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The rear parking sensors are turned off (and you see a trailer on the sensor display) and the rear vehicle fog light is disabled so the front of the caravan is not lit up bright red in low visibility situations.

This was brought home when a Discovery Sport pulled up next to me and I was looking down into it In normal solo driving, the 8 speed automatic gearbox keeps the engine rpm low, not often going above 1800 rpm.

Even pushing it quite hard the rpm remains low, showing just how much torque the 2 litre BiTurbo engine has (420 Nm of torque at 1750 rpm).

First gear in the automatic box has been designed for off road use and pulling away towing a 3200Kg trailer.

Even in the wet and on roundabouts with no load in the back, everything is under control and so far Ive not had the Electronic Stability Program kick in.

All wheel drive is permanent on the automatic no matter if you are in on-road or off-road mode.

The Torsen differential splits the power 40:60 between front and rear wheels and this reduced understeer on wet corners to zero if you are being slightly over enthusiastic.

One thing that did surprise me is just how spritely the wolf is.

We are trying running with the standard pressure of 29 PSI all round for the moment, although the rear tyres can be run at 44 PSI for a maximum load of 5 people and 1000 Kgs load in the rear bed.

Road and engine noise are minimal even on motorways, especially when the gearbox drops into 8th gear which is classed as overdrive, and at 60 mph the engine is just ticking over at a shade over 1200 rpm.

As there is loads of torque available even at this rpm, putting your foot down to accelerate doesnt always require a downshift to 7th.

The brakes are impressive and surprisingly have a lot of feel to them despite the Wolf being a truck.

Uk Caravans Brake Lock In Reverse Full Brake Emergency

The Amarok is fitted with VWs brake assist and if you jab on the brakes in an emergency stop situation, it detects how fast you apply the brakes then automatically applies maximum braking effort it also then starts flashing the brake lights to bring attention to the fact you have just done a full brake emergency stop and then turns the hazard lights on.

It arrived in a huge box with a good set of instructions, but if you go onto Roll N Locks website there are a couple of good installation instruction videos and after watching them a few times, it took me about two hours to fit on my own and that included removing and refitting the sports bars.

Roll N Lock provide an optional fitting kit so you can install the OEM sports bars (as far as I know its the only retracting cover that can accommodate the OEM sports bars).

The Roll N Lock adds about 30 Kgs to the weight of the Wolf.

When retracted the bed can support 550Kgs in the driving position and when pulled out to about 75 of the bed length can still support 250Kg in standard form fully extended out and can be upgraded to 350Kg by replacing the bearings.

It took just over an hour to fit on my own and again, watching the manufacturers videos on U-Tube a couple of times filled in a few steps that were not clear in the instructions.

Im still playing about with loading configurations for the bed.

We currently use a number of Really Useful Box Company boxes to store everything and these work out well.

The only thing I might do over winter is build a custom storage box that fits semi-perminantly at the rear of the slide under the Roll N Lock cover to store all the off road recovery bits, straps, shackles, air compressor etc.

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Reading through the Wolfs manual there is quite a big section on towing.

One interesting feature I noted is when the caravan is plugged into the Amaroks 13 pin socket, the alarm system covers the caravan, so if you leave the Amarok and lock the doors turning the alarm on, if anyone tries to unplug the caravan or cuts the cable it will set off the Amaroks alarm.

Although the caravan towing electrics are set up so that if the engine stops, the fridge circuit is switched off until the engine restarts.