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I had been on drives before with another 2 Clubs but had the most enjoyable one with Carnity members last Friday. Thanks to all members, it didn't feel like it was my first drive with Carnity. As posted by Gaurav, the Iftar Drive was really once in a year opportunity. Hundreds of cars gathering in the desert was quite a sight. With good food and super company, the drive was fun. Thanks to Gaurav for the driving tips and for leading us, to Rahim Bhai for the food and to Saleem for keeping us entertained.

So it was time for the Grand Iftar. It is such a treat to see so many off-road enthusiasts gathering in 1 spot to celebrate the opening of the fast. For me it's never been about the destination, but all about the journey, it's not about where I can reach, but about where we go as a team. Thanks to @Gaurav Bhai for a wonderful lead and congratulations to all who were able to follow. Upon arrival the love cooking station was soon setup and I would like to thanks my wife and her sister for keeping ready so much food and specially the tea. Thanks to everybody else for their contributions as we discovered we had to have a second serving. As we broke fast together and refreshed ourselves with the tea we were off to the top. Gaurav Bhai was the first one up, as I was on the climb I heard the Rav4 had made it to the top. I was glad to reach the top to be greeted by the aight of the Rav4 on top. This joy was short lived as the next thing we saw was Saleem walking towards us and we had the Rav4 with the radiator taking a hit in 2 places. Everything till then was as planned. Thanks to the extra food from all to be able to fill in again while the M-Seal did it's trick. Around mid night we headed out and inflated at the closest Adnoc pump. The prize was well deserved by both Ahmed and Basel, but Basel took the honors. Thank you all for every contribution which made this drive so memorable.

All I read was the bold and underlined stuff I guess I have to make some moves and b4 the next Thursday 😀😀😀😀😀

Hi I am very much in guys. Regards Srikumar 055-9567471

After immense interest, big smiles and enthusiasm I have seen on few people faces during last drive, I think some of our drivers are ready now for more challenging terrain. Area 53 is an extension of bidayer area but with medium - big dunes with sharp rise and fall. Truly perfect for rushing your adrenaline and hone your desert driving controls. This area requires precise control as one moment you climb up with full throttle and second moment you crawl at low rev before hitting the gas again for sideways climb. This drive is not meant for newbie - fewbie level, and drivers should have at least 8-10 drives experience in an easy - intermediate level. When: 15 June 2017, Thursday Meeting time: 11 PM, convoy will move sharp at 11:15 PM Where: Bidayer shops GPS Coordinate: https://goo.gl/maps/b4LPnVr5wBB2 Level of drive: Intermediate - Expert - Advance Type of Car: Any proper 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 10 inches of ground clearance Plan: Night drive from Bidayer to Iftar Bowl and enjoy suhoor together. What to bring along: Evening snacks, food for suhoor - whatever you like with little extra to share, water, liquids, smiles, stories, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 5 AM, 16 June 2017, Friday List your name and mobile number in this drive thread and RSVP the below calendar:

A few of you know the situation with the garage I was working for. Today I quit my job and on Wednesday I am starting with an exciting new company called ghost tints in al quoz doing the electrical part of the work in the video below. Unfortunately, this means no more cheap mechanical work for Carnity members from me but I will be available to help with other things and I may have access to a diagnostic scanner. Thank you to everyone who has helped out along the way. It has been fun and I've met a lot of interesting people and I'll see you around.

Did you happen to refuel it? When petrol sits for a long period of time it loses its potency. I've had cars that sat in a shed for 4-5 years that wouldn't start. Added fresh petrol and they went like new.

Well if car was sitting idle for 3 years, then all this you are going through is quite justified for few hundred kms if not 1k+. My strongest recommendation is to change this engine oil asap and also next oil change and oil filter do it within less than 1000 kms so that engine internal component get the required protection from shaving or corroded micro particles. Also worth looking in changing all lubes slowly and make a track of all as a new start - coolant, brake oil, power steering fluid, gear oil, differential oil etc.

This area is challenging and I hope everybody is ready to level up.

When i saw that hollow space under the bumper exposing the condenser and radiator I had it in back of my mind that something is bound to happen if something hit it there and 2 days later the nose dive gave it what it needed you see rav4 is a urban runner so many drives with a stock one is building my confidence as this is not my daily driver and driving awd vs a 4x4 is very different you don't have lows and highs here it has its own tricks😀 which I m experiencing all this while and while being on this particular drive I saw many people attempted to reach the top of iftar bowl in those 3 to 5 hours I saw 5 successful attempts 1 was gaurav Bhai whose car is stock and 3 were from a strocker Nissan coupe and 1 from station capsule as all others usually came from left and right and rav4 climbing to the top from the side gives it a star 😀😁from me and I saw many ideas floating around and I have something on my mind not all together but slowly slowly I m gonna make some custom modifications 😀😁😀😁 and above all thanks Rahim Bhai and shri bhai and gaurav bhai for that lovely and filling yummy food and everybody for having patience and bearing with me....

I'm assuming you mean air springs/shocks because you cant have hydraulic and air the same time, hydraulic is fluid based. Anyways in Sharjah they can just replace your air bladder on the same shock, at 500dhs per corner but you have take out the shocks your self and them get fitted later too

It was indeed once in a year opportunity to witness thousand's of fellow offroaders in UAE in one single place, was the main highlight of this drive. We started drive on time, and as decided we quickly covered the first 10 kms on the track next to the fence. Then we had a quick brief for the slightly challenging drive ahead and even more challenging last couple of hundred meters next to Iftar bowl due to too much traffic and cross tracks. We managed to reached almost next to Iftar bowl and then detour for easier route to circle the bowl from the other side so that all the cars can make it next to the main area. After little struggle and few refusals we made it to the Iftar bowl where we witnessed more than 10-15 off-road clubs join together with several hundreds of their member and cordoned the area for their cars. After little search, we find the sweet spot right in front of Iftar bowl towards little right and spread the Iftar food and setup the live cooking station. Rahimdad and family were really prepared with tons of food, dessert, tea and snacks that helped all of us in first and second seating. As the time came to break the fast, we all sat together and ate almost anything available on the table till the point that everyone was so stuff that no one was able to move an inch from their position. With so many different cuisines and style of food, we still end this seating with yummy live tea that energized everyone and gave us the much needed kick to get started for Iftar bowl long hill climb. Although by now Iftar bowl hill climb was as busy as Dubai-Sharjah traffic but still plenty of people kept trying to climb from the front face. As we were enjoying the tea, someone place 4 rounds of nice fireworks on top of Iftar bowl that everyone enjoyed at the end of Iftar. Now it's time to go on top of Iftar bowl and after few attempt 4 of our cars made to the top of Iftar bowl and we enjoyed the awesome view and breeze. While coming down we heard that Rav4 hit the nose down on sharp crest and broken it's radiator from two sides. We moved half of our cars to support Saleem and and other half packed up the Iftar spread and joined all of us next to Saleem's car. We spend almost 3-4 hours there and opened the second round of eating at 11 PM and by grace of god, we still had enough food for all. After couple of round of M-Seal application, Saleem managed to fix the Rav4 and tested its leak in desert to be perfectly fine and holding the radiator pressure as it supposed to. Finally closer to the midnight, we all exited safely and inflated all our cars at adnoc near madam round about. Now is the time for the best driver prize based on all drivers vote. Although it was a close call of 2 votes for Ahmed and Basel, but in end Rahimdad break that tie by voting for Basel as a best driver to hold the second lead position with great respect and command. Overall it was fun filled drive, ended with a Rav4 fixing challenge for the second time in a row tells that AWD cars with low clearance and weaker tow hook should look out for simpler newbie level drive than an Intermediate level to avoid extra toll.

@Aumio If your car is running on Petrol and CNG than I am not in a good position to advise as I am not too familiar with that setup. I am having a Nissan Pathfinder R50 which is a 2001 model and is running without any issues. There was some race being lost when brakes were applied that it would almost stall, but that was due to timing going off when I replaced all the hose for the air intake. Once timing was set I did not face that problem again. You might want to check the fuel lines and hoses for the CNG to make sure there are no blockages.

For sure loose spark plug wire must have caused this, whenever happen again just tap on wires and see if it correct the issue then you need the new spark plug wires....

If it's just one of incident, I wouldn't bother much but just remove, check, clean and install all spark plug once to eliminate any doubt for foul plug or loose HT leads (if any).

While experiencing the hesitation, have you also experience any excessive smoke especially white smoke? When this happened car was overheating? Have you check the coolant level and color is fine? What I am suspecting is that car must have overheated while driving without coolant or less coolant and that resulted in sudden power loss. However once car engine overheat and head gasket leaks, it causes massive power loss, but on the contrary if head gasket leaks then it can never be fine again unless you open the engine head and change that damaged gasket. May be more experience technical guys can shed some more light.

First things first bro: Car model? Car current kms? From how long you have this car? Car has service history? When and where last service done? Then we can help you further better