Gaurav

This drive was very spectacular, remarkable, eventful, frustrating, long and VERY hot but all came out together as one team filled with lots and lot of patience, cooperation, trust and above all superb teamwork by everyone involved from all driver and their passengers. We started the drive on time and joined with 3 first timer here (Raju, Diamond and Saleem) and out of which 2 were absolute newbies (Raju and Diamond). I am sure it was a big learning curve for all newbies as to jumped into "newbie-fewbie" level drive instead of "absolute-newbie" drive. We almost had all the possible different scenario of refusals, stuck, side-slope stuck, cresting, pop-out, deep bowl stuck and what not. I lost the track of recoveries we did, but I guess it was more than 15-20 recoveries in 5 hour drive. Due to frequent held up we couldn't even manage to finish 1 out of 7 way points (as planned) and decided to trim the route to safe exit just after the breakfast break. As we were getting late now inside the desert after 10 AM sun started to kick in with full throttle and made the terrain even more difficult. As we were in white sand of lisalli with sun shining on top, so reading the sand or following the track was real challenge to keep an eye on right spot. After 2 hours of intense struggle in heat (assuming 40-45 degrees), we finally made the safe exit and smile on all the faces were priceless, who were looking so tensed, stressed and frustrating few minutes back. Thanks @baselsm83 for second lead, @skumar83 for second sweep and our superman @Rahimdad for excellent sweep duties with cool head at all times. Based on all votes we have awarded Saleem @shadow79 the best driver prize for pushing his Rav4 through this fewbie terrain with all the gearing and head gasket issue. Then we also decided to prize @RajuBhat as the best driver for adapting and picking up the desert driving at impeccable pace on his first desert drive. Both drivers received the 23 pieces ratchets, bits and socket set tool kit as their prize of honor. By 12:30 we touched the tarmac and rush to Al Qudra parking lot area to catch the Friday prayers. While inflating at Al Qudra we manually recorded the temperature showing 56.2 Degrees at 1:40 PM. Overall it was very colorful drive but I feel there is a very big lesson for all of us here: To pay extra attention on the level of drive you signup to meet your experience, so that you enjoy and learn from the drive in a safe way.

Well it's something amazing, from the way I look at it. Caroline Swanson said later. “You have a lot of people saying they want to take it with them. He took it with him.” It tells that he didn't want anyone to mess with his prized possession after he is gone. Quite a love, total respect.

I lived on that adjustment for over a month too and felt exactly same as you explained. I also felt that Engine or ECU has some issue. In my case it was even more weird that once I start in morning RPM used to be dead low like 500, so bump up to 900 with screw and after 15 mins when car is warm it reaches to 1400. This exact is the job of Idle control Valve to keep maintaining ideal RPM in cold or warm engine in idling. I found that setting of 1200 when warm was perfect as when cold it drop to 600 without stalling the car, but again in some crazy days all these hacking goes for a toss and again car stall as idle is dependent on the air temperature to create perfect fuel+air mixture. As I mentioned before it is certainly ICV and many garage and mechanic knows this but INTENTIONALLY don't disclose this to rip your wallet. I have experience 3000 dhs quote (without warranty) from Cars Clinic aka Salim Ali Bin Haider Car Repair - 30 years old garage in umm ramool, just to initiate the guesswork program and then cost me further to cure this issue. Few weeks later after bit of research I changed the ICV (600 dhs) and car was super smooth. Btw, I paid 250 dhs and 1 week wait just to get below misleading diagnosis.

@Asif Hussain nice to see you again, hopefully you get your truck in time. @skumar83, @shadow79, @DiamondDallas, @jason200 please RSVP on the calendar here:

Let me complete what Barry meant: Did you get your yearly check for 10k aed from your employer yet to generate 100k business from carnity?

You welcome buddy, anyone who contributes to the community understanding it's real meaning and sharing the vision of Carnity will be worthy of this honourable "star group". Btw, I love your metaphor of gauging your happiness by seeing silicone. Real mechanic expression, lol.

Also it's worth noting that anyone can download or subscribe to iCalendar feed that will notify them in their own calendar, to not to miss any event.

Here is the video to see it action: