Thomas Varghese

I believe 1 slot is available as @Danish Mohammad dropped out.

can I join for this drive @Foxtrot Oscar ?

congrats @Gaurav Soni

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I put the Dunlop Grandtrek myself just before joining Carnity😪. Can't blame anyone. The tires have done only 15k kms so far and it will be a waste if I dump them now. Will keep it for 3 or 4 months and once they reach 50k to 60k kms will dump them for AT tires. So far the Grandtrek didn't give me much trouble though even when I drove them at 11 psi. Only once 1 tire ran flat and I suspect I did something during the drive so that one tire lost its air. Must have turned the car abruptly or must have hit something during the last leg of the drive as lights were totally faded after sun set. Moreover the tire just aired up and is still going great, whereas I thought the tire is finished seeing the marks on the side wall.

After some research on this subject I have come to the conclusion that we can reduce up to 2/3 of the manufacturer's recommended tire pressure to drive on sand but have to go back to the recommended tire pressure immediately as we hit the tarmac.

How I wished to be in this drive. But as I already have a drive I should step aside and give someone else who doesn't have a drive a chance

congrats @Michael Glavanis. See you soon in the fewbie drives

@Rahimdad what you wrote is true. When I started off as an absolute newbie I was really afraid to reduce the tire pressure to less than 18 psi as it was H/T tires even though @Frederic the Marshal insisted I keep it at 15 psi. Well I agreed but didn't go lower than 18 - the result was stuck after stuck. Then @sertac came to my aid and to my horror reduced the tire pressure to 14 psi. I couldn't resist his intervention and suddenly realized that stucks were getting eliminated and I could self recover. So I started to keep it at 14 psi for the rest of the drives. In a drive with @Ale Vallecchi and @Kalahari there was a bad stuck in too soft sand and they instructed me to reduce the tire pressure to 11 psi which I promptly did and could somehow come out and drove the rest of the drive with the same pressure. This new discovery that I could drive at 11 psi and still not have a pop out boosted my confidence so much to the point of arrogance that I started to drive at 12 psi as 11 psi was little uncomfortable for me regarding doubts about having a pop out. During the last fewbie plus drive with @Foxtrot Oscar I started the drive at 12 psi and regularly checked the pressure and could drive comfortably and with confidence. At the end of the drive when we were about to inflate I found 1 of the tires was running flat with no air to my horror. I doubted it was a puncture but as there was no choice in the evening in a deserted place and as I had the compressor I promptly inflated the tire and drove on. But the fear of a flat tire happening was lingering all through my drive back home. To my surprise when I checked the tire pressure in the morning it was holding the same I put the last night. This confirmed my doubt that it was a pop out which happened during the drive. The next drive with @Foxtrot Oscar I didn't go below the 13 psi and nothing happened even though I was constantly checking all the tires whenever I got the opportunity because of the previous pop out experience. I think for my car and tire 13 psi should be the optimum and anything lower could put me in trouble.

@Foxtrot Oscar the night drive with my stock halogen lights finally encouraged & pushed me to try the new adventure day night drive with @Wrangeld and @Chaitanya D. The lights were not that powerful but not that inadequate. I could manage.

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Unfortunately this picture had some dust particle on the lens which can be seen.

Hi angela @Foxtrot Oscar kindly cancel my waitlist request. I joined the day night drive on Friday. Wanted to join them all along but was little apprehensive about joining the day night drive as I have only stock halogen headlights. As @Wrangeld and @Chaitanya D has reassured that its safe to do so I joined that drive. Thank you for including me in the WL Please exclude me now.

As everybody were experienced drivers and the convoy was never stopping and kept going on and on except towards the end of the drive at almost darkness I didn't get much chance to shoot more pictures. 😪. Somebody should get stuck sometimes to give time to photographers like me to take some pictures. 😅