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Islam Soliman

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  1. I was actually disappointed with the setup.. didn’t realize that I have to get out of the car to connect the hoses to the 4 ports under each wheel well.. Lazyboy club needs to come up with a better fully automated solution 🤣🤣🤣🤣
  2. Dear @Nathan Evans @Adhir Saxena @Chinthaka Ruwan @RooRzOn @Humayun Ghias @Zed @Hisham Masaad @PaoloMaraziti @Russ @JeromeFJ @Ranjan Das @Sunil Mathew @Tero Vallas It's time we wrap up our plan for tomorrow morning adventure with basic details, as usual: 1- weather is getting hot and we want to have an early start hoping to cover majority of the track by 8:30am before heading to the exit to inflat by 9:00am before we get roasted. 2- This requires prompt presence at the meeting point by 4:30am and be ready to move max by 4:45am (deflated, flag erected, 4H on, radio on and set, airbags/traction/abs all set....) 3- Please ensure your radio is on, fully charged, and set to the right frequency: channel 1 (446,006.25) upon arrival to do a quick radio check 4. when you arrive, pls try to take your position (if possible) based on the below convoy order 5- briefing will be done on the radio as we start moving see you all on the sand 🤩
  3. Thanks everyone for a wonderful way to start the weekend. Being there on time helped us make an early move by 4:45am enjoying a good 25mins of driving in the dark before 🌞 started to reveal itself. We drove for good just a little less than 5 hrs and because of the early start we didn’t suffer any signs of overheating despite of the many recoveries and very sticky soft sand spots we been through.. all of which were managed extraordinary well with your great self recovery skills or on other situations support from the team with little shoveling or tugs.. no pop outs however which is impressive given this terrain which is another sign for your great maneuvering skills. It was a fun drive full of actions but zero drama and I hope you also liked the closure after little sweihan triangle. Below for statistic lovers.. you guys have done a lot there.. hope you liked it. final words of thanks to the great support team I had today with @Mario Cornejo on great 2nd lead and always supportive @Hisham Masaad and Abdelghani and perfect sweep of @Mehmet Volga . A great word of thanks however goes to the whole convoy for not only the great skills showed but also for jumping to support whenever needed while socially distancing and masks on all times.. thanks @JeromeFJ @Darren Brooke @Ranjan Das @RooRzOn @Niki @Matt.T @Rizwanm2 @Danish Mohammad and looking forward for driving with you all soon.
  4. Dear @JeromeFJ @Darren Brooke @Lakshmi Narasimhan @Ranjan Das @RooRzOn @Niki @Matt.T @Rizwanm2 @Danish Mohammad @Mario Cornejo @Mehmet Volga @Hisham Masaad It's time we wrap up our plan for tomorrow morning adventure with basic details. 1- weather is getting hot and we want to have an early start hoping to cover majority of the track by 8:30am before heading to the exit to inflat by 9:00am before we get roasted. 2- This requires prompt presence at the meeting point by 4:30am and be ready to move max by 4:45am (deflated, flag erected, 4H on, radio on and set, airbags/traction/abs all set....) 3- Please ensure your radio is on, fully charged, and set to the right frequency: channel 3 (446,056.25) upon arrival to do a quick radio check 4. when you arrive, pls try to take your position (if possible) based on the below convoy order 5- briefing will be done on the radio as we start moving See you all on the sand 😎
  5. Hi @Russ @Ranjan Das @Sunil Mathew @Zed @Adhir Saxena @JeromeFJ You are all added to the drive.. see you on Sat morning Hi @RooRzOn, we had 6 WL already on the drive (2nd drive) which made the full 10.. but having you is always a pleasure so will make it 11.. see you on Sat morning.
  6. Someone need to quickly come up with a vaccine for this virus before it gets widely spread 🤣🤣
  7. I agree with what @Frederic said. However I saw many cars flying of a ridge due to approaching with higher-than-needed-speed to avoid getting crested but resulting in flying off the crest and land hard with front almost hitting ground, depending on the sensitivity of the airbag impact sensors can deploy the airbags. what @Lawrence_Chehimi mentioned about ABS is 100% true too. However, personally, I don’t like kill switches as they add more potential failure points to sensitive systems and if they are not done professionally can lead to unpleasant incidents. So I go for the simple solution of unplugging the fuses from the fuse box while deflating and put them back while inflating. In my case, 4 fuses; takes 10 seconds. Of course I know this may not be an acceptable solution for our inconvenience-tolerant Lazyboy gang @Hisham Masaad @Ahab Shamaa @Watteau @Lorenzo Candelpergher @Niki🤣🤣🤣 switching gear @Christopher Assal, when do we get to try the cake?
  8. I was recently sweeping a convoy and witnessed first hand the importance of keeping “enough” distance between the cars.. getting stuck or losing the track is the least of my concerns compared to what I witnessed getting my heart almost out of my chest. the convoy was smoothly moving through nice dunes and approaching a ridge that we had to ride and cross, slightly challenging but perfectly doable for F. Three cars on the backend of the convoy took part on this incident and I am thankful to the mercy of ALLAH that all walked out of it without any injuries or damage to their cars. the first car approached with a lower angel and less momentum than required so took the right decision to safely exist to reattempt. the next car was obviously too close and got distracted with the first car losing momentum and then existing, didn’t have enough time to react so slipped and got stuck close to the top of the ridge. third car followed without paying attention what happened to the 2 cars ahead and while midway to ride the ridge noticed the car infront of him stuck at the top so slowed down (too late) and car started to free slide stopping less than 1 meter from the stuck car almost bumping into it. While the 2nd and 3rd car were going through this the 1st car was already halfway accelerating going for another attempt which would for sure led to an unfortunate incident by then I arrived and had clear visibility and started shouting like crazy at the 1st car to stop! p.s. all 3 drivers are experienced drivers who I have seen in many drives drive extremely good. So in my opinion what went wrong: - situation awareness: all drivers should have full and undivided attention on what’s happening around them and respond; - radio comms: any car that has a refusal should or stuck should immediately announce to alert others are who may not be paying attention (all 3 cars failed to do so) - safety is everyone’s job: anyone on a drive (even if not a senior or support member) who observes a situation that can escalate to a problem should speak up and alert the convoy and not rely on seniors only to take action as sometimes those can be far from off or not having enough visibility of the situation - safe distance: occasionally missing the track is far accepted than being too close with the probability of a collision. Remember simple mistakes most times will not harm any one and can go unnoticed, but adding multiple small mishaps on top of each other can lead to large unfortunate incidents specially in extreme sports like offroading. Wish everyone safe, enjoyable, and full of fun drives
  9. It’s no surprise that cyber crime is on the rise varying between different kinds of ransomware attacks on individuals as well as large behemoth corporation despite of spending billions on their cyber defence but still proved ineffective in some occasions. FBI just announced recovery of millions of cryptocurrency that was paid in ransom to prevent shutdown of a key US pipeline company. I hope @Lakshmi Narasimhan you are not paying the price for this and the attackers are now coming after you in revenge of FBI success! Digital transformation comes with its own set of challenges; elevating the game higher and to some extent requires compromises on privacy, SPI guardrails, and exchange of confidential data. Financial services fraud is equally on the rise leveraging combination of cyber security breaches due to weak security frameworks, social intelligence breaches, and unfortunately inside jobs. I wish there is an easy answer to have a good night sleep, but unfortunately it’s a risk that we have to accept as individuals or businesses and sometime a price some of us have to sadly pay for the gains to quality of life and economy growth we all gain by embracing digital transformation. Some advises hopefully can help: - carefully choose who you bank with and only transact (specially online) with merchants using the highest available encryption technologies to make sure your data is not vulnerable. - Continuous change of your passwords/pin codes (every month or 2 max) is advisable and of course don’t use easy passwords or same passwords/pin across multiple platforms/cards. - Lots of attackers are able to mimic exact replicas of very known websites/merchants that you can’t tell any difference to the original websites and they know already you know these websites, you deal with them, and your trust them.. so most people will fall for it. The trick is the URL address they send you is going to be different from the original one, if you are not paying full attention you can easily fall for it. - Ensure SMS notification is setup for the correct phone number you always monitor to be on top and take immediate action against any suspicious transactions. - Stay vigilant with communication (phone, WhatsApp, emails, F2F,.. etc) as it’s found that most of the attacks starts by very “basic” social engineered phishing techniques that will not get any one suspicious until very late, but the information gathered by these techniques enable these attackers to have enough to empty your wallet sometime without leaving a single fingerprint behind!
  10. Thx a lot @Niki.. will explore this option… P.S. Old is Gold 😂😂
  11. Yes but I think they discontinued installing it for newer models 😢 2012
  12. Thx @Frederic, so a filter can be added? Didn’t know that.. will check with my garage.. thx
  13. Hello fellow Off-roaders, posting here hoping someone can help with an answer out of similar experience. The more I take my Yukon to the desert the more I notice that when I turn my A/C on and fan on high speed a blasting sand storm comes out of the a/c vents for a minute or two before it settles. I tried to look for the A/C filter to clean it but found out for 2012 models onward GMC discontinued the a/c filter they used to install behind the glove box. As this is a repeating thing, I am wondering if someone have any similar experience of a solution to prevent (long shot) or at least remove the sand by myself after each drive or even on weekly basis.. TIA
  14. 2nd Drive WL: 1. @Russ 2. @Ranjan Das 3. @Sunil Mathew 4. @Zed 5. @Adhir Saxena 6. @JeromeFJ
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