Jefy

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

6 minutes ago, Barry said:

Dry PTFE spray? I've never seen it before, only sticky stuff. What are you using it for?

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)

2 hours ago, adil said:

So many of us suffereing from overwight in UAE, I like to know what is the best way to loose weight consistantly every month in a healthy way. Only suggest wht you have tried and it worked for you and not on advertisemant and not on your super fit colleague taking proteins, fat burner and creatines pills 30 tiems a day.

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! 

1 minute ago, Wrangeld said:

Not sure I agree with you @Xaf about your writing skills, you brought an energy and sense of movement to every word. Sounds like some real seat of the pants excitement before the Liwa drive ... where your cooling fan will likely get some real exercise!

See you soon in the sand

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! 

15 hours ago, Denver Martins said:

Hi guys,

I was meant to go to dragon mart to buy my radio, flag and air compressor. Due to the virus, my wife and mates insist I should avoid going to dragon mart( I know is sad but better safe than sorry).

Is it okay if I could borrow a radio this time please? 
 

Thank you,

Denver

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 😇.

It all depends on the rostering gods, standby whole month!

Will rsvp last minute.

On 1/24/2020 at 10:48 AM, desertdude said:

Yeah, I try to be as reaslitic in my armchair piloting as I can while flying my 777-800ER ( in my flight sim of course )

Another thing I failed to mention is wake turbulence specially of the heavies so speration is critical.

btw any good (free) source of latest airport charts with SIDS and STARS specially for OMDB and also a detailed tutorial of how to program the 777 FMC I think I've got the grasp of pretty much 80% of it. I can program the route, set performance, Vref speeds, Des forecast, takeoff performance etc etc but there are still many thing I don't understand and the manual that came with it isn't detailed enough.

 

I am not into simming anymore, I am sure there are providers for this.

regarding the fmc, you have to try to find a FCOM for the 777, i am sure there are pdf’s somewhere on the net. 
 

You might find your answers there, you are also allowed to ask me, but lets keep it off the internet.

Congratulations Fred!!! See you soon in the sand.

I am the whole month on standby, but who knows, maybe the rostering gods have something good for me.

Is there an afternoon drive planned? 😇, sweeping at home blablabla, might not catch up the morning drive.... 🙃

10 hours ago, DiamondDallas said:

https://gulfnews.com/auto/news/this-all-terrain-supercar-has-its-origins-in-the-uae-1.1579688978132

Almost half a million USD and then it rolls down the dunes. 

I understand why many offroader are expensive like Raptors and Rams bit this is way too high.

What you all think?

I like it!!!

Try to forget the price tag, because it is very expensive to produce a brand on its own.