Gaurav

Welcome back buddy, how everyone back home? Hope all good and safe now?

u mean 276C - THE LEGEND

Me too.

@Wrangeld G012 and G015 are almost identical and in some cases even superior. Correct me if I have missed something somewhere, love to know more about G015 research, please.

This drive is organized in full compliance with the COVID19 guidelines. We expect every member that joins this drive to go through below information and and strictly follow these guidelines in order not to jeopardize someone's health, and to ensure we can keep organizing these drives safely. MUST READ AND TOTALLY AGREE: COVID19 Precautions MUST READ AND TOTALLY AGREE: BAN POST Two Way Radio Guidelines Every Offroader brings his own radio, programmed to the frequencies described in below advice topic. We will not share spare radios or program your radio on the drive. If you need assistance in programming the radio, post a topic on the Carnity website with your questions and we will help you out. Make sure your radio is fully charged. It will be your only way of communication while driving. Before buying, please carefully read below advice so you are informed properly on which model / cost / shops... No radio = No drive. It is an essential tool and you should make sure you bring it on every drive and learn/practice how to use it. MUST WATCH: NEWBIE VIDEO BRIEFING Drive Details Level: Newbie, Absolute Newbie and Above (All Levels) When: July 24 2020, Friday. Meeting time: 5:00 AM (SHARP - Without any exceptions) Meeting Point: Tawi Nazwa Farm - https://goo.gl/maps/LjPWf8DebrAuNSWg9 Type of Car: Any proper 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 8-10 inches of ground clearance. What to bring along: Loads of water, snacks (for yourself), face mask, rubber gloves, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 09:00 AM End Point: 2nd Dec Cafeteria P.S. Only join if you have a compressor to inflate your tires after the drive. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE: Limited to 15 cars only. RSVP will close on Thursday - 9 AM. 1 Lead Marshal + 1-2 Senior Members + 12 Members. If the RSVP is full and you wish to join, please mention your name on the drive thread to add on the waiting list. Latecomers will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS. Members without RSVP will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS. Please withdraw your RSVP, if you aren't joining, so your spot can be taken by others. Repeated no-show members after RSVP will have their account suspended for a month. PLEASE RSVP THE BELOW CALENDAR EVENT

I thought my experience was ancient, so they must have changed/improved now. But after reading these it reminds me vaguely too claiming the cooper warranty once with renaissance trading in Deira over some problem (cant recall the problem). https://www.consumeraffairs.com/tires/cooper.html?page=6

Won't say fully bad, but not as great as Geolander. Cooper ATR are again heavy (more fuel consumption), beefy tires that looks nice but makes lot of highway noise due to aggressive tread pattern. They are good in self recoveries due to such pattern but limit the climb unless you have serious power mods. Worst thing of ATR and BFG I hated the most was loosing chunks after 6-12 months of use and make tire looking bald from different angles and shoulders.

Not if I am driving with AC on. In some offroad drives, as we push too much so I switch off the AC and in those drives, phone do overheat, both iPhone and Samsung so its more of an ambient temperature than the mount or phone fault. But it never heated while on highway, as im always using the AC on tarmac.

Seems like you have got some real heavy weight tires to increase so much fuel consumption? Have you done the weight check/research before buying? Is it also super noisy on road? With given your explanation, I also doubt that now your long hill climb would be limited too. I had a same issue with a big beafy, meaty BFG and then Cooper ATR on my Patrol.

Try this Promate Dashboard Mount and you will be happy, its really good quality with really strong magnet. It's glue failed once last year and reported to promate and they send me free replacement and this new one is still going strong. I'm using this in Pajero for offroad with heavy Samsung note for taking pictures and videos. https://www.promate.net/products/magmount-4?variant=9176888213569

Congratulations @Febin Frederic for reaching the Intermediate Level with Carnity Offroad Club. As per your recent drives, you have shown tremendous progress and well deserve this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Keep up your great contribution on the forum and get socially involved in the newbie and fewbie drives to impart your knowledge. Once you have all the gear required, you are most welcome to join the Intermediate Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Intermediate: Number of drives 10 (26 regular drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune & sand reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor, tool kit, tow rope Drive teamwork Help in recoveries under Marshal / Crew supervision Drive posting/joining Join newbie, fewbie & intermediate level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery + drive and route suggestions Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

Congratulations @Najeeb Mohammed for reaching the Intermediate Level with Carnity Offroad Club. As per your recent drives, you have shown tremendous progress and well deserve this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Keep up your great contribution on the forum and get socially involved in the newbie and fewbie drives to impart your knowledge. Once you have all the gear required, you are most welcome to join the Intermediate Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Intermediate: Number of drives 10 (26 regular drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune & sand reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor, tool kit, tow rope Drive teamwork Help in recoveries under Marshal / Crew supervision Drive posting/joining Join newbie, fewbie & intermediate level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery + drive and route suggestions Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

Congratulations @Rinelle Sanaani for reaching the Intermediate Level with Carnity Offroad Club. As per your recent drives, you have shown tremendous progress and well deserve this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Keep up your great contribution on the forum and get socially involved in the newbie and fewbie drives to impart your knowledge. Once you have all the gear required, you are most welcome to join the Intermediate Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Intermediate: Number of drives 10 (26 regular drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune & sand reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor, tool kit, tow rope Drive teamwork Help in recoveries under Marshal / Crew supervision Drive posting/joining Join newbie, fewbie & intermediate level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery + drive and route suggestions Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

Congratulations @marks for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Based on your last newbie drive you have demonstrated skills required deserving this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Once you have all the required off-road gear, you are most welcome to join the Fewbie Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Fewbie: Number of drives 10 (16 Newbie + Fewbie drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor. Drive teamwork Observe recovery from a safe distance and offer help when needed Drive posting/joining Join newbie and fewbie level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

Congratulations @andy_macdxb for reaching the Fewbie Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Based on your last newbie drive you have demonstrated skills required deserving this new offroad rank. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Once you have all the required off-road gear, you are most welcome to join the Fewbie Level Drives with Carnity Off-road Club. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. Fewbie: Number of drives 10 (16 Newbie + Fewbie drives) Level of drives Willingness to learn + Enthusiasm + Basic dune reading Off-road gear Flag, deflator, tire gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio, compressor. Drive teamwork Observe recovery from a safe distance and offer help when needed Drive posting/joining Join newbie and fewbie level of drives only Forum participation Active participation on forum. Share drive experience + feedback on forum and pictures in gallery Forum participation and helping with community spirit is recommended for faster upgrades at all levels. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the Emergency contact details.

Please open COVID19 precaution topic. Read all the precautions carefully. At end of all text on right side, click on "Totally Agree" emoticon.

@h1fny @Neale Faulkner @Kieran McKeown @Enoch Mbatiah @Omar Shoukry @Miguel Ibarbia @Hennie Schoeman @farazcan @Mohamed Seidam @Xavier Treasurer Please open COVID19 precaution topic. Read all the precautions carefully. At end of all text on right side, click on "Totally Agree" emoticon. PLEASE READ AND AGREE - COVID19 PRECAUTIONS

EVENTFUL ABSOLUTE NEWBIE DRIVE It's been after a while, we had an absolutely eventful - absolute newbie drive, lol. Everyone reached on time, but two didnt watched the the absolute newbie briefing video, so we all have to wait until they watch the full 15 minutes video. It's really strange to see people taking so much drive time and efforts for offroad drives with such a great enthusiasm, but do not read and watch everything posted on the drive thread. As we have started within first 30 minutes, we had @Mohamed Seidam unfortunate incident of coolant leak from the radiator. He has hit the front bumper with a nosedive, as he missed the right track and went little off-track by mistake. Then we quickly drove the car out to tarmac with leaking coolant, as fortunately we were very close and he got the cops report and recovery to take the vehicle home. Thankfully he has RSA insurance that will cover this off-road accident. Moving forward, I was blessed with @h1fny (Craig) level head as my second lead to support and hold patiently to go back and forth several times. @Neale Faulkner, friend of Craig drove well too for a first timer and accompanied Craig while being in the car at all times, important during these COVID era. @Kieran McKeown who has been absolute newbie and a new owner of Renault Duster had quite an eventful day with so much to learn on his first day of off-roading. By the end of the drive he realizes the power and limitation of duster and truly started enjoying the car after initial reluctant start. Glad to see @Lisa Pemberton growing up very well on her second drive and she did absolutely great through out. @Enoch Mbatiah patience and quick learning from Lisa trail was quite commendable and he did great too for the first timer. @Omar Shoukry did almost great with his Ford explorer and truly like such inquisitive approach towards offroading and yet trying to learn what he can work out with his Explorer. @Vineeth John Joseph did absolutely perfect as haven't had any issue with his capable Xterra. @Miguel Ibarbia being a first time with Carnity having previous off-road experience had smooth sailing too. I advise you to do the self-declaration on the next newbie drive so based on senior inputs you can transfer your off-road experience and get moved to fewbie drives faster. @Hennie Schoeman did wonderful at back without much issues or hesitation. Super thanks to @Mels Wolf in supporting the drive with complete focus, patience and precise control over each and every stuck and refusals. It's been after a long time, we have driven together but you have grown very well in this and develop a very good level head to shoulder the responsibilities, keep it up. Due to late start and continuous stuck and refusal in the beginning we have some lost time, but that's part and parcel of this sport to raise your tolerance and patience (occasionally). We had a good spin towards an end of what actually absolute newbie drive should offer to first timers. And hope you will enjoy your next newbie drive, with more confidence and drive time in the future. Drive safe with deflated tires and ego's to explore new heights of dunes and ranks at Carnity off-road club.

If you already own one and like to do "multipurpose" use for office and offroad then it's fine for newbie and fewbie level drives. I humbly suggest not to put money on such vehicles as a dedicated off-road toy, if you are in a market to buy now. I have only seen, people destroying above 2002-2007 shape liberty to pieces against their egos (Rahimdad, knows him too, wont name anyone here). For 2008-2012 - your best bet is @AKR to have an honest feedback, if he recommend later shape liberty as a "NEW" dedicated off-road toy.

Here is the final convoy list Gaurav C Silver Pajero h1fny N Jeep Wrangler JLU Neale Faulkner AN Jeep Wrangler Unlimited 2019 Kieran McKeown AN Silver Renault Duster Lisa Pemberton N Black Pajero Enoch Mbatiah AN 2016 Pajero Omar Shoukry AN Ford Explorer limited Mohamed Seidam AN Jeep Grand Cherokee 2015 farazcan AN 2007 Landcruiser Prado Vineeth John Joseph AN White, Nissan Xterra Miguel Ibarbia AN Jeep Wrangler JK, 2015 Hennie Schoeman AN Jeep Wrangler 2017 Mels Wolf I Dark Grey Pajero

Sure no worries. Thanks for the update.

Well point noted by @Veedooshee over seatbelt and radio, as these two things we see time and time again people start to ignore as there is no radar or cops in the desert so we can drive without a seat belt. That's totally wrong. Secondly guy shouting and helping him to reverse Prado was in direct line of roll and barely escaped, if stumble on rock and fall down, he would have been the first victim. Every time we train the new offroaders for recovery, we tell them first to look for your own safety before helping others. Sometime when people panic and know they can contain the situation, they get carried away with wrong or risky approach. So one should always be 100% calm and vigilant before helping others as 1 incident is better than 2 or 3.

DRIVE RSVP IS CLOSED NOW Here is the final convoy list Gaurav C Silver Pajero h1fny N Jeep Wrangler JLU Neale Faulkner AN Jeep Wrangler Unlimited 2019 Kieran McKeown AN Silver Renault Duster Lisa Pemberton N Black Pajero Enoch Mbatiah AN 2016 Pajero Omar Shoukry AN Ford Explorer limited Mohamed Seidam AN Jeep Grand Cherokee 2015 farazcan AN 2007 Landcruiser Prado Vineeth John Joseph AN White, Nissan Xterra Miguel Ibarbia AN Jeep Wrangler JK, 2015 Xavier Treasurer AN Xterra - off Road, 2015 Hennie Schoeman AN Jeep Wrangler 2017 Mels Wolf I Dark Grey Pajero @h1fny @Neale Faulkner @Kieran McKeown @Lisa Pemberton @Enoch Mbatiah @Omar Shoukry @Mohamed Seidam @farazcan @Vineeth John Joseph @Miguel Ibarbia @Xavier Treasurer @Hennie Schoeman @Mels Wolf Please be on time, sharp at 5 AM, little early is always better. Please tune to Carnity Channel 1 - 446.006'25 freq, if you have the radio. Deflate your tires to 15 PSI as soon as you reach to the meeting point. Be inside your car - AT ALL TIMES - after the deflation, I and Mels will pass by each vehicle to hand over the spare radio and to check your front and rear tow points. I will personally verify each absolute newbie if you have watched the absolute newbie video briefing, posted on the first page here.

Thanks Enoch, please read this and learn how to remove your Pajero ABS fuse, before the drive. We recommend this to disable ABS to not to interfere when you want your tires to spin (sometimes) on the sand.