Gaurav

Congrats Vivian on your new ride, although it looks desert friendly with higher stance and good ground clearance but please do some research before let her taste the sand if it's OK or not. If you are convinced, then join on coming thursday night drive as I just posted it for newbie in most easiest area for getting the feel of sand.

Tentative hotel pricing from cleartrip as of 16 July: 2 Star: 300 - 400 AED per night 3 Star: 400 - 550 AED per night 4 Star: 550 - 950 AED per night P.S. This will increase every week, so sooner we book better it is.

Planning a road trip to beautiful Salalah in Aug end to escape the UAE summer during upcoming Eid Al Adha break. Going to Salalah soon after the rainy season (July-Aug), is best treat you can give to your eyes and mind. Everything turns lush green during that time and looks like you are in some heavenly place. Apart from the endless natural beauty, Salalah also offer some interesting places to visit like anti-gravity point, boat rides, kayaking, visiting blowholes, waterfalls, exotic birds watching etc. Just to beat the rush at border, hotels and salalah we will start one day earlier, which will give us enough rest and time to explore Salalah for 3 full days + 2 for road trip. Planning early will help in securing all rooms in one hotel for Carnity members and we might get a good deal in bulk booking, so please decide ASAP. Tentative Travel plan: Start: 30 Aug 2017 – 4 AM Drive 1200 kms with 30 mins break every 200 kms Reach Salalah: 30 Aug 2017 – 7 PM Hotel check-in and relax Salalah Places to visit: 31 Aug – 2 Sep 2017 Return: 3 Sep 2017 – 4 AM Reach Dubai: 3 Sep 2017 – 7 PM Level of drive: All are welcomeType of Car: Any car is acceptablePlan: Road trip + daily trip in Salalah after the lazy breakfastWhat to bring along: Camera, music, lots of casual clothes, beach wear, smiles, stories, enthusiasm Please list your name and mobile below and RSVP the calendar. Few pics from my last trip:

Welcome Benny to the car crazy enthusiast's community and congrats on your new ride. Barry and treks, stop scaring newbie as all the professional argument and difference in opinion brings us closer, so it's all good and ask whatever you wish. Nothing related to car's is OMG here.

It’s time to have some nice newbie easy and relaxing night drive. Idea is to make newbie comfortable with sand off-roading and night drive in some of the most approachable set of dunes in Tawi Nizwa side. We plan to have small get together near pink rock area where we can set up the bbq or live cooking if we like and enjoy the breeze in calm and serene desert. One of the Carnity member is soon relocating to his home country, so this drive and get together will also be dedicated to our dear friend Diamond Dallas. So all of us who drove with him, are invited and requested to join and share some memories of good time and make this farewell more memorable. When: 20 July 2017 Meeting time: 10:45 PM, convoy will move sharp at 11 PM Where: Tawi Nizwa shops GPS Coordinate: https://goo.gl/maps/KKBUhkQ2y382 Level of drive: All are welcome Type of Car: Any proper 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 10 inches of ground clearance Plan: Easy night drive from Tawi Nazwa to Pink and relax with food, bbq, drinks and chat What to bring along: Loads of snacks, plenty of water - whatever you like with little extra to share, water, liquids, smiles, stories, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 5 AM List your name and mobile number in this drive thread and RSVP the below calendar:

After a long time, we had some good time to drive and enjoy the desert. Total of 5 cars made in with excellent coordination, teamwork and calculated move to cover 31 kms off-road in 5 hours in middle of Sweihan tall dunes. We started on time from meeting point and asif bhai joined the convoy just before the deflation point. We had nice cup of tea there, just before the drive starts. Driving after 3-4 years in Sweihan, all I can say that desert has changed now as some strange fencing has been done inside the desert. The patch we have chosen used to be the most amazing area in whole sweihan with big rolling dunes and amazing drops, but now little restricted due to new fencing. As soon as we started, just after couple of big dunes we encountered the first fence that has broken access and soon we entered inside there was a big drop on one side of tall dune and edge of the dune was fenced. Only way is to go down and get sucked into the fence that has small opening to exit. You make it or break it kind of situation, at first attempt I barely escape that without scratching my car, then came back to help sri and made his car out of the situation with ease. Rest of the cars stayed on top and we went back a little to find another way to continue. This strange experience, alarmed all of us as to beware of what lies ahead in deep dunes and dangerously installed fence inside the pockets and bowls making sweihan driving in night even more difficult and challenging. As per my educated guess, I think this whole patch has now been divided in two parts now by placing straight line fence in between. Only option we had, is to keep the fence on our left and keep driving on right side and avoid going too close to fence on left. The two good waypoint I had marked for this route fall on the other side of fence, so we couldn't visit the dome bowl and another waypoint, too bad. What we had in our hand was beautifully enough for all of us to enjoy the Sweihan. Apologies to everyone for lack of break time as we were running on tight schedule to exit before it gets too hot. We all managed very well and without any incident and just one pop-out and couple of minor stucks - very commendable for sweihan level of drive. RAV4 after the lift, started doing well as far as driver stays focused. Sri's Pajero was second lead and he did wonderful job in protecting others behind him by correcting the path ahead. Asif bhai's monster was roaring and enjoying throughout. Basil's sweep position was equally important and proven helpful as when he drives in second lead. We had a good break at 4 AM for almost an hour to bring all the food on the table and enjoyed everyone's specialties. Thanks to nice breeze in open area, we all had good food, rest and recharge for the last leg of the drive. By the time we started after the break in daylight, we all could see the beauty of sweihan and what we have been driving since last 4 hours. We drove and played little in last leg for 2 hours and by 7 AM we have exited the desert towards a track, which connected us back to the main road from where we started in night. Overall it was very adventurous and challenging drive, little tiring but equally thrilling due to the constant focus that we need to keep. May be for next attempt, we should go further down and enter the desert so that we can actually go on to the left side of the fence that has more beautiful rolling dunes. Last but not least, every one of us missed our superman very much and we hope we can do another sweihan run, once he is back.

Sad to hear Anish that you listen to all EXPERT MECHANIC advise here and went to amateur level mechanic, as if he has done engine rebuild in 1000 AED, I can imagine the workmanship and let alone the professionalism and knowledge. Any decent garage in sharjah will not cost less than 3k AED for opening and closing the engine. In Dubai it may reach to 5-6k AED. Any professional garage in Dubai will cost in 8-10k AED and dealership in range of 15-20K. Even at this stage after few months you decide to get this fix with another mechanic, he will charge you double as mechanic HATE to sort out each other mess and will do your job with red face all the time. I have been there, done that. So now, in your best case scenario rush to him asap and ask him to fix these lights before he start acting fussy after few days. If needed, lure him with couple of hundred and push him to check and close these lights sooner than later as he might already know what mess he has created.