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Just like any other sport or hobby, off road driving too has it's own etiquette's. Often times these are not spoken out loud or mentioned in public to not to embarrass anyone. If you like to continue off road driving, you should know these basic offroad driving etiquette's and follow them. Pay 100% undivided attention to the instructions: Whether it's in briefing or on radio communication while recovering, give your 100% attention and if you cannot due to some incoming call or passenger distraction, ask them to repeat. Most of the instructions are given so that you can drive safely. If you still live in the mobile world or loud music or radio volume turned down, you will miss out on critical safety instruction that can end up breaking your 4x4 or bones, seriously. Follow the instruction PRECISELY: From as simple as deflate to 12-14 PSI, drive in HI gear, engage to LO as soon as you get stuck. These instructions have been given to YOU for YOUR safety and enhancing your offroad driving experience. If you deflate to 22 PSI instead of 12, you will have endless refusals, stucks and A/T Transmission & Engine will soon overheat. If you don't engage on LO as soon as you get stuck, you will lose the most critical surface area in which LO gear could have saved the day, rather than toiling in HI gear for first few minutes and making the stuck even more worst for your car. Acknowledge the message: Always acknowledge the radio messages as the reliability of radio communication is highly questionable. Step out and help: When you are stuck and someone is helping you, it's a BASIC MANNER to step out of your car and help the Marshal or senior member who is helping you. You can help them clearing the sand, fixing the rope or inspect the stuck or plan of recovery. Sitting inside a stuck vehicle and waiting is the worst and most offending thing to do. If someone is helping you to check tire pressure, then step out and observe, how to delate to precise PSI. Disclaimer: In some 1% tricky angles or situation, if you have a doubt or difficulty to come out, ask the Marshal or senior member: If its safe for you to step out? Please don't assume and sit inside. Observe and learn: Every stuck and recovery has a lot to teach. Observe and learn from your stucks and discuss with Marshals how to not to get stuck again in a similar way. If you don't observe and learn you will end up doing the same mistakes over and over again. Learn Vs Serve: All the knowledge and experience are there to help you learn offroading and not just to serve you. So that as soon as you learn, you start practising it and become more capable offroader and be able to help others in the future.

I'm lucky to have family here and experience all theirs joys and sorrows all with a smile.

Happy belated independence day to all my Filipino Kabayan. I am in the City of Smiles Bacolod and the army had a display at one of the malls here. They had displayed their tanks, military mobility vehicles as well as their ambulance. Here are some of the pics, hope you enjoy.

Beautiful gesture

I have lots of friends from Bacolod !! It’s truly the city of smiles !

You're probably talking about the drill on board the Mars rover which cost 2.5 billion.

Yes, defense and space is the only place millions can be spent with no questions asked, sorta anyways. I might be not be right but I think driverless cars and drones all initiated from defense research . Most of the advances in flight we have made started in defense.

...to hold things down in the Space Shuttle, and like everything else developed for the space program, it probably cost millions of dollars to design, develop, and test.

Hi, Just wish to share my drive experience with Wadi lovers. I hope you'll share other good wadi options too. It was good off road driving with almost one way road for mountain climbing. Good option for trekking and night camping preferably with two-three families. https://goo.gl/maps/Pwb2SgFLtSsuvGSLA Thanks. Have a nice weekend!!

The Philippines has to be one of the most screwed countries in the world. The Spanish screwed them, the Japanese screwed them, the Americans screwed them, now the Chinese are screwing them. Independence is a good thing but you have to claim it and own it. I’m planning to retire there too when I’m old and useless (older and more useless). Way out in the bukid where I don’t have to deal with people. Nice quiet life where I can swing on my hammock, listen to the radio, play some guitar and enjoy my plants. I started a small business in Davao last year and it has just started passing the break even point last week. For a long time it felt like I was just sending money via western union for fun but now I can see I’m making a future for myself.

Thanks, Chirag, can you please share the endpoint coordinates or the track/route you have taken.

Thanks for your appreciation. It was nice place but unpaved road. Newbie can drive with proper caution and avoid taking risk. Personally, would not preferred to drive at night. No water, I can see in that area.

Well done Chirag for sharing this hidden gem, I have never heard about Wadi Sena before. Few questions: Is road to Mountain is tarmac or unpaved? What is the level of driving in this wadi - can newbie drive in this area with little caution? Was there any water present, if you been there recently?

Unless you got a tool box and diving head first in it you won't find anything suspicious there have been cases where a major impacted car is done in hurry only to have a light hit somewhere else on the body so the value comes up and unsuspecting people getting trapped...

I heard there is a drill machine which they developed for 40 million and only to used in outer space...

@Emmanuel, you know how much i love Sweihan, i might join in last minute, i need to finish something and time is gonna be critical, specially that it's almost 1.5 hrs drive to deflation point, is it possible to send me your number or whatsapp number? so i can send you if am gonna make it or not? or if you can whatsapp me, you probably have access to my number. i tried to send you a msg here but couldn't, something related to my account... i get this msg "The page you are trying to access is not available for your accoung" i don't know if i have to do something, or is it blocked for normal users. anyway, let me know plz

A lot of companies are doing this now. Do you know the Jeep Renegade is based on the Fiat 500 platform! And the older Jaguars based on Ford Mondeos. But this is more of a rebadge than platform sharing which of course now Toyota is king of now. The new supra, Rush, 86. Are nothing but a rebadged BMW, Daihatsu and Subaru respectively

Seems like they have taken off the Good bits off a lot of SUVs and made one for them selves. The front is a little bit of a Cadillac Escalade the rear quarter is a little bit of Range Rover. The center console is a little BMW X5. The instrument cluster with the big wide flat screen is a little bit like the new mercs. Sorry the new King of Ugly grills are the new BMWs with their new HUGE and ugly kidney grills. So huge they bend over on to the hood. Making them look like a big pig snout.

Lot of things comes from defense and space research mostly because they have huge budgets and dont need to show a profit like other companies.Even something as mundane and everyday thing like velcro was invented by NASA.

Good stuff, from my understanding it is a bit of a runa round tp get papers from the court.

I think I have decent experience to discuss this topic as I did few deal of buying the cars like hobby bisi in Emirates auction and I feel it’s a bit cheaper and what I understand from that is there are cars from the banks, court, police and from garages (who repair the accident vehicles) and so on... yes comparatively cheaper with market prices from used car markets and websites like dubizle, but the thing is we have to be smart enough to chose the right car to bid and win. It’s like a guess and proper inspection at the auction (as Emirates auction allows to check the car in start condition) you can select the cars and go to the auction center and surrender the Emirates ID and collect up to 5 keys and those can be checked and we can make our mind for the right choice and come home and start bidding only on the end time just before 5 mins, and if we have to fix the price for the car with all other charges and if worth to bid can continue else just forget and look for other cars, in terms of documents when u choose the vehicle check the terms and condition before as there are documents clearance upon payment and some will be have issues like court and other formalities which usually take more time

That's the who point of an auction its a little bit of a gamble and people who know their cars well can get a deal where one guy might think a cars a gone case and not worth it the other knows it wont take much to bring it back and gets a deal. Otherwise it wouldn't be called an auction but rather a used car sales lot

Agreed 110%😀

And it's 110% sure that you can never get the full details of an auction car. So simply leave it.

I have seen a couple of nicely off road built Toyota Hilux TRD, Ford Everest and even the Ford Ranger Raptor is available in Bacolod city Philippines for sale. I'm still trying to find out the garage which does the off road mods as they are very tasteful and look awesome. More of that later. Yesterday I came to find out that there was a car show in Bacolod City seeing all the innovations to keep the cars running in many shapes as compared to their own I thought this would be interesting. I was pleasantly surprised to see full restored classics in their original form or even better. I have attached a few of them below, however my favorite number plate is NO H2O on a VW Beetle as they are originally air cooled engines.

Done. And yeah and I don't like hammocks mostly because they can't take my weight and end with my arse on the floor.

Cool, my Mrs is from Davao too. Maybe we should go into business together and then retire together aswell looool

Smiling people haven't seen them yet arguing might change when I really see them arguing....

True. I’ve bought so many cars at auction in Ireland. The cars are driven through so at least you know they are running. I remember buying a Renault Clio at an auction once. I knew my cousin was looking for one so I took a chance, it was super cheap, so I bought the car and stuck in on a trailer and brought it to her, cash up front, didn’t even charge profit, big mistake. She drove like 3 miles and it overheated. I ended up buying a new engine and fitting it for free because family. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You can either win big or lose big. That’s the fun of the game. It’s like betting on horses.

@Gauravappreciate your hard work for drafting the above pointers. We'll done sir 👏

I apply for the visa every time. Planning on getting the card.

Thanks for sharing @Gaurav bhai was missing the flag on Burj Khalifa.

It's a feature now for Expert and Legend members only

Ya true there will be waiting time for around 2 months and above for that it’s better to chose the car which doc are readily available, and the most importantly u need to keep some budget for onroad readiness

This is awesome car show, to really show the love for cars especially with brilliant restoration job and clean looks. Phillipinos are one of the the best nationality I found in UAE to really love and take care of their cars, unlike many bad boys who thrash cars and have no taste of mods. Enjoy your holidays and thanks for sharing the love of cars from miles away.

hehe, i have a google search open with videos, just checking things out i even checked how they repair the thing. it's been there for ages, really strange, only now they're thinking of going to the public with it.

Nice video and don't think you are boring anyone. I myself watching several ones now uptis and tweel is same..? Seems they have been used on military stuff for 15 years, so what's the hold up to make them available to the public: Speed, price, durability......?

My last video, I promise... I felt the urge for sharing this one The sand test is silly, they need to go test it on soft sands seeing it in action is kinda cool though

Even I felt the same. Sharing is caring platform.

yes, i started looking for other videos, i spent my lunch break on this hehe... military used them, and saw a video of light machinery trucks using them very cool stuff it does, when it's on hard surface, like rock crawling for example, might be perfect, i saw a video (but i didn't want to bore you guys with loads of videos and my enthusiasm toward this) for desert and dune bashing, i don't know, since you kind of deflate for maximum grip, right?

I saw this way bay back when I used to actually buy a hardcopy of Popular Mechanics magazine. Developed by DARPA for the military I think. Michelin just put sidewalls on it to look like a regular tyre.

Yes its basically the same car as the Teluride

It must be on the same platform, brother and sisters sirji. Finally someone is joining Lexus on big ugly front grill race, still, Lexus wins in that race.

https://www.thenational.ae/uae/science/dubai-s-islands-from-space-iss-captures-uae-landscape-in-flypast-1.873439

I have one in my family. Its 5.7. Was working fine for 5 years. Soon after warranty it started giving trouble. Issue was related to fuel tank in which dealer quoted Dhs. 9K for part replacement. Fortunately FNG guy gave an idea/lead of scrap part dealer which had the same part and was replaced by FNG guy total cost including the tank was only Dhs. 1300.

Avoid until you are 110% sure about the condition of the car you are bidding on.

At 8:00 AM it's close to 40 degrees, wait till Aug end will start the morning drives. Until then, it's gonna be night drives every week - 1 week (newbie+fewbie), 2nd week (Intermediate).

I am most definitely having a sleep before driving back 😁