Frederic

Absolutely normal, when the compressor is running, the vapor will be a by-product.

Welcome to the club @Antony Abraham ! Thanks for the nice introduction, looking forward to see you soon in one of our many drives !

Fantastic morning with the most fantastic team members who came to push the envelope on their cars, focus, and skills. @Gaurav you have knocked it out of the park. From the meticulous planning, setup, merchandise, and covering all possible loopholes, you checked all the boxes. @Srikumar, @Asif Hussain as always present and up to any challenge xx A special thanks to @Hisham Masaad and his son for the help behind the screens, really appreciated all your efforts and help ! Also to @Lawrence_Chehimi who was willing to shift from his support role on the DCT, to supporting the Absolute Newbie drive the same morning, so @Vanessa8580 could focus on leading again after her hiatus and needed recovery. All of you are winners, i only saw smiling faces, camaraderie, and teamwork. All made it back safely out of this treacherous terrain and i salute all of you ! To ALL the trip leads, i can only imagine the pressure and adrenaline going through your minds, trying to find the sweetest/shortest/fastest track all while having hands on the wheel in this unforgiving terrain. Inbetween the morning breakfast and other tasks i was able to quickly launch the mini drone and capture some basic shots. Next time i should prepare more on the proper angles and footage. Will need to get some practice coming winter. See you all soon in the sand !

Hi @Motorian Racing, we have 10 frequencies, of which the T82 is compatible with channels number 1 till 4. For the Absolute Newbie drive we are always using channel 1, so that means you will be fine. But I do propose to buy a second radio with manual frequency settings as well. As sometimes we need to use channels 5 up to 10 in some cases. Carnity channel 1,2,3,4 will be 1,3,5,7 on your radio (PMR446 license free channel list).

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Hi @ZULFIKHAR NAIYAR thanks for your response. With over 1000 members in the club, we haven’t had any CX9 or Santa Fe in the club drives yet, same for the Sorrento. These vehicles can take some gentle off-roading on sandy terrain for camping or leisure purposes, but dune driving abilities will be severely limited due to the very limited approach angle and ground clearance. We indeed encourage to start with a stock 4x4 vehicle in the club, and many amongst us even marshals are driving stock off-road vehicles, but the Sorrento is to be seen as a SUV and due to its limitations in stock version they are not acceptable for dune driving in a club environment. You are probably still in the phase of not being sure if off-roading would become your new passion and hence investing or changing your vehicle is a difficult step. That is totally understandable. I would not suggest modifying your Sorrento as soon you might realize that you had better used the money to buy a more suitable off-road vehicle. If you are really keen on trying out the Sorrento we can perhaps recommend a 1:1 Masterclass training in which the marshal will be able to tailor his planned track towards the limitations of your vehicle. That session mignt help you to determine if this could become your new passion or not. Let me know if that would be something you would be interested in.

Dear @ZULFIKHAR NAIYAR The 8" inch as a minimum requirement we use in the club is measured in the same way as car manufacturers measure and put on their brochures or datasheet. That is being done by measuring the height from the floor up to the lower end of your vehicle's body (see in below image as well). For the Kia Sorrento 2015 model, this is unfortunately only 7,3 inch and this value is even taken without passenger or deflating the tires. This is below our absolute minimum requirement of 8inches and would also mean you would be facing more risk of damaging the underbody, bumpers, and even getting more stuck easily as soon as the tires sink into the sand a tiny bit. The approach angle is also important to look at, and the Sorrento with its 16.8 degrees is really too low, and that would most-probably mean you would be ending up with a damaged front bumper, even on your first offroad drive. I hope you understand our statement. We are open to many 4x4 and AWD vehicles, as long as these minimum requirements are being met. After all, it would not be a pleasant first drive for you if you would be ending up with a damaged vehicle on your very first drive. Let me include a previous post from 2020 we made on this topic:

So you wont be able to fix a pop-out on any other car that's not a Jeep ?

Congrats @Karthikeyan Govindarajan !