Gaurav

Indeed it was fun driving in night and getting through with all challenges of stucks, refusals, pop-out, deflation and inflation at certain hill climbs was even more fun. I am loving the night drive more now as night breeze is very cool and refreshing as we go up on the dunes. Suhoor spread was also amazing with so many different options, but time didn't allow us to finish all and few went back home in same packing. Many thanks to Basel for wonderful souvenir as a mark of respect and love we share with each other. Although I didn't find any good reason for accepting it, but when I found my name engrave on it so couldn't say no (I'm honest). Here are the pictures from my camera, others please upload yours in same album: https://carnity.com/gallery/category/20-the-first-drive-for-ramadan-26-may-2017/

What are the options available for car under body rust protection for critical components and chassis frame? I just spotted some very minor rust formation in few areas under my Pajero today, so looking for some good quality solution to protect.

@FutureY Thanks for adding your experience, do you mind telling which area require extra caution and have you done in it 4WD or sedan car?

I have adjusted this yesterday and it did showed me almost the whole blind spot. Now I also understood that why in my Pajero I have so big side view mirrors. By the time car finish 80% appearing on my side view and then I can see the car front from my side eyes means there is good gap of 20% overlap that can help driver almost kill that blind spot if mirrors are adjusted properly. Great thread Rahim bhai and nice answer Jaan rambo to help everyone drive safely.

It's doing fantastic and will show you on next drive on how to get loud and thumping base without the sub-woofer.

All stucks and negative memories never goes in video as we only like to remember the good part. Asif bhai stuck was purposely done to demonstrate the safety involve while using the tow rope, so as your tire pop-out part

Here is the video guys:

Very valid concern and I think in newer car after 2010 many cars have one quarter of extra mirror on top outward corner that shows exactly what you are asking. In my Mustang I have that and it really help in gauging the parallel car to some extent. Secondly I have also seen red light ON on most of luxury cars newer model showing as lane collision warning and in some cars I have seen yellow triangle in wing mirror to indicate the near by car in case driver think of lane change. Cars manufacture have been working hard to address such minor but important issue and it will only take time until all car manufacture opt this as a must feature than added feature for people who opt.

Not many community member think it's not necessary to click photos and video of our drive. Although the there local boys who helped us have my highest respect and gratitude, but you cannot take all what they do. I have seen most unsafe recoveries done by everyday desert goer, thinking nothing will happen. Same night when they have recovered and wanted to fix Patrol pop-out they used my jack in tilted angle, which is totally bent now and cannot be re-use due to slight negligence of looking for proper lifting point and lifting vehicle on straight ground. Take what is good, and leave what is not from anyone and stick to safe and best practise if you want to venture in desert for long. My two cents.

Very well said Rahimdad, meaning of community is not appropriately understood by many in UAE and they always think their wallet have to be ripped off before listening to any solution. Syed, I strongly advise you to sort your alignment issue first before buying new tire to save them and use them as they are inteded for. This issu isn't big deal but require some expert to figure out and fix out based on degrees and angles. For Geolander, be sure you can't go wrong as I have purchased my second set 6 months ago by repeating the same tire set for first time in my car owning experience of 18 years.

Awesome thinking @waqaszohair, you are THE MAN, never knew auditor can be so good as we all hate them. lol. I love the long run and best if we can do it in one day to call - Around the UAE in 1 day.... Think about it. Will discuss more once im back to Dubai on Wed.

buy sell any car get cash in 10 min bla bla bla .com are the biggest scammers and rip off in my eyes. Online listing quote you 60k when you visit and waste 2 hours they quote you 30k for bullshit of the reason. Now why would I sell my car coz one monkey telling me that my car interior need A to Z repair for 10K when I can't even see a minor scratch in my Leather upholstery. I selected 110k reading in website for car that has done 112, but they value at 120k. Passenger door repainted for minor ding dangs in Dubai parking, consider as accidental car that is fully repainted. For above three reason they deduct 30k. It's utter waste of time.

Thanks Rahim bhai for such a wonderful idea for making all odds (heat, fasting and night) looks like plus now. Our true Superman. Definitely in with full support.

What started as a desert driving training, ended up with offering enough training opportunity to even most experienced folks in the group. Something new I have learned after very long time. Thanks to local boys to show something brilliant that I and Rahim bhai got really impressed with. And many thanks to Basil for creating such an opportunity window for everyone to learn something new and unique. We started the drive on time and initiated with 2 theory lessons at deflation point on Engine overheating and Wild life. After an hour of driving, we went to practice the art of side sloping on long dunes range. Many perfected their skills and other learned that art for first time with Rahim bhai supervision. After few attempts by everyone, we head to more cleaner area for doing the recovery training with safety. Got one of the car stuck purposely to explain the safety items and techniques involved with doing the tow rope recovery. Explained the reasoning and best practices involved for safer tow rope recovery. As the sun started to set, we head out for the lesson of self recovery and explain the key things involved to rescue yourself in almost 80-90% of stuck by simple self recovery techniques. Unfortunately that stuck was in deep soft sand and at a very bad angle, so we got to tow the car in the end. Then we head out for the unplanned tire pop-out repair that added the actual practical in the training session. By this time, it was pitch dark just below the fossil rock so we started with night drive theory and explanation for breaking the night drive fear and myths. After 10-15 minutes everyone was ready to shoot up the fossil rock area in the night. As we reached up, none of them realize the height until they stepped out of the car and walk across the ridge. Then the challenge was to face the steep decent with rock and sand in pitch dark. With an excellent guidance from Rahim bhai, everyone reached down safely in no time. Now we head to the bbq spot on right side, just behind the Faya area and kept on looking for a cleaner place without any bushes but failed. Then we thought of heading to Camel rock area and setting up the bbq session there. While on the way to Camel rock, we encountered couple of steep dunes with soft sand and realize to back out to simpler route but it was bit late as few cars were stuck here and there. All were recovered with ease except one, which was stuck in dune pocket filled with soft sand from back side and hitting front to the dune, nose fully dug inside the dune. We wasted about two hours recovering from the front and broke two tow ropes in attempt with 3 different cars and two different angles. By now we realized that front recovery isn't possible as moving the tip of dune isn't practical and we need to change our strategy. We thought of going down the pocket and realized it is too soft sand to tow out the stuck vehicle from back and we might risk two vehicles stuck next to each other in soft sand pocket. I and Rahim bhai went down one by one and realize that it isn't very practical to have so much long run in uphill in soft sand. As we lost all our hopes and running out of idea, we came across three local boys in Suzuki samurai who offered to help us with their brilliant and genius idea. They went down in the soft sand pocket with one of our car and created a short path by flattening the sand by 5-10 attempts, once short path of 10-20 meters was created, they used the short tow rope and gave gentle tugs to the stuck vehicle from back and moved the car out from sticky spot. After seeing this idea of using short (1/4) tow rope that can be immensely useful in such tight spot, we all learned something very new and impressive. Total respect to such great thinking and careful execution and precise coordination. By now we were about 5-6 hours delayed for our bbq session, and still everyone was very excited to start the bbq night and we laid out the spread in nice and open area filled with cool breeze in the middle of May. Many thanks to Saleem and his friends for bringing heaps of bbq ready meat and chicken and continuously cooking for whole night. And Asif bhai homemade cake made the yummiest dessert in the desert. The bbq session that supposed to be for couple of hours lasted for 6-7 hours and we all kept talking and sharing stories until morning 5:00 AM (I think). Overall it was very nice training and challenging day out to demonstrate that moment we sign up for desert drive anything can happen and we all need to keep ourselves calm and composed to face the reality. It was brilliant teamwork effort demonstrated by everyone and very patiently handled situation. All in all it was great training and learning for everyone. Here are the pictures from my camera, looking forward to see others click https://carnity.com/gallery/category/19-desert-driving-training-ii-19-may-2017/