Zed

@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 😂)

55 minutes ago, Frederic said:

Even for me its a new location !😁

No worries, we will make it fun !

@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 😂

49 minutes ago, Niki said:

@Zed i am actually using an iPhone (12Pro Max) running OBD Fusion App (paying a  small add on for the Toyota calcs) plus a Bluetooth OBD2 Dongle (Veepeak OBDCheck BLE+ Bluetooth 4.0 adapter bought from US Amazon as the UAE didn't have this specific model). 

It is working great and no issues sending data to the App - maybe i am missing some functionality (but i haven't found that limit yet).

@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 😁

1 hour ago, Gaurav said:

My advise, don't use stocking cover please. These YT hacks and stunts are most dangerous stuff you will ever do.

It starts with 1 fake claim of X additional HP with free flow filter and to achieve that "unknown" "unsaid" "non-tested" fictional gain owner tend to do 100 wrong moves.

Totally agree with @sertac to switch to original stock dry paper filter, and clean after 4-5 drives easy (as u asked above), as factory filter box has enough space underneath to hold 100 - 200 grams of sand, even half a kg (I guess).

Many have busted their engine (incl. me) for these fictitious gains, that will only come when you also put chip + 100 other mods + 200 star aligned in one line.

thanks, always good advice bhai 👍🏻

6 minutes ago, Frederic said:

Just make sure your stockings don’t come falling off and ending up in the face of the one sweeping the convoy !

@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 😂

17 minutes ago, sertac said:

I suggest you to use original filter of your car instead of this aftermarket one. These are more prone to suck sand in to the Engine. 

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 😂

2 minutes ago, Sunil Mathew said:

Hello Zed, i hope you are testing this first on normal roads, probably with some stints of hard acceleration ?

As the suction picks up at high revs , it should not collapse, or come off its securing end and roll up in the middle ?

just some loud thinking.

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...

On 6/30/2021 at 1:15 PM, Srikumar said:

@GauravSoni @Farouq Owdeh @Ruan van den Heever @Zed @Mus_hus78 @Xavier Treasurer @Hasan Wahlan @Lakshmi Narasimhan

Now, this is what I called a Super Strong FB Convoy. So famous are the Sweihan boys, that we have quite a few drivers coming all the way from Dubai and Sharjah to see what the hype is all about. So here's hoping for another rocking drive in Sweihan 🤞

With the able support of the flying Italian @Lorenzo Candelpergher, I will be more than happy to push the pace and increase the challenge during the drive. 

See you all at the meeting point tomorrow at 9 PM. Convoy numbering would be announced tomorrow morning. 

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 👌🏻

16 hours ago, Erik Ean said:

The outsider 😁

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 😅

1 hour ago, Srikumar said:

Now, this is what I called a Super Strong FB Convoy. So famous are the Sweihan boys, that we have quite a few drivers coming all the way from Dubai and Sharjah to see what the hype is all about. So here's hoping for another rocking drive in 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 ☺️

31 minutes ago, Karthikeyan Govindarajan said:

3 drives in a week?

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! 

On 6/27/2021 at 8:02 PM, Mus_hus78 said:

Congratulations @Hasan Wahlanfor joining the fewbie plus group , we need more fewbie plus in our drive ….zed and kartikh dude u must join us soon 😇….. 

Your challenge @Mus_hus78 is accepted, this week I joined 3 Fewbie drives to make the total 10 Required for Fewbie Plus Promotion 😂😂😂

thanks again @Ale Vallecchi for lead @GauravSoni for sweep. Thanks both for accomodating an exit, looking back I think it was perfect timing:

1. If my son wasn't sea-sick, I wouldn't have stopped. Stopping made me realize I had a flat tyre (this morning PSI still intact meaning no soft puncture - hey I guess Method's BeadGrip works well and prevented me a pop-out 😂  cc @Mus_hus78 for more fire to fuel 🔥)

2. If I didn't ask to exit, this might continue to be a Night Drive 😂😂

Thank you Everyone too, you all did great as we come home on time ☺️

4 hours ago, Anish S said:

Hello @Sunil Mathew @luis mantecon @Zed ,

You have been added to the drive. Please confirm the same.

Thank you

Confirmed @Anish S, sorry late reply, just got back from Ale's drive 😁

2 hours ago, Lakshmi Narasimhan said:

@Srikumar can you pls confirm if I can RSVP today for my third drive for the week (second in AUH), I would like to utilize my PCR test to the maximum!!!

bro @Lakshmi Narasimhan 2nd drive in AUH? Are u joining Gaurav's Friday Morning 5am drive despite Sri telling us this will be over by 1am morning? 😅

Yes confirm Cap'n @Ale Vallecchi sir 👨🏻‍✈️🖖🏻

dear @Ale Vallecchi please add me to Waiting List in case anyone drops out... unfortunately I was late to click Join and Limit Reached 😂