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Congratulations @Islam Soliman for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Based on your last newbie drive you have demonstrated skills required deserving this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Once you have all the required off-road gear, you are most welcome to join the Fewbie Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Fewbie: Number of drives 10 (16 Newbie + Fewbie drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor. Drive teamwork Observe recovery from a safe distance and offer help when needed Drive posting/joining Join newbie and fewbie level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

Congratulations @VipinShetty for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Based on your last newbie drive you have demonstrated skills required deserving this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Once you have all the required off-road gear, you are most welcome to join the Fewbie Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Fewbie: Number of drives 10 (16 Newbie + Fewbie drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor. Drive teamwork Observe recovery from a safe distance and offer help when needed Drive posting/joining Join newbie and fewbie level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

Congratulations @David Ortells for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Based on your last newbie drive you have demonstrated skills required deserving this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Once you have all the required off-road gear, you are most welcome to join the Fewbie Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Fewbie: Number of drives 10 (16 Newbie + Fewbie drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor. Drive teamwork Observe recovery from a safe distance and offer help when needed Drive posting/joining Join newbie and fewbie level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

Congratulations @Veedooshee for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Based on your last newbie drive you have demonstrated skills required deserving this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Once you have all the required off-road gear, you are most welcome to join the Fewbie Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Fewbie: Number of drives 10 (16 Newbie + Fewbie drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor. Drive teamwork Observe recovery from a safe distance and offer help when needed Drive posting/joining Join newbie and fewbie level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

DRIVE RSVP IS CLOSED NOW Here is the final convoy list Gaurav C Silver Pajero marks F FJC Islam Hassan AN Black Dodge Ram Kieran McKeown N Silver Renault Duster Islam Soliman N GMC Yukon Lisa Pemberton N Black Pajero AviG N Prado Vineeth John Joseph N Xterra Christian Andras N FJC David Ortells N FJC Heisem N FJC Nabil Bishara N Jeep Wrangler Veedooshee N White Pajero @marks @Islam Hassan @Kieran McKeown @Islam Soliman @AviG @Vineeth John Joseph @David Ortells @Christian Andras @Heisem @Nabil Bishara @Lisa Pemberton @Veedooshee Please be on time, sharp at 5 AM, little early is always better. Please tune to Carnity Channel 1 - 446.006'25 freq and deflate your tires to 15 PSI as soon as you reach to the meeting point. Be inside your car - AT ALL TIMES - after the deflation. @Francois Germishuys, @Ahmed Farghaly @Ahmed Azmy and @Tero Vallas I couldn't accommodate you in this drive as no more drop outs happen before I closed the drive. Hope to see you guys next week.

WAIT LIST UPDATED - 30 July, Thu at 2:06 PM @Francois Germishuys Posted Sunday at 08:37 PM @Ahmed Farghaly Solar Park Wait List - Posted Monday at 10:11 AM @Ahmed Azmy Posted Monday at 12:41 PM @Tero Vallas Posted Thursday at 10:01 AM

Thanks @Janarthan for being considerate. @Nabil Bishara you have been added now for Maliha - 31 July - Morning Newbie drive. WAIT LIST UPDATED - 29 July, Wed at 7:47 PM @Francois Germishuys Posted Sunday at 08:37 PM @Ahmed Farghaly Solar Park Wait List - Posted Monday at 10:11 AM @Ahmed Azmy Posted Monday at 12:41 PM

@Usman Basit, @Biju Abdul and @Ammar Naji you have been added to Solar Park - 1 Aug - Morning Newbie drive. CURRENT WAIT LIST @Ahmed Farghaly Solar Park Wait List - Posted Monday at 10:11 AM

Many thanks to @topgear, @David Ortells and @Islam Soliman for vacating from one of the drive, considering the long wait list during Eid holidays. 1 place were available now for Maliha - 31 July - Morning Newbie drive. 3 places were available now for Solar Park - 1 Aug - Morning Newbie drive. @Heisem you have been added to Maliha - 31 July - Morning Newbie drive. @Usman Basit, @Biju Abdul and @Ammar Naji you have been added to Solar Park - 1 Aug - Morning Newbie drive. PREVIOUS WAIT LIST @Heisem Posted Sunday at 07:05 PM @SureshVNair Posted Sunday at 07:07 PM - Already in absolute newbie @VipinShetty Posted Sunday at 07:16 PM - Already in Solar park drive @Nabil Bishara Posted Sunday at 07:19 PM @Usman Basit Posted Sunday at 07:25 PM and Solar Park Wait List Posted Sunday at 07:35 PM @Biju Abdul Posted Sunday at 07:34 PM and Solar Park Wait List Posted Sunday at 07:32 PM @Ammar Naji Posted Sunday at 08:16 PM and Solar Park Wait List Posted Sunday at 08:23 PM @Francois Germishuys Posted Sunday at 08:37 PM @Ahmed Farghaly Solar Park Wait List - Posted Monday at 10:11 AM @Ahmed Azmy Posted Monday at 12:41 PM @Sreejith Sreenivasan Posted Sunday at 08:57 PM Car in Garage (Removed from the wait list) WAIT LIST UPDATED - 29 July, Wed at 3:34 PM @VipinShetty Posted Sunday at 07:16 PM - Already in Solar park drive @Nabil Bishara Posted Sunday at 07:19 PM @Francois Germishuys Posted Sunday at 08:37 PM @Ahmed Farghaly Solar Park Wait List - Posted Monday at 10:11 AM @Ahmed Azmy Posted Monday at 12:41 PM

Finding a competent and honest garage is super rare, unless you try 100 garages to find the best 10. Easiest way I found out per my own experience, is to give a job to any garage who guarantees the work in writing. This way you can eliminate 90% scammers, incompetent and greedy workshop in first phone call only. The guy who provide guarantee i'm ready to pay the premium so I know I spend a tad extra but for once only.

Hi @mathewjo welcome to Carnity off-road club. You can click on "Going" button to confirm your RSVP

Added @Pancho now on my Area 53 drive, looking fwd to see you.

Due to limited participation for the evening drive, I won't be posting any additional drives. Let's get back to this original wait list here. I will keep adding names as soon as we have drop outs, which usually starts from Wednesday to Thursday. If you can't join this week, then I hope to see you guys next week, by RSVP - 2 Aug, Sunday at 7 PM (SHARP).

Thanks @VipinShetty and @Sreejith Sreenivasan, choice noted. @Ammar Naji there is no possibility for additional morning drive, as we already have 5 drives committed.

Due to this unprecedented long list of wait list, we are thinking of adding another newbie drive BUT only in the evening. Please reply if you like to JOIN or NOT an evening newbie drive on 31 July, 2020 - 5 PM - 9 PM? WAIT LIST UPDATED @Heisem @SureshVNair @VipinShetty @Nabil Bishara @Usman Basit @Biju Abdul @Ammar Naji @Francois Germishuys @Sreejith Sreenivasan @Ahmed Azmy

On a second (super greedy) thought. Is this pulley (red, black marked) moving with belt or engine.....?

I wish if it was a belt driven, would have done that long back as I also thought of same idea of reducing pulley size. But, the fan clutch is connected directly to the engine and all belts are connected to it.

Brilliant topic @Chaitanya D and very well displayed your concerns with images and drawing. Everyone has almost hit the nail on the head with their collective inputs and they all are correct too. Small add-on from my side is whenever we have side slope stuck, if you dig a channel front or behind (as displayed in pic below in red color) you can accelerate the recovery process. The core idea for this red colored channel is to drop the car wheel with a tiny extra movement after the initial movement and when this drop happen, the gravity will do the rest as you successful manage to shake the 2 ton weight. 90% side stuck you can self recover with below techniques and only 10% will be needing controlled tow-rope tug or winch (much better) in such scenarios. Such controlled tow-rope stuck we teach at advance and above levels. Idea is to force vehicle to point down in any direction. Though steering control front wheel so it will be relatively easy to steer down from 100% horizontal (imaginary) situation. As soon as that happen you will follow the steps in scenario 3 to get them out. Easy backward recovery Easy front recovery

If fan clutch is not engaging when 70% heat gauge rises, that means fan clutch is surely not working. Technically there is no way to 100% test fan clutch getting fully engaged at high temperature, other than this absence of loud gushing noise. So it's time to either change the fan clutch (expensive route), or make it direct (cheaper route) as 9 months out of 12 months are hot in Dubai. Also its your off-road vehicle that will have better engine cooling with loss of 2-5 hp and few ml of extra petrol. Example: full tank mileage of 325 km might become 320 km, if you are keeping a precise log. I'm running direct clutch fan since 5 years and my exhaust makes more noise on road and highway than direct clutch fan. If I have an option to double my clutch fan speed by spending extra money, ill do that too.

Due to extremely high demand for Carnity off-road drives and to give everyone a fair chance to sign up in advance, we are sending off-road drive notifications via WhatsApp Broadcast List. Every Monday we send two WhatsApp notifications: Morning at 11 AM: Drive plan with all drive details Evening at 7 PM: Drive link with calendar to RSVP All drives calendar will go live at 7 PM, every Monday, so that everyone gets a fair chance to sign up. Please note that some drives do get filled within a few minutes, so please click "add to waitlist" and you will be moved to RSVP if anyone drops out. To prevent all drives getting full on Monday by multiple RSVP. We like to request everyone to pick ONE DRIVE initially and then book your second or third drive on Thursday 00:00 hrs onward, please. Mon - Wednesday - Limiting one drive per member Thursday Onward - RSVP on multiple drives ______________________________________ Please join the Carnity Drive Notification - WhatsApp group for receiving off-road drive notifications. If you are an old member, please verify that you are still part of this WhatsApp broadcast list. P.S. We strictly limit this to drive notifications and critical announcements only.

Buy 12 valves for 5 dhs. Initially you will loose, but after 3 or 4 failed attempt, you will stop loosing it. I hardly loose any now, like once in a year or so but love the 20-30 sec max air down.

You are doing very good so far and don't distort your mind with another car or any expensive modification, yet. Drive for at least 5 newbies drive and if we feel you have learned enough on how to handle your duster (from safety aspect), we might promote you to fewbie level too. Once you are at fewbie level, then you can decide to continue with duster or replace/upgrade, if you really push to aim for higher levels of offroad drives.

WAIT LIST UPDATED Heisem SureshVNair VipinShetty Nabil Bishara Usman Basit Biju Abdul Ammar Naji Francois Germishuys Sreejith Sreenivasan Ahmed Azmy

This is Automatic Transmission Cooler. Sit down in front of your Pajero and peep through the last front grill vent. You can see this just under and behind AC condensor and Radiator. This is Engine Oil Cooler