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    I also intend to start mentioning about the small improvements that I am doing on my Cherokee XJ. Will start a thread soon.
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    Along with a good bunch of Offroader, we have also got some excellent photographers as well. I know for sure @Gaurav would be smiling.
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    Congrats @hossein. Agree with everyone. Well driven
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    Congrats Frederic. Well deserved
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    Well done @jibransayed. Welcome to exciting part of desert driving
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    Congratulations to Emil. One of our group's nicest guys and who is very keen to learn.
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    If you make the car a daily runner as well then it will definitely need a lot more maintenance like in your case Sertac where you needed to fix the AC. If you just keep it for the weekend you will start to spend a little less for the maintenance. My car is now used only over the weekends and I have stopped spending money on fixing small things which are no longer essential.
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    Hello!

    Srikumar replied to Per A's topic in Introduce Yourself

    If you are looking at a Pajero, buy the ones post 2015 to avoid the upshifting problem on tiptronic while offroading. A Prado 4.0 and Nissan Xterra are other options as well.
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    You are most welcome @hossein to join as a passenger
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    Excellent area for some nice rolling dunes and it to have a nice paced drive. Have attached a very well taken video by Sertac the last time we were in this area. Hope to see the fewbies joining and enjoying the good part of offroading.
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    To add to few of the points mentioned above: 1. Normally off-road cover is provided for any 4x4 as a standard. However, off-road recovery is very rarely covered and what is provided is 50m from the road. So are you checking recovery or off-road coverage? In the event of an accident in the desert, you would need off-road cover and valid driving license for the insurance company to pay for the damage. 2. The front end is extremely low and like desertdude mentioned that would be the first donation you would do in the desert the moment you step in the desert. Some people have been able to remove the lower black grill. Check if you can remove that and you will need to have to install at least one tow point which is firmly fixed to the chassis. Regarding the rear tow point, if you read one of the earlier drive posts (I think in the last 4 weeks) someone had posted a picture of how they have attached the recovery point at the back. On closer look at the pic what is that on the center of the front lower black grill? Is it a hole or a camera? 3. If you have sorted out Point No 2 you can join the absolute newbie drive where you will be told of the entire off-road gear necessary. They are available at Dragon Mart. 4. Don't do any modification at this stage unless you have done a few drives and feel that it's really necessary. Also a final point, though you are driving a JGC, it has become an onroad vehicle with occassional offroading as the approach and departure angles are practically not there. You can join upto a Newbie level, but it might be difficult to push this vehicle for heavy offroading. So you can do the initial basic offroading in this car and once you are sure that you want to off-road on a regular basis, you will have to get another dedicated car.
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    A situation where only two cars entered the Desert with family and got stuck in the middle of nowhere without GPS. Could have become worse had it been close to the summer season https://m.khaleejtimes.com/nation/dubai/10-uae-residents-get-lost-in-the-desert-at-night-heres-what-happened-next
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    Congrats @Mick
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    Congratulations. Well deserved. You can now gear up for some nice challenging drives.
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    Congrats @Rana
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    Congrats @Javier M
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    Congrats @Jocreative. Well deserved. Will now see you on the other side of the slip face.
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    You can do it yourself. You just need a masking time to mark the line along which you want to cut and then use a simple blade to trim it. A file at the end would help to remove the rough edges. Did it on both my Pajero as well as Cherokee XJ to improve the approach angle.
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    It definitely was a challenging drive for most of the newbies in an area which is normally kept for fewbie + level. With the amount of cross track and soft sand causing some of the cars to stuggle, at one point I had asked Gaurav if it would be wise to reroute. He mentioned that it's important for the newbies to be able to manage such a terrain and at the end of the drive I totally agree with what he said. Unless you increase the challenge level, there will never be learning and I personally could see the big improvement in some of them during play the course of the drive. It's like sometimes important to remove the float of a child who is learning how to swim as the struggle is what would make him learn the real techniques of how to manage himself. You need to just supervise. And that's exactly what was done in the drive. Trottle control and how to keep the momentum in such an area had vastly improved for the newbies during the course of the drive. You could see some of the newbies learning the art of circling in a bowl to gain the momentum and then exit out. Kudos to @Rahimdad and @Gaurav for selecting this terrain for the newbies and at the end of the drive everyone did have a satisfied smile on their face. Special thanks to @jibransayed, @Mick, @Jocreative, @hossein for accommodating my extended family as passengers. They really enjoyed the experience
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    @Barry, many would say that in this part of the world that when the car itself is turning to change lanes, what is the point of the turn signals.
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    Hi Guys, Need some help. Some of my relatives from Australia are in town and wish to join the drive. They are total of 9 passengers. I can accommodate 4 in my car, but would need help if anyone has spare seats for the remaining 5. Thanks in advance
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    My view: 1. The car never reached the top of the ridge in order to cross over. I always feel that its important to ride the ridge a bit before crossing. 2. While crossing the rear of the car fish tailed causing the car to slide on the left side and then he was in a situation where the car was fighting gravity. Once the vehicle direction had turned 90 degree, it was always going to flip with the momentum. 3. Possible since the sand was churned up in the area his left front wheel got stuck which aggravated the problem of flipping. Bottom line, dont fight gravity...you might escape sometimes but not all the time.
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    @desertdude I have not been ridding the pedal. If that was the case I would be burning my clutch even while driving onroad, forget while offroading. Driving a manual onroad and off-road are two completely different things. The mistake was when I was trying to self recover, I would give it a half clutch while reving the engine. The maximum burn used to happen when I used to engage low gear with the clutch half depressed. This was my mistake. Why I did the half clutch, to prevent the engine from stalling. It took me a few times to realise that the Jeep XJ rarely stalls on 4lo gear and I never have to hold the clutch. So whenever I am in a spot I engage low, release the clutch, and simply give it a bit of gas to get out. Also, I generally keep the Tyre pressure at 10-12 psi so that I don't have any issues. Not yet perfected the art of self recovery with a manual. The last Wagan drive, I was stuck in a side ways position in extreme soft sand, and I learnt from Gaurav how to rotate the tyres just the lit bit in intervals without burning the clutch while holding the gas pedal at 2000 - 3000 rpm. Unfortunately I m not a born driver, but I am willing to learn and have learnt few things the hard way or rather the burnt way..
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    Saleem is right that the issue with the burning clutch was due to my inexperience with a manual transmission especially while offroading. However, that being said once we installed the original Mopar Clutch, it became so light in comparison to the earlier clutch. But coming back to the original post I have tried boxinus.com as it was a free registration compared to the shop and ship which was charging USD 45 as a one time registration fee. Will post my experience once I get my parcel.
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