E.C. TAN Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 (edited) Awesome drive today guys. Thanks again to @Gaurav for leading us to a newbie drive with a fewbie feel. Thanks to @Ale Vallecchiand @Wrangeldtoo. I am impressed with the VW Touareg @amro elshafey Just to share an observation. Communication is very important during the drives. I believe that is determines the safety of everyone. It is therefore important that if anyone is in any difficulty please communicate. This also includes, if you decide to pull over or pull out from the convoy. Thanks guys again for the great afternoon. Edited June 5, 2020 by E.C. TAN 3 2 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siddharth maheshwari Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 Thank you @Gaurav for the amazing drive. Even in this hot weather i forgot the heat and really enjoyed all the dunes , side slopes. Great lead and look forward to join my next fewbie drive. @Ale Vallecchi always great to see you. Special thanks to @Wrangeld for all the efforts to get me out today. My first experience of getting stuck. 👍 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amro elshafey Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 Although I couldn’t talk in person with each one of you but it was great driving with you all. i enjoyed a lot the desert and the dunes. big thanks @Gaurav for arranging the route to accommodate me in the first half, for leading the convoy successfully And for your sincere advices. @E.C. TAN It was very good to try it’s off road capability, may be if lifted up with 2 inches will give more confidence on the dunes but in general it took them smoothly. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siddharth maheshwari Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, amro elshafey said: Although I couldn’t talk in person with each one of you but it was great driving with you all. i enjoyed a lot the desert and the dunes. big thanks @Gaurav for arranging the route to accommodate me in the first half, for leading the convoy successfully And for your sincere advices. @E.C. TAN It was very good to try it’s off road capability, may be if lifted up with 2 inches will give more confidence on the dunes but in general it took them smoothly. @amro elshafey great seeing you today and amazed to see your Toureg performance. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amro elshafey Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 @siddharth maheshwari thanks bro, it was great seeing you too 😊 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mehmet Volga Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 Many thanks to @Gaurav for excited routing and excellent guiding. It was full of fun today, thanks to all participants for such a smooth drive. Two photos attached... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matti Brockman Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 Thank you @Gaurav from my behalf as well for the great drive!! And everyone else as well for participating! It is always so great time on these drives! And especially now to see the sunset in the dunes, absolutely amazing!! Looking forward to the next drive! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Wrangeld Posted June 6, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 It's no understatement to say we braved the heat yesterday afternoon in Al Qudra. Even the vehicles sitting under the shade of the few trees could not be protected from the oppressive heat at 4pm. As we all started to deflate and flag up, however, the prospects of a good long drive awaited so everyone was in great spirits. I think I will call this report, "The One with the Touareg". @amro elshafey arrived as newbie to try out the Touareg in the desert and after a very detailed check and careful additonal briefing from @Gaurav we lined up in convoy order to move. It's a particular bugbear of mine that if you're coming in a drive you get there on time. It's simply not fair on the people who do get themselves there when we have to wait to get moving - particularly when the ambient temperature is 40+C and you drive a Jeep (yes, there is always the worry of overheating). Despite @Gaurav stretching the briefing to see if the final convoy member would arrive, after 25 minutes we had to get moving. And move we did. @Matti Brockman did a fantastic job in second lead, paying attention to distance and all of the instructions on where to rereoute and what to do, and to be honest it was a surprise to find that the first refusals were not from the Touareg, but other supposedly more capable vehicles. These were none to serious and nothing a quick tug or moment of thought could not sort out. @syed salman raza @Yousef Alimadadi and @Mehmet Volga represented the Pajero club on this drive with our lead, as pretty much everyone else was in a jeep and it's always interesting to watch the different way these makes of vehicles perform in the sand. With @Ale Vallecchi as Centre forward, the stucks that there were, and we did have a few people bogged in soft sand or cresting their cars, we managed so that the drive was fast paced and we could take advantage of the sweeping dunes in Al Qudra and keep the vehicles moving. After an hour or so, and as agreed before we set off our @amro elshafey exited onto the road, quite honestly having impressed the heck out of the rest of us by handling the challenge so well. We have no idea what the next plan is, but we really apprecaited your company and hope to see you back. On from here we went to the first play are of the day, back through some technical dunes and had the chance to do some side sloping and testing of nerve and vehicle. Wrangler drivers @siddharth maheshwari @E.C. TAN and @bunty_and_pops all showed how they are developing as drivers and controlling their vehicles. From the previliged position as sweep, myself and @Jeepie can see how you have started to take your own lines through the dunes if it looks like a challenge and how you get through the more difficult areas normally with ease. Nothwithstanding the wonderful sweeping dunes we did hit a problem area with two symultaneous stucks. @Yousef Alimadadi was sorted by @Ale Vallecchi while myself and @Jeepie eventually decided that it was too hot to dig and pulled @siddharth maheshwari off the crest where he had landed himself. It was all good fun and we continued to sweep our way through the dunes in search of a new play area. Having decided it was time to play, @Gaurav went for a trial run for a sidey. It was abruptly stopped when the sidey ran out of side and we were able to watch a master at work as Gaurav self recovered and we continued along the way. (Pictures in previous posts after Gaurav got free!) As evening fell, the plan had been to take a few minutes for a night drive so we made our way to the technical dunes where we were planing for this to happen, but as so often is the case in the desert, other events intervene and @Gaurav had to leave us to support a recovery from another drive. We were not far from the road so I rerouted and led the convoy back to the last exit to reinflate and make our way home. It was a great drive. Full of omvement, good lessons learned, good discipline from everyone and a great attitude. One small request, echoing what @E.C. TAN said. Communication on drives is key. If you are dropping out, please, please tell us. We don't know if it's because you have a problem, you want a bio break or you just want to go home. Unless you announce it. As you saw by Gaurav leaving to help out another crew, the Carnity approach is never leave anyone behind. So if you go missing, we will be worried aobut you and go looking. See you soon in the sand. 6 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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