AllOffRoad: Stephan Fischer and 14 years of 4WD content that tests before it talks

AllOffRoad is the YouTube channel and website of Stephan Fischer, a German-Australian accredited 4WD trainer and assessor and desert expedition driver. He immigrated to Australia in 1997 after travelling to more than 50 countries, and since then he has covered approximately 500,000 km across the country. The last 14 years have been spent mostly in the arid interior.

Time in the country

Fischer has completed more than 20 major desert expeditions, including unsupported cross-country routes through the Gibson, Tanami and Simpson Deserts. He spends around 100 days per year in the field, and says the vehicle setups, navigation and training methods he teaches are refined through use rather than taken from a manual. He has worked with commercial operators, 4WD clubs and the NSW 4WD Association as a trainer and assessor.

The channel has run for over 14 years and holds over 500 videos with more than 9.5 million views. Alongside it sits a Simpson Desert Guide of 250+ pages, built on 20+ Simpson crossings, and a Simpson Desert access status on the home page that shows when the park bulletin was last checked.

No paid reviews

What sets the site apart is how it handles gear. Fischer states plainly that he does not do paid reviews and does not do cash for comments, and that a product is used in real field conditions before he forms an opinion. Three years of testing before a verdict is not unusual for him.

That stance was tested in 2025, when a battery manufacturer brought a defamation case against him after he published the results of independent product testing. The manufacturer lost: the court found it could not bring the action under Queensland law and ordered it to pay his legal costs. His position, as he puts it, was that he tested the product, reported what he found and was not going to retract it.

Trip reports that keep the setbacks

The blog follows the same line. A recent Kimberley series on the Oombi Track includes a day with a blown rear diff, and another post on the Oombulgurri track describes thirteen kilometres that took six and a half hours, with a technical rock crossing and a difference of opinion on lockers versus throttle. Breakdowns and slow days stay in.

Fischer also travels with his two children, who have been crossing deserts with him from a young age, which shapes how he writes about planning remote trips with a family.

More about AllOffRoad on their own website: https://alloffroad.com.au.