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@Ale Vallecchi when I went from HT (235/75R15) to AT (268/75R15), I could instantly feel the heaviness in the tyre. My hill climb ability definitely took a hit. To compensate that I have had to go lower on the PSI. Earlier on HT I would drive around 12 psi, and now I drive it about 9-10 psi depending on the terrain and in some very rare cases (just for fun) tried at 6 psi as well. The advantage of the AT was that I never had a pop-out in the past 2 years of usage, and this is even after taking a few nasty blows to the tyres from time to time. I would suggest that you first reduce the PSI to about 10 and then see if you are having a better flotation.

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Y62's unite! Let's show them we're not driving over-glorified grocery getters, but formidable opponents in conquering the toughest terrains Ale can throw at us! 🤪

Thanks Gaurav, Its a wonderful news. Sincere thanks to you and all the Marshalls who gave me tips to improve. I could recollect recent tips given by @Ale Vallecchi who help me to explore the low gear when needed. Special thanks to @Srikumar for all the moral support and most your words made sense to me. I want to thank all the leads who helped me through out the journey from Newbie to Intermediate Especially @Emmanuel @Wrangeld@fredrc @Shamil @Rahimdad

Review from @Xaf after using the Mastercraft Courser AXT: My review after 10.000km usage: - Compared to H/T tires more noise on the road, acceptable. - Can go easily to 10 psi, didn’t try lower. No issues, hard core off-roading, sliding, wadis, till now no pop-outs/ cracks. - I found them quite heavy compared to my H/T, but my H/T were 285/60 18, the Mastercrafts 285/70 17. I feel difference in performance, need a bit more momentum on dunes. - Same company as coopers, same quality control. Price difference is probably to cover marketing costs for Cooper. - Looks cool

congratulations @Rinelle Sanaani well deserved. excited for you to join the intermediate drives you will definitely love it as much as i do!

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So I finally have changed my tires. Went from my old stock Michelin road tires to Mastercraft 265/70R17 115T HSX. I have driven with them Friday and yesterday. My impressions. They seem to dig in more (to be expected I guess 😊) and "float" less them my old road Michelin. The question would be, to get used to them (other than just driving) should I: 1) deflate differently (I used to go to 11/12 psi, and still have used this during the weekend on the new tires), to make the tites float more/better? 2) use gears differently (on terrain like Badayer I used to drive in 4H 3rd gear (especially going in and out of bowls and dune formation, where I was looking for more power), but maybe with the AT tires 4H 4th is better, as on a couple of steep inclines I felt the car less agile and responsive)? Keep in mind I have an FJ where in 4H the gears go from the highest D to 4, 3, 2 and L 3) Also consumption on sand seems quite higher: on the same drive in Badayer I used to consume around 1/5 of the full tank, but with the new AT tires I used almost half a tank. Any advice/opinions?

Congratulations @Najeeb Mohammed for reaching the Intermediate Level with Carnity Offroad Club. As per your recent drives, you have shown tremendous progress and well deserve this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Keep up your great contribution on the forum and get socially involved in the newbie and fewbie drives to impart your knowledge. Once you have all the gear required, you are most welcome to join the Intermediate Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Intermediate: Number of drives 10 (26 regular drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune & sand reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor, tool kit, tow rope Drive teamwork Help in recoveries under Marshal / Crew supervision Drive posting/joining Join newbie, fewbie & intermediate level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery + drive and route suggestions Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

Already Ale has set the excitement, let the amusement be reserved for Friday ... United Y62s conquer😉 🤣

You still don't know the other half of the story why @Chaitanya D mentioned this. Ill leave the surprise for him to share/show.

@Ale Vallecchi you set the excitement right from the time drive is posted... 3 Nissan patrols (Y62)in the convoy if I am not wrong...there will be a lot of sand in the air 🤣.see you on Friday 👍

Thank you brother! Everyone is good and recovered. Been counting the days to get back in the sandbox with you guys.

Noted for both of you. Think there are still places in @Ale Vallecchi drive.

Dear fellow desert addicts. While you are debating which drive to join (perhaps more than one), I'd like to give you a brief description of this Fewbie PLUS drive. First thing, it will accept Fewbie drivers with 5 or more Carnity drives within this rank. This is to allow those who joins to find themselves in the company of similarly skilled drivers, and enjoy an hopefully smooth and lenghty drive. In fact, I mention the length of the drive, as this means to be a sort of exploration of not so often visited parts of the Qudra basin. We'll leave from an unusual starting point on the west of Qudra, which allowes a relatively quick access to ranges of long dunes. We'll ride these all the way to the sabkha facing Solar Park, with the goal of reaching more long range dunes, which head in a South-West direction toward Little Swahian. This will be our final destination, Inshallah. While more details will follow soon, I am looking forward to seeing you on Friday, with your explorer's hat (and spirit) on.

Yup agree with Fred surely a cheap tyre shop job where they have powerful impact guns and keep hammering it until it gives up. Ratta-tat-tat-tat-phoooos. Always also check your tyre pressure after you leave there. They have these big semi truck guages that start from 30psi. Specially if they had sold you some tyres. They will overinflate old tyres to 50psi in order to hide flat spots or unevenness.

15K - 20K ; lol no way

35" tyres definitely need re-gearing. otherwise you won't be able to climb much more than a mole hill 😁

If you have come to a certain choice you could look at putting in second hand tyres for about a few weeks to see the performance before investing in brand new tyres.

Please do check if you have the Courser AXT (All Terrain) or the Courser HSX (Highway Tyre). @Xaf has the AXT and has good results, but apparently needs a bit more momentum. It would make sense to experience a bit with different psi settings to see what works best. I've also heard (but not sure if this is fact) that AT tyres need to settle in and will need to be deflated - inflated a few times until they really perform best. Probably a myth..

Won't say fully bad, but not as great as Geolander. Cooper ATR are again heavy (more fuel consumption), beefy tires that looks nice but makes lot of highway noise due to aggressive tread pattern. They are good in self recoveries due to such pattern but limit the climb unless you have serious power mods. Worst thing of ATR and BFG I hated the most was loosing chunks after 6-12 months of use and make tire looking bald from different angles and shoulders.

Seems like you have got some real heavy weight tires to increase so much fuel consumption? Have you done the weight check/research before buying? Is it also super noisy on road? With given your explanation, I also doubt that now your long hill climb would be limited too. I had a same issue with a big beafy, meaty BFG and then Cooper ATR on my Patrol.

Congrats @Rinelle Sanaani. Well driven. You will surely enjoy the next level of drives.

I learned a lot from ur lead sir @Ale Vallecchi looking forward to learn more from u Thank u @Chaitanya looking forward for more drives with u @Tbone thank u so much.. we hav learned together, the convoys trailbackers with @Kalahari Thank u so much @Jeepie looking forward to follow ur lead.. @Wrangeld. Captain sir... thank u .. ur pre drive speech is always the best.. lots of respect to u sir. @Vanessa8580 thank u.. i miss the driving fun with u lately.. @Frederic.. thank u so much sir.. ur always my first offroad teacher. @Rahimdadthank u so much.. i learned a lot from u r calmness and grace in the desert.. @Febin Frederic partners in crime... my jeep believer buddy. Looking forward for more fun drive with u.. as long as we believe our wrangler has the power, we can go thru everything.. hahahaha

Thank u sir.. new level more work, il start practicing the art of shovelling, rope towing, popped out tire remodelling, and more...

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😅 @Chaitanya D You have to let me know!

Keen to join if anyone drops out. I was too slow today and got a refusal (hopefully not stuck!)

Spray some WD40 or penetrating oil in the remaining wheels and see if you can gently loosen them up. All your wheels might have this issue.

Welcome back buddy, how everyone back home? Hope all good and safe now?

@Gaurav if there are newbie drivers willing to join on waitlist, you can remove my RSVP. Joining this as other morning fewbie drive is full

That’s definitely strange. My only suspicion would be that it was hugely overtightened in the past of a guy with a impact gun. (Doof Doof)...

Congrats - two jeeps promoted and Rinelle

Congrats !

supercharge it @J J

I have the same Mastercraft AXT but its 315s and the same feedback as @Xaf . I am usually on 10psi , but found it even better going at 8psi. Needed more momentum up the dunes - so to sum up: 1- 35 Tyres on stock differential 3.73 = lose engine power 2- 35 Tyers on 4:10 differential = regain power lost I am doing the 4.1 ring and pinion this week ( expensive option) . Lets see how it performs coming week.

i recently installed it fo r 2 weeks now. The best thing about this is my tire road noise was lessen at least 90%. Big improvement also on the road pavement driving.. i really drive comfortably on the road now.. it it really rides well on the dunes last friday woth 10 psi.. i felt a bog difference from the 245..

There was one Carrefour selling. It is just 12.5AED. Very cheap plastic one. I am using one in my wife`s car for 1.5 year no fail. Another one i used on my Jeep for 13 months no fail as well. While i am selling the Jepp i forget to remove it. Yesterday i looked to find one more but i couldn't. If you can find i strongly recommend. First time i saw something that cheap really works better than the expensive ones.

Me too.

@Rinelle Sanaani runs this. new pattern looks good. weighs around 20kg. its P rated not as aggressive as LT. road noise will be less and also under budget .

@Ale Vallecchi I have been facing the same dilemma as you about changing tires - not from HT to AT, but being unable to find the Geolandar A/T-S (G-012) anywhere in the market, because apparently this tire has been discontinued and is now the A-T (G015). I had concerns around the A/T because the tread seems more hard core, and I was worried about (even) more road noise while driving to and from the desert. I am also planning to move the front tires from 19" to 21" to balance up the car - even though I think that the stance at the moment looks quite good. I have bene offered all sorts of H/T tires as alternatives to the G012 and none of them has the characteristics that I think make for the type of tire I want off road = more floating, less digging. Also as I am upsizing, there will be a difference in the weight of the tires that might impact on momentum and agility (not to say anything about consumption which I am sure will also suffer once new tires are in place). Problem is that this is a big investment, which ever way we look at it and if it's wrong, it's not like you can take them back.

Congrats @Febin Frederic

Congrats @Rinelle Sanaani

congrats.. 👏

congrats.. 👏

Congrats @Najeeb Mohammed. Your confidence has grown leaps and bounds. Hope you enjoy your new rank and the next level of drives.

Congrats @Najeeb Mohammed... well deserved. I always admire how u handle ur extreme fj.. esp ur tires that never gets dusty

Good job @Najeeb Mohammed. You have improved much, hence deserve the promotion. Keep joining as many drives as possible, so your skils get honed. See you soon.