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Stock rims are much safer, stronger and reliable as they are OEM. If ever you get bored and need an upgrade for cosmetic purpose then go with any good brand with reputable name and not fake replicas. Fake replicas will cause pop outs and extremely difficult to fix those pop outs. If you stick with any AT tire on OEM wheels, you will most likely not require a bead lock as you will only pop-out accidentally like once in a year or two year.

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Congratulations @Alex Raptor for joining the Support Team with Carnity Offroad Club. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the latest Emergency contact details. SUPPORT TEAM Once you decide to join Team Carnity to excel further with your off-roading, people, and commanding skills, you will be extensively trained by the whole Team Carnity from Expert - Marshal - Crew at various stages by supporting different levels drives. After your Support Team promotion request is accepted, you need to receive minimum of 4 different Marshals / Crew approval by supporting 4 or more Newbie drives, so that you can attain adequate exposure for bigger roles that come with more responsible and commanding tasks in the future. To learn and demonstrate your recovery and self-recovery skills. Help individuals to self-recover or use tow rope or winch recoveries. To demonstrate your convoy commanding skills in difficult situations. And people interaction skills to manage the convoy with clear communication. Once you receive 4 different Marshals / Crew approval, then you will be eligible for your Advisor promotion. Eligibility criteria: Maximum two rounds of 4 Newbie drives each will be assigned to you with different Marshals for demonstrating your skills, knowledge, commitment, and team player attitude. You must attain a full consensus of all 4 Marshal / Crew in either the first or the second round as a qualifier. Full 4 drives consensus need to be achieved in either round for you to proceed, else your promotion request will be rejected permanently. You may of course continue in the Carnity Off-road Club at your previous rank.

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Congratulations @Santoso Marjuki for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the latest Emergency contact details. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. FEWBIE Drives Attended (Indicative) Minimum 5 Newbie drives are required within last 3 months for Fewbie promotion. What you'll learn Basic dune and sand reading Self-recovery techniques Shoveling at right place Crawling out of difficult situations Blip Blip - Coordinate steering and gas control Basic side sloping and hill climb Basic ridge riding and criss crossing Basic control over technical dunes Slightly faster pace desert driving Ability to manage stuck/refusals with radio Learn to control and avoid fishtailing Never fight or challenge gravity Skills required Enthusiastic and positive attitude Willingness to learn and help others Presence of mind and attention to detail Car Worthiness Any 4x4 vehicle with low range gearing Suitable approach and departure angle Off-road gear required Safety flag, tire deflator, tire pressure gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio (walkie-talkie), air compressor. Drive teamwork Manage second lead and sweep positions upon request Intuitive and proactive to support Trip Lead Observe recoveries and offer help, when needed Drive Joining Join Newbie and Fewbie drives Forum participation Active participation on the forum Share drive experience + feedback Share drive pictures in the gallery Post trip report after the drive

Congratulations @Alexander Holodny for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the latest Emergency contact details. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. FEWBIE Drives Attended (Indicative) Minimum 5 Newbie drives are required within last 3 months for Fewbie promotion. What you'll learn Basic dune and sand reading Self-recovery techniques Shoveling at right place Crawling out of difficult situations Blip Blip - Coordinate steering and gas control Basic side sloping and hill climb Basic ridge riding and criss crossing Basic control over technical dunes Slightly faster pace desert driving Ability to manage stuck/refusals with radio Learn to control and avoid fishtailing Never fight or challenge gravity Skills required Enthusiastic and positive attitude Willingness to learn and help others Presence of mind and attention to detail Car Worthiness Any 4x4 vehicle with low range gearing Suitable approach and departure angle Off-road gear required Safety flag, tire deflator, tire pressure gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio (walkie-talkie), air compressor. Drive teamwork Manage second lead and sweep positions upon request Intuitive and proactive to support Trip Lead Observe recoveries and offer help, when needed Drive Joining Join Newbie and Fewbie drives Forum participation Active participation on the forum Share drive experience + feedback Share drive pictures in the gallery Post trip report after the drive

FJC is a good choice you made for offroading as in stock form they are absolutely amazing. Just make sure you buy FJC with road HT tires than AT to be sure that it was a mall crawler and not extensively offroad driven or abused. For offroading lighter AT tires are must have, but you can still manage newbie to fewbie level drive with HT tires.

I agree with Fredy (part I missed) that fewbie level is all about finding your sweet spot and learning to use correct lines, approach angle and momentum. So don't rush to any conclusion now, just work on your skills and see if heavier tires really holds you down. Pay extra close attention to cars in front who are making certain climbs and try to replicate the same as much as you can. Second point I also missed that its Pentastar (Thanks Fredy) as I was under the impression of older JK with 4.0 engine that is known to be sluggish and added with oversize BFG is a recipe for disaster - which is not your case. Whatever you decide make sure you do lot of research and don't simply go with off-road garages suggestions as these ppl love to sell anything to anyone whether you need it or not and secondly it might open a new can of worm as explained above. What I meant to say is that, re-gearing is a very serious choice that you need to make with careful evaluation of all pros and cons than just one person or garage advice.

As you might know, we have completely stopped such brand recommendations since last year to prevent spamming. Hope you can get these recommendations on any FB or WA group.

And by any chance you are running BF Goodrich too? Heavier AT tires is great for rocks but not friendly for sand long hill climb, as axle is rotating almost double the weight on each side that limits the sand hill climb substantially. I know bigger and knobly tires look great but once you embark on that route you will do double the amount of mods especially power mods to get stock car hill climb. Take a step back and fully understand what your car currently has vs OEM and if you really want to continue with that setup for whatever choice or preference you may have by considering the trade-off that you are experiencing now.

Re-gearing is very intense topic, before the estimate I personally think you need a proper research and discussion with people who have done and chosen specific Dana model and why. I'm not educated on Jeep gearing choices, but making a right choice by knowing someone who have changed and happy with it is very important, than just reading the marketing brochures and sales pitch - which 99 out of 100 times is just opening a door for parts canon. Ex: though you got bigger gear, so you need bigger this and that and many other ancillary products that you have never heard off and you continue to buy and install due to "sunk cost fallacy". I have suffered from bad or lazy gearing in my 2006 4.5 Patrol SWB whereas my cousin plonked the 4.8 Patrol LWB gear and was happy in hill climb but faced some constant issues (cant recall exactly). So first you answer these questions or find out the answer of these question and then decide. Are you upgrading/changing for sand or rock or both? Is your vehicle still under warranty? What are the serviceable challenge you might face after the upgrade? Local dealers are supporting the after sales service after installing them? What all other upgrades or changes are needed to reap the actual benefits? Has anyone installed same gearing to solve the problem that you are after? See the person with your eyes solving the problem than fictional character. Discuss the whole journey with that person who have gone through and how you can learn from his mistakes. Get an estimate of time and money from them and see if its worth the actual benefit. Finding a seller and installer an easy - google job. You can find a clear winner with this approach: Read google reviews, don't just fall for rating, as when you start reading the review you can actually skim the fact from fake (good reviews) or usually sad customers (bad reviews). Shop who have done similar job before and they can either show you cars or photos of the similar job. Shop who give maximum guarantee and warranty (at least) - 90% will laugh at you, when you ask this and only 10% real guys will answer this with technical details and limitations - go with them. LAST BUT NOT LEAST When you gather all above info in terms of time, cost, hassle, chance, good luck, stars, competency etc. Do consider if you swap your car with better performing model = better, safer and economical route....?

Hahahah, I feel its Japanese "non" engineering design issue. Never had this issue with German, UK and US brand of cars.

Try WD40 when it squeaks, if it stops. Load it with lithium grease or even normal grease too, but it will attract more sand than lithium (kind of non-sticky but lubricating grease). 20-30 dh for regular brand and 40-50 for little high end. Two door setup like in my LC100 and Patrol Y61 this was HORRIBLE, single door are at least far better.

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Congrats @Islam Soliman on very big milestone. 👏

Congratulations @John Vanderbleek for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the latest Emergency contact details. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. FEWBIE Drives Attended (Indicative) Minimum 5 Newbie drives are required within last 3 months for Fewbie promotion. What you'll learn Basic dune and sand reading Self-recovery techniques Shoveling at right place Crawling out of difficult situations Blip Blip - Coordinate steering and gas control Basic side sloping and hill climb Basic ridge riding and criss crossing Basic control over technical dunes Slightly faster pace desert driving Ability to manage stuck/refusals with radio Learn to control and avoid fishtailing Never fight or challenge gravity Skills required Enthusiastic and positive attitude Willingness to learn and help others Presence of mind and attention to detail Car Worthiness Any 4x4 vehicle with low range gearing Suitable approach and departure angle Off-road gear required Safety flag, tire deflator, tire pressure gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio (walkie-talkie), air compressor. Drive teamwork Manage second lead and sweep positions upon request Intuitive and proactive to support Trip Lead Observe recoveries and offer help, when needed Drive Joining Join Newbie and Fewbie drives Forum participation Active participation on the forum Share drive experience + feedback Share drive pictures in the gallery Post trip report after the drive

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What a fantastic convoy discipline.

I'm not sure what exactly rattle you FJ guys are discussing, but I do have some rear door rattle especially on loose gravel track or crisscrossing. I found the solution with lithium grease (last for 6 months) or WD40 (last 2-3 months). If its something else than regular door hinges or lock rubbing or squeaking - please ignore my comment.

@Humayun Ghias has been promoted to IM, but his username wasn't reflecting that. Just fixed it. And added him back to the drive calendar.

Congratulations @ShereenMK for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the latest Emergency contact details. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. FEWBIE Drives Attended (Indicative) Minimum 5 Newbie drives are required within last 3 months for Fewbie promotion. What you'll learn Basic dune and sand reading Self-recovery techniques Shoveling at right place Crawling out of difficult situations Blip Blip - Coordinate steering and gas control Basic side sloping and hill climb Basic ridge riding and criss crossing Basic control over technical dunes Slightly faster pace desert driving Ability to manage stuck/refusals with radio Learn to control and avoid fishtailing Never fight or challenge gravity Skills required Enthusiastic and positive attitude Willingness to learn and help others Presence of mind and attention to detail Car Worthiness Any 4x4 vehicle with low range gearing Suitable approach and departure angle Off-road gear required Safety flag, tire deflator, tire pressure gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio (walkie-talkie), air compressor. Drive teamwork Manage second lead and sweep positions upon request Intuitive and proactive to support Trip Lead Observe recoveries and offer help, when needed Drive Joining Join Newbie and Fewbie drives Forum participation Active participation on the forum Share drive experience + feedback Share drive pictures in the gallery Post trip report after the drive

Congratulations @Chinthaka Ruwan for reaching the Intermediate Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the latest Emergency contact details. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. INTERMEDIATE Drives Attended (Indicative) Minimum 10 Fewbie Plus drives are required within last 6 months for Intermediate promotion. What you'll learn Basic GPS and navigational skills Basic tow rope and winch recoveries Extreme side sloping and long hill climb Tall dunes ridge riding and criss crossing Precise control over technical dunes Fast pace desert driving Clear radio communication skills Advance recovery skills Self recover from dune crest Soft sand recovery Pop-out fixing Skills required Adventurous and thrill seeker but in a safe manner Level headed under stressful situations Responsible, dependable and accountable Car Worthiness Capable 4x4 vehicle with low range gearing Suitable approach and departure angle High profile tires Off-road gear required Safety flag, tire deflator, tire pressure gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio (walkie-talkie), air compressor, tool kit, rated recovery rope and 2 rated shackles, GPS. Drive teamwork Manage center forward position with Trip Lead’s permission Learn/assist recoveries under Trip Lead’s supervision Re-route convoy and coordination, when needed Learn to lead small portion of Intermediate drive under Marshal supervision Drive Joining Join Newbie, Fewbie, Intermediate and Exploration drives only Forum participation Active participation on the forum Share drive experience + feedback Share drive pictures in the gallery Post trip report after the drive

Congratulations @Naveen Raj for reaching the Fewbie Plus Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the latest Emergency contact details. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. FEWBIE PLUS Drives Attended (Indicative) Minimum 10 Fewbie drives are required within last 6 months for Fewbie Plus promotion. What you'll learn Advance dune and sand reading Advance recovery techniques Rocking and crawling to make path Learn to flatten/compact soft sand patch Self recovery from crest Advance side sloping and long hill climb Advance ridge riding and criss crossing Advance control over technical dunes Slightly faster pace desert driving FULLY control and avoid fishtailing Never fight or challenge gravity Skills required Enthusiastic and positive attitude Willingness to learn and help others Extremely attentive and focused while driving Car Worthiness Any 4x4 vehicle with low range gearing Suitable approach and departure angle Bash plate and skid plate protected Off-road gear required Safety flag, tire deflator, tire pressure gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio (walkie-talkie), air compressor. Drive teamwork Manage second lead and sweep positions upon request Intuitive and proactive to support Trip Lead Observe recoveries and offer help, when needed Drive Joining Join Newbie, Fewbie and Fewbie Plus drives Forum participation Active participation on the forum Share drive experience + feedback Share drive pictures in the gallery Post trip report after the drive