desertdude

Why did you buy an entire driveshaft? You can easily get replacement Ujoints around 50-80dhs and its an easy DIY job too. Now you have no idea how long these old U joints will last?

Unless you know the dudes, ignore em. I used to get the same on many previous forums. Still do from various FB groups Im on. FB is even worse first they want to "friend" you. Blech. I just I to the G to the N O R E them, nah wha I'm sayin homes.

Interesting to see how a diff lubricates its self and also how the shape of the cover influences lubrication

Unfortunately the reality of this place is what you are driving that leads to how many times you get tail gated and flashed at. Recently I was driving someone's new rented Sunny and in that short drive I got flashed and honked at more than I would care to remember. Even hiace vans amd canter pickups were coming up to my rear flashing and honking. This never happens in my own car, even patrols and cruisers if ever will slowly creep behind and maybe after a while give a quick polite dip of the headlights at worse. More like a camera flash and not be breathing down your neck honking and blaming full beam headlights like when I was in the sunny!

Who gave you the bright idea of deleting the Cat converter? Dunno about the jero but now you could be running a wonky fuel air mixture which can throw up a check engine light, affect the cars performance and fuel consumption. Also check underneath maybe you are missing a heat shield, maybe previously someone had a similar bright idea and decided it was u wanted and got rid of it, or missing insulation under the carpets if it has any If none of that is the case then it's just poor design from Mitsubishi and look into installing some insulation of your own like dynamat

Jeeps can't drive fast enough to tailgate anyone without shaking themselves to bits.

Wouldn't expect anything less from you, do you pull up a sign saying Thank You for tailgating me, while they overtake you

Yes I know what banger racing is, the Brit version of a demolition derby.

Can't watch any tarmac based motorsports for more than 10mins

GT3 is a thing? I thought manufacturers just stuck that to make their stuff sound cooler

The Range Rover comes factory installed with them in the shape of real bright rear fog lights, plus the tail haters thinks you have stepped on thr brakes and slow down

How do you even end up sideways on a flat straight track. Only in a Jeep!

Dude I'm calling BS on that one, name one car you need to take to the dealer after changing the battery!

Talking about resetting the adaptive shift, most cars have it. Like mentioned in the thread earlier, since my car is practically a bmw. Holding the pedal down with the key in on resets it, nothing gets messed up. You are a mechanic, you should know this.

Well glad atleast you sorted out one issue on the vag

You can drive around for a decade in manual mode and nothing will happen. The ECU only learns in automode. Have you figured out a way to reset your trans ECU yet? And even then the ECU will average out your driving style and set shift points according to that. So unless you are lead footed most of the time a reset will still not help much.

Bu Jasims giving us proper Desert Safari Guides a bad name!

That's what I always say, live a little, if you are not going to have a snazzy car here in the UAE then when and where?!

All time award winner in this category is the Pontiac Fiero. Runner up being the Ford Probe

Hey think my opinion has a little credibility here, remember I'm from a Land Rover Range Rover background, you know the ones every one says are the least reliable and most expensive to maintain! If I say BMWs are shyte. That's gotta hold some weight. And whole and sole disagree with Saleem on Euro brands being good for 4-5 yrs here. My current European car is 16yrs old and 220k kms on the clock and still has a lot of life left in it. And stop giving bad advice to your customers. The warranty is by tye manufacturer not dealer. Sure the local dealer makes noise at first and gives you stories but in the end he has to honor the warranty ot else you get directly in touch with the manufacturer. I know couple of cases where guys imported new cars from abroad. The local dealer made some noise at first and then even charged 2-15k to open a "file" fpr that car since they didn't sell it but after that car had same warranty as car sold by them. Which was 5yrs unlimited mileage.

A person who pays a quarter of million for one does not think if there are parts available for it at the scrap yard. P.S: Adding to my last post. Earlier Land Rovers and defenders had a great presence here, in the early days was literally the only car that could survive out here and drive in the sandy terrain. This was when going from Dubai to Abu Dhabi there was no road and you basically followed the beach. And you can say it literally built this country The army had them even the police had them, very popular with date palm and camel farm owners and not uncommon in the roads too.

Point was most good proper offroaders really don't need anything. You can lift them a couple of inches and nothing gets messes up. Land Cruiser for example you can lift it 2" easy of not more without having to do anything else, same with the Defenders and Discoveries. Jeep XJ you try lifting it and everything goes out of whack. You need to lower the transmission, modify the front drive shaft, modify the front end, from arms etc etc. Land Cruiser being my fav. Just thrown in a set of lifted springs at the back, torque up the front torsion rods and your done!

It's because its got a crappy diesel engine out of a ford transit van and they want around quarter of a million dirhams for that. Not many other than rich diehard fanbois willing to dish out that much money for an anemic utilitarian vehicle that struggles at the best of times in the dunes. Land Rover or rather BMW ( once again nothing good comes from BMW )shot themselves in the foot for the middle east market way back in 1997 when decided ti stop making V8 defenders.

As far as I remember lifting a Jero was a real PITA due to its independent suspension on all 4 corners and lifting would screw up all the drive train geometery

I see a lot of blown transmissions and diffs in the future.