Gaurav

This might be the longest thread of Carnity if everyone starts pouring with their experiences, ill limit myself to 3 only: Broke my Land Cruiser front differential in a stupid self-recovering attempt in my learning days. Then just to drag uphill 1 tall dune with 2 cars tugging at the same time we took 4 hours and broke few tow ropes because of dragging the dead weight of 2.5 tons uphill on a dune. Most painful and slowest recovery I have seen. @baselsm83 stuck in the weird pocket of soft sand where his Patrol front and back is hitting the dune. Wasted lot of time in recovering uphill, as goin down the soft sand was tricky to get two car stuck at same point. Finally, a bunch of locals came with an intelligent technique of going down and flattening the soft sand to make a path first and then give a gentle tug to Patrol to change his orientation. Less than 30 minutes out for which were struggling for 2+ hours and taught us something new to how to flatten the soft sand patch and use it in our favor. @Asif Hussain Ford stuck in the wedge next to iftar bowl (one of the tallest dune), to change the orientation of his Ford it took me more than 20-30 tugs due to the weight constraint of my SWB Pajero vs LWB pickup. Later we discovered that all gear oil leaked due to an impact and revisited the next day with mechanic, oil, and parts to fix the car and bring it back.

HAHAHHAHA, I couldn't agree more. I love Jack too @Frederic you focus on bringing Belgium chocolate for all of us in your suitcase and I will pay for your jack, but the weight of the jack and chocolates should be the same.

My experience with friends always ended up with there choices to stay, bbq, live cooking, than actual drive. Hence since the beginning, I was very happy with club discipline that everyone gets together to drive and nothing else. Off course after drive we do chill, cook, bbq and relax but not during the drive. No matter how much you plan and organize with friends but one guy wants to sit back and enjoy so the whole group has to suffer. I have endless stories with guy change his mind and opted to do the photo shoot of his wife, kid and car and leaving all of us to wait for 3+ hours in the best dunes. Other time, one guy change his mind to stay overnight on one island, so I have to split and drove the rest of the way alone to keep my hotel booking during Eid holidays. As everyone mentioned, with clubs you will explore more places and learn faster due to collective experience on board and in offroad you can never learn enough. I and Rahimdad still leaning after decades of experience. The second best thing with clubs is you get to meet different nationalities and talk to them about there country offroad experience, try their cuisines, share jokes and know more about there culture that you rarely get to see with friends and families. In Carnity I guess we have over 20 different nationalities in the offroad club and I always look forward to sitting with them in the end. I rarely eat my own food, as I love trying different cuisine while listening to their own interesting and colorful stories. You will actually see how cheerful people are in offroad rather than at work culture because at work everyone is serious and busy with their routine but in offroad it's more of a vent out and relaxes for everyone so you will enjoy there jovial side more often. Thirdly in most of the offroad clubs here in UAE, safety is paramount so chances of you getting into unsafe recovery/mishap are very less, as they always have trained Marshals and Crew to take care of extreme recoveries and accidents. Looking forward to seeing your clan and don't worry about the noisy animals as Jungle is already filled with many.

Brilliant article and sharing the real knowledge @Javier M, wish I can give 100 likes for this contribution. The only thing I like to add with my little experience for people to decide which is the best jack for offroad use is the one that covers the maximum surface area on the ground as in offroad - be it sand or rock you will never find a perfect ground like Tarmac. So for that reason, even fanciest scissor or bottle jack is out of the league. I have seen the bottle and scissor jack losing balance after few seconds and dropping the car down much before the repair work starts. Best is the floor jack, stable, reliable and safe to operate under any load or position. While getting floor jack you also need a stable wooden board to place the jack to even increase the surface area (only for sand). To avoid the cons mention for a floor jack, instead of buying 3-4 ton humongous jack you can get 2 tons jack but with a swivel neck and it lost around 150-200 dhs only from DM. 2 ton size is not huge and plus good enough to lift any ONE side of the vehicle as in 4 ton Hummer H2 any one side will not weight more than 1-1.5 ton. So using 2 ton is practically enough as we only need to work on one wheel at a time. I have used Pentax 1.5 ton floor jack for good 6-8 years and then upgraded to JZX floor jack 2 years back. They almost last forever if you are placing them properly and not in rush in some weird angle that will bend them slightly and loose its lifting strength. Exhaust jack, I have seen leaking after some time as underbody of the car is extremely hot in summer or stone or rock can easily puncture them too plus they are expensive compared to the floor jack.

Please RSVP on the calendar, if you are coming

Give the coordinates too, you never know it might help someone save lot of time

That's the problem with everyone these days, always hasty to ask in the beginning and when ripped off then they have all the time for sharing sad stories with every minute detail. Little time and patience go a long way.

So what does 30 A x 3 means, Mr. Einstein.......? That's my AMP manual page 16/72 https://www.pioneerelectronics.com/StaticFiles/Manuals/Car/GM-D9605_OwnersManual062716.pdf

I totally agree on every point you said to upgrade one thing at a time so that you can understand how that change improved the sound quality. Barry helped me a lot in doing proper wiring with oxygen-free cables and soldering instead of twisting that eliminate a lot of low-end hissing and music cut off while doing sideys.

Well said and documented @Frederic, 1 like is not at all enough for such detailed and crisp explanation. In the morning, I was busy and though @DiamondDallas merge two different questions in one post so I assume no point in explaining all things in details and let him research bit on Crutchfield first and then we can slowly build upon.

For seat cover, the best place is Deira naif where the shops are next to each other so you can pick and choose the style, color, and price very quickly. Satwa is also good in Dubai but Naif is better in pricing. Maybe someone staying in Sharjah can advise a few seat cover shops in Sharjah too. If you are looking for a complete redo of upholstery and looking for professional guys Dubai: https://carnity.com/business_listing/car-care-services/car-upholstery/lamst-fn-upholstery-cars-r1162 https://carnity.com/business_listing/car-care-services/car-upholstery/al-kashkha-auto-upholstery-r1115 https://carnity.com/business_listing/car-care-services/car-upholstery/golden-sun-car-upholstery-car-accessories-r1085 Sharjah: https://carnity.com/business_listing/car-care-services/car-upholstery/britania-auto-seat-upholstery-r682 https://carnity.com/business_listing/car-care-services/car-upholstery/discovery-auto-upholstery-accessories-r673 https://carnity.com/business_listing/car-care-services/car-upholstery/noor-al-fajr-auto-seats-upholstery-r670 For Music system, my advice is to stick to all component of one brand to get better output, also research bit on Crutchfield site to mix and match the wattage and type of amp and sub. There comparisons and advices are awesome

It's almost impossible to not to find any spare part in a scrapyard, at the same time it's also tough to find what you need in the first attempt. Remember scouting scrap is not going to the supermarket and pick a can of cola, you need to know how to hunt really well based on inputs from those guys. Every guy say no - should ask him where I can find? will you be able to source this for me? As many times these people get stuff and it gets sold out really fast, so distributing your number to those prospective guys really help. Secondly following there trail of leads also help as they are sitting in that market and know what type of product is available with one specialized scrapyard and when you go over there you will see hundreds of option and feel stupid to not to reach that place 5 days ago. Anyways I searched few scrapyards who deals with Nissan used parts in Sharjah through Carnity Business Listing, call them and see if you get lucky

@Javier M you do get Optima here too and they outperform very well in UAE, just at double or close to the triple price of Amaron / Varta @hossein you used single solite for 6-7 years....? As it never lasted more than 13-14 months in my case of Pajero and wifey Trailblazer

Based on your 10 drive overall offroad experience, you are good to join this Sweihan fewbie level drive. Once we observe your drive in Sweihan we will promote you to the fewbie rank afterwards

Every offroader who is part of Carnity Offroad Club needs to follow the Offroad club grading structure explaining the number of drives and criteria required to attain certain offroad rank. Once you qualify the number of drives attended and criteria fulfilled, please notify @Rahimdad OR @Gaurav OR @Asif Hussain OR @Srikumar OR @Emmanuel for requesting your rank upgrade in person or PM or on the forum. Offroaders who have other club experience are requested to inform any of the above senior members and explain the drive experience you hold so that we can assign you the appropriate rank as per your overall offroad experience.

@amir.rophail and @Djamelus Sweihan is a fewbie level drive, means you should be having at least 5 drive experience to attend. If you already have 5 or more drive experience with Carnity or elsewhere, please explain here.

Good one, but he doesn't give a blue or red pill instead he offers violet

Either take off the key or turn ignition half way so that radio can be switched on and this beep won't come in half ignition ON

Many many happy returns of the day @Barry God bless you with a lot of greasy knowledge and strong fingers to type and share your wisdom with everyone. Happy Birthday to one of the best community contributor here at Carnity.

It's called key in ignition beep/chime

Yes, that's the same thing I mention. Those bells come when you just insert the key and don't turn ignition half or full right...? And that sound will not come if you just remove the key. It's only at OFF position and half ignition ON you get those beep beep noise

It's for reminding you that key is inside so that you don't walk away without locking your car. Also, a long beep is there like teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, is when you leave headlight on and switch off the car to remind you to switch off the headlight before you flat the battery.

Because your car doesn't go above 110

Yes KYB and Tokiko something is the OEM one, but better to stick to same with Habtoor for eliminating any doubts or surprises.

@vishlad702 if you aren't using the car for offroading and previously happy with the stock setup, my HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION is to stick to original Mitsubishi shock setup to not to open a big can of worms come with another shock unless they are the direct replacement. @Praveenmp same goes for you but halfway as you are offroading and with this shock change opportunity you can look into upgrading to stiffer suspension or adjustable setup to have best of both worlds: Soft for road + hard for offroad. In your case moving away from stock suspension is better and advisable but do your research on various brands like Tough dog, Ranchos, Old Man, Rough Country, Dobinsons, Kings etc. to see what price point you are looking at.