Gaurav

What started as a simple mountain drive, ended up with a big birthday surprise for our darling superman @Rahimdad and that was truly a priceless feeling to see his expressions and reaction. As we all have seen his endless support in all the carnity drive's and forum, so this was the time to return a fraction of his love. We were planning this surprise since two weeks on secret whatsapp group: To cut his bday cake on highest point in the UAE. Everyone came up with great ideas and suggestion to make his bday as memorable as possible. Everyone shared the responsibilities and help making the perfect ambiance for his 45th birthday cake on top of Jabal Jais at 1700 m (recorded). Great teamwork. We all met at ADNOC station near tasjeel Village and started as planned with 6 cars: 2 sedan's and 4 4x4. By the time we reached the tip of Jabal Jais weather was getting hotter and hotter closer to 35 degrees. Thankfully in the morning time on Friday there were no traffic at all, so we had a clean access to this beautiful and most scenic mountain surrounding drive. As we drove up and up, we literally witnessed temperature dropping a degree every 500m or so. We stopped in between at a viewpoint that offered the world's best photography opportunity by showing the snaky road at the backdrop below and twisty mountain on the both sides. After bit of family and fun poses, we continue driving to the top. By 11 am we reached the top of Jabal jais till tramac area as after that it was closed due to ongoing roadworks. We decided to park in an area to setup our birthday bash. As decided and agreed among all of us, by the time we are on top I will take Rahim bhai away so that everyone else can prepare the setup, to my surprise Rahim bhai came to me and told that instead of setting up here, why can't we go little bit down and drive offroad for much better scenic spot. I used this as an excuse and definitely spotted a great spot. Spend 15 minutes there and by the time we came back @jason200, @waqaszohair, @Saadia waqas, @sohini, @Kavin, @Abdul Basit Khan made an awesome arrangement by sticking all Rahim bhai pictures on the car, sticking ballon on the car side view mirror, wrapped a table in white cloth to have the superman cake waiting for Rahim bhai. We cut the cake their and enjoyed the celebration with Rahim bhai favorite Ferrero cake. Afterward, we move to another spot for much breezy access in 30+ degree heat. In that area heat real feel was like 20 degree due to ongoing mountain breeze. In this awesome scenic spot, we enjoyed the lunch and chit chat for an hour. Then people who want to leave for Friday prayer, went down and came back up to spend some more time in sitting on top of 1700 meter tall peak with friends and family. We even ventured our 4x4 to mountain climbing contest and soon couple of folks around us came to ask permission if they can click their pictures with our car, lol. Thanks everyone for bringing enough and amazing food, fruits and drinks to cherish those great moments. It was super nice to see Rahim bhai mom and Kavin's mom and dad on this adventurous drive. Hope the elderly people also had a good time and hopefully we made sure that everyone from 2 years old - 60 years old went back with a smile. Thanks Rahim bhai for such sweet return gift for all the kids and mommies, you are a true superman. By 3 pm, we all decided to pack our cars and head down and at this time we witnessed 100's of car going up and waiting to make this mountain as a fish market. After coming down, we stopped near one of the water pond (not lake) and waiting for some jeepers to turn out for the mud playing, like I and Rahim witnessed few years back and then that guy cried for cleaning up later on. Overall it was yet another awesome day spent together and made a brilliant celebration (as planned) for the birthday boy oops old man

@taqir So far not much sign of ageing other than slight new scratches popping out due to regular off-roading. It doesn't seem to lost shine or paint getting dull, may coz of octoral clear coat (hard wearing) or coz of 3M paint protection. Apex gulf experience was good, but I felt cheated as they offered me interior and exterior protection for 1000 and when I chose only exterior they quoted 650. While getting it done I see other guy getting the 1000 dhs package and in end that guy was supplied with additional bottle of 3M exterior paint protection and advised to bring his car after 3 months for second coating. When I finished my car they didn't gave me anything saying you have chosen the wrong package. SUPER bad customer service from apex gulf side by not letting customers make an informed purchase. And what is difference in exterior or interior+exterior I couldn't understand to get the second layer for exterior again after 3 months when exterior bottle is same in both applications. I so wish they were honest enough to not leave me with a bad taste in end. I also googled after this and there are tons of ways you can buy same protection bottle in 300 dhs and you can DIY your own paint protection once every 3-6 months for long lasting shine. It will only take you 1 hour instead of driving down and waiting for your turn at Apex gulf. @roburtonThanks, it costed 2200 for the paint and 650 for the 3M paint protection.

Welcome Abdul, see you in the morning at meeting point by 7:45 AM

There you go, pictures just after the paint and at 3M apex gulf after getting the paint protection. It's not the super best quality of job but for the price I have paid compared to Dubai its well worth it and shine nice from a distance. Could have been better with more attention to detail which I think was missing.

Hi Ahmed, thanks for asking in the forum than PM it just that this way will help everyone like you when they need it. To be honest apart from small glitch of blip (cut-off) at very high volume, which sometime is irritating I haven't found any sane reason to add amp and sub. And to counter this blip, I found an easy way out to adjust fader to +4 or +6 for rear in a setting of 15 point so that I can hear more from the back and this resulted in a real solid thump from the back that is loud enough to shake my seat backside. However this setting another drawback is in low volume you will miss the front impact so I keep playing with fader as needed. You will understand this and master this if you go with my type of set up. Actual reason for this blip (I think) is front is 60W and rear are 100W and head unit pumping at 100x4. If I play only only on rear then this blip is not there. In my case it was a space trade-off with this little inconvenience, so I chose the later as my Pajero being off-road ride, I want as maximum space as possible and I don't regret this choice till date. If you like to hear this set up, feel free to pass by anytime and that will help you even more in understanding what I am explaining. Both shop who installed head unit and speaker did't do a good quality job, so don't go there. Instead if you like buy above speaker, head unit and cables from souq or any mall and get it installed with proper sound guy. This made a big difference in my case when I scrapped all OEM wires at Barry's workshop with new cables. Started hearing every little detail as much as my hearing sense can absorb. Proper installation with good cables were amazing and way better than stripping wires and twisting and taping them so many times. Hope it helps.

Here is the video guys for our last Friday drive: