Looper

@Athula Dharmadada congratulations!

@Piotr Kolodziej Congratulations 

@Chaitanya D Congratulations on your promotion. Well deserved. 

It was more like a spaghetti of a loop but it was a wonderful time driving behind the wheel. A lot of technical learning  experience for me. Thank you very much @Wrangeld and @Jeepie for the drive and hope I did not cause you to more workout than intended.  

Heres the recordings from:

All Trails

Gaia GPS

and a few pics I took:

New tech for me, all the bells and whistles for me. specially in the interior. While New tech has more points of failure but at the same time the new cars are also more reliable. Apart from Hummer EV, Tesla Cybertruck and Rivian R1T are more or less well received.

Congratulation on your promotion 👍

Looks like it is going to be a Jeep Rally. 8 of the 14 registered members have Jeeps

1 minute ago, Krishnakumar said:

Hi @Frederic, please add me to the waiting list for this evening drive.

 

This is last week drive 

A big thanks to @Frederic for leading the convoy. @Chaitanya D was very helpful at back guiding stuck me. Also a big thumbs up for @Kailas guiding me on a couple of spots. All in all it was a wonderful experience and most difficult trails till date for me. But with all the help and guidance I learnt a lot.

AllTrails

Gaia GPS

Wow looks fantastic , hope I will also get to drive this trail in the future.

It helps to be Sunday off for me. Always early to get a slot.

Another Application you can check out is Gaia GPS. I use All Trails one because I have a pro subscription - not sure why I took it 🤔 - perhaps because it shows few off-road tracks in UAE unlike Gaia.

@Frederic done this post on it. 

Thank you @Asif Hussain for leading us on a wonderful drive at Sweihan, and congratulations on your promotion. I hope I will drive many more drives with you.

Thanks @Srikumar for guiding us and helping us out when we found ourselves stuck in the sand.

@Mikhail Lukichev - wonderful pics thanks a lot.

I have a All Trails Recording: Here 

Few pics I took.

On 10/6/2020 at 8:14 PM, Omar Al-khoori said:

Dear Gurav, i drive a 2 door Jeep Wrangler sport. I am kind a new to desert driving and yes my car does have front and rear towpoints. Also, I went looking for a radio in car shops around dubai but couldn’t find find, is it really necessary, if yes any suggestions?

You have to go to Dragon Mart 1 to buy radios. They are available in many shops in the BA section of the mall. 

Hi All, 

I see a lot of non-GCC spec cars in the second hand market & off brand showrooms. I was wondering what are the benefits and pitfalls of buying those cars.

Only thing I reason I could think why one would import such cars is either they are not available here or if they are then they are cheaper. I was considering Suzuki Jimny last year - which was only available at off-brand showrooms as import but it was a lot more expensive compared to the UK version listed there. Other cars that are available here they are cheaper if they are imports.

Well I can report that it really helped me to set up the mirrors the way it has been mentioned in the video. In my Jeep driver side mirror went all the way out still it did not reach the desired level of setting mentioned in the video, however the new setting greatly helped me in the visibility. After been driven Santa Fe that indicated cars in blind spot, I used to be uncomfortable in the Jeep, and always a bit more anxious. 

Thank you @Gaurav and @Kalahari and rest of the convoy for this tremendous drive today. 

All Trails Link: https://www.alltrails.com/explore/recording/evening-hike-674bfc5--8?p=-1

For Second consecutive drive I had a Yellow Jeep Wrangler twin. I really like this picture of it I took today.

Thanks @Gaurav

It is a 3.3l V6, and being used mostly by my wife now. It has been like this from the beginning, and in fact even the test vehicle we rode 3 years ago before buying our car was similarly slow to cool.

Due to the nature of my work before which was going to office early and returning late - I never noticed the difference. But after I bought my jeep, I could compare the difference in cooling speed.

I will check with Ampex as you have mentioned, since I never before asked anyone - even the dealer.

Do you think applying tint will help cool the car a bit faster?

I have a 2017 Santa Fe, top end version. It is in completely stock condition - without any tint.

The AC in the car takes a lot of time before it cools down. It has been like this since I bought the car, and I understand that Hyndai Car ACs are not very powerful. Any advice what I can do about it.

Thanks a lot!

Thank you very much @Srikumar and especially @Jeepie for being patient with absolute newbies like me and guiding us from the beginning. It was a wonderful experience and looking forward to many more adventures as part to the club.

21 minutes ago, Goutam said:

Hi @Ale Vallecchi, I was late by 5 min. Can you please add me to the waiting list?

Please ignore, I too got a place in the other drive. Thanks.

Hi @Ale Vallecchi, I was late by 5 min. Can you please add me to the waiting list?

Hi Sri,

I will be bringing my Jeep Wrangler Sport 2 door 2019 model year in Yellow stock. It's a Jeep so yes it has the front and rear hooks. (I suppose). This will be my absolute first off-roading experience and looking forward to it.

Thanks, Goutam