Gaurav

Good, you are very intelligent in reading between the lines after 3 consecutive attempt to toast your Rav4.

OMG, that seriously looks like a nasty accident and car toasted so bad......! I think it looks more bad than a petrol vehicle damage when catches the fire or it's just me being a petrol-head all the time.

It was nice meeting and driving with you too, and you responded very well in such a tricky area. Looking forward to seeing you more often.

After immense interest, big smiles and enthusiasm I have seen on few people faces during last drive, I think some of our drivers are ready now for more challenging terrain. Area 53 is an extension of bidayer area but with medium - big dunes with sharp rise and fall. Truly perfect for rushing your adrenaline and hone your desert driving controls. This area requires precise control as one moment you climb up with full throttle and second moment you crawl at low rev before hitting the gas again for sideways climb. This drive is not meant for newbie - fewbie level, and drivers should have at least 8-10 drives experience in an easy - intermediate level. When: 15 June 2017, Thursday Meeting time: 11 PM, convoy will move sharp at 11:15 PM Where: Bidayer shops GPS Coordinate: https://goo.gl/maps/b4LPnVr5wBB2 Level of drive: Intermediate - Expert - Advance Type of Car: Any proper 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 10 inches of ground clearance Plan: Night drive from Bidayer to Iftar Bowl and enjoy suhoor together. What to bring along: Evening snacks, food for suhoor - whatever you like with little extra to share, water, liquids, smiles, stories, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 5 AM, 16 June 2017, Friday List your name and mobile number in this drive thread and RSVP the below calendar:

Heartiest congratulations for the new job buddy. You deserve lot more and lot better in life. Hope you fulfill all your dreams including the plan to get married soon. Wish you good luck for the new journey. Do let us know when ghost tint offer discount or reduce pricing, ill be the first one to get it as i really love their product.

It was indeed once in a year opportunity to witness thousand's of fellow offroaders in UAE in one single place, was the main highlight of this drive. We started drive on time, and as decided we quickly covered the first 10 kms on the track next to the fence. Then we had a quick brief for the slightly challenging drive ahead and even more challenging last couple of hundred meters next to Iftar bowl due to too much traffic and cross tracks. We managed to reached almost next to Iftar bowl and then detour for easier route to circle the bowl from the other side so that all the cars can make it next to the main area. After little struggle and few refusals we made it to the Iftar bowl where we witnessed more than 10-15 off-road clubs join together with several hundreds of their member and cordoned the area for their cars. After little search, we find the sweet spot right in front of Iftar bowl towards little right and spread the Iftar food and setup the live cooking station. Rahimdad and family were really prepared with tons of food, dessert, tea and snacks that helped all of us in first and second seating. As the time came to break the fast, we all sat together and ate almost anything available on the table till the point that everyone was so stuff that no one was able to move an inch from their position. With so many different cuisines and style of food, we still end this seating with yummy live tea that energized everyone and gave us the much needed kick to get started for Iftar bowl long hill climb. Although by now Iftar bowl hill climb was as busy as Dubai-Sharjah traffic but still plenty of people kept trying to climb from the front face. As we were enjoying the tea, someone place 4 rounds of nice fireworks on top of Iftar bowl that everyone enjoyed at the end of Iftar. Now it's time to go on top of Iftar bowl and after few attempt 4 of our cars made to the top of Iftar bowl and we enjoyed the awesome view and breeze. While coming down we heard that Rav4 hit the nose down on sharp crest and broken it's radiator from two sides. We moved half of our cars to support Saleem and and other half packed up the Iftar spread and joined all of us next to Saleem's car. We spend almost 3-4 hours there and opened the second round of eating at 11 PM and by grace of god, we still had enough food for all. After couple of round of M-Seal application, Saleem managed to fix the Rav4 and tested its leak in desert to be perfectly fine and holding the radiator pressure as it supposed to. Finally closer to the midnight, we all exited safely and inflated all our cars at adnoc near madam round about. Now is the time for the best driver prize based on all drivers vote. Although it was a close call of 2 votes for Ahmed and Basel, but in end Rahimdad break that tie by voting for Basel as a best driver to hold the second lead position with great respect and command. Overall it was fun filled drive, ended with a Rav4 fixing challenge for the second time in a row tells that AWD cars with low clearance and weaker tow hook should look out for simpler newbie level drive than an Intermediate level to avoid extra toll.

You may be right Saleem, but I second with Barry on this as I am a firm believer of sticking to what owner manual says when it comes to all car fluids. Changing this for once or twice might not impact anything now, but it might age the engine faster or behave different few years down the line or prepone the maintenance schedule due to wrong grade of oil.