Thomas Varghese

Really sorry I overslept and didn't hear the alarm going off. Too late to start from here. Please carry on..

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I'm back

@GauravSoni I had to leave the drive due to work commitments. Sorry

Congrats @Mike M.. Well deserved.

Its upto the club to change rules for the benefit of the majority but not right to apply the rules for a drive announced earlier before the change was enforced.

I made my contribution last week after @Ale Vallecchi's drive. We got to support Abu Dhabi for providing us roads in such remote areas.

@Ale Vallecchi sorry i can't join. Just now my youngest daughter informed me that she has her ACCA exams on 10th and I have to pick and drop her

Calender is not open

I think the weekend drives for one drive will be Saturday & Sunday.

I'm in

Yes @Ale Vallecchi did announce but unfortunately I didn't find any speed signs on the way and realized I crossed the speed limit when the camera took a picture of my car.

U mean after @Ale Vallecchi's drive? Welcome my friend, I got too and immediately paid 195 AED

Dear @Gaurav I have to sign out of the drive as I need to give the car to workshop now after noticing abnormal vibration from the suspension. Really sorry.

Dear Mayank, I got fed up of all the lies the garages thrust upon me to make money. The guys who know the job lie a lot and the guys who don't lie don't know how to operate an OBD scan tool to diagnose. The fact is when you find your car is underperforming you take it to a garage to solve it. The max they do is scan your car for fault codes and clear them if its a minor fault and the car comes back to normal operation. This the maximum a garage does to repair your car as they also don't have time to observe the car readings in live view while driving. I got fed up of this and the amount of money I kept spending to scan the car and repair it. Most of the times the car throws a code to the ECM when something upsets the electrical connections. The mechanic reads the code and asks you to replace that sensor, this connector. 90% of the time this solves the problem temporarily but the problem comes back. I decided to take matters into my own hands by having a professional scanner as I got extremely fed up. Bought an Autel Maxicheck MX808Ts for 1800 AED from a shop in Sharjah with 2 years update subscription. My car has been seen at a different perspective from day 1 I bought this scanner. Started viewing the live data from the ECM and understood many things which I was not aware of before. Most of the times we do offroading, the ECM throws a code and it remains in the system affecting all other parameters of the ECM software. Especially the old vehicles like my XTERRA 2008. You saw how my car climbed all the way to the top of the Big Red without much effort and was ready to do a criss cross over Big Red. It was not possible before I bought the scanner and the car was struggling to even climb 3/4 of what I did today. I understood it was because the earlier fault codes are stored in the ECM as past codes and the ECM cuts power when the same situation arises to protect the components of the car from breaking apart. Now a days after a drive I clean the air filter, reinflate tires and scan the car immediately for fault codes, clear the codes and drive back home. It gives me better fuel consumption and acceleration. Yesterday the Autel scanner had a major update which enabled my scanner to even code which means some functions became bi directional and I can set values for fuel systems like adjust the injector pulse, advance or retard the ignition timing, play with the VVT system etc. I still didn't alter any values as I need more research into the values to be set. I will eventually learn it. An OBD scanner is an essential tool to be in the tool box of an offroader as anything can happen inside the desert. If I didn't have the scanner with me today most probably all of you would have been cursing me as my car was in a weird angle and went into limp mode. Someone would have had to tow me out. The moment I located the code and cleared it the car started to perform normally. After towing me out I could have taken the car back to a garage in only a recovery. The scan tool saved me from all this. Maybe the code would have cleared if I disconnect and reconnect the battery but please understand its only a hack which may or maynot work.