Thomas Varghese

Hi @Shaaz Sha and fellow desert offroaders, I have a suggestion to make regarding the name of this drive. It should have been Dune, Dunes & More Dunes. OMG what a drive. Right from the beginning to end it was only one dune after another. After climbing some dunes and then encountering more which looked so impressive as super bowl, iftar bowl, pink rock or big red I started to awe about the dunes in that particular area. Wherever you look there are more dunes beckoning us to climb them and @Shaaz Sha gave us our fill of dune bashing today. The best part is no one in the convoy shied away from the challenge and infact seemed to enjoy them and thirst for more as if its dunes for breakfast. I even liked the part when the lead @Shaaz Sha stopped his car and let us play the climbs under his watchful eyes. Man we had our fill of dune bashing today. After deflation and putting up our flags to start the drive @Ashok chaturvedi sir just eyed the dune next to us and jokingly commented let us start by climbing this mean looking dune. Shaaz who always prepares the recipe for his drive slowly and gives us the time for warm up just started the drive by climbing the mean looking dune next to us like he put all the chilli, onions, mustard and the remaining spices into the hot oil in one shot and just wroomed into the dune with Ashok trailing him as a good 2nd lead. None in the convoy hesitated and followed the lead and the 2nd lead without batting an eye lid. The tone of the drive was set from that time. Don't know how Shaaz got this amazing route. 1 dune, 2 dune, 3 dune, dunes after dunes followed. The convoy responded better than a Fewbie Plus level and elevated themselves to an IM level or sometimes even into an Extreme level when it came to climbing those dunes. @Stav,@Waqas Parvez, @Vaibhav, @Rsjiv Samuel, @MMansoor, @imranaasghar81, @Junaid120120 all drove extremely well considering the terrain with minimal refusals or stucks. Thank you Mayank @munkybizness for displaying your prowess in tugging out @Stav from the crested situation - I believe it was the only time the rope was needed. He displayed his worthiness as a true CF by ready with clear instructions when someone had a refusal which was rare today. I believe he will soon apply for his role as a support team member and will be a good team player. What should I comment for our 2nd lead @Ashok chaturvedi. I will not as he is a very senior member in @Carnity and executed the responsibility perfectly as per the wishes of the lead. In short we had enormous fun in the morning. Will join more of Shaaz drives in the future.

4 X 4 dashboard indicator disappearance in Xterra - Nissan Xterra Forum in UAE - Carnity.com The reason for the 4X4 lights blinking is because of 2 reasons in Xterra. 1. The transfer case is still under stress and the car cannot disengage from 4X4 mode to 2X4 mode. Easiest way to stop the lights flashing and to re engage 2X4 is to reverse the car a car length. Powering the car with short bursts on the accelerator while going forward also helps but not as instant as reversing the car. If your lights stopped flashing and 2H engaged after driving 200 mts consider yourself lucky as its not very usual for the transfer case to release the built up stress with this run unless you gave the short bursts of power. 2. The second cause is more troublesome as sometimes the transfer case actuator motor solenoid becomes weak. Need to get it replaced as soon as you can. As you cannot get the solenoid separate you have to replace the motor.

Hi @Shaaz Sha sorry I got to leave the drive for personal reasons. Give my spot to the next in the waitlist.

@Islam Soliman due to a meeting which came up I have to withdraw from the drive. See you later in the sands.

As far as I understand with SEHA PCR appointments booking even if your appointment is some other day and time they will accept you once you show up with the appointment bar code. They want you to book the appointment because they need your payment online. This is what SEHA Khawaneej told me when I showed up without an appointment. They made me book an appointment for some other day and made me pay online and asked me to proceed for the PCR screening then and there.

Now he can't. He is brand ambassador for loops. Check out his car & jacket

Speedex too in Sheikh Zayed Road. Dragon mart flags are cheaper compared to Ace & Speedex

its a 2.5 l turbo engine car. Off road capabilities? Probably you can do a newbie, fewbie drive. Not the above levels. Nothing like the XTERRA of yesteryears. Its like the Pathfinders which came after the classic Pathfinder.

It was almost same story here. When I went to Arabian Auto to purchase my sedan in 2010 I had seen the Xterra in the showroom. I didn't like the shape of the car and didn't even bother to look inside to see what the car is all about. For me it looked like the ugliest SUV I have ever seen and made up my mind I will never even buy such a bad looking car. Fast forward to 2020, when I 1st drove the Xterra as it was forced on to me, the moment I took it out of the basement it was resting for 2 years and went for a spin in Deira I wanted to kick myself for not buying one of these as new in 2010. I fell in love with the car that moment. What a loss the company discontinued this model in 2015 and there is no way I could experience a new Xterra.

Both share the same engine, same gear, probably the differentials too and of course the same suspension. Pathfinder is a more comfortable car than Xterra but I believe the weight is slightly more than the X.

I'm in.

Its the best picture I shot that day. The shot denotes power, about to sprint into the unknown but the best feeling I get seeing that pic is the car looks majestic.

I love my car @Looper. More than that I love the red Xterra of @Shaaz Sha. Its a beauty to watch it scaling all the dunes available here. It just keeps on going and going. Never shies from a climb. Wish my car can do the same. My car does 90% of what that red Xterra does.

Congrats Goutam @Looper for the well deserved promotion to support team. I had blessed you when you donated your kinetic rope to me when we drove last time. By the way the rope was helpful in my last drive. Thank you. Does this promotion mean we will see you soon as a lead too?