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Hooray!!! Carnity turns 8 today!! We are celebrating..........yuhoo! We started this beautiful journey on 10.10.2010, with endless love, support and passion from each one of you. As a result today we have become UAE's largest Car Community. Eternally thankful and grateful to all our members, moderators, admins, star group members, tech wizards, offroaders, business partners and growth partners for all their support and love to perfect us at every turn. Carnity hopes to live up to everyone's expectations in the future and continue to develop and grow this awesome car community for the greater good of everyone. Let the adventures continue!

The biggest difference between social networks and online communities is that communities form out of groups of people from all different backgrounds and experiences. Thank you Carnity for providing a platform & bringing together all the car enthusiasts in UAE. The compelling reason for the 16000 odd members to stick around and stay this long has been the urge to contribute to this community and to build long-lasting relationships with people who have been sharing the zest for the same adventure. Over the past 8 years, Carnity has accumulated a plethora of solutions and shared a vast automobile knowledge base for all the car enthusiasts and explorers equally in this region. In a city where everything has a price tag its good to know that at least invaluable and money saving information such as this is at least available at no extra cost. Hope this community grows and reaches out to more people, to educate them and inform them about making the right choices before buying, selling or trying out anything new when it comes to cars, offroading, road safety etc. And ofcors to know the right way to bash the Dunes. Cheers Carnity! May the force always be with you!.

Congratulations Carnity and to all of its members, to make this day possible for realizing the much-awaited dream of CAR COMMUNITY in UAE.

Happy birthday big habibi. I’ll be sure to have a beer for you tonight.

Happy birthday !!! Congratulations to Carnity’s family !

Congrats Carnity..... Happy Birthday

Happy birthday Carnity your 8 today and long way to go with great admin support and increasing members every day. Everyone's experience and sharings are the plus point in the group giving it an edge from other groups. I guess it's time for celebrations to mark this occasion .

Always maintain safe distance and make sure the car is clear in front of you before you make an attempt. Using flag will avoid such type of incidents. CARS 4 UAE.mp4

All Cherokee drivers don't use flags

Very mature for an 8 year old. May you grow through all of our experiences and may you be used to your full potential and shared among family and friends. Happy 8th birthday Carnity.

Yes they just love to hug each other and kiss cheek to cheek as we all can see. :p

Hi there, i have been there for 4 years and have enjoyed every part of it life is slow but peaceful. will share my thoughts as to the details i know but do check as new rules come everyday. You can transfer your vehicle from Uae to Oman once you obtain your Omani licence. You need to apply for fresh licence once you are there and no conversion of licence is done now a days. You can still have 3 licences with you of all Gcc but the country you drive that licence is counted as that is linked to your Oman Id card. Regarding the rent its actually cheaper than Uae but depends which area in Oman your are placed. rates vary as per area of residence and distance of commute from the city. Cars are cheaper and lots of choice in uae as compared to Oman, if you are lucky you can sell your car too for a good price in Oman. All the best for a much simpler and slower life in Oman as compared to Uae which is fast. you will end up having more time on your hands and enjoy the mountainous stretch. only remember one thing if you wanna drive down to uae after getting your visa be sure you get the right designation on the visa which allows you to drive in and out of the country without getting stuck and returned back from the border.

Very good points @Jeh I fell into the same trap many years ago. Pulling an amazing handbrake turn and making all the girls drop their panties may be cool when you’re 17 but it doesn’t make you a good driver on the road. First time I got my license confiscated in my early 20s for dangerous driving (doing donuts in an empty car park?) I had to resit the test. I failed the first time and I couldn’t believe it. I asked the instructor what went wrong and he told me I was driving how I wanted to drive, not how they wanted me to drive. It’s hard to swallow your pride but that’s what it takes to get a license. Smooth, controlled, constantly aware, not showing off that oh I know this, watch me drift the trade centre roundabout. If everyone drove like RTA wanted them to, there would be zero accidents. Who the heck is stupid enough to crash on a straight road but I still see it every day. @Gaurav I agree with you too. A 60 or 90 driving ban for things that cause accidents like using the phone, swerving, not indicating, random braking etc would hit people and maybe make them realise. Especially if you live in somewhere like Warqaa or IMPZ where it can take 2 hours to reach downtown Dubai by public transport. I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, id love to see more unmarked patrols on the road. I was in a rush home tonight so I took a cab up hessa street. A white Tahoe cut across 3 lanes of traffic without even indicating and almost hit our cab then narrowly avoided the steel barrier in the middle of the turn they were trying to make. When I looked in the back, there were 2 women passing a small baby between them, oblivious as heck to the world outside. This is the kind of BS that needs to stop but why will they stop when there is no chance of getting caught.

Happy birthday Carnity...

Totally agree, and after getting their license, they go back to their basics and still kill people with their stupidity and arrogance. There should be license cancellation for moderate - serious traffic offense, that will keep drivers on their toe all the time.

True that. This usually happens cos everyone thinks since they were killing the accelerator back in their own country for 5 to 10 years they have the divine birthright to get the license here in the first attempt. However, they miss out the most important point here. In this region, you dont pass a driving test cos of the basic fact that you know driving and can shift gears whilst sipping your coffee and texting your mate at the same time. Passing a driving test here means learning and understanding whats driving discipline. Anybody can drive but realizing the fact that your stupidity can cause someone's brain go fly out of their windshield is what is important and a must to pass any driving test. I think some people just fail cos they don't wanna accept the fact that there are other ppl on road.

So Xterra is final now......? I can smell it.......!

Interested in hearing how people who do/have done it, find switching between LHD and RHD cars and vice versa. I drove RHD my whole life, only ever drove a handful of LHD cars before I came to UAE around the garage and never on the road. I thought changing gear with the other hand would be difficult but it came surprisingly naturally. The main problem I had was I had a habit of looking over my left shoulder to reverse. A couple of times here I’ve started reversing then look over my left shoulder only to see the seat belt and B pillar. A bit of practice cured that though. The other problem I had was when turning into car parks I would try to go in the wrong entrance. Again a bit of practice cured that. Now sometimes I wonder how it will be when I go home for a holiday. Will it come naturally or will I have to retrain my brain and think about what I’m doing. I guess the best solution is to save my pocket money and buy a McLaren F1 😂

I exhanged the 988 model today with the 888 model which has Manual Frequency Input. Problem solved

Never had an issue switching between LHD and RHD as long as there was a divider on the road. The bigger problem for me was while crossing the road as pedestrian. I would always look in the wrong direction to find that the road was completely empty and then realise to turn the other way. 😋Had a couple of narrow misses as well.

I am currently running a high gear ratio (lower numerical) of 3.07 and have found no major issues while desert driving. However, since I had increased my tire size from 29" to a 31", and since I am looking in the near future at a possible differential replacement, I wanted your suggestions on whether it would be advisable to go for a lower gear ratio (higher numerical) like 3.54, 3.73 or even 4.10. What I have understood from reading online is that when you mention a 3.07 gear ratio, the drive shaft would rotate 3.07 times for one rotation of the wheel. So that means that while driving on the highway you would get better mileage as the drive shaft is rotating less as compared to a 3.54 gear ratio. In the US, all the forums suggest going for a lower gear ratio (higher numerical) like 3.73 or 4.10 as a minimum, but then their offroading activity is more into rock crawling where you would need the car engine to be in right bandwidth of approx 3000 rpm so that you have maximum torque but with low speed to climb the obstacle. How would the gear ratios matter while doing desert driving where momentum is the main thing. By lowering the gear ratio to 3.54 or 3.73 I presume my speed would on the 1st gear would reduce which would reduce the performance. So bottom line for desert driving is whether a high gear ratio (lower numerical) better than a low gear ratio (higher numerical) ?

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