, 850. And then at 900 reviews,
we're doing a big, big giveaway with Morphlyte. That's going to be at least $900 for 900 reviews.
And that one I'm really excited about. We're getting really close to launching some really
cool products at Morphlyte. And it's going to be really nice and fun to put together a
whole price package for a winner with all those products. So that's going on for reviews. You
just need to leave us a review to get entered for those and you're automatically entered
all the times in the future when we do reviews giveaways now. So go do it.
No, dilly-dally, dilly-dattle, dilly-dally, dilly-dally. That's what I'm looking for.
Too much coffee. Way too much coffee anymore. Yeah, there you go.
So last little things here. Big congratulations to Liz Sandsstrom. I think that's how you say
your last name. Congratulations on winning the IceCo APL 20 from the last month's giveaway.
Good. That's a big one. And if we haven't heard from you yet,
and we need to get in contact with you. And let's see. The only other thing on my list is tokens.
Tokens are out in the wild. They are out there. You need to go find tokens, spell out snail trail
four by four with the all 13 tokens that you can find. And you can win a master mechanics tool set
from GearWrench to find or to how to find where the tokens are hidden. You need to go
onto the Discord and go over there to the token section. And then you download or you click on
the link that will let you or give you access to the folder on ONNX off-road. And that will show
you where all the tokens are hidden throughout the United States. Sorry for you, East Coaster.
The majority of them are in California, but we're working with other people to try to get
these tokens hidden in your States out there as well. Cool. I'm looking forward to having
more tokens out there. I'm really interested to see who's going to win the master mechanics tool
set. Trevor only needs about two more letters, three. Last I heard it was 22 But I do know
that there are some people out there collecting them. So we've had some people showing us that
they've recently found some more tokens. So I think Trevor is going to have a battle ahead of him.
Good. Yeah. That's what I want to see. Yeah, me too. And the thing is once we're done with the
GearWrench tools, we have another thing already lined up that is going to be next. So if you're
two tokens behind and Trevor wins it, or somebody else wins it, and Trevor, you still have two to
go, you only have two to go to win the next item. Yeah, exactly. So it's just because Trevor is
almost there. Don't give up, because you will just be that much closer to the next item once
it's released, once we talk about it. So this is one of our ways to just try to get people out and
explore, try somewhere new, go camping on a new hike, whatever it is. We just
want you to explore this world that we absolutely love. Yep, I agree. So that's tokens. Yep. Anything
else? I don't think so. We did FNG's birthdays and everything on Thursday's episode. We accidentally
covered June and July. So everybody got birthdays this month, it seems like, or this last episode.
And so if you want to go hear that stuff, make sure to go check out that. We had some good FNG,
five new FNG's this month. So that's awesome. Yeah, and then the winner. So I think we're
good. I think we can jump over to our main chat. Sounds good. Then we'll take quick break and we'll
be right on back with Austin Vogel, who does not work for Wolfbox, but he's been very involved
with Wolfbox over the years. You'll get to learn a little bit about his story and a lot about
use case scenarios with Wolfbox products and how they've kind of impacted his life and his
off-roading adventures and how that can translate to maybe some of you guys out there. So grab a
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All right. Welcome back everybody to today's campfire discussion. We're here around on this
lovely Monday around a proverbial campfire brought to us by ones and zeros and data and bits online
through the internets and interwebs. But we're here today with a kind of fun dude that we've
just kind of starting getting to know. Got to look at a bunch of his content recently though
and see the kind of things he's been up to. But we have Austin Vogel here on the internet studio.
And he's going to be talking with us a little bit today about a little bit of everything, but
a little bit about what's going on with wolf box and stuff. So Austin, how the hell are you man?
I am great. How are you guys doing? Thanks for asking and thanks for having me on the show.
Beautiful day out and happy to be here. Yeah, for sure. Are you guys nice and toasty and sizzling
like bacon yet down there in Arizona? 112 degrees. It's supposed to be today. Oh my gosh. Yes.
But it's like everyone says it's a dry heat. Yeah. It's a dry heat. I don't care what kind of heat
it is. That's not happening for me. This guy melts at like 90 degrees. Yeah. It's like a wicked
witch that gets water on them when it's 90 degrees outside. Yeah, I think it got below 100 degrees
yesterday at like midnight. So oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. So you guys just have the air conditioning
going constantly? Constantly. Yeah, literally. I think it got up. So that's where all the power
in the country is going down by Arizona. Honestly, it is. It is, right? Seriously. No wonder how
they're rolling black out there today. Seriously. I think it was 91 up here the other day. It's been
yeah, anywhere between 90 and 100 and just in kind of in that range fluctuating over the past
couple of weeks. Yeah, it's surprising. It's actually been a mild, mild summer so far. That's
mild 112. Yeah. It was a couple of days ago. It was only like 106 or seven. It was nice. Jesus.
I took the doors off the Jeep. Yeah. In all reality, it's been mild up here though, too.
It's been actually rather nice. The East Coast has been rough. That's where it's been. True. Yeah.
They deserve it. They need it. Screw those guys. Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. About time.
East Coast heat sucks, man. You just walk outside and your fingers start sweating. You're
like, I've never had that happen before. Yeah. You're just stoked before you know it. Exactly.
You take a shower to cool off and then you step out and you're still just as wet as you are in
the shower. You can't dry off. It's brutal. Well, thanks for joining us, Austin. Yeah,
it's good to have you here. Why don't you give us a little background? Give us an elevator pitch
of who you are and why you're working with Wolfbox. Yeah. Well, my name again is Austin.
My outside of influencer, I'm a registered nurse, so do that as my day job. On top of that,
I have a YouTube channel that I've been doing a lot of DIY videos, a lot of stuff on my Jeep,
stuff on my BMW, and just promoting different products and actually Wolfbox was one of my
like first major products that I promoted on my Jeep on my channel. Same Instagram channel,
I promote a lot of different products, but Wolfbox is probably my main company that I work with
and that I've worked with for the longest continuous amount of time.
How long ago was that first install? I think it was early of 2023. Okay. So it's been three and a
half, about three and a half years that I've worked with them. Yeah, Wolfbox to my recollection
hasn't really been on the scene over here in the States for very long. I would probably
for maybe five years if they've been around. I mean, what do you? Yeah, that's when I first
noticed them. My Instagram channel doesn't have that many followers, but when I first started
talking with Wolfbox through Instagram, I think they had 600 followers on Instagram. Yeah. So I
would say I was close to one of the first influencers. There was one other guy that I
saw that had the G900 and I feel like I was probably the second one. I mean, that's my own
viewpoint. Is that guy still around with Wolfbox? I never really followed him separately, so I'm
not too positive on that. So we'll just claim that you are the longest influencer for Wolfbox.
We'll make that claim here for you. Okay, perfect. I'll claim it too. I'll own it.
We're going to have guys say, no, it was me. Longest continuous. There we go.
Excellent. Cool. So did you start off with the G900 as well? I did. Yep. I did start off with them.
They wanted me to promote one of their products and I said, hey, I really, I want the best of the
best in my Jeep. And the G900 at that time was literally the best dash cam with the mirror
replacement that you could get that I've seen on the market. And I mean, still to this day,
I would make that claim that they have the best dash cams with the replaceable mirrors.
Yeah, I got the G900 was my first dash cam that I've had with them. I've had a lot of different
versions of the dash cams just from testing them out. And yeah, but that was the first one that I
had. So right now they're at the G900 TriPro, which is the three camera system. So did you have
like the original, was it a singular camera system? Just a rear view that was it?
Yeah. So the original G900 had the camera on the actual mirror facing forward and then it had the
one that you would mount out of the rear of the vehicle. You can either go through the glass
or you can mount it on the outside of the vehicle and that becomes essentially your new rear view
mirror. So that's the feed that you see as a camera literally on your back of your vehicle.
Yeah. And that's been kind of the same setup as far as the dash cams are from Wolfbox,
that like a replacement mirror, they always have a camera that you put on the back of your vehicle.
What kind of technologies was in that first version versus the G900 TriPro that we have
for the giveaway this month? As far as technology, I'm not sure the exact specifics. I do know that,
for instance, the camera lenses and everything, they're always looking to improve and they
essentially, they're not like they don't go and say, hey, we've got this exact camera lens with
this name or this brand, they just, they go and they figure out which one's going to perform best.
So they don't actually advertise like, hey, this is the, well, they have different documentation,
but they don't say, hey, we've got this camera purposely because it's the best. They specifically
say, hey, we chose the best camera lens that's going to give the best nighttime vision,
just the best overall quality. So as far as like the technology, I'm not too specific on that end,
but. Okay. I'm just kind of curious, like how often are they upgrading the technologies in
the G900 to continue making them better? Cause I know, you know, from running my own business that
R and D and the time it takes to upgrade product and to make it better is pretty lengthy.
And I feel like they're really good at implementing new technologies, adding some from the little
really nice feature to the product to upgrade it and make it even better on pretty quick time
schedules. Yeah, no, they definitely do. And like, for instance, the, like to speak to that,
the G900 TriPro, when it first launched, it originally had it so you could see three screens
all at the same time. And a lot of feedback from customers were, hey, those are too small of views.
So they actually uploaded a firmware that made it too big views and you can select which camera
view you want, where you want it. So even if it's not changing the technology, they're able to
upgrade firmwares. They've got all their firmwares on their website. So you have to actually
download it to an SD card. There's no Wi-Fi, like quick update that way. Just so there's no loss of
connection or anything. That's smart though. I didn't even think about upgrading a firmware
through an SD card, downloading a new firmware off the website or say, could you like also
back date firmware to say, I really want those three screens on my screen. They do. Yeah, they
have all their firmwares listed. Oh, that's cool. Nice. All right. Well, let's jump back.
We got a lot of Wolfbox to talk about, but I think we want to learn a little bit more about you,
Austin. So it sounds like you have a Jeep. Have you always had Jeeps? Like,
did you grow up with Jeeps? Where did you grow up? How about let's start the story at the beginning?
Yeah, absolutely. Grew up in Ohio and my first vehicle was actually a Jeep Wrangler. It was a
1993 YJ. I was literally, I don't know, 14 and nine months, I think we were able to drive there
with our parents. Driving that around. A manual five-speed little 2.5 cylinder. Yeah,
so that was my first vehicle. My dad always grew up with off-roading and modifying vehicles.
So one of the first, we always did little projects, but one of the first big projects,
I think I was 20 years old, we did a V8 swap on that Jeep. Oh, dang. Nice. Yeah.
Which V8 did you go with? What's that? Which V8 did you go with? Do you know?
It was a Chevy 350. Okay. Throttle body injected out of a 91 Chevy step side. Nice. So it was fun.
Funny, those V8s had probably about the same power as the straight six that came in those Jeeps.
Oh, yeah. So it wasn't that, but compared to the 2.5, big difference.
It sounds good, though. Yeah. Oh, it sounded awesome. I had to think of Flowmaster or something on
Netflix. Yeah, this was back before there was YouTube DIY tutorials on everything.
I mean, you have to really do your research on forums to learn how to do any of these swaps.
So. Well, you didn't have AI to tell you every step that you need to take there?
Not at that moment. We had to ask Jeeps. Yeah. Oh, man.
Okay. So you had the YJ. How long did you guys have that kind of built up for
a specific type of off-roading or just kind of like a daily driver kind of thing?
It was actually mixed. I had it for just general off-roading, only 33 inch tires,
locker in the rear, but I also plowed snow with it. So it was my daily driver,
I off-roaded and I plowed snow with it. So I had to have that thing reliable,
but plowing snow with the VA, that was nice. Was that like a side job you had as a kid growing
up or what? Yeah, that was my winter side job as a kid. I've always had little odds and end jobs,
but yeah, before I became a nurse, I had a lot of different little odds and end jobs.
Nice. I had a newspaper route and then I was an umpire and scorekeeper for like the local
t-ball, little league stuff. I never got to do snow plowing though. That sounds fun.
It only sucks is when you got to, no matter what, when the snow is there, you have to work.
So you don't get to pick and choose your sleep schedule. There's times I plowed 24 hours straight
and I mean, I'm a 18 year old kid plowing like, it was busy, but it was good work,
good pay actually for that great time you're plowing. Yeah, my buddy has a cabin up in the
woods and he pays for a plow to come in and that deal is like whenever there's three inches of
snow on the driveway that it gets plowed. And so I can only imagine that it's just this guy's always
coming around. Yeah, you go back. Yeah, you might, on one snow storm, you might hit that property
three times. Yeah. So you can't wait to the end. Like they don't, it doesn't work that way. Yeah.
You think you'd save money by, hey, I'll pay you at the end. No, that's way more work. Yeah,
it is. So that's crazy. Cool. So what, how long did you have the Jeep?
That Jeep I think I had about nine years. Wow. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we totally end up
refreshing it, repainting it, pulling the motor again and just refreshing everything up again.
That was fun. That was sad selling it and sold that and then ended up being without a Jeep for
like a year and a half and then I moved to Arizona and drove my BMW car, drove that here,
and then it wasn't long until I got my first Jeep here. Probably like nine months, I ended up
getting another Jeep here. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. And so what did you end up getting this time?
So I had a four door when I first came here, but I only had that for maybe a year. I wanted
a little bit newer body style. So I upgraded to the 13 and just a nicer interior, nicer
motor, everything. And I've had that Jeep for the last like almost nine, almost nine years.
Okay. Give or take. Yeah. Nice. And so what have you done to the... Yeah, yeah, exist.
What have you done to that Jeep since you got it? Done a lot. I mean, I've upgraded,
I didn't change the axles, but I've upgraded the axles to handle 37-inch tires. I've
done the gears a few time, pretty much lifted. The biggest thing that I did is I put a
6.4 Hemi in it. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's a big change. And I got the 6.4 with the eight speed
transmission. Nice. Yeah. So that's actually on my YouTube channel doing a lot of DIY swaps. So
cool. Yeah. You did that swap all yourself? What's that? You did that swap all yourself?
Yeah. In my two car garage. Wow. That's cool. And kudos. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's a 44, Dana 44 rear
axle? Yeah. And it can handle like, you haven't blown that up?
One gear said I did. I did break a pin at one point. But then I made a nice YouTube video on
doing the whole axle or the gear swap. So that was cool. Yeah. No, I definitely... I've raised
a couple cars with it. It's fast. It's fast. Just don't do those burnouts at all. That's
what breaks the ring gear. That is. No. Whenever I decide I'm going to launch it,
I have to put it in four-wheel drive. Yeah. Because it will rip the tires off. It'll
chirp when it's shifting into like second gear just by ready to go. So I got... Transmission
has sport mode. So now it's fun. It sounds like a big blast. Was your family big into cars and
automotives growing up? Really, it was... My dad was the biggest one into cars. My uncle had a
Stingray Corvette when he was younger, but my dad's been the one that's always had Jeeps,
always had lifted trucks, lifted golf carts, like anything that... Anything you can't keep
anything stock in our house. That's just the way it is. So I like it. So how do you... Typically,
people who grow up in a kind of a big automotive world that are doing engine swaps in their garages
and then do their own engine swap in their two-car garage with a 6-4, squeezing a 6-4
into the Jeep engine bay. How'd you get into nursing from that?
Funny, two different things. So I'm able... Like the way I always looked at it is like helping
people. I've always been wanting to help people. Like in Ohio, it's a little different. If somebody's
pulled over on the side of the road and their flashes are on, you stop and you check on them.
If they need help, you do that. Arizona, you don't really do that. You don't pull over at
you let the police handle it or whatever. You're leery about that. In Ohio, you stop and
help everybody. You don't do that in California. What's that? You don't do that in California.
You don't stop and help people in Arizona. No, I don't say when Arizona, you don't. But I was
never really able to help people medically. So one story, I saw a guy at a concert have a young
kid have a seizure in front of me and I'm like, I have no idea what to do. I mean, if his car was
broke down, yeah, let's do it. Let's change the starter in the parking lot. But no, I had no idea
what to do. So that was the first sign that I wanted something medical. And then my grandma,
who I'm still very close with, she lives back in Michigan, she would always tell me how much
she loves the male nurses. They're so nice. They come in and they just do their job.
And that's just kind of like kind of gave me a direction of what I wanted to do. I mean,
love my grandma. So yeah, yeah. That's cool. Yeah, that's really neat. That's fun to hear.
I feel like that sentiment is echoed a lot in our industry where off-roaders typically want to help
each other and want to be helpful out in the wilderness. We all understand that we're all
getting away from society. So if shit goes down and bad things happen, we're usually there to
lend a hand for each other. And that's cool to hear that echoed not just in the off-roading
industry, but you're taking it into all of society, which is really cool. Yeah, thank you.
How long have you been doing the RN stuff then? Just over nine years. Yep. Okay.
It's over nine years. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. That's fun. I enjoy it.
So did the YouTube side of working on vehicles come from the same need to try and help people?
Funny story. So like I always did all these projects, very unique projects, stuff that
not a lot of YouTubers are actually tapping into. And my wife, my fiancee, girlfriend at the time,
who is now my wife, she's like, you need to record this stuff. Like, I don't want to record it.
She's like, no, you literally need to record this stuff. Like people see what you're doing.
So I took my little Amazon security camera and I mounted it in the garage and I just let it do
a time lapse of me doing the V8 swap. And that swap was over a couple of months. By the end of
the swap, I'm holding the camera and talking into it. And that literally is what got me started
recording and doing that. And then having the feedback of people just, hey, thanks so much
for your video. Hey, thanks so much for this. Nobody else does a video like this. It just really,
it kind of motivates me to just help people. One of the V8 swap pages that I'm always on,
I'm literally always trying. Lely's been busy, but as much as I can, trying to help out people,
answer questions, get on these Facebook comments and just give my insight on it.
I just enjoy helping and just seeing the comments on there. Even there's some negative
comments. You got comments that are like, man, nobody ever does stuff like this or content like
this. So it's good to see. Not saying my YouTube channel is the best or anything. It's not,
but there's good DIY stuff. You can learn how to do like the V8 swap I did in my buddies.
You can go from zero to 100% swapped by watching these four videos. I mean, I had torque specs.
I do a lot of extra effort on them. Nice. I don't think we've said it yet. What is your
YouTube and Instagram channels? Yeah, it's a JKU 392 Adventures. Perfect. That's YouTube and the
Instagram. So called JKU 392 Adventures for everybody out there. And we'll put that down
the show notes for you guys too, so that people want to go check out all the social media,
the YouTube channel, et cetera. It's a quick access there to do it. I was never still kind of
am in the mindset of YouTube is not worth doing, but there's one incident that always sticks with
me that echoes kind of what you're talking about where Jimmy does a lot of YouTube or did a lot
of YouTube still kind of does. And it's like DIY stuff, right? You're saying here's how to do
something to a vehicle. And one of the things he did was he was explaining whenever I pull a tire
or a wheel off of a vehicle, I throw it under the vehicle. I don't set it off to the side.
I throw it under the vehicle. And that's so that just in case the vehicle comes off the
jackstand, anything happens, the vehicle comes down on the tire and not you. And Jimmy actually
had a guy write him saying that he had never done that before. And this one time he was like,
yeah, okay, it sounds like a good idea after watching Jimmy's video through the tire under
the car. And the car came off the jackstand came down and he would be dead. Yeah. If it wasn't for
this one time that he was like, I just saw this video on snail trail four by four and
I'm going to throw the tire into the car. So that just go ahead.
Honestly, that's awesome. That story, literally, that's so cool.
Yeah, it's crazy. He was, I guess he, that guy was parked somewhat on a little hill and so it
slid backwards and he said it still pinched me, but I was able to crawl out. Yeah. And I'm like,
oh gosh, like I sent him some swag and stuff. But a funny story to add on to that that just
happened to Brennan. The same Brennan's like, yeah, just a good friend of ours that is up in
this area. He's like, yeah, ever since working with Jimmy, I've been throwing tires under the rigs
and actually it just came off and fell on too. That's insane. Yeah. And so it's like that.
Two people. I'm going with I've seen it. I'm no nurse, but you know,
there's probably a number of people who don't tell you that they do that now.
Yeah. Okay. We'll be up to three.
Yeah. And it's funny how YouTube is such a great search engine and everybody's, you know,
uses it to do things, DIY things, build things, just researching and just a funny little thing
that you say, just like a little bonus, you know, in the middle of it, like, oh, I always just do
this. It's just people latch onto some things like that. And that's what's out of the entire video.
That's what stuck with them. But I'm sure you've had that instances with your Wolfbox reviews and
all the different stuff that you promote and highlight there with Wolfbox. Yeah. Yeah. I do my
Wolfbox videos a little different on YouTube. We can talk about that later, but it's some cool
stuff. The way I do it compared to a lot of other people. So how is that different? Yeah,
let's talk about it now. So one of the things that I do when I do a comparison, for instance,
the G900 versus the TriPro or the G900 versus the G900 Pro, the way I did it on my YouTube
channel is instead of just having it up there and essentially reviewing the footage on the
computer and comparing the footage, I mount the regular mirror and then below it, I mount the
G900 TriPro and then below that, I mount the G900. I've got a camera behind me or I'm showing.
So when you're driving at night, you're not just looking at reviewed footage from the SD card,
you're literally seeing what the viewer sees. You're seeing how bright the cameras are, how
they react differently to different lights or headlights. So when you're driving, you're not
reviewing what's on the SD card. So I get a lot of people saying thank you for literally reviewing
it instead of just showing us an SD card. So that's one big thing that I do differently
that I haven't seen a lot of people take the time to do all that. And then I go to the SD card,
I do both. So yeah, sure. That's funny that you mentioned that because now that you mentioned
it, I think of all the ever since we did Trail Hero Expeditions this year. And so that's where
we got introduced to Wolfbox ad. But ever since then, I've been getting a bunch of Wolfbox ads
showing up on my algorithm, right? And you're right, a lot of them are just showing what the
video feed is showing what's on the SD card, right? Rather than showing what is it like to be a human
being looking at this object kind of thing. So yeah, that's a that's a cool feature that I
haven't really noticed until just now. Yeah. Yeah. So hey, how many review your camera mirror
things have you had up at one time? Like, have you had four or five of them?
No, there's not enough room. Because when I have even the three, so I've had the regular mirror
and then the two others, it blocks the whole center of the windshield. Jeep windshields,
they're short. Yeah. No, just start a whole nother road next to it. I should. I really should.
The best, the coolest thing about those videos is I leave the factory mirror up there. So when I
move the camera up there and you're like, I can't see the car that's beside me. Then I show the
the G900. You can literally see the cars on the side of you. Yeah. That's one Tyler has talked
about like if there's pretty much no blind spots anymore. Literally. It's really nice. Yeah. I
mean, obviously we can't claim that because we don't want anybody, you know, don't take that as
granted. But they're just driving with the mirror right here. Yeah. But the thing is it's such a
wide angle that you have a better view out of those cameras than you do out of the factory
mirror. It's unbelievable. We did some night driving on Trail Hero X. I unfortunately don't
have a wolf box yet, but it's in the works. But I don't remember having any negative things about
night driving. And I've never thought about that as an issue because it is a camera, right? It's
not just a mirror. Can you explain the night driving? How does the camera show up? What's
it look like? How does it compare to a mirror? Yeah. So let's put it this way. If I'm driving,
I did a trip up to Moab and I can usually go when I'm driving up at night. And when I'm just driving
down these pitch black roads, no vehicles, no nothing, out of a rear view mirror. And I've
tested this where I turn off the screen on the wolf box. I don't see anything out of the rear
view mirror. Nothing. If I turn on the wolf box screen from my purely from my running lights,
I can see the lanes of the road. And this is a pitch black road. I can see pretty far back
in the lanes. And if I hit the brakes, then I can see signs light up even from the brake lights
driving down the road. That's one of the biggest things. And that's in pitch black.
In areas where there is street lights, I am able to essentially see my surroundings even where
it's not pitch black, but really dark and just street lights compared to a regular mirror,
especially I have a little bit of tint on the Jeep. The with the Jeep, you're not really with
the regular mirror, you're not really seeing anything because you can only see the tunnel
vision right behind you. And none of that's lit. You can't see the street lights. You can't see
this or that unless it's farther away. The G 900 or the tri pro, you are seeing a lit street. You're
seeing the highway. You're seeing the moon. You're seeing not stars, but you could see the
stars probably if they're bright enough. Yeah. Now that we're talking about that, the other thing
I think I really, really appreciate about the wolf box is, you know how on a basic review
mirror, an actual mirror, not a camera like you find in OEM cars nowadays, but just the
mirror itself, it has that little toggle flip switch for when headlights are back there, right?
And it dims your mirror so that you're not blinded by this really harsh headlight coming
in your mirror, right? And so you either have full brightness or very dim. You can't see ship
behind you. Like you said, except for these two lights now in factory OEM camera mirrors,
whatever they're called. I feel like there's, it doesn't, they don't do a good job at blending
that really harsh light so that the headlights are not hurting your eyes, but so that you can still
see your surroundings. You typically get one or the other with those as well. But I feel like
with the wolf box, when I'm driving around at nighttime, I don't feel blinded by a really harsh
light from headlights behind me, but I can still see all my surroundings. And I don't know if
that has to do with the cameras they're using, the lenses they're using or some sort of programming
in the video screen. But now that you're saying, talking about how much you can see the surroundings,
I just, I just realized another thing that that's totally correct. You can see all the
surroundings without getting blinded by the extra headlights behind you.
Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm just speculating on what's doing. I think it has to do with the lens,
but I also think it's like the exposure value or something that's kind of dimming either. It's
like dimming that whole area, dimming the whole screen that way that headlight isn't overpowering
the lens. But even when it does essentially dim that, because you can see when there's a bright,
like brights behind you, the whole screen will, like the whole outside area will dim a little bit,
but it's not to the point where you don't see your surroundings. It just kind of dims that,
like so the light isn't blinding you. Yeah. And when you bring that up, I actually had a someone
on my YouTube asking, Hey, when someone's bright lights are on and it's shining right into that
camera, is that blinding you in the eyes? And I said, it can only go as bright as a white screen,
like turn on your white phone. It's not going to blind you like a reflection of the sun.
Because reflection is a reflection is literally almost equal part of the same brightness.
Like what's being created by a camera or the screen, that's not going to blind you.
That's a good point. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I really appreciate that. I feel like I hate driving
around at nights. I complain constantly about people. If they have their high beams on,
I can just tell immediately for some reason my eyes are really sensitive about it. And I have
noticed that it doesn't bug me at all when I'm driving around with the Wolfbox at nighttime.
Literally, I never even look up at the camera to see, I got to move it to turn the
brights off. It never bothers me. Same thing. That's cool. Yeah. That was just something I've
never thought of. It's like, oh, how's the night driving? For me, it's like, oh, I just have the
camera. I'm using it as a review mirror, but I've never paid attention that much to what the
night driving would be. But it sounds like it's better than a stock mirror for sure. Absolutely.
100% better than a stock mirror. So this is true. And I've tested it.
I believe you. Have you gotten an opportunity yet to use a Wolfbox, a G900, or a Pro or a
Tri-Pro or anything like that on a cabover camper or a trailer setup situation yet?
I have not with actual... No, I haven't. Like a truck with a cab on it or something?
Yeah. Like a camper shell, not but like something that's removable.
He's asking because this is his game plan.
So I have an F350 Dooley with a Lance cabover camper that gets put on and off the truck.
So I want to set up one of the cameras on the truck itself. So like on the bumper,
on the hitch, something like that. And then set up the other camera on the back of the Lance
with some sort of bulkhead fitting. So modify in the wiring some quick attachment point
where I can disconnect the wiring whenever I take the Lance on and off the truck.
And I'm curious how well that works. And if anybody's done it to make the wiring simple
or if anybody has a solution that they've used or done before, and just curious if anyone
who's played around with it yet. Yeah. So I have an experience. I've had a lot of people
ask me that at the Easter Jeep Safari, like how do I go about this? I haven't actually picked up
the parts in an attempt to do this, but they do sell the extension wiring kit on their website.
So my... And I haven't proven this or even asked Wolfbox, but the way I would actually go about
this is go do an extension from the actual dash cam to the rear of the truck. And at the rear of
the truck, you have now that cable that extends to there. You can attach the camera that's attached
to the truck when you're not using the camper to that extension cable. And then when you are
using the camper, you just want to plug it there and you plug in the one that's mounted onto the
camper. And that already creates your disconnection right there. Okay. That's probably how I would
go about that. So that makes a lot of sense. I didn't realize, of course, they would have an
extension line. They have extensions on there. They have a ton of little creative, little problem
solution items, accessory items, fixes for all sorts of different application setups of the
G900s on vehicles. Yeah. That's really impressive. Yeah. They literally, they think of all the little
things, little problems that people have had and asked them for solutions or they've already kind
of come up with different solutions. So that's cool. Does that come from a lot of just paying
very close attention to the market and their customers? Are they constantly asking their
customers, hey, how's this working for you? What do you wish it did that it doesn't do?
Does it come down to working with their influencers and their ambassadors a lot?
How does that process typically work for them? Why are they so good at that?
I think there's a couple of different areas that they go. So first off, they are very active on
their Instagram channel. They are communicating with customers or communicating with the influencers
asking, at least myself, asking me a lot of different questions. How would I use this in
this application? Or, hey, somebody brought this up to me. What's your thoughts on this? And I get to
kind of give my viewpoint on that. They also have a Facebook, well, I don't know if it's specifically
them, but they have a, there's a Facebook group, a Wolfbox Facebook group. Of course. Yeah. I don't
know if it's specifically them. No one advertised on there that, hey, this is our group. But you get
a lot of people asking questions. And then there's like their main, like leader of that Facebook
group kind of answering a lot of questions. And sometimes when I see him answer questions,
I see a fix coming down the road. For instance, somebody was saying, hey, I'm so tired of the
GPS on the screen. It's just in the way. I don't need it. Next to you know, firmware update comes.
You can now get rid of the GPS on the screen. You don't have to have that at the time. The other
cool thing about it is on my YouTube channel, I've had people ask me different questions. If I get
busy with work or whatever projects, I see Wolfbox actually answering those questions on my YouTube
channel, literally like replying to different questions. So I'm like, good for them. Yeah.
So I think just customer feedback and initially inquiring from the customer. And then the actual
last thing I want to say about that, they for instance, come to offline events, East
Egypt Safari, the vendor show, they came from China and was running the vendor show with us.
I mean, they're talking with the consumers. In that vendor show, ours was probably the
busiest booth out of every booth at East Egypt Safari. And I kid you not, it was so busy. My
throat was hurting. I'd never talked that much in my life. It was insane. It was cool.
Yeah. What did Wolfbox start out as essentially the G900, this rear view camera system? Or did
they start as a different product company and kind of got into these and found this really
high demand niche in the aftermarket offered industry? Yeah. So before I started working them,
before the G900, excuse me, I'm not 100% positive of what other cameras they had before that. I
know of a couple of different Wolfbox older cameras that you could still see when I first started
Amazon, different models. So I really believe they started with either just a general dashcam
or the one that literally replaces your mirror. Because even, like I said, when I first looked
up the G900, I was researching the company and there was a couple other older models on Amazon
still that I didn't really see on their website or they weren't promoting. So there were older
versions of the similar products. So I really think they started with rear replacement dashcams.
And now they're tapping into really getting what the consumer needs, the off-road community,
or just everyday drivers just really touching base to what they actually need, not just a
dashcam sitting up there, recording everything, it's more of an interactive tool.
That's kind of, I feel like that's like their goal of their products is not just to sit there
and forget about it, but to swipe it if you want to see your front axle, swipe it again if you want
to see your rear axle or, you know, depends on how you set it up. So yeah, how do you have all
your cameras set up? I'm curious. So originally, the TriPro, I originally had it under my front
bumper, just facing forward. I could sort of almost see right in front of the tires. And then
I recently moved it before Easter Jeep Safari. I put it right in front of my center,
the skid plate, but the cross member. So I really have it on top of my cross member.
I can see my whole entire front axle, which is awesome. It's like I was doing one of the
obstacles and I see my tires just spinning going up this obstacle. It's on my channel,
you have to check it out. It's just a little short or whatever. But so that's how I have the front
camera or the third TriPro camera set up. So I can see all of what my tires are doing,
you see the axle flexing around, which it's neat. It's a cool view.
That'd be a really nice way to tell if your buddy has unlocked your hubs during lunch or something.
I know, right? Seriously. Remove your driveshaft or to tell if your driveshaft is on a rock.
Yeah, fair. Sure. We've all been there where we're like, you know, there's a rock near there,
but your friend's telling you, no, you're good. They're not even looking at your driveshaft.
Yeah. So you get out afterwards. You're like, I can't go over 30 miles an hour guys.
Yeah. I got a candy cane back there. That actually happened on the way home from
East Jeep Safari that was making some loud noises. So I had to pull over and remove
my driveshaft and build my drive. Oh yeah. Yeah. But it was cool. In the video,
you can see me under there working on it and pulling it out. Yeah. Yeah.
That's pretty good. What are some of the key features that you really like about
the Wolfbox G900 or the Pro or the Tri are there? Or actually, let's back up just here.
I'm going to ask you that, but what about the other cameras? Do you just have the rear camera
facing out the back? Would you mount that? And then the other camera, the primary camera,
is just built into the unit facing forward, right? Correct. So the primary camera,
I removed my original factory mirror and I did one of their hard mounts onto the windshield.
So that's the primary camera. The rear camera, I don't have a spare tire on the Jeep,
but I got the license plate right in the center of the door, the rear door. So I had the camera
mounted above my license plate light. Okay. Hard mounted there and it's perfect right there. So
nice. It's probably about chest level high. So it's, I like it. That's what I've always mounted
it right there. So yeah, do you find any advantages to mounting the camera higher or lower? Like how
about for your rear view camera? Is it better to have it high so you can see farther back or is it
better to have it low so you can get the license plates? I don't know. I would say
probably about mid chest level is going to be about perfect for my view. If you mount it too high,
I got it in my BMW. I got an X5. I've got it mounted higher and it's like you got to almost
get used to it being mounted higher versus mounted lower because you're more looking down.
I mean, not really looking down, but it's just kind of a little bit of a difference of just
perspective. If you mount it too low though, then you are people without their rights on,
even if their low beams are on, you're right where that headlight would be. So you're kind of
constantly fighting that headlight coming at it like a high beam. So I'd say mounting it
chest high or above would be, I would say ideally it'd be best, but some people do it at the trailer
hitch, which that looks good. You're closer to the ground. So you're getting, I don't know,
you're getting more ground. Yeah. Maybe that's why I don't find I ever get any headlight glare.
My camera is up in my spoiler on the 4Runner. So it's at roof level, right? And my 4Runner is
already really tall. So I'm definitely looking down on all the vehicles, but I also really like
that because typically I'm taller than most vehicles that are daily driven on a road or
a highway. So I got a stoplight. I can see 234 cars behind me, which I found I
started appreciating too. I can see what's happening behind the cars that are behind me
as cars approach the intersection. So yeah. Plus you're always looking down on people.
That's fair. That's in reality and gives me more of a reality perspective too.
Yeah. No, that's definitely an added safety feature is, yeah, that brings up a good point.
Mounting it higher, you are seeing what's around instead of just the car behind you. So that's
a good point. You don't have to look into that. Yeah, there you go. All right. So what about key
features of the Wolfbox? Any of them that you've had throughout time? Is there like a certain
feature that you like or with the new ones? Is there something that's new and exciting that's
out with the Tri-Pro that you really want to highlight? Like, yeah, let's talk about some
of those features. As far as just in general, the features that I do like about in general,
all of them is the fact of having a like a 2.5 K rear camera that is now your rear view mirror.
And in general, because of that, if I load up the Jeep with balloons or if I'm going camping
and I can't see anything when I turn behind me, I can now see everything. Even the BMW,
I had it fully loaded with a bunch of birthday balloons. I couldn't see anything, but I'm like,
oh, I'm fine. I can literally still see everything. So as far as my favorite feature about generally
all of them, that's probably one of the biggest one because I would go camping, I have to see out
the rear view mirror. If I, if I'm just driving and I can't see out the rear, I'm, I don't know, I
feel uneasy. So that's one of the main features of all of them that I really appreciate. The
the G900 or even the TriPro, the quality of the rear view camera is literally, I'd say second to
none, it is amazing. But that front camera, especially the 4K in that front, I've used a
lot of footage for my YouTube channel, I've used it for off-roading, something happens, the front
rear, something happens. I literally have a 4K footage that I can post that up online, use it
for different videos and see good quality. The TriPro, the cool feature, I love where I mounted
the, that third camera and seeing the whole axle. Can I, can I pull up and show you?
Yeah, yeah, show it on the camera. Two seconds, two seconds. Yeah. I've always thought about,
you know, undercarriage cameras, tire cameras, like the, I had a Bronco, one of the new ones
with the front facing camera and I hated it. It's, it kind of, it was a pretty shitty camera,
but I also didn't like, I didn't appreciate the view angle that I was getting from it,
but I've never thought of setting up a camera so you can see the entire axle
and what it's doing. That's, I don't, I might have to try that.
Let's, oops, it just bounced off. All right. This is paused. Let's see if you can see. So if I
play it, you can, I got both, all three views. Oh yeah, all three views on the screen. But you
can see, you can see the tire, you see the drive shaft spitting and then I'm going up this obstacle.
Yeah. You can see what the suspension's doing, what the links are doing, the axles, your tires,
your tires, that's actually, and you can hear that V8. Yeah, all the different footages have the
audio file attached to them. So that's actually really cool too. So that's one of the exciting
things. And another thing that they are, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to talk too much about it,
but they're going to be coming out with another camera that's going to meet some,
that's right, four channel camera. We've heard the rumors that they're coming out the four channel
one. Yeah. They asked me, they said, where would you, where would you point these? I said, well,
I can see my front drive shaft right now. I need to see my rear drive shaft. You're more likely
to hit stuff on your rear drive shaft just because you know what you're doing over the front tires,
you can move to the left or right. It's, you forget about the rocks when you get to the rear
of the vehicle already. So that's what Jimmy really needs on his. Well, I was, if they ever come
out with a 51 because one of them's always built into the unit, right? That's one of them.
So I was like, man, if they had a five camera, we could literally point one at every single tire.
Seriously, you can see what is going on. Yeah. I was thinking as a video creator,
I was like, man, I would use, I would have a rear camera, front camera. I'd have the one
on the unit up as my mirror. And I would probably put the fourth one in cab facing me.
And so that I could like, talk about what's going on or whatever, and you could actually
see me doing it. It's not, it's not that great of a view, Austin. I've seen a lot of influencers do
that. It is a cool view when they're doing an obstacle and you see they're like, I don't know
if I can curse their, oh shit face. It's cool. It gives it a perspective.
I have a GoPro 360 camera and I've stuck that in like right below my mirror and a lot of it.
And I'll swivel it. I'll be like, sometimes oh, that's a cool camping spot.
And then the camera will pan around the cab and point over to where I'm pointing. They're like,
how'd you do that? And a lot of people like that because I can like, it's not just facing me.
I can point and so with the wolf box, you can have the camera that's pointing forward.
The 4k camera. And then one, if you pointed out yourself, you can go back and forth.
That's a good, that would be actually really cool. That would be a good, good,
in like an inner cab perspective. The other thought is when kids come around too,
you know, you got a camera in the back facing the kids.
That was going to be my next question is, do you have kids and are you doing that?
No kids yet. Yeah, it's down the road. But that would be one area that I would definitely want
that for, you know, or if I had two kids, two cameras set up really, really good.
At that point, then the Jeep gets smaller street tires and no more off roading. No,
I'm kidding. No, I love off roading. And one of the benefits of the wolf box is it has
like a G sensor, a motion sensor inside of it. So even if the car is off, if there's something
that happens to your vehicle and causes it to have this movement, the camera turns on,
right? And it'll start recording. So if you have a camera inside your vehicle pointing back at you
at the driver or something in the back seat and you're getting robbed, it's going to start videoing
the person that's inside your vehicle, which is, which could be another benefit. Like I'm,
I'm not normally thinking about getting always getting robbed. But I was like, oh, there's,
for me, it's another bonus, right? So keep your key, keep it, keep it going the whole time. Like
even getting nothing wrong with getting pulled over, it happens. But keep your key on if you
get pulled over or anything, just so nothing can be questioned. You know, right? You know,
so that's, that's just a good point to have that inner camera. And that's a good perspective I
never even thought about getting robbed or that you see the Uber drivers. Oh, yeah.
Lot of different stuff with Uber drivers. And that's, that's another kind of a good area where
you'd want that inner camera. So right. Has there ever been an incident when you've locked the screen?
Like to hit the lock button to like save a portion of video? Like, was there a crazy driver or you
did something cool on an obstacle? And you were like, I need to save this. Yeah. No, I have had a
lot of different situations where I do lock it. I've seen different, like not that I witnessed
car accidents, but I pulled over, had to work one day and a truck was on its side. And there was a
bunch of people trying to bash in the window to get the person out of the truck. So I pulled over
and I left the car running and didn't even think about leaving the car. I only left the car running
for my hazards. And I'm the only medical on the scene. I'm running up and I'm assessing the whole
situation. And I go back later, I'm driving to work. I'm like, it was recording the whole entire
time. That was cool. When situations like that happen, either I will lock it or if it's something
super important, I want to get a lot of the times I'll get the wifi, I'll use the voice activated,
turn on a wifi and I'll connect my wifi phone. I'll just download it right to my phone. So that's
I keep forgetting that that's another feature that these can do. You don't have to pull the SD card
right away. You can transfer the video file via wifi to your phone right then and there if you
need to. Yeah, exactly. Another time I saw, I actually witnessed a side by side rolling over,
just kind of toppling over and over and I got that on camera. And I think at that moment,
I locked it right away just so it didn't go away. Right. Yeah. We use the voice activation quite a
bit when we're on Trail Hero X just to be like, show front camera, show rear camera, show, you
and it's just fun to be like, I just want to command my mirror to change the camera views.
Yeah. Wait to see how many times it takes a picture because here's on the phone, you're like,
yeah, I took a picture of the whole takes picture and it takes some steps to picture. It's funny
because here's that. Here's you say, oh, yeah, I took a picture of something and it takes a picture.
Yeah. It's cool. And you go back and you're like, why are all these photos on here?
Yeah. Nice. All right. So I mean, anything else, I mean, a Wolfbox has started expanding
its products out away from, not away from, but including other things than just the G900's
rear view camera systems. Have you gotten to try out a bunch of the other stuff that they've
been dabbling in nowadays? Yeah, there's a couple of different products that I've actually gotten
to play a lot with. They've got like a couple of different jump starters with the built-in
compressors into that. I've got, I have one of those in every one of my cars in my wife's car.
I've got one. Those are nice. The one of them is like a 4000 amp. It starts the VA like no,
no problem. I mean, I've had a totally dead Jeep could not start it and it just makes it start
easily. So I mean, 4000 amps, it's gotta, gotta have a lot of power to it. They do have a like
an off road. That's the, sorry, real quick. That jump starter, that's their bigger one,
right? That they have with the integrated air compressor and everything. Well, I've got both.
So they've got the 4000 one with the compressor built into it, or they've got the just the 4000
jump starter. Now it's about yay big, a little thinner. But I've got both. I used the one actually
yesterday to air up the wife's tires, the bigger one with the jump starter and the compressor in it.
Yeah. Just threw it in our car yesterday. Easy to set up.
I have the, the bigger one and my, my one piece of feedback. I'm wondering if you found a way
to do this, if you found a need for it yet. I wish I could hook up 12 volt accessories to the pack
to run 12 volt accessories off of. And so far, I haven't found an easy way to do that.
Yeah. And that one, I'm not too positive. I know they had another one that could
power, you could plug it into a 12 volt power like cigarette lighter to continue the air
compressor running. And I don't know if that would have been able to be reversed to power,
like to have a little lighter off a dongle. Yep. Cause my old, my old jump pack I have has that.
It has a cigarette port off of a dongle that you plug in so you can run 12 volt power off of the
jump pack. And that's what I used to air up air mattresses at camp, right? To have a little 12
volt air pump that airs up air mattresses, high volume pump. And I took the, the jump pack, the
Wolfbox jump pack out and I was like, I don't have a way to hook up this, this air, the, the, the
high flow one for air mattresses to the power. And I had to like wire it, find a funky way to
wire it to the car battery, but yeah. Two things I think I feel like I've seen online,
I know type C is a different voltage, but type C can also go higher levels. I'm not sure that one
might only be for charging, but there might be a type C to a 12 volt cigarette lighter connector.
Okay. But I, I'm not positive on that. The other thing, have you messed with their, their air guns?
I was just going to say, yeah, that makes way more sense. Yeah. I was going to say,
fortunately for you, they make these big old blower things. I didn't even think about using the,
the air gun blowers for that. Okay. That's all I use. use for pumping up,
like a blue or a tires for pumping up beds and like inflatable stuff for the pool.
Yeah. Okay. That makes a lot more sense. There's two sizes of those, right? There's a,
there's a really tall one, maybe like a foot tall almost, and then they have a smaller version.
Yes. They've got a couple of different ones. So they've got on Amazon, probably their website too,
they've got a smaller, like a little black one. They've got like, I think the M 100 or something,
then there's the 200 and then there's the big guy that, I don't think the big guy is quite out yet.
I think that's a new product. They're hopefully going to be releasing soon. Okay.
It was at SEMA last year. Right. So they had it at Trail Hero X and we acquired one somehow.
We're not allowed to talk about competitions yet. But yeah. And so I have it, and I've used it to
clean dust and stuff out in the shop and like all these metal shavings on the ground. Just
yeah, you like it there. I'm excited for that one. Super powerful. That's nice. Yeah.
It's a little awkward to hold with one hand while you're trying to use it because it's just,
it doesn't really fit in a hand so big, but it puts out some airflow, man.
I've not had the opportunity to play with that one yet.
Well, it's really nice about it. I don't know if that, I haven't experienced the lineup yet.
I only have the monster one, but it has a little dial on the back. So you can set it to do,
I only want 25% power or I want 50% power. And so you pull the trigger and it doesn't,
it won't fully blast everything. So you can really slow it down if you want to,
you don't have to go full bore, which is pretty neat. Yeah. I don't do any of the other ones
have that feature as well. They've got, you can do different level selectors. So like
low, medium, high that I've seen. There's not like a dial or anything.
Yeah. This has a little roller on the back and it'll like go up by 5%.
And so like you can really fine tune it if you want. That's actually really cool.
No, it's funny is like, I went out with a buddy, it was actually doing like a little video shoot
and I was telling him about Wolfbox. He never, I mean, I just kind of met him through doing a
video shoot. He's like, I think I've heard of them and he's pulling out his camera,
he's pulling out his little air duster. He's like, oh wait, this is a Wolfbox product.
And he didn't even know it was a Wolfbox air duster. That's funny.
Yeah. I think those little ones are perfect for camping. Like you want to blow out your tent or
blow off the, some camping gear because they got dusty overnight. Like every time I'm packing
down the tent, I have like a rooftop tent. I'm always like sweeping it out and cleaning it out.
Now I'm just, I'm just going off really quick. I keep one in both of my cars. Arizona is just
dusty. Oh yeah. I just keep one in both of my cars to just blow out if I ever need to. So
sure. Yeah. Yeah. It does seem like a Wolfbox is really becoming this overall kind of camping,
overlanding, off-roading kind of brand. Now they're really expanding into a lot of different
areas. They definitely are. So some of the other products that are cool that they're releasing,
I wish I had a truck, but they've got the, when you open the door, they've got the
step sides or the side steps that are like motorized or whatever.
I didn't know they were going into those. That's cool. Yeah. I didn't know they had that either.
Yeah. So they have got those for different trucks and then they've got actual motorized
tunnel cutters, which is actually neat. I mean, I don't have a truck, but if I did,
I would love to have that. They've got onboard air systems now to where it's like the,
you can mount the compressor in the back of your truck and toggle switch so you can have
actually pretty good tire, like a tire air compressor. Let's see. What else? What other
products? Yeah. Those are kind of some of the, some of the ones that they touch into a lot of
different consumer needs. Are they doing any armor? Do they do like rock sliders and stuff?
They don't have any armor yet. I just sent them videos or a website links the other day of a
different company. Am I going to name them? That does like sliders for jeeps and they do like the
motorized step sides. I'm like, please make some of these for my Jeep. Please.
Yeah. Yeah. I never, you know, growing up in, in around trucks and off-road vehicles a lot,
I never thought that I would really appreciate motorized steps on a vehicle. And I've gotten
so used to them on the Dooley trucks that I unplugged one of them on, on one of the tow rigs
here at the shop. And I stepped out of the truck and almost fell on my face because I wasn't
used to those steps that I was like, Oh, I don't, I don't like this, not having it down.
So like I've come, it's one of those things kind of like the Wolf box, the G 900. I'm like,
I really appreciate those motorized steps now. Yeah, literally. Yeah. So I would love some for
my Jeep. Hopefully that's a future project they'll work on. I know the trucks are what they're
doing right now with those. And then like we talked about, they're doing the four channel
dash cam. I asked them specifically, they said that the one in the mirror is going to be 4K.
And then the one for the rear of the vehicle is also going to be 4K, which that's,
that's what we've been asking for. And I know it takes a lot of
computing power to run two 4K cameras. And I don't know what they did, but they, they said
that's what it's going to be. So hopefully I'm allowed to say that. Interesting. I wonder if the,
the screen on the, the actual review screen part, the display, the video display is going to have
a fast enough refresh rate to really make use of a 4K camera. It will, because sometimes I'll
switch it to the front camera, which is 4K and the quality of that looks amazing. I posted a short
the other day and it's a me removing that plastic cover off of the camera. I'm facing the front
camera. I've got a TV in front of the camera and you're literally watching the TV on the,
the dash. Yeah. So it's, it's, it's, it's good refresh rate. It's, it's good. So yeah,
I was going to say they, it's already, there already is a 4K camera in there. So the screen is
already fine to be able to handle it. But like you were saying, it's about the computing power of
now it's running two 4K video cameras coming into it, processing that, saving that data all at the
same time. Cause it saves everything, right? It's saving. Right now it's the three, we have,
there's a three channel camera or a setup out there and it's saving, it's a 4K front, 2.5 rear
and a TAN 80, well, accessory, accessory front, accessory camera. And it's saving all that data
all at once in three different camera like setups. And it's showing the video on the
screen all at the same time, all through that unit. It's quite impressive. So definitely,
definitely an impressive unit. So one of the things that I really like about what they do too,
we talked about a little of the different accessory problem solution items they have
for different things. They have multiple ways you can power these and run these.
They have, you can run them off your OBD port. You can run them off of a battery. You can run them
off of, they have an add a fuse option too. There's lots of different ways to power and run a 12
volt accessory port like a cigarette lighter. They have a lot of different ways to run the
power of these things. So there's lots of different options for setting them up and how you want to
configure and run them in your vehicles. So, yes. And I've done essentially all different wiring
setups and I've experienced all of them, which is cool. In ECU Jeep Safari, we hooked up a
G900 Pro in my dad's Jeep JL. We just stepped out one night. We're like, all right, let's hook it
up and get it all set up. So we used the OBD port. We didn't have to tap into any wiring,
plugs right in. Perfect. It was so easy to wire that up. So we did in the parking lot of our hotel.
Nice. It was cool. That's cool. Okay, cool. Anything else?
Essentially touching on their customer service, if there are issues or concerns, they got 24
hour customer support. That's really nice for being a company that's kind of based in China
to be able to have that much customer support in the States here.
Shows that they're really focusing it and they're treating it as a big priority,
which is really nice. Yeah, no, it definitely is. I mean, I've had people reach out to me and say,
hey, this is going on. I've literally just kind of directed them to customer service for Wolfbox
and then I've had them even get back to me and say, hey, they reached out to me. They sent me
this or they sent me a firmware update and it totally fixed the issue. So actually just messaging
with the guy on Instagram like yesterday, he sent me the update. Hey, everything's working perfectly
now. Nice. So I get those random bits of feedback, but yeah, their customer service
is probably one of the biggest things about Wolfbox is that they have that compared to,
well, I don't want to say compared to other companies, but just in general.
Compared to other companies for sure. They strive, and they've talked to me about it,
they strive to not compare themselves against other companies, but just essentially compare
themselves to what the customer is looking for. So they don't say, what is this company doing
compared to us? They say, what is the customer actually need? So that comes back to like that
wire loom or the wiring for the front bumper camera. They saw that the heat of the engine
was kind of deteriorating the wires. So they automatically had their factory, whatever,
put loom on the wire so that way it can better withstand the elements or the heat from the
engine bay. So they're always trying to do what the customer needs, which is awesome.
That's really cool. I like that they're being so customer oriented and customer focused.
I think that companies that don't do that just end up losing touch with what the market is looking
for and they become obsolete and done for pretty quickly, especially nowadays with
wants and needs and desires changing and updating so freaking quickly and so often.
It's really necessary for companies to be extremely customer focused.
And I'd never heard about that side of Wolfbox before. So it's really cool to hear that they're
doing that and they're following through with it. They even like the offline events, they are there
physically going and talking to customers, getting their inputs, their feedback, taking notes down.
I saw one of the employees from Wolfbox literally texting somebody as the customer is telling them
the different concern or this or that. That's one of the coolest things. They come to these
events. They're going to be at Trail Hero. They're probably going to do, I think, Seema next year,
excuse me, Seema next year again. Okay. Yeah. We got to meet two of them, two of the employees at
Trail Hero X. They had like a little car show and they were out there and they were definitely one
of the main sponsors of the show. And so it was good to meet them, talk with them. We got to meet
them at the very beginning and then at the end, there was a lot of like, if you have any questions
or comments or feedback on the unit, please come and tell us. We're all ears and we want to make
this the best possible thing. They do good with feedback. So it's awesome. Definitely.
Okay. Well, awesome, man. Anything else about Wolfbox, about yourself? Anything that you've
kind of, you have some fun, maybe a YouTube release coming out soon that you're like,
this is going to be a lot of fun. People should check it out. Anything like that going on in the
BMW X5. So I can do kind of new modern stuff on that to 19. It's kind of different from the Jeep
off-road, but I was able to get a modular from AliExpress that taps into my BMW has laser lights
on it, but you can only activate that when you're going over a certain speed and it's got to be
literally pitch black. This module that I was able to get and tap into the lights, deep in
some of the main wiring harness makes it so when I turn my brights on, the lasers are also activated.
That's just a more concentrated beam. So that's a new video I'll be working on real soon getting
that out. So a little different from the Jeep, but I like I said, I tap into those very unique
videos that who else is going to deep pin some of their ECU on a brand new BMW. So now a lot of
people know that sounds cool. I'm going to definitely have to see how that performs. I'm
that's cool. So sweet. All right. Well, cool. If anybody has any questions for you, Austin,
how can they reach out to you, get ahold of you, find you, et cetera. Yeah. My Instagram channel
is usually where I direct people if they want to message me. If they're watching a video and
have a question, I always recommend to leave a comment. I do my best to reply to people,
especially in comments. I just try to take the extra time to do that. Instagram though,
if it's a back and forth message, just message me there and I can easily get back to you.
And I always tell people, I've reached out and said, Hey, if you have an issue,
reach out to me and I will try to navigate getting ahold of somebody from Wolfbox. But most
time it's not even needed. I've never actually had someone say to me, I can't get ahold of them.
Never had that. So, but yeah. Awesome. And that Instagram once again was JKU392 Adventures.
Correct. Correct. Cool. And that is also your Instagram and YouTube channel.
Correct. Okay. So we can all watch the laser beam light show on the YouTube channel here soon.
Awesome. Well, if anybody has any questions for us, we can also direct questions over to Austin
and or Wolfbox if needed. You can get ahold of me. I'm at Snail Trail 4x4 on Instagram,
Tyler's at 4x4 Toyota Tyler. You can also email us Jimmy or Tyler at SnailTrail4x4.com
or you can call into our voicemail segment, 916-345-4744. And we answer those questions
live on the air and we get to make as much fun of you as we possibly can.
Truth. Awesome. Awesome. Austin, thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to
join us here. I'm glad that we kind of got to take it out of the middle of the day when it's 112
outside. You don't have to be out there suffering. So, yeah, seriously. Thanks again, man. Yeah,
we'll have to check in soon once you get ahold of the four camera system and get a chance to play
around with it. Maybe we'll get you back on the show and see how that one's working for you.
Absolutely. I look forward to it. That'll be super exciting. So, cool. Jimmy, any final words to
wrap up the show today? You want to leave everybody with? Well, let's see. I think that
Wolfbox is a really interesting company. I like how they're diversifying. I think they're going
in a lot of really cool ways. But what I really like about these cameras is it's just a safety
factor, right? It's always recording. If there's an incident, it's always saved on that hard drive
or the little SD card. If there's stuff happening at night and you're not around it,
it starts recording. It just seems like a kind of no-brainer safety aspect to a vehicle.
And then the bonus side is you get some cool videos if you just hit that lock button quick
enough. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Nice. Austin, any final words to wrap up the show with for everybody
out there? I think it was a great show. So, I really appreciate you guys having me. It was a
good time. So, I appreciate it. Cool. Yeah. Thanks for coming on, man. And don't forget everybody
out there. Keep crawling.
I
got one for you. Like a pickle. If you want my pickle, do you have a pickle? There's a dill or
sweet dill butter chip or full length. It's a wedge style. More of a round maybe. Okay.
Why did the Cyclops's school get closed? The Cyclops's school. Yeah. It got closed. Why?
He didn't have 2020 vision. He couldn't see. He couldn't. I don't know why. Because he was the
only pupil. No. Okay. It's not a school for Cyclops. Wait. No. Why did the Cyclops school?
Why did the Cyclops's school get closed? Got it. Okay. All right. Because he was the only pupil.
Yeah, I got it. Pupil. Like student. Yeah. Yeah. He was the only one.
Is the only student? Yeah. That's too bad.
About this episode
Austin Vogel joins Snail Trail 4x4 to walk through Wolfbox—starting with how the G900 TriPro became a three-camera system and how firmware, lens choices, and mounting affect real-world night visibility. They also connect the tech to off-road use: seeing axle flex, tire spin, and potential clearance issues, plus motion-triggered recording and easy Wi‑Fi transfers. Between Jeep build stories and safety tips, the hosts cover giveaways, token hunts, and listener review milestones that unlock bigger prizes.
Jimmy and Tyler sit down with Austin Vogel — registered nurse, Jeep builder, and one of the earliest Wolf Box influencers — for a full campfire interview diving deep into the camera system that’s their July sponsor and giveaway.
Austin came to Wolf Box in 2023 when they had barely 600 Instagram followers. He claims the title of “longest continuous” Wolf Box influencer, which nobody on the show disputes. He runs the YouTube and Instagram channel JQ 392 Adventures, where he’s built a reputation for doing exactly the kind of unique DIY content most people skip — including the full 0-to-100% 6.4 Hemi swap in his 2013 Jeep Wrangler JK, done in his two-car garage, with torque specs and everything.
The conversation covers: how Wolf Box compares across generations (OG G900 → G900 Pro → G900 Tri-Pro), what’s actually different about Austin’s YouTube reviews versus everyone else’s (he mounts all three mirrors side-by-side and records them live while driving — not from SD card footage), and an honest deep-dive into night driving visibility that neither Jimmy nor Tyler had really thought about. Turns out, from running lights alone, you can see lanes of a pitch-black road on the Tri-Pro. That’s not a marketing claim. Austin just showed it.
Other topics: why the Tri-Pro’s third camera is pointed at Austin’s front axle under the crossmember (and what he saw on the way home from Jeep Safari), Tyler’s plan for running Wolf Box on his F-350 with the Lance cab-over camper, the extension cable solution, the 4-channel system coming soon (two 4K cameras — Austin may have said more than he was supposed to), the G-sensor parked mode recording, Wi-Fi download-to-phone, voice commands, and the full product lineup beyond cameras — jump starters, air gun blowers, motorized steps, tonneau covers, onboard air.
Also: Austin is a registered nurse because he saw a kid have a seizure at a concert and had absolutely nothing to offer. His grandma told him she loved male nurses. He grew up in Ohio where you still pull over to help strangers on the side of the road — which is also why he was the first person running toward the truck that rolled over on the highway, car still running, recording the whole time.
GROUP BUY: There is a new group buy happening, and this time it is with Wolfbox for their G900TriPro. If we get ten people signed up then we will get $20 off. If we can get 20 people signed up, we will get $30 off, and if we can get 30 people signed up, then it will be $40 off. If you’re interested in joining the group buy, then please email Jimmy or Tyler, or jump on to the Discord.
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MORRFlate Giveaway at 900 Reviews on Apple Podcast. But our next giveaway is when we reach 800 reviews; we are giving away an OnX Elite Membership. We will also give away an OnX Elite membership when we get to 850. However, when we reach 900 Reviews, we are teaming up with MORRFlate for a $1000 MF Product Giveaway. Go over to Apple Podcasts to leave your review now and become eligible to win. Congratulations to A13XMONT, who won a set of tires from Yokohama Tire!
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SnailSquad Monthly Giveaway
July’s Giveaway is with a company that Jimmy and Tyler have very good experience with, especially after TrailHeroX. This month’s giveaway is with Wolfbox. They are giving away one G900TriPro to a lucky winner. This is the same three-camera rearview mirror setup that they received during TrailHeroX. If you want a chance to win this system from Wolfbox make sure you sign up for the giveaway tier on either Irate4x4 or the SnailTrail4x4 Discord.
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