Gaurav

I fully understand your feelings, but please go through below roles and responsibilities and also watch the video that shows what happens when tow point fails. You need rated and good brand hitch hook for your Dodge Ram. Something like this. https://www.aceuae.com/en-AE/bushranger-recovery-hitch-hooks-with-shackle-silver/285633.html @Denizzalbayrak bought one too recently for his trailblazer, maybe he can share some points.

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This is nice Fredy, and any clue on what part to check/change for rear differential in Pajero 2.5 Gen. Since last few months my rear diff stop engaging and making that grrrrr noise, when I press the switch.

Perfect drive with perfect set of 4x4 and off-roaders. With cooler morning breeze, it was an amazing early morning drive to see the sunrise from dunes (will post pic, later). Everyone showed on time except one, It's just that I have a soft corner for duster to test its off-road capability, so allowed him to join bit late but others might not. Thanks everyone else for being on time, so that we can start and finish as plan to enjoy the best morning for which we all wait for the whole week. Thanks @Jun Zamora for competent second lead and detour wherever required. @Kieran McKeown you and your duster are really rocking and continue learning the right basics so that you can enjoy off-roading always. @Lisa Pemberton you are doing great as always just learn to close the gap from the car in front of you, which tends to push you on wrong tracks (scary ones). I promise someday will do take you on those fewbie and Intermediate level tracks (sideys) too, once you are ready. @Veedooshee under the guidance on Anish learning and advancing very well that now she can no longer scare Anish, means you are surely ready for fewbie by next one more drive (I hope). @Sreejith Sreenivasan it was nice to see how you have tamed the LR2 and managing it perfectly fine without any struggle or refusal, keep it up. Thanks @sertac V.2.0 for brilliant support, patience and helping hand in managing the whole convoy with correct guidance and shoveling. We have driven after a long time and you have grown in this sport and maturity a lot. Well done. @sheri joined after a long time and still manage to sail the boat with full load without any refusal and stuck. Good to see you back, please catch up with forum topics in your free time. @Hennie Schoeman at the back still scratching the wrangler real potential, though I haven't heard your name on the radio, so I assume it must be all good. @Onlyjunaid kicking the wrangler convoy intact at back also done wonderful, he finally gave a chance to Sertac for single tow-rope recovery but Sertac decided to shovel him out in few minutes. Next time Junaid, you need to learn how to get proper cresting @topgear you really are a top gear, because you are grooming your son to be an off-roader from a such an early age and he reminded me of my son's age two years back (best innocent age). Enjoy your FJC, as they are made for off-roading and continue learning always. Last but not least @Nivin joined us after a gap and last I think we drove was in Solar Park in Feb/Mar. Thanks for being responsible sweep and taking care of the whole convoy at all times. Just because of such a wonderful off-roaders we reached Pink Rock by 7:00 and finished playing by 7:30. For next 1 hour I had a choice to head to Badayer, but I decided to play on big dunes just behind Pink Rock. This area is for fewbie, but being a cooler morning, virgin sand and great bunch of offroaders we all had a good spin in those creamy cheese cake (my analogy) dunes, where I can drive for hours and hours while making spagethi on my map app. Thanks everyone for your patience, support, excellent drive and understanding the COVID precautions. See you guys soon, drive safe.

@sheri welcome back. Please read and comply with this full drive post as you have joined after a long gap.

DRIVE RSVP IS CLOSED NOW Here is the final convoy list Gaurav C Silver Pajero Jun Zamora F Green Wrangler Kieran McKeown N Silver Renault Duster Lisa Pemberton N Black Pajero Veedooshee N White Pajero Sreejith Sreenivasan N Land Rover LR2 Islam Hassan AN Black Dodge Ram sertac I Xterra luwaimn F White Prado Sheri N white pajero Hennie Schoeman AN Jeep Wrangler 2017 Onlyjunaid topgear N FJ Cruiser Nivin F Blue Xterra @Jun Zamora @Kieran McKeown @Lisa Pemberton @Veedooshee @Sreejith Sreenivasan @Islam Hassan @sertac @luwaimn @Hennie Schoeman @Onlyjunaid @topgear @Nivin @sheri Please start 10 minutes earlier as per Google maps direction, as TAWI NIZWA U-Turn is closed due to roadworks, so you have to take u-turn just before badayer, that will cause 10 mins delay. 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.

Now someone will open dubizzle with search filter of 2/3 door in Patrol category and start dreaming.

Private owner/sellers are always recommended against the dealers, as most car dealers always have some extra cooking behind the scene to hide or eliminate bad traces or incomplete service history. For buying vehicle, you should have little bit of patience and test out few cars to really compare apple to apple, but for surely this little efforts will pay you off multi-fold in the future. If you are in super rush, buy from reputed dealers (which will be tad expensive) and make sure to insist to see the service history photos first before visiting them. As dealers will always nod head for service history but only 10% cars will have "GENUINE" service history. So don't waste your time with 90% dealers who just say yes to service history and unable to show you the proof. For service history, if they can show you the breakdown, then that's highly preferable, but usually dealer stamp on service book is more than enough for initial visit. If you are serious in buying then you can ask them to fetch a detailed report from dealer to verify the actual past of that car. And run away from cars that has Enoc / Emarat / Adnoc service stickers as oil change is not a service history. And if owner was cutting corner for such expense then many other aspects must have been ignored too. And that defer maintenance will be very expensive and potentially unsafe for you as a new buyer.

Mitsubishi parts are the most expensive among Japanese brands but it will also outlast accordingly. So if you are fine with limited offroad capability (not great) and happy to accept limited resale value then Yes Montero is a safer bet. For lowering year to 2016 for Prado is actually better to eliminate first 3 years exorbitant resale drop. And if you go in those lines then do research how much they have been changed in tech from 2016 - 2018 model. I bet none, as Toyota is so slow to add new features unless they have tested 1000% in all continents unlike Germans. Btw, Prado are more comfier, spacious than FJC and holds resale value - The Best.

Very wisely said that Mitsubishi Monetro Sport has poor resale value as you can see it dropped almost 40K in 5 months, I know its a distress sale, COVID, people going back, but still huge drop. Toyota's are best in resale, then Nissan and then Honda and Mitsu - in Japanese segment. My first bet with given budget + offroad choice = FJC or Prado. If you consider extreme offroading in the future FJC requires no expense, but Prado need a bash plate and/or bumper trimming/change. And if you are in UAE and an outdoor loving soul, at some point you will hit the desert. And at that time you definitely don't want to be sitting on roadside sand and enjoy the dunes view than driving by yourself.

Sorry my bad, thanks for clarifying.

Many badging are just for marketing and advertising department. Unless you modify and/or protect under body properly Jeep Grand Cherokee have few week spots. @Brette can share his views as an owner + offroader. For FJC, visibility is not so bad as people scare about, if you are interested, I suggest test drive few and decide. FJC can really tick all boxes + extreme offroading with "Toyota Reliability" (Really a blessing and a big deal) for UAE extreme temperature. For FJC being discontinued model, don't worry too much as all car models once discontinue will have full dealer support with parts and maintenance for 10-15 years easy. If you like to go this route call up Al Futtaim and check what is their official stand on supporting FJC until 2025 or 2030. Because it was a part of an off-road club based on off-road subscription. Moved to general discussion, you should be able to access it now.

Hi Bhaskar, welcome to Carnity and congrats on getting your driving license, that too in 7 months. Though you drafted your car buying concern quiet nicely, but before I proceed let me just bring one last game-changer point of view from being a car enthusiast + off-roader in Dubai. Read the topic below and ask yourself what type of offroading you and your wife are expecting from this new vehicle.

I have added you to the list, now.

Yes, I have split this into new topic as your original post was seeking help to know how is it than to suggest to add it to the list.

Oops, I missed on that point. Now G012 and G015 - I personally have no comments, unless I use G015 too. But going by the Yokohama credibility and super happy with G012, I will definitely give G015 a try.

@J J sad and truly shocked to see such incident. Glad you and Jeep are fine. Keep us updated. @Nivin If you drive a lot then 2019, if not then 2020 will be fetch additional 1 year of RTA passing.

Dremel - all the way.

You mean Rockford. Mark Levinson is in Lexus.

You still don't know the other half of the story why @Chaitanya D mentioned this. Ill leave the surprise for him to share/show.

I agree too with @Frederic

Welcome back buddy, how everyone back home? Hope all good and safe now?

u mean 276C - THE LEGEND

Me too.