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desertdude

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  1. The pic posted is of a body lift not a spacer suspension lift, usually done on ladder frame chassis truck with really big tires. This is just adding spacers between the body and frame chassis. Extreme example is monster trucks. Suspension lift is just putting block or puck of plastic, rubber or metal between the spring and body. Thus raising the suspension. Not a fan of those though, you still retain the same stock suspension characteristics abiet a bit more wobbly and you still most probably will bottom out and your rear will still sag
  2. This right here is the truth. Over my recently long offroading career this was very apparent because we basically all drove the same car. Land Cruisers. But some even after driving for years could not tackle anything more than some simple dunes ans while other having recently joined would go anywhere. There was a select group of drivers who were allowed to do the Liwa, Wagan, Shuaib type trips and out of those even a smaller number who were assigned to lead the convoy. Unlike majority of the tour companies we did not operate in the regular sandbox of big red fossil rock area but murqab, lisaili and what is now known as Qudra area. During busy time we outsourced drivers, even the so called ACE and best drivers of the sans box struggled in our area due to is varying terrain from small very technical dune to the big ones closer to lisaili close to the sand stone formations. So yeah I too 100% believe its the driver and not the car. As many know later on I moved to a big chunky Land Rover Discovery and everyone said its a whale and wont go anywhere. But I took it everywhere from Liwa to Wagan and once when involved in a friendly high speed bumper to bumper chase behind big red with a wrangler a Cherokee driver actually later on came up and refused to believe the car was stock other than a basic 2" lift after he saw us two giving it a go on the ridges. SO yeah its the driver alright, another example is Formula 1 racing basically they all have to drive same spec cars due to regulations. So only tye best driver wins tye race.
  3. I think the design itself is flawed. All the power is being transferred through a tiny mostly rubber belt slipping and sliding on two cones. For low power applications it might work and I mean 2 wheel moped type stuff. There is a reason why there are no big power engines coupled with CVTs. I think the biggest motor with a CVT you can find is NA V6 just over 250hp
  4. That IS is coolant overheat warning light, not A/T
  5. That's exactly what even a modern CVT is, a belt with some metal keys driven between two cones.
  6. It's a Japanese thing man, like everything Japanese even their car culture is weird. Like Bozosouko Cars and those truck all lit up and chromed out.
  7. Don't Jeros get Camber issues with lifts being IFS on all 4 corners. I've seen one after lift here and looked bow legged i.e bottom of the wheels pointing inwards while the top facing outwards. Looked really odd
  8. Isn't that great, the stealers themselves don't know what transmissions their cars have.
  9. Do you know where one can buy some Royal Purple in the UAE and not at 10x the actual price?
  10. Hence always read the owners manual. Many L322 Range Rover owners don't know there are fold out cup holders in the rear headrest or if you keep tye unlock buttons all windows roll down or the lock button pressed down all windows rollup. Useful feature if you realized you left ome of the windows down after switching off the car.
  11. Good question, I too have only seen and heard CVT horror stories from Nissan products! Maybe because only Nissan has widely adopted the CVT as its standard transmission for majority of its vehicles? Toyota only now is making the VT stabdard in its smaller cars this year I heard even the Rav4 is coming with a CVT Well for the last 7ish months had a new rental yaris which also has a CVT, to be honest it worked pretty fine. It had "7 speed" gearbox ( a misnomer in CVT terms ) but yeah the rpms always kept pretty low even at 120 I was barely over 1.5k. But it wasn't totally gutless for a 1.5 but the low rpms but had a manual shift mode too if you wanted the motor to scream. The CVT and its low rpms did give it some real snazzy fuel economy. Had a tiny tank and 60 dhs it was full and get 550 - 600kms from it. But it was a new car and when we returned it it had barely crossed 35k. Now got a replacement ugly as hell Nissan Sunny with a regular gearbox and it sucks ass. Very soon they will replace it with a 2019 CVT version of it and then I can chime in how a Nissan CVT is. Although I thought the Toyota CVT gave it some real awesome milage, dunno how well it would last in the long run.
  12. Just came across this, man what a simple and beautiful idea to watch the night sky without having to go to the middle of nowhere to see it. Wish they did this somewhere here to. a certified dark sky city.
  13. Got nothing but hate for blacked out rims specially matt black among the long list of other "mods" I hate. But blacked out wheels and rims top the list. Ones I like are subtle mods which add to the form and function of the vehicle, rather than screaming hey look at me I'm an attention whore.
  14. I still wouldn't get one, find them ugly and too pretentious.
  15. Fortunately the SUV I have now has pretty decent safety rating
  16. Well that's exactly the problem with older cars. Instead of absorbing the impact. They transfer all that energy to its occupants.
  17. Best route in my view would be to take the costal road up from Ras Al Khaimah into musandam. AFAIK no visit visa holders can go or comeback because it's a single entry visa. Once you exit from any border your visa is up.
  18. I don't care what anyone says. There is still place for lame dad jokes in this world.!
  19. Excuse Me! Seems like every one got up on th grumpy side of their beds today.
  20. Well times have changed since the first one came out, now there are many YouTubers who are doing actual builds of "fancy cars" and coming up with some real good content. I rather watch that than some made up stuff. Ironically one is actually doing a rebuild of a screen used orange Lambo that was used in one of the fast and furious movies. It's pretty interesting to see how the production team just used it as just some ordinary junk car. With a real bad paint job, in house fab badly fitting body kits. A roll cage that totally ruined the interior. Shoddy wire splice jobs to bypass the security system so on and so forth. It only had to look good on screen from 20 feet away. So its a pretty interesting to see the guy try to reverse the hack jobs and bring it back into shape. Mush more interesting than watching CGI cars chasing a CGI plane down and infinitely long run way.
  21. There is only so much of that you can do before everybody gets bored of it. And after around a gazillion sequels everybody is pretty much bored of it. It's spin off time!
  22. Jeez Pajero parts seem to be on fire! Get a used one preferably if you can get one one from a Japanese half cut. My Discovery pissed out all its steering just as I pulled into the RTA right in front of the seller, Needless to say I would have it fixed and ready in a few hours the guy didn't buy it. Anyway I bought a used one for 150 and fixed it my garage. Lasted for many many years with the new owner. Till the last time I bumped into him anyways.
  23. LOOL. That actually did make me laugh. That is actually true !
  24. Incidentally I was just thinking about this. There is a small YouTube channel called auto auction rebuilds and he routinely does videos of crashed cars in auction yards. And even after some decent crashes I notice the how much less damage the passenger compartment takes. Great strides have been made in automotive safety in the past 20-30years. Where cars are designed with crumple zones and for the crash energy to transfer around the cabin rather than through it. Add to those the new srs seatbelts and multiple airbags. Chances today of surviving a pretty hard crash are very high compared to just few years ago. Also for some sadistic reason I watch a lot of NCAP ans EUROCAP crash test videos too.
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