Chirag S.

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7 minutes ago, Gaurav said:

Welcome to the real world.

Garages, mechanic and even service advisors are "TRAINED" to make you spend the maximum amount in one-go.

Thing that he mentioned is 1% right, but how he said it, it will influence anyone without any previous experience.

Take a measurement of front and back space before winch installation and then check again after the winch installation and I can bet you can see the difference in few mm, not even 1 CM. Which is hardly negligible and no action require for your level of drives.

Even better, open the hood, drop 40 kg gym weight inside the engine bay, close to the front and measure it. Spread it 20 - 20 kg on each front side fender and see how much spring drop.

Even if your FJC suspension is old and dying then simply replacing to OEM two new springs or get two heavy duty springs in front can easily fix this entire drama within 500-600 max without changing the whole suspension or adding lift kit.

Thanks a lot for your guidance. I can imagine, how much money they are making out of this? He was quoting cost of lifting range from AED 5K to AED 18K............

On 5/30/2019 at 1:25 PM, Gaurav said:

A winch is the second best recovery gear after the Shovel.

It's very good to have, but it's not mandatory if you are driving with people who already have the winch. As in the whole group if you have 1 or 2 cars with winch it's very safe and optimal to venture. As in some sticky spots, a winch can save a lot of time, and in other dangerous pulls, a winch can do on slo-mo so that you can dig and clear after every few cms move to prevent the flip.

Couple of days back, i have visited one garage to inquire about winch installation. He advised to lift my FJC-GXR few inches to balance extra weight gain after installation of "winch + its kit" (approx weight of 40-50 Kg). 

Pl give your expert opinion, is it really require to lift car and after installation of winch, will its added weight effect natural off road driving?!

Thanks in advance for all your guidance!!

3 minutes ago, Gaurav said:

Going to wadi and mountain in a sedan is a very risky unless mountain has a tarmac road like jabal jais or jabal hafeet.

I have taken my wifey trail blazer once, which is proper 4x4 but suffering from low ground clearance. After 3 incident of underbody scrapping, we returned back from half way climb. I presume sedan will return in first 5-10% path.

Especially, when downward slope, low range gear seems necessary to control on certain point. Which will be major limitation of sedan!!

3 hours ago, Asoke Sen said:

Hi Chirag and Gaurav.. how far can a sedan go in Wadi Sena?  One of my friends has a sedan.  Although have suggested that he park at the base of the Wadi and hop into any of our cars.

Hello Ashok,

As per my view, you can bring sedan till bottom of Mountain / starting point of Wadi Sena. As there is no dedicated parking plot but you can park on some safe place nearby starting point.

11 hours ago, Asoke Sen said:

Thanks Chirag and Gaurav. The time is short to do a recce now but that you for your offer. Will take this up in our future trips. But will be guided by your advice. There will be 2-3 cars but none of us are very experienced off roads to we do not plan to go very high up just heat so will cam closer to the base. Any ideas on that?

Also.. can I do camping and off-roading till April? Does the weather permit?

I went during summer. But temperature once climb up was pleasant. Lots of wind and beautiful scenery. I think, you can visit place as your convenience. I went there first time and alone. I would recommend to drive carefully and during day time only. Your car with lower gear will be a good advantage while drive downward slope. Its good place for trekking as well.

Hello Ashok,

Sorry for late reply. Google map will take you till the bottom of the Wadi Sena.  Once you will reach there, you may not find any indicator for Wadi Sena. It's better to approach local resident for starting point just nearby google point.

I hope you went to wadi's before. Since, it’s not all tarmac may require typical off road experience at the time of climb and back. You should have good engine to support you especially while coming back. Pl avoid to drive in early morning or evening.

It is very beautiful point once reach and this is best time as well. No washroom, groceries, basic amenities once reach top. Pl bring water, food etc. Once reach, very beautiful Mother Nature throughout drive till Wadi Seder.

if you want, any further details, pl let me know.

6 minutes ago, Shamil said:

What went wrong in this incident?

May be: till reaching top seems nice, afterwards while side sloping, in absence of enough speed and efforts to fight with gravity cause this happened. He could have been move his steering wheel towards left /gravity to help his car move towards gravity & avoid such incidents!! 

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1 minute ago, Rahimdad said:

@Chirag S. this thread is for the newer people to identify and have a chance to learn from someone else mistake. The intention is for newer people to understand and not repeat the same mistake when they are in the desert. Go through the video again and see the reason for him slowing down. Please also pay attention to the load tied in at the back of the truck. You'll be amazed how many new things you can pick up every time you go through a video. Have to be patient and have to keep looking to find out what actually went wrong.

@Rahimdad bhai. Thanks for your concern and guidance. Well noted. But I can only see combination of low acceleration before roll over and not turning steering wheel towards downside and breaking in soft sand. For rest, I will observe expert views here curiously!! 

16 minutes ago, Rahimdad said:

There is a lot more to this one @Chirag S., nice video @Asif Hussain bhai, great learning from this.

@Rahimdad Okay, i will see expert comments to get more on this!!

35 minutes ago, Asif Hussain said:

What went wrong and how this roll over would have been avoided? 

may be: "he slow down on top on side slope, sudden braking and did not move steering wheel towards gravity...."

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7 minutes ago, Jeh said:

 

nice video

32 minutes ago, Rahimdad said:

@Chirag S. I have not seen any vehicle with a 4WD engine yet. Normally manufacturers would use the same engine in their SUVs and saloons.

@Rahimdad Pl considered 4WD engine as 4WD system. I am learning and know, I will get your guidance every time.