Lakshmi Narasimhan

5 hours ago, Chaitanya D said:

Dear friends

@Gregory @shu yang @Fabien Monleau @TT_Dubai @Wade Pat2 

@Lakshmi Narasimhan @Ranjan Das @N@ved @Nivin

Listing for tonight

Please remember to bring the mandatory gears , a full fuel tank and a lot of cheers. Stay COVID appropriate throughout please, its picking up to bite us again.Bring your torch for visibility in the dark.

We will use Chanel 1 for radio coms.

Myself , @N@ved and @Nivin will manage recoveries if any, well Lisaili will always have many😜🤣. @Lakshmi Narasimhan and @Ranjan Das will be stand by if we need more support .

Rest of you just enjoy the revving in this hot weather, but don't forget to keep a close watch so that your engines dont become too hot .

See you tonight 🙂

Thx Dr @Chaitanya Dalways looking for learning and love to extend my support with all seniors guidance. Fitting my lights today hopefully my drive experience will be enhanced and enjoy more night drives from now on!!!

Just now, WaYan said:

Thank you @Lakshmi Narasimhan 😄 see u on the drive soon 

See you soon on a fewbie drive!!!

Congrats @Hisham Masaad

Congrats @Trent

Congrats @Will Seivewright

Congrats @WaYan

@Alain Canivet-Abikhalil can you please share ur video recordings on my whatsapp 0559323959

Congrats @Ahab Shamaa, @Francois Germishuys, @Ilya, @Christian Andras, @Craig Finlayson, @Jorge Stepniak Felippe, @Kalahari, @Shaaz Sha and @Tero Vallas for reaching the new position introduced recently.

Congrats @Islam Soliman

Congrats @Zixuan Huang

Congrats @Anoop Nair

Congrats @Fabien Monleau

Congrats @Marky B

Congrats @Anoop Raj

My transmission heating problem was due to some dirt stopping the fan from running, once that was fixed there is no more trans overheating problem. I also tried 4HLC which also worked in churned up sand very well.

On 5/18/2021 at 11:53 AM, Lakshmi Narasimhan said:

Last week I tried driving on automatic mode for 5 min that too around 7 AM and had overheating problem with 2 auxiliary fans running. So this is a never ending problem with pajero, need to drive only on manual mode and always 👀 pop out looking into gauges!!!!

It was the fan which I install got worked sometime and doesn’t sometime as it got struck with some dirt, when that was cleared and fan running properly theres no overheating problem for the last 4 drives even on steep climbs. Pretty much relaxed now.

Thanks @Anish S & @Veedooshee once again for todays drive a perfect mix of all for a Fewbie with crossing semi technical area,  criss cross, steep climb, very soft patch. I throughly enjoyed and was able to test 4HLC and 2H in different gear and thanks for your tips.
 

Thanks @luis manteconfor being the amazing second lead, you did drive really well throughout drive it was a treat to watch you. Towards the end you had a pop-out in the small pocket which adds to your learning curve which was fixed by @Anish S in no time.

@Matt.T did perfect sweep role, keeping the communication going always. Well done in self recovery and hope you enjoyed it. It was unfortunate that you had technical problem, and with your perseverance sorted out on your own. Good to know that you reached home safely. Hope you get it fixed asap. Kudos to @PaoloMaraziti for making sure he reached home safely. 
 

@PaoloMaraziti definitely you have improved a lot and you started enjoying that reflected in your drive today. Keep it up.

@nihalyou did drive well today, If you maintain safe distance it would have been perfect, nothing to worry I am also improving on it.

@Farouq Owdehhope you enjoyed driving today on the churned up sand which would have given you more experience.

Over all we had minor refusals which were self recovered and only one assisted recovery which is very good. 

And special thanks to @Veedoosheefor being copilot and assisting in fixing popout, rerouting me when I went on other side.

I thank you all for joining todays drive and enjoying and demonstrating great team effort. Hope to see you all again soon. Have a nice week ahead.

5 minutes ago, GauravSoni said:

I am sure that was learning for both of us!

Every minute of drive is learning only.

Looking forward to windup the week well and start fresh with a fun drive and meeting you all!!!!

Thanks @Islam Soliman for the nice drive @Emmanuel, @Lawrence_Chehimi,  @Ahab Shamaa and @Watteaufor the support.
Thanks to all the friends for joining the wonderful drive full of fun, challenge and lots of learning. Probably lets start little early next time to spend more time driving during the summer.
Thanks @Gaurav Sonifor the tips to handle Pajero’s limitation driving over 4000 rpm. Tried couple of time to challenge but Pajero stayed true to the limitation and applied your tips which really worked there after climbing the dune. Good learning for me.

Looking forward to join another wonderful drive asap. Have a nice week ahead.
 

See you all tomorrow morning

Special thanks 🙏 to @Frederic for helping me in reaching without trouble !!!!

Thanks @Tbone for this fantastic drive and choice of terrain. It was absolutely a virgin track and almost bush free. Was drenched in the beauty of the land scape and chasing the rising sun and moon following us. Thanks to @Janarthanfor sweeping the convoy to safety and recovering and    @Xavier Treasurerfor the second lead @Ruan van den Heeverfor CF who did a great job.

Thanks to @Warren Flay, @Karthikeyan Govindarajan, @Zed, @Hasan Wahlan, @Farouq Owdeh for joining the wonderful drive and all the fun together and learning something new.

Thanks once again @Tbone for finishing the drive on time and setting a perfect start for the week end.

@Chaitanya Das you said sweihan was truly wonderful area to drive, thanks for letting me know.

It was 100% worth waking up early and traveling from Sharjah, I am sure will visit again frequently. Hope to see you all again in yet another wonderful drive. Have a nice week end!!!

1 minute ago, Zed said:

From Sharjah! You my friend got my respect ✊🏻😊. So I guess the Marshal must be amazing that he's worthy to follow, or Sweihan is calling to the dune-lovers, or both! 😁

Both and also to meet/make friends from Abudhabi!!! Got to know drives in AUH are much more advanced!!!

First drive in Abudhabi and Sweihan, looking forward to meet you all friends from AUH and have a fun drive together!!!

2 minutes ago, Zed said:

Rest well marshal @Tbone, to be at 4am in Abu Dhabi looks like you gotta leave Dubai after midnight 😂 Looking forward for reunion with some Abu Dhabi regulars tomorrow 😊

I will have to wake up mid night to come from Sharjah!!!