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@Kailas Please waitlist me for my 2nd drive of the week.

@Srikumar My tires are 245/75/17s, yes they are AT. Bridgestone Dueler A/T. I have been told by the service center that the tires have unevenly worn out, I assume it is a by product of driving in the desert. 

On the way to achieving the quest of reaching 1 km in ascent, recording of the drive on my car said we did it and then did some more. 1.644 km to be precise.

Thanks a lot @Lorenzo Candelpergher for the drive.  It was an unrelenting drive, and towards the end the heat affecting the car and I getting a bit tired caused a couple of refusals. A big thanks to @Alexander Alcala for guiding me out of them. 

@Alexander Alcala you mentioned I fishtail a lot. I explained to you that due to the lower clearance of my stock car coupled with stock tires cause me to scoop sand and I loose momentum. That is my assessment, but could there be any other reasons?

Also a big thanks to @Shaaz Sha and @Hisham Masaad for the support roles. @Javier Lucero,  you did well as the second lead.

update: The clinic gave me an test ID number and said should call DHA to ask them to update the app. But gentleman at DHA advised me that the Turnaround time is 30 hours within which the DHA will update the App. 

I had my test done yesterday evening and got the negetiv test result in the morning. Did the test at a private clinic because it is near my house in walking distance.

My COVID test results are not showing up on the App, I am trying to resolve it.

I am trying to call AlHosn app help line which is turning on some kind of podcast like message and also trying the clinic.

Can anyone let me know what I should do?

@Kailas can you place me in waiting list ? 

I am in. Thanks a lot @Islam Soliman

Please waitlist me for this drive. It will be my 2nd one. 

Does anyone have Gaia GPS stats for this drive? 

@Ale VallecchiThank you very much!

@Ale Vallecchi if there is any spot available I would like to join this drive. This will be my 2nd drive for the week.

It’s gorgeous clip. Download Garmin VIRB application, and open this clip. You might be able to add some cool gauges. I was not successful becauseI think I recorded at full 2.7k, which is not supported perhaps. 

7 hours ago, Lorenzo Candelpergher said:

even though occasionally a bit too close

Did I not hear that before? I was trying to keep enough distance to not break the momentum but yet not too far away that I loose track of the lead, and the terrain did not help. I try to anticipate the moves made by the lead and try to keep up but those technical dunes made it a bit difficult to judge sometimes.

The terrain was a deceiving one as mentioned by @Lorenzo Candelpergher in the beginning of the drive and was made abundantly clear by my many refusals. The sand would look compact only to be discovered that is it smoother than baby powered, and I would find myself having a situation that I would eventually get out anyways.

I enjoyed the drive every bit as much as all of us did. Normally the intermediate drives are fast, and one might not find any time to take any photographs, but not this one. A few I took are in the gallery.

@Lorenzo Candelpergher can you please confirm the time. I believe it is 5:00 hrs, though the calendar says 7:15 am. 

One more issue with the Apex deflators - they pressure out so fast that they condense the air in the tire as the air cools down rapidly, and it will show a lower pressure till the air inside the tire comes back to normal temperature.

So when I set the tire pressure to 12 psi, in the first instance in a minute or so it comes back to 14 psi. I do a couple of rounds to deflate back to 12 from around 14.

Congratulations @Hisham Masaad

Yeah I am in. Need to build that 10 Intermediate drive track now quickly to join the extreme drives. I think the car needs to be upgraded as well. Don't have no lift or larger tyres. Most of my upgrades are for convince only. 

I am leaving this event to join a intermediate drive. @Zixuan Huang might be able to take the position.

Seems there is no gallery for this drive, to post images.

I bought my first 70 mai device because it is the most economical and value for money option. 2nd one because I already had one. 

Appearing as knowledgeable about 70mai as I current do, 😂, I’d not have not bought the older camera, other than for the fact that plus+ model was not released when I bought mine.

Jokes apart, one point I want to make clear that,  being a dashboard camera and not a action camera. I am uncertain how it will transcode the GPS telemetry details. From the looks of it, it could just watermark it to the video as it does the date & time. Action cams such as Garmin VIRB and GoPro 9 etc they include the GPS data as part of the video, which can be used to overlay over the video. Garmin VIRB app allows other device video as well but GoPro is locked to its own devices. 

I am using a lengthy process to do mine if anyone is interested, since VIRB was not able to use the video form my dash cam, to playback. 

I had a dashboard camera in my previous car so when i bought my Jeep I bought one for it too. I had a even older 70mai device on it. When I sold my previous car kept the camera with me. Used it in the rear sometimes. 

4 minutes ago, Niki said:

@Goutam massive thanks again… you just saved me a trip!  That’s the store I was planning to visit.  

Will stick with Amazon as it’s also easier to return if any issues!  
 

noce to see your advice helping many more in my position also! 

Sharing is caring my friend. I am glad could help, with mostly useless knowledge I have for most of my friends in the real world.

70mai Smart Dash Cam Pro Plus Sets A500S 5MP Resolution/Free Wifi / 24-hours Parking Monitor / 140 Degree Wide View Angle/Dual Video Recording https://www.amazon.ae/dp/B07Y6VDF46/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_R76D5YZH97VG08EJFCHP

this is the device one should get. Along with the hardware kit if needed.

I had my second device set up on the back of my car to record the rear view, and on the Jeep it gets continuous power to that outlets, and it would make the device too hot. And it would continuously record even. But i think pro version was not built for continuous power to begin with.

I think i have the DashCam Pro, the GPS is useless on that and the ADAS is more nuisance than of any use. I do not use it.

Not sure but Pro Plus+ seems to be able to record GPS telemetrics, which would be useable later to add waypoints etc or to overlay on the videos even.

@Niki Are you referring to the store that is on the ground floor of the new parking building, as soon as you come down the escalator? The prices seemed to be a on the higher side than the amazon for the product I was looking for (I was not looking for dashcam though). 

The price as per the online dragon mart is unbeatable for this, but as you mentioned you have to be careful for the version number. I have a couple of versions and the 2nd one is what I am currently using and that allows the watermark to be removed. First one does not allow removing the water mark, with the same software on the phone. Xiaomi keeps updating their models without any notice as such and it is a stress figuring out which one is current. 

I have bought this one:

https://www.amazon.ae/dp/B083KV8LRC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_DNiC2A7moWXwK
 

but suggest buy the latest one. In my device it does not record GPS, and you would want to have it record GPS so that you can extract it.

with the Garmin app it is easy to do. 

I have to overlay the Gaia using app which is time consuming.