COVID19 Compliant - ABSOLUTE NEWBIE Morning Desert Drive - Al Qudra- Dubai - 14 Aug 2020

[Tamas Hoffmann]

On 8/12/2020 at 11:58 AM, Srikumar said:

 @Tamas Hoffmann @izzumonv @Juan Carlos Elizalde Reyes @seosamh nash @Probir Mukherjee @Hardik Mody @Sara EL FANIDI welcome to the Carnity Offroad Club. 

PREPARATION FOR THE DRIVE AND WHAT TO EXPECT

1) Please ensure that you reach the meeting point on time, i.e., 5:00 AM sharp. If you are late, you would be left behind.

2) Convoy numbering would be posted on Thursday evening after 6 pm. 

3) Please spend 15 minutes of undivided attention to go through the Absolute Newbie briefing Video. This is absolutely necessary for the safety of you and your vehicle before your first offroad adventure. 

4) For those who have radios, you can program them to the Carnity Frequency using the guidelines provided in the below post. If you dont have a radio, we shall provide you with a spare radio during the drive.  We will be using Carnity Channel 2 tomorrow. (446.03125 Mhz). The instructions to program the radio are provided in the below post 

5) All traction controls, ABS and Air bags need to be switched off. If it requires pulling the fuse, please do the needful. Incase of any queries you can always ask the senior members before the drive or better still, post your queries on this drive post and we would assist. 

6) Deflate to 15 psi. Incase if you have any difficulties you can approach the senior members before the drive who would assist you. 

7) Feel free to ask questions at any time. 

We shall be starting the drive close to Hammari Well at Qudra, and enter the desert through some nice easy tracks and dunes so that you can get familiar with your vehicle. As the convoy's confidence increases I shall be gradually increasing the level of the drive always keeping in mind everyone's comfort level. We will be driving for about 3 hours practicing driving in sand, proper steering control, crossing some dunes, and getting you and your vehicle accustomed to off-roading in general. 

By 08:30 am we will be heading out towards the Qudra parking, where you can inflate the tyres with your compressor or at the Last Exit gas station.

Hey everyone 

I have a question about turning off all aid like abs air bags 

In the service today they told me I can't switch off these on my car 

Have an old Mitsubishi pajero 2005

If anyone can assist me 

 

Thank you 

[Srikumar]

2 minutes ago, Tamas Hoffmann said:

Hey everyone 

I have a question about turning off all aid like abs air bags 

In the service today they told me I can't switch off these on my car 

Have an old Mitsubishi pajero 2005

If anyone can assist me 

 

Thank you 

Hi Tamas,

It's generally a fuse which needs to be pulled. If you read the owner's manual it will tell you which fuse. If you have identified it, we can pull it out before the drive.

[Srikumar]

DRIVE RSVP IS CLOSED

Convoy Numbering :

1. Srikumar - Lead
2. Pancho - Second Lead
3. Freakyan
4. Hardik Mody
5. Tamas Hoffmann
6. Gaurav Tomar
7. izzumonv
8. Juan Carlos
9. Sara
10. seosamh Nash
11. Javier
12. Probir 
13. Vanessa - Sweep

See you tomorrow at 5:00 AM.

[Tamas Hoffmann]

2 hours ago, Srikumar said:

Hi Tamas,

It's generally a fuse which needs to be pulled. If you read the owner's manual it will tell you which fuse. If you have identified it, we can pull it out before the drive.

Thank you Srikumar

I checked where the fuse box but I can't seem to find where is it located 

I'll check if I can find online an owners manual 😊

Thank you 

[Sara EL FANIDI]

Hi all, 

1. Which 4x4 do you drive? Jeep Wrangler

2. Confirm your vehicle has a front and rear tow hook - yes

3. Do you have any previous offroading experience? No 

 

Looking forwards! 

Sara

[Probir Mukherjee]

What a lovely drive today , thoroughly enjoyed thanks to Sri Hari , Rafiqand Vanessa for the guidance,excellent radio commuications and convoy discipline and much appreciationto fellow Newbie drivers, we all did quite well. Look forward to more drives .

Thanks .. got the radios ( s) WT

Car is a Land cruiser 

Rear hook 

Front hook 

Tyre deflator / inflator  available

Radios to be bought- dragon market 

[Srikumar]

TRIP REPORT

Qudra offers the perfect play ground for Absolute Newbies to start learning the basics of offroading. With a nice looking convoy signed up, I was eagerly looking forward to a wonderful drive. Such was the excitement that I had reached the meeting point at 4:30 am to only find @Vanessa8580 already waiting since 4:20 am. 

As we started deflating our own tires the entire convoy of Absolute Newbies started trickling in well before the meeting time. With a quick introduction @Vanessa8580 started helping deflate few of the new offroaders who needed assistance. Upon checking the tow points, we came across @izzumonv who unfortunately didnt have tow points at the back of his car. Tow points is the most important requirement to start offroading and its mandatory to have them at the front as well as back. Hope you get them fixed by next weekend and we look forward to having you onboard.

With @Pancho as my second lead, @Rahimdad as center forward and @Vanessa8580 in sweep we lined up the entire convoy. After a quick absolute newbie briefing we started moving on some nice easy tracks.

Within a km of entering the desert while helping recover @Juan Carlos Elizalde Reyes we found that one of his tyre's sidewall was peeling off. As it was unsafe to drive the car in such a condition in the desert, Rahimdad and Vanessa  escorted him back to the road. Juan, your car had some serious lack of power, and probably it is the Oxygen sensor. @AKR had a similar issue and maybe he can share some light on what he did to get it sorted.

With the convoy settling down and the increase in confidence, I started increasing the pace in some of the medium range dunes at the back side of Qudra. With plenty of opportunity for side slopping the convoy responded extremely well with a minimal of fuss. Well done.

@[email protected] impressed me both with his nicely lifted Pajero as with the drive skills that he displayed. Nicely done.

@Hardik Mody was our adventure man for the day with a couple of jumps and going off the track. Luckily nothing happened. However, for me the highlight was how you self recovered yourself out of the pocket. 

@Tamas Hoffmann was the quietest guy in the convoy and he didnt break a sweat to manage his Pajero throughout the drive. 

@Gaurav Tomar joined in his JGC. Though it has a lot of power, its a beast that needs some practice to tame. But you managed it well.

@Sara EL FANIDI did pretty well in her Wrangler. Couple of moments while doing the side slopping, but overall good driving. 

@Javier Lucero really enjoyed himself at the back of the convoy despite the cross tracks as he was riding a but higher than the other cars and testing the power of the Wrangler.

@Probir Mukherjee joined with the mighty V8 LC and he sailed through most of the dunes with the utmost of ease.

Thank you to @Pancho for supporting the drive in second lead position. Big thanks to @Rahimdad and @Vanessa8580 for managing all the refusals and stucks quickly and to ensure that the convoy keeps moving at a good pace.

Well done everyone. For the next drives at Newbie level, please bring along a deflator, pressure gauge, flag and radio as a minimum. Also like I mentioned during the debriefing, join the Carnity Whatsapp Drive Notification to get the latest updates on the drives and so that you can RSVP on time for the next weekend's drive. Till then drive safe.

[RaYan E]

Best regards to the Team Marshal. All the best very coordinated. Amazing keep it up. 
 

Also to the whole convoy all the best. I enjoyed the ride. Till next time

[Probir Mukherjee]

9 hours ago, Srikumar said:

TRIP REPORT

Qudra offers the perfect play ground for Absolute Newbies to start learning the basics of offroading. With a nice looking convoy signed up, I was eagerly looking forward to a wonderful drive. Such was the excitement that I had reached the meeting point at 4:30 am to only find @Vanessa8580 already waiting since 4:20 am. 

As we started deflating our own tires the entire convoy of Absolute Newbies started trickling in well before the meeting time. With a quick introduction @Vanessa8580 started helping deflate few of the new offroaders who needed assistance. Upon checking the tow points, we came across @izzumonv who unfortunately didnt have tow points at the back of his car. Tow points is the most important requirement to start offroading and its mandatory to have them at the front as well as back. Hope you get them fixed by next weekend and we look forward to having you onboard.

With @Pancho as my second lead, @Rahimdad as center forward and @Vanessa8580 in sweep we lined up the entire convoy. After a quick absolute newbie briefing we started moving on some nice easy tracks.

Within a km of entering the desert while helping recover @Juan Carlos Elizalde Reyes we found that one of his tyre's sidewall was peeling off. As it was unsafe to drive the car in such a condition in the desert, Rahimdad and Vanessa  escorted him back to the road. Juan, your car had some serious lack of power, and probably it is the Oxygen sensor. @AKR had a similar issue and maybe he can share some light on what he did to get it sorted.

With the convoy settling down and the increase in confidence, I started increasing the pace in some of the medium range dunes at the back side of Qudra. With plenty of opportunity for side slopping the convoy responded extremely well with a minimal of fuss. Well done.

@[email protected] impressed me both with his nicely lifted Pajero as with the drive skills that he displayed. Nicely done.

@Hardik Mody was our adventure man for the day with a couple of jumps and going off the track. Luckily nothing happened. However, for me the highlight was how you self recovered yourself out of the pocket. 

@Tamas Hoffmann was the quietest guy in the convoy and he didnt break a sweat to manage his Pajero throughout the drive. 

@Gaurav Tomar joined in his JGC. Though it has a lot of power, its a beast that needs some practice to tame. But you managed it well.

@Sara EL FANIDI did pretty well in her Wrangler. Couple of moments while doing the side slopping, but overall good driving. 

@Javier Lucero really enjoyed himself at the back of the convoy despite the cross tracks as he was riding a but higher than the other cars and testing the power of the Wrangler.

@Probir Mukherjee joined with the mighty V8 LC and he sailed through most of the dunes with the utmost of ease.

Thank you to @Pancho for supporting the drive in second lead position. Big thanks to @Rahimdad and @Vanessa8580 for managing all the refusals and stucks quickly and to ensure that the convoy keeps moving at a good pace.

Well done everyone. For the next drives at Newbie level, please bring along a deflator, pressure gauge, flag and radio as a minimum. Also like I mentioned during the debriefing, join the Carnity Whatsapp Drive Notification to get the latest updates on the drives and so that you can RSVP on time for the next weekend's drive. Till then drive safe.

Thanks again . Spl thanks to Rahim .. too.

 

[Vanessa8580]

It's only a few months ago since I also started as an absolute newbie. I still remember how exciting it was to be behind the wheel and how scary it looked to take my first side slope.

Yesterday it didn't really feel like an AN drive, everyone was driving very well and I was quite impressed with how little refusals we had ! 

I was also happy to see a name on the list that was a girl's name 😁 welcome @Sara EL FANIDI we can use some more ladies in the club ! There are not a lot of us so we have to stick together ! 

Everyone well done and see you soon in the sand !