desertdude

Thanks man, and glad to hear he kept the Jero till the end. But also sad at the same time knowing no one else can love it and treat it like he did. The Jero also lost a dear master.

I'm gonna have to stop visiting this site. Its my birthday today and I am sitting here reading as if someone cut a 100 onions in the room. Oh he loved that Pajero. I remember he drove all the way down to sharjah to show it to me. My fat ass found it too tight but then we went ripping in Sweihan with it. I knew he had found his ride. Does he still have it?

Just out curiosity I decided to check into Carnity which I do once or twice a year to see what was happening and literally the floor beneath my feet fell away. I saw pics of a tribute drive to Gaurav. After a day of frantic calls and msgs I finally found out the worst. I only found out a few days a ago and I didn't have permission to post then. SO this is going to my way of paying respect and saying goodbye. Some friendships are forged in offices or classrooms. Ours was forged in sand. I knew Gaurav long before Carnity existed, back in the days of Dubai 4x4, two desert mad people found each other on a forum and realized they'd found their tribe. That's where I first met Gaurav Paa ji, used to drive a silver Land Cruiser GXR 100 series then. I think this was 2009 maybe. And from the very first drive, I knew he was one of those rare people, the kind who doesn't just love the desert, but understands it. Always willing to learn, asking questions non stop, Paa ji how does this work, Paa ji how would you attempt this dune, many days and evenings spent in the desert and garages. Most of you might know him as a seasoned off roader but I met when he was starting this journey and just a sponge soaking up every word, every action, observing closely and learning. I had the privilege of introducing him to Lisaili, and watching someone fall in love with a place you already love is one of life's quiet joys. He took to it like he was born for it. Knowing Gaurav Paa Ji, maybe he was. Even though our first drive there was free from trouble. My sheep had to go home on the back of a recovery and me and the Mrs had to hitch a ride back with Gaurav Paaji and Soni Bhaabi. Dubai 4x4 came and went, then Emarat 4x4 came and went and then Paa Ji started his own. Carnity. When he told me he was starting Carnity and would like me join and create some activity I gladly agreed and these were pre ChatGPT days and since I was good with filling up pages with useless information it was a good fit. I think the first few posts in the advice section are also written by yours truly. I believed in his vision because I believed in him. Life, as it does, pulled us in different directions and I drifted away from the community he built. But I never stopped being proud of what he created here. He built something that outlasted forum threads and fleeting trends . He built belonging and now more obvious than ever a legacy. Gaurav Paa Ji and I have so many miles of sand between us, dunes we climbed, tracks we conquered, Pops up we repaired, recoveries we did, moments that needed no words because the desert said everything for us. I carry every one of them. I'm gutted I won't get to drive with you again. I'm devastated I didn't get to say goodbye properly. But you'll always be Gaurav Paa Ji to me. And somewhere out there, there's a perfect dune with your name on it. Drive safe on the other side, brother. Good Bye for now.

2000 WTF! Do you walk around with heavy gold chains around your neck wearing diamond encrusted watches that the garage is asking 2000. Yes the gearbox needs to be detached but still 2000 is waaaaay too mich.

It's a jeep, isn't it suppose to do that? P.S : what's a hot oil sign?!?!?!

Late to the party but here goes anyways. Coming from a Land Rover & Range Rover which has the same issue if you go over 50kph the air suspension drop back to normal height. To overcome this issue a company called johnson rods cake up with a simple 20min DIY solution by extending the length of the height sensors it fooled the ecu into thinking it was at normal height. SO now normal height is lifted and lifted height is super extended. Another way for the LRs was with diagnostic tool you can calibrate any of the heights levels to your own desired height pretty simple and painless procedure. Just needed to get into the air suspension module and entering in new height settings. Look around on Jeep forums I'm sure there is something similar for the JGC since it is an active community

To stop the hood reflection. You can always Matt black foil the top of your hood like the Camel Trophy Land Rover Discovery Series I

If that's the only thing. Why not install a CTIS. Many aftermarket options available now.

I remember the drive but I don't remember this incident though. But yeah the technique is right. So must be me!

If money is no object then it's a no brainer, modern cars drive better, ride better, have more power so on and so forth.

My condolences

You would think that. Ive had cars fail for small club stickers because it comes under advertising.

Beat shovel is a snow shovel with the wide face. It's meant for moving as much material as possible and not for digging holes. Bit pricey and a faff to store

It's the torque curve that matters not the outright top end. V8s provide almost a flat torque curve even from down low in the rpm range. It's the 6 and 4 cylinders that can muster torque only at the top end. Plus it has the advantage of the hydraulic adjustable height control which gives it a pretty good lift without having to spend on mods. And the 2005 plus models have the hp bumped up to 275 horses. Just to give the OP some inspiration these are just the regular ass 4.5 inline 6 cylinders I use to drive,

Rav 4 is alright but not really an offroader. LX470 is good, it's basically a Land Cruiser and has great resale on top everything and comes with Lexus reliability. And great on road too. But some here measure a car with only one metric and that is how high a car will climb a particular dune. Everything else secondary. But IMO unless your only aim is to wining dune climbing competitions then it's not the car for you. But if you like to dune bash up till a pretty advanced level its a great car. And that's just my opinion

TBH I still don't get the logic of not clubbing all of them in one thread and keep the place nice, clean and tidy. Instead of putting feed buttons and what not. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the simplest ones. Plus I'm too lazy to delete all my old bookmarks and add new ones across all my devices. I've renamed this forum Covid 19 Promotinity lol Because all you see is Covid 19 Covid 19 Covid 19 Promotion promotion covid 19 promotion. Seems like one has logged into a disease control center! 😆

Well take solace in the fact you are not the only one who feels this way. I tried once before and from my original Post you can see I was fully expecting to be shot down and that's exactly what happened. So don't expect any different this time round either

Well then it's your own fault for doing that! Lol

Not really this is popularly know as the poor man's difflock. I myself have tried it a couple of times with mixed results. This is no different than doing a standing burnout and less stressful on the drive train.

Well they are selling cheap enough even the last gen models to buy and collect.

Montero sport is nothing but a L200 pickup with a station wagon shell on it. And it drives like one too. Just like the Fortuner is a Hilux pickup underneath

Can't say I'm surprised. https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/motoring/over-and-out-mitsubishi-pajero-to-cease-production-in-2021-1.1057296

Yup as Fred said it's perfectly normal whole inflating. I just use to note what pressure my gauge is at while pumping when it's 35. I remember my ARB pump the gauge would show 45-50 ish meant it's almost done. So do it once see what pressure the gauge is at when pumping when your have reached the required pressure. This way you can carry on withoit stopping every now and then to check.

I guess just years of doing it you get to know around what psi your tyre is down to by just looking at it before plonking back the stem in and doing the fine adjustment of a few psi with the stem in place. BTW you guage will work when it's deflating with the valve stem removed invade anyone wasn't aware of it Biggest issue for me was I started off working was not deflation but inflation. Because our camp compressor like the ones you see in tyre shops had no gauge just the nozzle. So I devised a way so I don't have to keep checking. Just dump some sand on the tyre sidewall as the tyre inflated more and more sand slid off and when it reached a certain level I knew I was almost done. It worked pretty well and was pretty accurate within 2 to 3 psi