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Having a 2.5" lift gives me the confidence of not getting crested 90% of the time. Well, this trip jinxed that thought and after looking at the scratches made on my cross-members, I'm thinking of getting a full underbody skid-plate next... just in case our Marshals ask to cross a "railway" again 😂😂😂 Thanks to @Frederic for leading the adventure, @Xavier Treasurer for 2nd lead and @M.Seidam for sweeping and capturing those moments 👍🏻 Also kudos to my new friends from Dubai who took the extra mile of crossing the border @GauravSoni @Lakshmi Narasimhan @Humayun Ghias and finally get to see my dream car VTC SWB Patrol @Mario Cornejo 😊 Until next time!

@Abdul Hannan what happened after my Y62 rolled over, this happened in Sweihan Abu Dhabi, so might be different for Dubai. 1. Magically the Y62 was in the upright position, but otherwise you need to fix the car so that it's not upside-down. 2. Call 999. In my case since no major injuries, there was no need for ambulance. You will get SMS asking to click link and share your current location. Saaed (Abu Dhabi Accident Patrol) will then call you to confirm location. 3. Call Insurance if it provides Free Tow Truck Recovery. Otherwise by standing near the highway, usually there's always a few passing by like taxis... 4. While waiting for Saaed, we fixed our 2 pop-outs because the car anyway needs to travel a bit later to go closer to highway onto a tow truck. 3. Saaed came, asked what happened. Explain. He took lots of photos using iPad and put into accident system. This is your CHANCE to ensure Everything is covered! You don't want insurance to tell you that the police report didn't mention Rear Bumper, and you have to pay 2000aed for original bumper 😅 Speak politely to the police and ask to see the damage report. Show him all the parts that are broken so he can enter it into the system. 4. Saaed will give you receipt with accident report number. You need to go to website and print the report to show the insurance receptionist (or some you can email/whatsapp the accident number and they will print it before you come). 5. Drive slowly towards the highway, find a Landmark (sign saying Sweihan KM10 or something), then wait for Tow Truck to come. Put the car onto the truck, then sit next to the driver in front and guide him to go to the Agency Workshop (Nissan Body Workshop in my case), or your insurance's appointed garage if it's not Agency Repair. 6. While in the truck, call Insurance again to tell them you're on the way to the Agency / Appointed Garage and to start the Claim Process. 7. Once checked-in to Agency / Garage, they should have all the paperwork ready if the Insurance has started the Claim Process. 8. Pray... A LOT. I waited 2 months to get my Y62 Patrol back but was happy that it looked brand new, everything was replaced original, I mean EVERYTHING: Bent Roof replaced new, Broken Windshield replaced new, Broken side windows replaced new. Even the Front and Back Bumpers that I broke during earlier Carnity Newbie drives were replaced! 😊

Congrats @Chinthaka Ruwan, looking forward to driving FB+ with you 😁

Just to build suspense for tomorrow about the potentially-hostile desert of Al Faya Abu Dhabi... 👇🏻😊 https://www.gulftoday.ae/en/news/2020/07/06/missing-62-year-old-emirati-rescued-from-abu-dhabi-desert

as more senior member, you'll be 2nd lead and i'll pull you out of the black hole Interstellar-style... hope you don't grow a beard while waiting to be pulled out tho 😂

Yes, Nascar mandates this Windshield "A" bar called the Earnhardt bar. In desert offroad scenario, if a car was to nosedive into our windshield, this Windshield "A" bar would protect the driver to a degree. 1998 Dave Blaney's survival of a wall-crash was attributed to the Earnhardt bar:

@Hardik Mody definitely 3-hole is stronger, the 3rd vertical square hole will hold while the 2 horizontal holes get pulled and rotated (from the bolts): If you have friends in Fabrication shop, hand them this 3D design file so they can fabricate it for you: The resulting product:

Thank you @Anish S , @Chris Wing & @Frederic for leading the drive, it was well worth it coming from Abu Dhabi 🙂. Glad to help anytime, the rated recovery points and the towing power of Land Cruiser should be put to use whenever the right opportunity appears 😅 Looking forward to driving with you guys again on Saturday afternoons (pending wife's approval 😂)

@Fred can we pass by this mini-lake at (24.3758782, 54.9986472) ? Last time I went to Faya Pond but it was dry and unlike the Google Sat photo 😂

@Niki love it when a thread turns a bit more technical 😄, so I'm assuming the Bluetooth dongle you used is this Veepeak OBDCheck BLE. This one probably has an HM10 chip that allows Serial over Bluetooth Low Energy. Apple is more lenient to BLE, notable because of its iBeacon devices, so they allow more things than the Classic Bluetooth. The caveat is: Serial over BLE is capped at 2 KB / second data transfer rate (see experiments & performance charts here) while the Classic Bluetooth Serial Port Profile Specification says data is available at 128 KB / second . The usage will be: 1. If you're just checking for Diagnostic Code and Clearing the Check Engine Light (CEL) signals, using the BLE dongle with iOS is fine. I would be cautious using this dongle if a Jeeper is calibrating his speedometer after changing tire size using JSCAN . The data transfer is capped at 2 KB / second, and the calibration takes 5 minutes... if things go wrong, well, someone may break their Jeep's ECU 😅 2. If you have bigger bandwidth, you can send one time a data of size 128 KB in just one second. If your bandwidth is capped at 2 KB / second, that same 128 KB data chunk (e.g. real-time engine temperature, transmission temp, oil pressure etc.) will take 64 seconds to travel from car to phone. Besides delay, this is what we call a "chatty application" in software development, and thus instead of achieving Low Energy, your phone will drain more battery 🙂

Just to add on @Niki's already sound advice: Bluetooth doesn't work with iPhone, as a developer I find it painful that Apple does not support the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile mechanism (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204387) . If your main devices are iOS ecosystem (iPhone, iPad), then you need to buy the Wi-Fi version of the OBD dongle. Otherwise, Bluetooth works fine for Androids... if you're multi-platform person and uses both iPhone and Android, then you need to buy the dongle that supports both, or buy 2 dongles for each device 😁

Dear @Lorenzo Candelpergher, 500aed seems expensive, double that and you will probably get the Autel brand which most professional garages use 😂 I suggest to use the reverse-engineer approach from the software to the hardware instead: I asked my Jeep friend and he said to use JScan software. Once you know which software you want to use, look for the "supported scanners" page. The "Highly Recommended" scanner for JScan which is iCar Pro is only 100 dirhams on Amazon ☺️ http://jscan.net/supported-and-not-supported-obd-adapters/ As for the original idea to get it, the tool will help towards it but not the root cause: the car ECU will gladly handover the scanner all the diagnostic error codes that it currently has. Next you need to download the Jeep Maintenance Manual to find out what Jeep dealers need to do when diagnosing the codes. Sometimes 3 errors are caused by just 1 error: I had multiple ABS errors and 1 wheel sensor, turns out replacing the wheel sensor eliminates all the ABS errors too 😁 It could be fun, it could be frustrating, nevertheless you'll learn something about how your car works ☺️

Congrats bro @Farouq Owdeh, keep on revving that 5.7L Hemi beast to the next Intermediate 😁

Congrats @PaoloMaraziti 👍🏻 looking forward to driving with you in FB+ 😊

Dr. @Chaitanya D & bro @Lakshmi Narasimhan, you both inspired and ignited the passion for my drives! 😄 Looking forward to driving with you again some time. @Karthikeyan Govindarajan bro, i may have done this as a response to @Mus_hus78's challenge, but i had a consulting talk with Marshal @Frederic last night: it's not about driving fast & technical all the time, and that's why I sometimes joined the Newbie drives... you can still learn some things from a drive which is not your "status" level. Don't fret about no Fewbie this week in AD, there is still Marshal @Srikumar's Newbie drive this weekend: you can learn a lot from being 2nd lead or Sweeper. Plus when I was driving Newbie with @Asif Hussainbhai, he "inserted" a couple of challenges into it, so it's still fun even though not to the "status" level 😁

thanks, always good advice bhai 👍🏻

@Frederic i'll be gentle today, especially since your car was subjected to additional 2 hours of Abu Dhabi heat while loaning to @Gaurav bhai, hope he told you how that story went 😂

Unfortunately this came with the package when i was doing custom headers & exhaust... but i still have the original air filter housing... will try it out for a year before going back to stock 😂

Yups i'll be driving from Abu Dhabi to Dubai for 2 hours @ 140 km/h so that's already some testing before coming to the desert 😁

Well we know we're supposed to knock gently the air filter after _EVERY_ drive to shake off the sand, but any trick to prolong that Procrastination helps to extend that mundant task to 3-5 drives later on 😅 . So what do you guys do to cover your air filter from sucking up too much sand? A filter for the air filter you may say! Today I'm gonna test if covering up the air filter with lady's tights/stocking will degrade the performance vs filtering much sand worth-it-or-not discussion. Joining @Anish S's Fewbie drive and let's see if this hack will survive the drive and keep much sand out or not 😁 See pics below if i'm talking gibberish to you 😹 Photo 1: air filter "naked", this much sand for a newbie drive: Photo 2: let's put some filter for the air filter 😁 , using lady's stocking but a showe cap will also do i guess...

Thank you @Srikumar for giving us a preview of Fewbie++ and what face-paced driving in a convoy feels like 😁 Thanks to @Lorenzo Candelpergher too for teaching us shovel techniques to get out of sticky situations 👍🏻 Bro @GauravSoni, was your air filter box full of sand like in this video? >> If so, the sensor maybe did get damaged and needs replacement... Hope you manage to fix it before the next weekend drive 👌🏻

Amazing! First time I see a Subaru on the desert, plus with those rims. I think you also didn't have any refusals, so kudos for great driving 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 *although i would still worry bringing this to Sweihan 😅

Because of this drive (9pm to 1am), I made a special mod to the LC: 4 amber offroad lights (amber goes well against dust & fog). I hope I don't blind the car in front of me 😂 PS: ignore the 2 on bonnets, they will be turned 45° to help cornering/seeing before turning ☺️

Yesterday was Ale's Fewbie drive in Dubai, Thursday night Fewbie with Sri, Saturday Fewbiee afternoon with Anish 😂

Dear @Gaurav bhai, inspired yesterday by @Lakshmi Narasimhan & @GauravSoni's enthusiasm who said they will only sleep for 2 hours after Sri's night drive, please put me in Waiting List as this will be my 3rd drive this week 😂 Besides, I haven't seen you for a long time!