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It's time to hone our newbie drivers skill and also welcome absolute newbies who have been waiting patiently. This time it's a newbie drive that ends with BBQ + get together session, so bring your family, friends, kids and warm clothes with good food. All first timer absolute newbie will be given a proper introduction of sand off-roading before they start from seasoned offroaders having over decades of UAE offroad experience. Idea is to make an absolute newbie comfortable with sand off-roading and in some of the most approachable set of sand dunes in Tawi Nizwa side. It's a perfect drive for people aspiring to start dune bashing or offroading in the sand as a new hobby. And wish to explore the UAE offroad natural beauty and unleash the hidden power of your 4x4 vehicle. For newbies, it's a perfect drive to learn more and advance to fewbie level and start enjoying more advance level drives as per your offroad grades. All experienced members are requested to join in helping newbies by imparting their off-road expertise. When: 30 Nov 2018 Meeting time: 1:45 PM, a convoy will move sharply at 2:00 PM Where: Tawi Nizwa shops GPS Coordinate: https://goo.gl/maps/KKBUhkQ2y382 Level of a drive: All are welcome Type of Car: Any proper 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 8-10 inches of ground clearance Plan: Easy drive from Tawi Nazwa to Pink rock and relax with snacks, bbq, drinks, and chat. What to bring along: Loads of snacks - whatever you like with little extra to share, water, liquids, smiles, stories, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 6 PM (Drive) + 9 PM (BBQ + Relax) Please RSVP on the calendar

By looks tire pressure on 35 or 25 looks "almost same" to the layman, but it makes a hell of a difference in steering, fuel mileage and shortening your tire life by half. So inflate to 32-35 and see any difference. Also, check your steering fluid level at first and ask someone to sit inside and steer full right and left once and then top up the fluid as it will go down after a bit of steering movement. Suspension work often results in tight feel in jumping and bouncing and not steering tight per se, but give few days to see if you get used to or not then show it some good mechanic for an opinion.

It happens. I can't tell you the number of times I have seen engines destroyed by over heating, while the owner/driver insists that nothing drastic had happened. Some people just don't monitor instruments while driving,and many more don't understand what their instruments are telling them when they do decide to look at them once or twice a year.

Let the P38A guru set you straight. Your steering pump I'm pretty much guessing is almost 20 yrs old now and while in reverse, Uturn or any crawl driving situation you are at low rpms and pump is not what it used to be and weaker than it used to be, so it won't work as efficiently resulting is a stiffer steering at low rpms. If the fluid level is correct and its humming when you turn then its on its last legs anyways. Replace your steering pump with a new one, not used but new and it should get better. Or look on top of the steering box there is a 14mm( If I recall ) checknut, loosen that a bit and in the middle of that is much smaller a hex/torx nut, loosen that ever so slightly, like 15 - 20 degree turn, some steering fluid might also leak out but thats normal, that will loosen up the steering, check steering if it is to your liking, can take several attempts or have another pair of hands to help you out. Once you are happy and the amount of resistance, tighten the 14mm nut but side effect of that is you may now have slop in your steering. But you can come try to get a middle ground where you have minimal slop and steering stiffness is to your liking. That adjustment in the steering is there as the worm gear in the steering box wears away you develop slop or dead play in the steering over the years to get rid of that you tighten that and it reduces the tolerances between the gears. a lot of old skool cars that use the traditional worm gear steering box setup have this. I personally hate slop in the steering and dont mind a slightly stiff steering and in my 98 to get rid of it the adjustment it was fully tight which made the steering stiffer than normal cars but I didn't mind it as it didn't have any free play at all. I do miss my many P38s, contrary to popular belief one of the most reliable and cheap cars to maintain I've ever had. Never know in the future a nice clean one at the right price comes along. This time maybe turn it into an weekend warrior. I've always wanted to do that but always thought they were too elegant and civilised to be bashed around in the desert.

Also if the car was sitting for a while, everything becomes little out of order so drive for a week and see any improvement before spending further. My Pajero sitting for a month and a half had some rattling noise, tight steering, and hard braking which got normal after a couple of drives.

Did you check your tire pressure? Any recent work is done on steering / suspension....?

Did you check the steering fluid level?

Hahahaha, I totally agree, but this was definitely fake as my Pajero is an off-road car only and not daily driver which get used only once a week. This could have died much earlier in daily driver. Or may be those warranty engineers uses some time base alarm clock than actual usage.

Some of these brands have the best warranty engineers. Batteries die exactly a month or 2 after warranty!

Finally my Pajero Yuasa battery died last week after 1 year and 3 months, makes me believe that it was a fake Yuasa battery with made in Japan printing only. Finally after lot of attempts I got Amaron battery and hope this one lasts more than any other batteries based on so many positive reviews I have heard about it.

kia hyundai are like that a neighbor of mine had got a optima in the first year its head had issues i recommended him to bring it in and we send the head to turning workshop and it will be back on road and they were gonna end the warranty if it was repaired outside anyway he went ahead with warranty repair in which he had to pay a percentage but eventually payed 28k for a stupid head imported from main company and waited for 2 plus months to finish it