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@Islam Soliman thanks for trusting me with being CF 😊, btw I’ll be driving the Y62 tomorrow… I’ve taken the Y62 to some FB+ drives tho, but feel free to re-order if you think it changes the dynamics. On the other hand I’ll be in front of another Y62 from Danial 😁

Thank you Dr. @Chaitanya D for last afternoon + semi-night drive. Well I only manage to break one side of rear bumper, so either I'm lucky or just getting better 😁 Started off with a warm-up of safari-style offroading, sighteeing the beautiful Qudra area, then *ehm *cough circling some Instagram celebrities, continuing to pick-up Charlie for a no-man-left-behind-even-though-he's-late camaraderie 👍 😄 @Hisham Masaad led the pre-sunset drives very well, lots of ups-and-downs and some technical soft dunes. So soft that once my Y62 tank passed an uphill, it left @Zixuan Huang - Charlie stuck for a bit 😂 The duo Dr. Chaitanya & co-pilot @M.Seidam then continued the post-sunset drive. M. Seidam managed to get his car uphill to escape the narrow bowl, while Hisham took the backdoor approach, and amazingly @Batuhan Kulac refused to get stuck in the same bowl by the mighty power of his V8... I wonder when I can see you use the Triple Locking feature of that G-Wagon? 😁 It was easy driving behind @Russ with his Raptor, all I have to do is observe when his car tailfish or struggle a bit, that means I need to take a shortcut and drive low instead of forcing to climb... as @GauravSoni would have put it, "Save your bumper man!" 😂 @Pacific it was nice seeing you again man, and coincidentally in another afternoon-turned-night drive 😄 @Rawad bro everytime you park your car, the cooling fan is louder than your V8 engine 😂 Good to see another Y62, and I can see the rear bumper trimming + skid plate protection working as advertised. Gonna go to that garage next week to make the mall-crawler into a just-in-case-needs-to-go-to-Liwa-for-camping desert cruiser 😃

Yay, Dr. Marshal correctly guesses the car I will use and there's another Y62 sweeping at the back.... so happy 😁

Well done @PaoloMaraziti , so I was driving in front of 2 Intermediates during the long-range then 😄 Well-deserved 👍

@Ale Vallecchi there’s this visible walled building near the meeting point, is it correct? 😊

I have Big Muffler + 2 resonators and my exhaust is max 84dB at 4000rpm, video test below 😁 https://youtu.be/MGSPOjAw8Iw

This is why you have a different car special for offroading, never drive your modified Offroad to the Mall, see story below 😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwIc1scU_M0&t=117s

@GauravSoni @Warren Flay has a Golden Pajero (Gojero) SWB with no cats and he’s loving it. All the Land Cruiser 100 GCC-spec apparently have no cats too, cc @Hasan Wahlan @Wade Pat2 @ShereenMK and they pass RTA just fine. In short: yeah drive without catalytic converters and feel that your engine is pushing those toxic gases faster from the engine manifolds out to the muffler 😁🔥

@Anish S 3 photos below: 1. Get a new terminal 2. Get the pad that sits between battery and terminal, to prevent any leaks from below. https://www.amazon.ae/dp/B001DKUTR0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_HX9RT2Y9D45H67P02G90?psc=1 3. Get the oil spray, to prevent any water or fluid from the top. https://www.amazon.ae/dp/B004AWO4NI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_0J4SN8N7FZPMACS3A7H7?psc=1

You improved the back-end exhaust by replacing new muffler, might as well improve the front-end by replacing the manifold gaskets. Mine was rusty too there 😅:

Congrats bro @Mus_hus78 well-deserved, now I have to start doing 2 FB+ per week again to catch up 😁

7am to 6pm, this should be counted as 2 Drives 😂😂😂 where is Al Ain resident @Mus_hus78, tag for reminder to join this drive 🔥

gear oil was leaking so I was actually offroading with Dry differentials for a while 😂😂😂

lolz, it's 2000dhs for second-hand and 4000dhs for brand new. Put second-hand in and break it again 4 weeks later (assuming 2 Fewbie Plus every week) 😅 At the time, the smart thing to do was wait for Brand New and spend the 4000dhs one time and hope it lasts another 20 years, rather than spend 2000dhs on a second-hand item which already had 20 years life on it and not sure when it will break 😂

I’m trying to source the full front diff housing now 👇🏻, giving up on the 4.88 coming from Japan and scouring Sharjah for original 4.30 gears in good condition:

Ready for Round 2 (added amber fog lights, better late than never) and fixed the Hashtag Patrol bumper issue 😂

Thank you @Srikumar for leading the drive, you found a good play area to test uphill and tree-resistance 👍🏻, which was next to Mehmet’s big dune marked by the 2 barbed wires in the middle, but this may be better to see during the day… good call to skip it. For some reason I kept seeing it as Nagrah, maybe cos after midnight and out-of-coffee 😂 Thank you for the: - spot-on instructions left-right to exit crested situation without any tug by @Gaurav bhai, - extra lighting, advice, and the exercising muscle power 💪 to push Jeep backwards by @Asif Hussain bhai, - @Frederic for being great 3rd car and showing me how to keep up and maintain distances in night drive. At times you just forgot there’s a Tank behind you and you left me scratching my head which tracks to choose… good to hone my tracks-reading intuition in split seconds 😅 @Ruan van den Heever’s lights didn’t help except when I’m stopping I can feel like the police car chasing behind me and ready to give a fine 😁 Well this drive convinced me I need amber lights on the Y62 for my own sake next time… - @GauravSoni for trying to fix the rear bumper, actually we had to unscrew 3 pins and then push it up, we did it before with Pacific with only 2ppl but it was during daylight, so didn’t want to waste time and losing pins in the night 😂 - @Mus_hus78 and @Xavier Treasurer for shoveling during my 2 crested moments, thanks bros 👍🏻 To the person commenting the Bulldozer did a Sidee, well here is video of the culprit in broad daylight doing it 😄 telegram-video.mp4

2 mini Pajeros, 2 long Pajeros (1 UniChipped), 2 stock XTerras (both offroad trim), 1 naked Jeep with no roof, 1 stock Y62… let’s draw the straw and pick our position Squid-game style 😂

Tonight’s Sweihan Night Drive will be Hotel California but John Wick guns blazing in the background 😂😂😂

Lolz, don't Jinx it bro... I've taken the Y62 slowly from Newbie with Sri, Newbie-but-felt-Fewbie with Angela and latest FewbiePlus with Mehmet... this is why I'm a bit confident joining Friday night's drive... so far so good 😁

"Scouting for camping area because it's still too hot in the afternoon 😂" @Srikumar please put me after CF, I need lights from the Sweeper to help with the Y62 stock lighting 😄

This is so quiet with only 4 drivers registered... looking at the Manage tab, all the Big Honchos are there: Gaurav, Fred, and Sri. So tempting to slide the Y62 out-of-garage pink-panther style to attend this... at least there'll be lots of companies if there'll be stucks 😁

Yay, congrats bro @GauravSoni, soon you’ll be leading our Sweihan drives 😁👍🏻

@Srikumar: Told her it was another Newbie drive… better ask for forgiveness later than missed the opportunity 😂😂😂

If Ruan wrote a report, that’s a testament of how good the drive was today 😄 Thank you @Mehmet Volga & @marks for coming all the way from Dubai to lead today’s drives. @Archibald Jurdi for CF too. Thanks to bro @Mus_hus78 for being my spotter today, the Y62 is a heavy beast, and once gone into a bowl can be tricky to self-recover without having second set of eyes to find the work-around. Lucky no need to tug, after some forward-and-back dance and finding non-churned sand, car was able to go up again 😊 Thumbs up also to the rest of convoy for able to keep up pace with the front line 👍🏻