Morning Fewbie Plus Desert Drive - Nahel - Abu Dhabi - 29 Jun 2024

[Zed]

@DP1011  no Tom Hortons open at 3am bro... i'll get you some Gummy Bears instead 🏃‍♂️🤣

[DP1011]

The only 2 people who have some respite if they arrive later than 5.15 are @Batuhan Kulac and @Zed ! The next train departs at 6am, under @JeromeFJ's Lead and if he is kind enough to consider you, you can have the pleasure of taking up IM drive ! ( As the meeting point happens to be same place) !  - But you might have some churned tracks as @Luke K P is sweeping and in case Jerome takes almost same track ! 

For other late comers it will end up a long drive early morning , to have sunrise view ! 

[Gautam Banka]

Will bring cold refreshments for all 😀🥳

[_luke_]

Cold drinks, hot drinks, gummies and dunes. 🤩

We're in for quite a treat tomorrow 😂

[Zed]

where is everyone? gonna start at 5:15am , with or without Marshal 😂

 

[Andrew John Melvill]

Thanks @DP1011, what an awesome and eventful drive this morning! Lovely flowing drive through nice big dunes! I started the pop out festival, 4 in total for the drive! @Luke K P had an impressive stuck that turned out worse than 1st thought with a broken front drive shaft. Hope all gets sorted out quickly mate! 

To everyone on the convoy, great team spirit and driving!

Cheers all and enjoy the cricket tonight! 

[_luke_]

Fun drive, but with trials and tribulations. We started on time and and had some great runs up and down the huge dunes... Everything going smoothly until the first pop-out, which was resolved quickly.

Next DP suffered a pop-out whilst climbing up a dune, followed by me losing a tyre.

5 minutes later I lost the CV Axel and the drive had to wrap up. 

Thanks for the support and patience. Hopefully I'll be out on the road again soon. 

[Batuhan Kulac]

This drive was humorous with lots of laughs, great break times and even greater dunes. But it was also undeniably cursed. 4 popouts each becoming progessively more complicated to fix. Luke lost his cv axle during the recovery of the last popout and on the way home, 15 minutes from my house, I lost my rear driveshaft cv joint as well. Loud clunk on the highway followed by clicking (the symphony of a broken cv joint). Had to put it in 4wd to power the front wheels and get to my garage which was just around the corner. But hey, that joint did its job for 13 years. All this in one drive.... coincidence? You decide. I've been in nahel a lot of times now but on this drive it truly earned my respect.

See you all next time. Keep digging, keep clawing.

[Andrew John Melvill]

1 hour ago, Batuhan Kulac said:

This drive was humorous with lots of laughs, great break times and even greater dunes. But it was also undeniably cursed. 4 popouts each becoming progessively more complicated to fix. Luke lost his cv axle during the recovery of the last popout and on the way home, 15 minutes from my house, I lost my rear driveshaft cv joint as well. Loud clunk on the highway followed by clicking (the symphony of a broken cv joint). Had to put it in 4wd to power the front wheels and get to my garage which was just around the corner. But hey, that joint did its job for 13 years. All this in one drive.... coincidence? You decide. I've been in nahel a lot of times now but on this drive it truly earned my respect.

See you all next time. Keep digging, keep clawing.

Sorry to hear about the 2nd CV joint of the day! Old Lady Dune would not even give herself up for us today, guess we need all earn her respect! 

Hope your jeep is back up and running soon! 

[Batuhan Kulac]

1 hour ago, Andrew John Melvill said:

Sorry to hear about the 2nd CV joint of the day! Old Lady Dune would not even give herself up for us today, guess we need all earn her respect! 

Hope your jeep is back up and running soon! 

Thanks! I got it fixed right away and went for a teraflex heavy duty joint :))) @Luke K P best of luck with yours.