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  1. On 9/19/2020 at 12:12 PM, Gok Krish said:

    Hi @Brettehope I am using the right channel to write this for your advise. How are u doing ... @Gauravled me to you. I have a GC Summit 5.7 that I used yesterday and came out unscathed from an Absolute Newbie drive. Gaurav pointed to me that the quadralift is still a suspect when I go higher up on the drive grades. The front bumper, ground clearance etc may hv to be improved.  Learnt that you have done some modifications to enhance your vehicle which is similar. I want to pick your brain on it. Can I call you to take tips. I am at 0506446513. Can WhatsApp when it is convenient to call you. Best regards ...Gokul

    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

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  2. 10 hours ago, Rahimdad said:

    I was one in my LR Discovery 1 the 1998 model @Lorenzo Candelpergher and leading a drive from Lisali to Margham. Closer to Margham I got trapped in very soft sand patch where my car jyst sank so badly that I could not even open my doors on a flat piece of land. The one thing I have learned and applied is not to panic and listen to instruction and follow them from a senior off-roader. To my luck I had @desertdude who had a similar vehicle and knew all the ins and outs of this machine. So the first thing was to go into neutral, 4 low and apply the central difflock. Next I had to go into first gear without pressing gas. Just try hard and turn the steering full left and full right as quickly as I could. Gradually I had to give race between 1200-1500 rpm and keep it around that. As I kept doing it I started moving to my surprise, slowly but surely as my Discovery swam in the deep soft sand patch. Out of excitement I tried applying more gas which resulted ins and flying. @desertdude stopped me and told me not to increase the gas till I felt some solid ground with some good traction. So started all over again and surely my Discovery started sailing again.

    This was a tiring exercise which continued for little over 15 minutes, but finally I felt the firm ground as I increased the throttle and got myself out of the patch. So yes for self recoveries the best chance you can give yourself is by sand crawling, but at times you can do with a tug.

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

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  3. 1 hour ago, Srikumar said:

    Normally police permission is required if you are doing any big advertising for your vehicle. I dont think the police would bother about the star of any other such stickers. But they might ask you to remove it at the time of renewal. You can goto the Tasjeel or Shamil testing center and ask over there.

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

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  4. 2 hours ago, Frederic said:

    The Lx470 still looks great, but 230hp out of a heavy beast like that is a little bit underpowered. And I’m not talking about doing climbs, merely about having the power to make it through medium sized dunes. 
    Maybe the GX470 might be a better option ?

    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 :D these are just the regular ass 4.5 inline 6 cylinders I use to drive, 
     

     

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  5. 34 minutes ago, Onlyjunaid said:

    1 - What do you think about the capability of a 2019 RAV4 Hybrid in the desert?

    2 - How reliable do you think a 2000 Lexus LX470 is in the desert and is it even worth to consider buying?

    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

     

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  6. 46 minutes ago, treks said:

    I am not, not after not seeing the four different feed buttons on the home page as they are shown in this thread. Kudos withdrawn.

    ETA- Oh, my bad. It now takes an extra click to get to the home page where the feed buttons are located. Kudos still withdrawn. 

    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!  😆

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  7. On 8/2/2020 at 11:30 AM, treks said:

    Congratulations to all members who have recently been promoted to higher levels in the off-road world! 

    However, can Carnity Admin not create a dedicated announcement thread/channel/forum for these announcements? I only speak for myself when I say that I do not visit Carnity as often as I used to simply because I don't want to wade through long lists of promotion announcements before I get to something worth reading/discussing. I am, however, reasonably confident that many other members find these announcements clogging up the discussion part of the forum equally irritating. 

    So how about it, Admin? 

    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

     

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  8. 1 hour ago, Gaurav said:

    I know this poor man's difflock technique very well because I have blown my Land Cruiser front differential during one of the desert challenge in 2006 while trying the same stunt. It costed me 4500 diff and labor extra.

    If you give hi rev in low range gear with brakes on, you will have the same result "UNLESS OTHERWISE" specified that rev up to 2,000 RPM or so.

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

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  9. 4 hours ago, Gaurav said:

    This without any precise description will break your front or rear differential in seconds.

    LO gear torque + Brake = Recipe for 5,000 - 10,000 dhs instant damage.

    Very surprised to see Hummer putting this in owner's manual without any indicative rev band. With H2 torque I guess anything above 1.5-2.0K RPM will result in instant grinding noise of differential pinion gear.

    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.

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  10. 4 hours ago, Wrangeld said:

     

    The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi strategy deals out the Asian markets only for Mitsubishi. All support will stop outside of that narrow region. 

    Time now to buy up as many Pajeros as possible and store them for the parts that will be needed to serve the market here for the coming years. 

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

  11. 2 hours ago, RohanH said:

    Hey, I used the compressor today. It is fast. And I think with 5 yrs warranty. I didn't use remote. The only thing which bothered me is these king of compressors, shows high PSI when connected and on as soon as I switched it off with still connected to tyre, it was showing right reading. I need to recheck it tomorrow. We both are in fewbie drive tomorrow. You can check it.

    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.

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  12. 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

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  13. Why not get it fixed, I'm guessing it's a stuck motor. Since it does shift in 4wd. Can't be too complicated or expensive. Specially since it shares it's drive train with the Tahoe and Yukon.

    Other than that the HE in capable hands is a pretty decent off roader. 

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