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Congrats @Chaitanya D. Well driven.

congrats @Pancho. Well driven. See you on the upcoming drives.

Congrats @Kalahari was very impressed with your driving skills last weekend. Well done. The route just gets better from here on.

TRIP REPORT Sweihan is famous for its large rolling dunes and has a lot to offer for every level of offroaders. Since we were having a good set of Newbies, I was looking forward to having some good fun on some of the broad dunes that this place has to offer. Except for a couple of no-shows, the remaining 12 cars met on time and we left from the meeting point towards the deflation point. Keeping in mind, the new requirements of Social Distancing, we kept the briefing to a bare important essentials and we started off. @Kalahari was my second lead and I was quite impressed with his drive level, as in some tricky places he managed to keep up with me. Well done buddy. @Bibin Tom was our absolute newbie with his Pathfinder and I am sure that driving in Sweihan would have been a fantastic learning experience. You drove well for an absolute newbie and its good that you were calm and listening to the instructions. With a combined shovel effort you were able to self recover yourself from a sticky situation. That is the real fun of offroading, to overcome obstacles. @sebin was driving with us for the third time and his confidence and car control was showing when he was managing the side sloping. However, a small wrong judgement of possibly leaving too much of a gap and not seeing the track taken, caused him to go off the route into a ditch which knocked off some portion of his low hanging front and rear bumper. It didnt seem like a major issue and I am sure that it can be easily fixed back in time for next weekends drive. @Zed and @Chaitanya D managed their patrol Y62s very well and are looking like they are getting in sync with these monster vehicles. Good driving guys. @Jamy B. its good to see the vast improvement in your driving. There were plenty of times that after crossing a dune I would turn back to see how the first few cars were managing and when I would see that it was your turn to cross the dune, I would start moving the convoy. That's a testimony to the confidence that you have given me that you can manage your Xterra pretty well. It was nice seeing @Jas Gajaria back after a long time with his modified Pajero. Though not sure if the Pajero was ready to be back, as due to ECU tuning there were times when the car just refused to start or would die while idling. Hope its not a major issue. @Vanessa8580 was driving her big blue Pajero today, and I am sure she would have felt the difference after the last couple of weeks. But you again showed that in offroading it's the driver that is more important than the car. Well driven today @Shailja Kalia was joining us for the first time in her beloved FJ and though I didn't have a visual on her, I heard some good feedback about your drive skills. Look forward to seeing you in the upcoming weeks. @Pancho was the quiet person at the back of the convoy. Well driven and well managed with zero issues. With a long convoy support at the back is critical to ensure the smooth movement of all the cars. Special thanks to @Brette for supporting the sweep position. You did a great job. Thanks to everyone for a wonderful drive and see you next week.

@Yousef Alimadadi this is an Intermediate drive. So please sign out. Thanks

Front bash plate has to be 6 mm on safer side. 4 mm is border line acceptable. If weight is a concern then you can look at aluminum. @Gaurav has installed aluminum.

@Dale Panganiban - Fabrication there is space opened up on this drive. You can RSVP now. There is also some space on the afternoon Qudra drive Hi Greg, there is one slot available on this drive and two slots on the Qudra drive.

Hi George, have a look at the Qudra or Sharjah Drive. It seems there is some space there now.

Hi Jas, We will be trying to exit close to the gas station as it's a newbie drive and there might be others as well who might not have a compressor

@Denizzalbayrak you can get the medical kit in any pharmacy.

@Bibin Tom and @Shailja Kalia please advice which 4x4 do you drive, does it have front and rear tow hooks in good condition? Also radios are mandatory and they need to be set to the Carnity Frequencies.

Thanks for the update. And I can assure you that most workshops would also be scratching their heads not knowing what to do. Cheers.

@Jamy B., @Chaitanya D, @Kalahari, @Cara Jordan, @Pancho, @Jihad Hachem, @Vanessa8580, @Pickey Singh, @Bibin Tom, @Hariharan, @Shailja Kalia, @Zed, @Jas Gajaria, @sebin, @Javier M, @Brette Please read and understand all the points below before joining off-road drives. With the current COVID-19 pandemic, we all need to be very responsible for our-self and others. To keep the briefing short, please go through https://carnity.com/brief before joining the drive. Adhere to all the COVID-19 Precautions for Carnity Offroad Drives STRICTLY. Bring your own walkie talkie, as we no longer share spare radios, even for absolute newbies. Also ensure that they are programmed to the 5 Carnity Frequencies. If any doubt read the below thread PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS POST BY CLICKING "TOTALLY AGREE".

@Hariharan there is space opened on this drive. You can sign up now if you are quick.

@Hariharan at the moment the drive is full. In case if anyone signs out then you can join.

In all our drives, especially Newbie and Fewbie, we choose a route keeping in mind type of cars in the convoy. Plus we try to give special instructions for some of the cars that we know have low hanging bumpers on how to maneuver the car at the bottom of the dune. However, while we can guide, the learning has to be done by the driver. I am sure within a few more drives you yourself would be able to judge how to approach or exit a dune with zero damage.

Hi @Amory hope you recover soon. Take care.

Sorry Jamy. You need a Jeep to do that.😂

The method for folding the second row Pajero seats is as follows 1. First pull the back rest recliner handle up (on the side of the Pajero seat) so that the reclining gets into default position. 2. Next push the tab (on back of the seat) upwards and in one motion fold the back rest and lift the entire seat. It's actually a technic rather than a problem. I explained the same thing in the below post as well

Tell her that you are gifting her the Patrol and will buy a cheap second hand car.

@Nizam Deen I have noticed you have signed up for the other morning drive which is scheduled at the same time. It's important you sign out off the drives that you would not be attending as you would be blocking the spot which others can use.

3 drives a week. At this rate you would probably grow from Newbie to Intermediate within a month

Hi Jamy, plan is to exit out before 12 pm and you should be able to make it to Qudra meeting point before 1:30 pm.(Distance is approx 100 km, 1 h 10 mins drive). However, with offroading sometime despite best efforts things don't go as per plan. The choice is yours.

@Salarios your beast looks even more better with the bash plate. Hope you have installed a thick bash plate