Gaurav

Tomorrow's hourly weather forecast. Super perfect during drive and bbq time, keeping fingers crossed.

I agree, best is the seat belt rule and also they should get a strict rule for maximum people in the car = number of seat belt that car has.

Thanks @roburton for such a nice and useful advise, do you know any specific brand or name of product that has UV protection powerful enough to protect the dashboard from cracking. I will be highly interested in such product.

Thanks God, so far still weather looks awesome for tomorrow's drive.

Thrilling dune bashing experience report from Shilpa and Joseph with our Superman

Hi Basel, welcome to the car enthusiast's family and thanks for extending your trust to drive with us, hope we live up to your expectation. And I am super excited to see another grandpa 4x4, as so far I am driving the oldest 4x4 here with 99 Pajero and Rahimdad is second with 2001 Pathfinder. You name will be updated on the main list now.

Yes, you are right weather for Friday is better than Saturday (hotter) at least in forecast as of now. And this was the main criteria for I and Rahim bhai to discuss over an hour for Friday :-). See if you can wind up bday party and come to Qudra by 6 PM, so we can join for bbq together.

Please give me your mobile number, as we need to update the list. Thanks

Hi All, Poll have finally concluded as 7 votes for Friday : 5 votes for Saturday (2 votes cancelled). For Saturday @Pier200 vote has been cancelled as afterwards @jason200 (husband) confirmed on whatsapp that they can't make it. Secondly Saadia and Waqas as one family (car and driver) considered as single poll. Sorry guys. So let's get ready guys for Friday, 24 March and pack your cars, bbq and appetite for most awesome family bbq after amazing sand dune driving with gazelle sighting. Here we come again.......! @stelita and @Safiya please try and see if you can also make it on Friday, it will be good fun.

looks nice, im sure this is available here in Dubai already, just search harder. If it's reasonably priced, I wouldn't mind trying on my Pajero wheels.

Wow, that's a nice bash plate and instead of OCD you need to put it on test buddy, lol

Will be nice seeing you after long long time. Hope your Xterra doing good and waiting for some sand action eagerly. Please submit your preference on the poll above too.

Thanks everyone for sharing the pictures and videos, very good community spirit shown. Just like the drive, video turn out to be equally amazing with all team effort. Enjoy.

Deira market opp hyatt regency, you have many shops for same: Fani, Doha, Gulf Star, Gulf coasts, Golden wheel, car mart, deira star, city star etc. Look around here: https://goo.gl/maps/ZHFynGMBZv72

I used car loan once in my life and that too from Dubai Islamic and regretted totally with hell of bureaucracy of going from red planet to green moon to orange earth utter non-sense pillar to post behavior from approval to closing the loan. After that I told myself i'll buy couple of years older car but on cash only (lesson learned).

As per the video, he seem to be a good track driver. Glad he is fine, but sadly his car will be hospitalized for long time after bending frame

MotionX doesnt allow google maps to be downloaded for offline use, but you can use google maps with 4G and before entering the no network area just cache the area by scrolling around at desired zoom. It's a bit tedious job, but this trick worked for me so far, hope it helps. Second tip is use etisalat sim, as they have MUCH better 3G and 4G coverage in remote off-road areas.

Just to decide in time we have to put an end date for this poll to conclude by 21 March, Tuesday by 12 noon. In case you are only interested for bbq at Qudra lake, then you can join directly there by road without the offroad drive. Please vote for your choices in time if you are interested @jason200 @wingnut @Radhika @presism @Mujtaba @Kavin @govind @evoboy2016 @ChiragD @Sunny dhanak @Jeh @Indresh Navlani @stelita @vivian @manums @hAwX

Total route from Murqquab to Lisalli Best driver prize Exhaust onsite repair by teamwork Chilling with SUPERMAN

This was the MOST AMAZING drive we have ever had in carnity so far. Blessed with perfect weather Very challenging but manageable terrain Awesome cars and drivers Beautiful company with great food 100's of gazelle's sighting Drive started almost on time and everyone was briefed with drive's key objective to enhance their off-road skills for ridge riding, side sloping and slip face attack. With little stuck's and refusal in beginning we maintained the good pace and as we progressed everyone kept the great momentum. Both @Mujtaba and @waqaszohair shown the great learning curving by coping up in this intermediate drive with expert level skills. I really appreciate the way they have handle and tackle such area with great confidence soon after very few drives. Thanks to @evoboy2016 and Shilpa for joining us as an early morning surprise and for taking such great pictures. Thanks @Rahimdad for keeping an eagle eye at sweep and keep on sketching plan B route to get through the stuck convoy. And last but not least, special thanks to today's technology and google earth mapping to let us drive in medium size most yummiest dunes by avoiding the small technical dunes, which in this area are in abundance. As I remember few years back we have done this area where 90% of the cars were stuck at same time in those technical dunes by chasing gazelles. Just by chance, our lunch spot was blessed with gazelles farm and for the first time in my life I have seen over 100's of gazelle's in one area. Following the carnity "eating together" tradition, everyone got plenty of delicious food, which actually make these drive more memorable and meaningful when we all sit together and enjoy Friday lunch with nature topped with endless jokes. Just after our lunch we have had little bit of drizzle and that set the mood for all drivers with great spirit to drive under the shade of cloud with pleasant breeze and tiny bit of rain. After our lunch we continued the remaining 6 out of 8 way points and enjoyed on every possible dune by going totally wild side sloping, ridge riding and endless slip face attacks. This part of the drive was most thrilling and exciting for everyone, where they have to follow the car in front with just enough momentum to not to loose them without getting too close. After getting enough confidence from the convoy, I thoroughly enjoyed leading this section as to not to worry much about the cars behind me, as they were keeping an excellent pace in toughest and fastest of the situation. Everyone has a big victory smile on their faces whenever we stop and they happily jump back in a flash to conquer more dunes. Soon after the mid way I hit my car exhaust from bottom turning my V6 exhaust note to V8 note with loud and screaming drone (bit irritating), but we still continued the dunes and enjoyed it thoroughly. By 5 PM we got to head out little early so left one waypoint and covered almost 90% as per the plan, which is very commendable for this type of area. We drove about 40 Kms out of which 30 kms was dunes and 10 kms was track. By 6 PM we have exited out and voting started for the best driver for this drive, unfortunately voting tied by same number of votes 3:3. Once again we got to toss the coin and this time due to some confusion both choose for the same side and we ended up with two winners for the best driver, thankfully both received the same prize (23 pieces ratchet, bits & socket set). By now my car noise has increased tremendously that I can no longer drive it on road without attracting cops attention, so went down to inspect the damage and how we can minimize the noise. To my surprise the flange of catalytic converter and main exhaust pipes was set wide open and only hanging with one bolt without the nut on the other side and lower nut-bolt was totally missing. As a first attempt, secured it with a tie-down strap and locked in place to see the effect, but tie-down strap might not last long enough as polyester strap will soon melt with exhaust temperature. So removed the big bolt out and couldn't find that size nut, so Rahimdad Jack has to sacrifice one nut out of it's wheel and made the exhaust hold fairly tight in one spot. We replaced the second nut bolt with smaller size nut with washers and made it work after an hour of collective teamwork for on-site repair that reduced the noise by 90%. Overall it was an amazing drive that we all have enjoyed together and helped each other with good community spirit and will definitely remember these great memories for very long time. Here are my share of pictures uploaded in the gallery, hope to see other pics soon: https://carnity.com/gallery/category/10-murqquab-to-lisalli-17-march-2017/