Emmanuel

The “wow” is actually for @edouard ... who opened this very good thread

Me too

Congrats @yogic72

Awesome contribution @Frederic Thank you !

Mabrouk @O.Farahat

Well done @AKR

Loved your video @LewisCocks90, so funny ! Hope to see you guys very soon for your second drive with @Carnity.

Good news @Frederic : squeaking sound is back after yesterday's offroad drive. Slightly squeaking though, no possible comparaison with what it was before... You will need a lightbar.

Of course if you have more of this drive @Javier M, don’t hesitate

@Frederic It looks like you won’t need lights for our night drives...

Gosh... I’ll update you on Saturday

Today I decided to give a try to one of the recommended ways to solve this quite annoying issue that many Xterra owners know (at least the regular off-roaders) : to apply lithium between the leaves. I used this 20dhs spray bought at ACE. Basically, you have to lift the car (with the system that will let the wheels free), use a screwdriver to create a gap between the leaves and add the grease in between each pair + on the sides and different mountings. When we took the car down, the miracle had happened. Not a single sound ! I drove back home with my windows opened, crossed humps at good speed : no more squeaking. Now let’s see how long it will last but so far it’s working. Previously I had tried everything except taking off the suspensions and clean them : w40, diesel, placing a rubber between the leaves... None of those had any effect.

Sometimes it may be tempting, but... Who has tried the experience and how did it go ?

Ok who has a video to post ? (It can be your stuck or someone else’s)

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And don’t thank me, actually I also didn’t want my beloved Jawaher (that’s my car’s name) to kiss your car 😘

No you didn’t it was my mistake @G.huz, not your.

Great team work, guys ! You have covered almost everything. @WiLfY you're absolutely right, as you can see on this footage (again sorry for the low quality of the video). The question is why I took my foot off the gas, and here, as pointed by @Rahimdad and @Fuad, it was my mistake : not leaving enough distance with @G.huz's car in front. What happened exactly at this point is that I hesitated to steer more left and accelerate. Seeing the heavy wet sand (the night and the morning before there had been heavy rain and haze, good point @Javier M), I was not sure to be able to climb on the left, and in this case a failure could have led me to slid down and then hit the Pathfinder. Last point, and here @Gaurav is also right : after this stuck I had to bring down my tire pressure again. One hour earlier I had deflated to 12/12.5 psi, but with the heat (the temperature was high this afternoon), the gauge was now displaying 14. stuck1_embeded.mp4

Having a refusal or getting completely stuck is something nobody should feel guilty about, since it's part of the off-roading game. It’s also an essential experience in your learning. Somehow, as long as you can understand what happened so you won’t repeat the same mistake over and over, it’s a must to improve. There are hundreds of reasons why you can get stuck. Some of them don’t directly depend on the driver (it can be related to an engine issue, the terrain, the climate, etc.), while others are just mistakes. Some of them are clear and obvious, others are more unpredictable and difficult to identify… As a big fan of @Rahimdad’s What Went Wrong ? thread, it came to my mind that we could simply adapt his brilliant idea by analyzing, not accidents, but stucks, and try to make together a list of all the possible reasons behind them. Please do share here your guesses, explanations... and videos. I’ll start easy, with one of my best stucks this year, which happened in Area 53 two weeks ago (I borrowed the footage from @Javier M). So... who can tell us why I got stuck here ? Stuck_1.mp4

Excellent idea ! I suggest you empty a lot of space on your hard drive, starting with the last Sweihan intermediate footage, since it must be a very heavy file 😋

What about Miriam Makeba, Dorothy Masuka, Mahotella Queens... ???

Awesome the video ! Thanks Javier.

Hi Per, I use the MotionX-GPS app, and so does @Gaurav who wrote a complete review on it : the only problem : you need an Iphone for this app which isn’t available on android... Wikiloc is also good.

Guys April Fools day is over 😂