desertdude

As Arnold Schwarzenegger once said, never be afraid to fail. If people stopped developing technology if they failed in their first few attempts, we would probably still be living in the stone age. I'm on the fence on this whole thing. Self driving cars could be useful, who wants to drive and hour to and from work in bumper to bumper traffic. You could let the car drive itself home and you relax with a movie or catch some Zzzzs, but on other occasions when out having fun, I would want to drive myself. So it does have its uses. I don't understand what's the point of driverless races other than to refine said technology. Hoe many times has one just sat back on his PlayStation and watched an entire race with all cars being controlled by the console. Because this is what this would be like just for real.

Quite the intriguing plot,eh! And yeah not into JDM culture or animies either.

Fell asleep 3 minutes in watching boring animation of two corollas driving the same bends again and again. And what's that suppose to shooting out of the brake lights?

That's what I thought even though the Tag itself does have something built into it, I think they just changed their minds, maybe too expensive to implement, too many cars crossing at the same time causing some interference, maybe sometime in the future, who knows, but as of now, you don't need to stick or even have the tag physically present in your vehicle. Does make me wonder why all the instructions on how and where exactly to stick it on your car? Earlier I use to stick it on my sunroof or just cut out everything and just leave the tiny square with the logo on it.

This might come as a surprise, it certainly did to me when I found out, that you actually do not need to physically install the tag on your vehicle. A friend told me this sometime back, he has around 12 cars none of them have tags installed so the last time I got a car I did the same and now my salik tag sits at home in my drawer and I still get charged everytime I cross a gate. If you look at the gates they all have cameras installed in every lane and at night have bright lights to light up the plates. I believe the plates are read automatically through OCR by the cameras. 

P.S : This doesn't mean you don't need to buy a tag and register for salik, just don't need to install the tag on your vehicle

Plus you can also buy extended warranty contracts after the original warranty expires

RTFM

I was going to suggest Henry too, but Barry beat me to it!

Make the tree huggers all warm and fuzzy on the inside thinking they've saved the planet with their pathetic tampon on wheels

Tahoe any day of the week and twice on Sunday. This whole realibilty thing is now just nothing but a myth now. Jap cars have just about as much electrickery than anything else and neither is maintenance or parts any cheaper. Tahoe much more roomier much more options a better ride and wasn't hit by every branch on the ugly tree on it ways down like the Land Cruiser. Tahoe is a solid cruiser and many in safaris also use this and i know some that are over 250k Plus kms and still look and drive great. I will also thrown in the Toyota Sequoia in this mix. That thing is big and comfortable and the engine on that is super bitchin 0-100 in just over 6 secs can smoke most sedans and So called sports coupes in a straight line drag, with 3rd row seats which can actually seat 2 adults comfortably. Also look into the Nissan Armada. Going cheap nowadays and Sequoia standards to boot

Precisely, if they were that bad, you wouldn't see more Range Rovers here on the road today as you see yellow cabs in New York. I can hardly break even my budget and yet I've been driving Range Rovers for the last 10 years and wont drive anything else. Let's just say I rather drive a 20 year old Range Rover with 300k on the clock than a 2017 0'km Toyota Fortuner. Driving a Jap ecobox usually means you've given up on life and might as well be dead

Quick Registration in Ghusais open 24/7 365 days a year

This is not a spy shot, this escalade is pretty famous in Dubai, surprised no one knows about it, it called the Yeezy car. It's supposed to resemble a pair of Yeezy sneakers by Kanye West. Belongs to a rich Emarati 14yr old kid Rashid from the Bel Hasa family. He also goes by the name of Money Kicks, also has a YouTube channel with that name where the escalade can be seen in many if his videos. Kid has a huge and very expensive sneaker collection as well as a private zoo in Al Aweer.

http://media.dishnation.com/content/uploads/2015/06/yeezy-boost-350.jpeg

/Biased Opinion/

I think more than anything and I can say this because I've owned a few LRs and still do and having driven almost everything 4x4 available in this country from the most posh to the most junky ride, is that LR has that one thing, that majority of other cars don't have, character and if I dare to say, a soul. Maybe RD will agree with me, as you can see him still reminisce about his old beat up Disco. LRs are somehow just more than vehicles, think of them as old grump uncle bob you only see on x-mas, he's always drunk, throws up on your new carpet, curses everyone, eats all the good food and just a general all round nuisance, but you still love him to bits and would never think of getting rid of him. 

 

And RD these G wagons really hold their value well, doubt you'll be able to get it for that much even then!

Yeah Barry probably saw the 4x4sq Easy to tell by its portal axels

With the Maybach G-650 rag top

 

Why not just go for an active subwoofer, active means it comes with its own built in amp, and is probably the best match combo of amp and woofer, taking out all the guess work out of the equasion and saving on wiring and space which is at a premium in your Jero

Something like this

http://uae.souq.com/ae-en/jbl-gto-751ez-mono-subwoofer-amplifier-with-750-watts-rms-10293589/i/

I dunno what happened, if anything at all. But I really don't know why people make it such a big deal, having rolled over 3 times, (twice I was victim being pulled from a side stuck) It's a sport and like any other sport their is risk of injury and damage. It's a risk we all take, but you have more chances of getting into an accident while going to the desert while actually driving in the desert. How many accidents in the deserts vs on road? This alone should tell you its a very safe sport. Mostly because sand is soft, and usually low speeds, although I think I hold a record of some sort at having flipped off road while doing 120kph. My old young blood days nowadays I hardly hit that speed on road!

Zeibart next to Galadari/Mazda showroom besides Dubai Airport

3 hours ago, Rahimdad said:

Thanks for sharing @Barry but it is not my cup of tea. Full respect to the Land Rover as I had a Discovery 1998 model for about 5 years and cherished every moment and miss it a lot. One of my friends who owned the same wanted to change the suspensions and the front left suspension was slightly bigger than the rest, when checking we found out that the engineers at LR were so accurate that most time the car would be driven by the driver that that suspension was made slightly bigger and better than others. Further inquiry showed that the front right suspension was the bigger, stronger one on the right hand drive models. the comfort of driving a LR is next to none, and once you have acquired the taste for the LR nothing else gives you that pleasure. However I have seen these in some of the garages in Sharjah and sell for peanuts, in fact maintaining these is so easy and at times cheaper than maintaining a Corolla just because the cars that come from Japan are hardly used and cannot be sold as right hand drives in UAE, so parts are being sold by taking these vehicles apart. If I would really like to have one I would not spend over half a million dirhams to acquire it, I would rather invest in the ones found in Sharjah and have it as my project car to restore it my way.

BTW my favourite ride is the Land Rover Discovery which they used for the Camel Trophy, i found one very neat and clean one at Aweer Market for AED 30K, I wish i had bought it than. It was in full original form with the original Roof Rack, the Lights, Winch and all the works. i have not seen a Camel Trophy version in over 5 years.

I know a dude who has two CT discos and one of them is the one you showed me garhoud which had been sitting in the driveway for a few years and was in a sorry state and just FYI. The actual CT D1s which took part in the event are Worth a small fortune today and were are diesel. The ones we see are dealer replicas made to look like CT D1s

P.S : Sorry for the shitty grammar for some reason I cannot edit the post from my mobile

When we bought new Cars for our safari company we would just do the required 1000kms break in service as a precaution before putting it on 365 days a year safari duty. So having done 20k it should be fine, but be ready to have a big heart as nothing is for granted in the desert even on newbie drives. I remember doing a newboe drive with E4x4 and a first timer lost his entire rear bumper of his mitsu outlander, 300mtrs in. Never saw hin again!

Get a Google Chromecast install kodi and away you go

21 minutes ago, hAwX said:

wish i had the tools to them myself

Buy a set, it's a one time investment which will pay for it self many times over. If you can change a tire you can change a spark plug.

Do them myself.