Jefy

Nicely written Wrangled. Regarding the briefing and being on time. I am not one of the organizers, nor senior, I am like all of us an enthusiast that has a lot to learn. Carnity gives you the opportunity to join the club on a fewbie level. Organized by enthousiasts without sponsoring. It is a group with multi nationals, backgrounds, type of cars etc. Because of the amount and diversity of newbies, there has to be a standard to get everybody on the same line before starting the drive. It is a Necessity! Respect! Towards the group of Carnity to be on time and listen to the briefing. Also when you’ve heard the briefing multiple times. Yes, you might loose your concentration during the briefing, Especially in the early morning, (dreaming about your pillow and blanket in bed), if you would only pick up 5% what have been said/ discussed, we still achieved something, we learned you something new, or we confirmed what u already knew, so give you extra confidence. This is a team sport, lets show respect to each other and come on time, and take the effort to listen to the briefing.

What is the reason of those dots? Please enlighten me, because I don’t know.

I want to buy some tools, where to go in the UAE? Quality: Between home and professional. One time buy, but not daily use. looking for the following: - Torque wrench (up to 200 Nm) - Jack stands, 6T - Grease gun - Floor jack, one for at home, one to carry with me (not too heavy) maybe one that suites both? I’m thinking to go to Dragon Mart, sure I can find everything there, but would like to hear your advice/ opinions.

It all depends on the background, experience, character. What seems obvious for us, may not for somebody else. I think it might be addressed in a briefing for totally newbies. But keep it briefly 🙏🏻🤣.

Ok cool, thanks all, Sand Dance it will be.

Unibal

Anyone knows where I can buy this in a store?

They called me for a freighter trip, coming back on Sunday. Have a nice drive!!!

Enjoy!

The modified car, the never ending story, the money pit. Anyway, I have ordered wheels with the correct offset from Europe and they arriving soon. I already have tires for them. I am looking for a reliable wheel balance/ alignment fitting garage, preferably south of Dubai. A shop that knows what they are doing with lifted suv’s. Please let me know. To come back to wheels with correct offset. What I don’t understand from our region. We have maybe the most LC200S driving around than anywhere. The lc200 comes with a positive offset of 60mm. Almost all shops they have only wheels with 0 offset. When I ask them if they have wheels with positive offset, they ask me again why I want positive offset. Because I want something that works? And not only look good, without chopping here and there??? So thats why ordered wheels abroad.

Desertdude made a good point. I am very biased because of experience. But lets be open minded. So you want to talk, you have to push a button, or it is activated by voice. I can already tell you; you don’t want to use the function that you will transmit as soon the mic sense audio. A lot of distortion on the frequency. This is maybe interesting for an open mic environment, 2 people on one frequency, but not in a group. Can you imagine, “please can you repeat that?”, “oh sorry, I was just taking a sip of my coffee” So we still have to use one hand to transmit. I am sure it is possible to fabricate a button on your steering wheel to transmit, but I am also sure that this will be expensive. We are not rally drivers who need a hot mic with our navigator. Another thing, the quality of sound, transmission, language, accents, I don’t want to imagine how terrible it has to be to receive this direct in my ear the whole drive for 4 hours. The reason why they wear headsets in Rally, because it is very noisy, you would not hear the guy next to you. Same Counts for planes, for example Gliders, they don’t wear a headset, because you have no engine that is rumbling. First thing I do during work, when the conditions permit, is hang that bloody headset behind me and put the speaker on. Can’t imagine to hear all the guys/ girls talking continuously direct in my ear. But this is my point of view! Lets keep this discussion open regarding equipment/ solutions if we want a hands free radio in a group environment. Desert dude said it already, ANC, aviate, navigate, communicate. It is a strong model that is used as foundation for pilots. We can use this model also with our drives. - First drive, have your car under control - Navigate, where do you want to go? Or do you want to go anywhere from here? - communicate, talk or answer a radio call The benefit of using such model is, that it gives you thinking capacity, we believe we can multitask, but we don’t. (greetings from Lagos, unfortunately not able to join tomorrow’s drive)

Fantastic reports, would like to have been with you guys.

Trying to catch up with people/ playing backgammon (with real people)

Remove the seats, all the carpet and fabric, ow wait, it is not about the car. I am struggling on and off with my weight due my work. For the info, I am a pilot and fly long haul. Going through different timezones, sleeping in different beds and I like a beer. Tried different diets, I don’t believe in that anymore. Yes it might work, but then u have to continue with that lifestyle and often thats too difficult. It is all about a balance of everything and have enough exercise on regular basis and good night of sleeps. This works for me; Start with a balanced diet with enough nutrients. For example, I start with 3 eggs half avocado, oat with blueberries and cacao, and some cheese next to it. Then I heavy lunch, more like a dinner for most people and in the evening a light dinner so I have a full stomach to go to bed. Whats important, if you start cutting stuff like meat or milk, what many people advise, you might have a lack of some acids that are important for your sleep. Don’t do these shakes and fatburners, change your lifestyle here and there. Start working out or walking, cut the desserts a bit and change the juices for water. It will take time, take small steps, all small steps come to a big change. If you take big steps and you will fall one time (fatburners, extreme diet, working out crazy), you will less likely start again. Good luck!!

Looks good! Another heavy weight! ☺️

Unfortunately I have to bail out, also when the schedule will suite me. I changed the tires and wheels. Also the offset and size. Had to remove the mud flaps, but I am still not sure if in deflated condition, I will have any rubbings in my wheel fender. Beside this, I want first to get used to the handling characteristics to avoid any disruptions.

Congratulations Ale!

Thank you and good morning! Bailing out of Liwa, even if the schedule from work would suites me, due to change of set-up of the car and want to test it before going hardcore. Might see you on the 14th.

Short trip report from me, I don’t have the writing skills like Wrangled or the other gents on here, but I’ll try to give my point of view of the drive. Was lucky with my standby roster, they gave me a late standby starting from 23:00 on that day, that gave me the oportunity to prepare some things in the morning, join the drive, getting tired and when I would come home that evening, crash the bed. The start of the drive was a little bit delayed due to 3 seperated convoys and we had to wait that everybody came back from the morning drive. I think we departed at 13:45, Sri leading, Javier 2nd lead, 3rd myself, 4th Manuel and Gaurav in the sweep. As soon as we started, I felt the boys were already warmed up from the morning drive and the pace was fast. I just cruised 1 hour ago with cruise control and now I had to change to fighter mode. It didn’t take long before we had to stop because I was too agressive with my Land Cruiser, skidding my right front tire in a turn that resulted in a pop out and litterly ripped my whole tire of my wheel. Thanks to the team we managed to jack, clean and inflate the tire again. To avoid a pop out again, I adjusted my driving technique and kept the tire pressure on 16psi. Fortunately I kept the tire on my wheel for the rest of the drive. We continued to Big Fire? (Correct me if I am wrong). Trying to keep up with Javier, but with my experience and heavy car I had to alternate/ cheat sometimes the route he was taking. Espacially on some sideslopes I had difficulties to keep the car going straight forward, what also ended in a nasty refusal next to a small tree. The rear difflock is a big help, and I was able to get out in reverse by myself. Arrived at Big Fire and we all made an attemp to get on the top. Javier made the top after first attemp? At the top we changed the lead and Javier took over the lead with Sri now in second. Now with Javier in lead, the pace was a bit faster and I had to stretch my leg that ended up to hear my cooling fan of the radiator for the first time. First seconds I was confused of the different sound coming from my engine, I thought something was wrong, but then I understood it had to be the fan. I was not the only one with an engine that was heating up due to Javier’s lead. After a 3ish hours drive, we came to flat earth again, inflated, asked some info regarding tires and received some feedback regarding my driving skill to improve for next drives. @Srikumar @Gaurav @Emmanuel @Javier M Thnx for the drive, and have a nice weekend!

I understand the concern, but it is all a bit of a hoax about dragon mart. (The Corona) There is a shop but quite far away that also sells the compressors, it is called Al Ghafa. If you type Al Ghafa for picnic accessories in google maps, you get the location.

Life is art.

@Frederic This picture is made as a passenger 😇.

The solar park from another perspective.

It all depends on the rostering gods, standby whole month! Will rsvp last minute.