Warren Flay

Great drive in a beautiful part of the world. Thanks Chaitanya for leading a tight team. Again I learnt a lot and had a heap of fun.

Of interest to Pajero owners, I put in a K&N filter this week and my fuel consumption for offroad halved. It cost 313 aed but the extra power alone made it worthwile. Recommended.

27 minutes ago, Zed said:

hi @Warren Flay kindly refer to ADMediaOffice screenshot on this page >> https://www.instagram.com/p/CKqh0YBBBh8/?igshid=ce2jn0ytcmqk

The footnote says u don't need test to enter Abu Dhabi, but the E icon is green with outer yellow. Not sure if this is the same icon you have on your Al Hosn.

Just checked Zed, my 'E' is yellow with yellow script on a green field. New this month, the app lists my vaccination dates along with alll of my previous test results.

36 minutes ago, Lakshmi Narasimhan said:

I am aware of dpi and pcr tests, I already travel for projects again if i have to go thru the pcr test for drives will be too much load on me. Planning that would be a challenge for me, let me wait for a month get vaccinated and join Abudhabi drives without any need for planning and struggle. 

If you have the Al Hosn app with the yellow 'E' can you access Abu Dhabi without need for test?

Great drive team, nice to meet you all and looking forward to the next!

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I had EFS coils and dampers fitted in Al Quoz and the cost was 2800aed plus fitting. 40mm lift nett and I am very happy with the results, no more slowing down for speed bumps in the off road badlands of Al Ghadeer! 😂

On 3/25/2021 at 2:54 PM, Gaurav said:

That's a sweet deal for 30k kms in 6 years.

Just hope there is no long gap of a year or two or three parked inside, as that's not good for any car. If 30k reasonably spread across 6 years then its perfect.

Totally agree with Gaurav. I would be wary of a car that has only done 5k a year (on average), here where 30k a year is normal, I'd be happy with a 6 year old car that had done 120km. Just sayin'... I hope the owner gave it a bloody good run now and then.

Update: 2016 Pajero SWB, front bashplate fitted. Second drive with Carnity March 26. 

24 degrees at start and up to 40 degrees celsius by end of drive, no stucks or refusals, used Tiptronic shift exclusively (2nd and 3rd gears only) No overheating at all.

Thank you Vanessa and Islam, I had a fantastic day and the first 'clean' round of my career😂. The Gajero was flawless with her new bashplates and 2 inch lift kit (thanks Icon) now if only I could get better than 44 litres per 100 km life would be good...

Lovely to meet my new offroad buddies Gautam and Tim, Gautam driving the family Pajero was perfect for me to follow (anywhere the big bus could go, the little Gajero could follow) and I raised many a smile watching Tim plow the sand with his 300 thousand dirham shovel (at one stage I saw the nose wings go deep and I thought he was going to have to switch off his vibrating, massaging, leather captain chair THAT'S VENTILATED and concentrate!)

Great day and looking forward to the next one already🤙

I hope all is false alarm brother. Be well.

That page confuses me. My old 3.0 4 spd SWB used to hum along at 140 and my newer 3.8 5 spd SWB is even smoother.

5 minutes ago, jeetu sharma said:

@Warren Flay just out of curiosity what gears were you using or rather which gear did you maintain consistently?

It was an absolute newbie drive so I'm not sure how relevant my feedback is but for what it's worth, I used 2nd for the soft/uphill/turning parts and 3rd for everthing else (3.8 litre/5 speed)

First desert drive in my 2016 SWB today. Transmission overheat alarm sounded during a self recovery and again when in convoy. I stopped using D and went to Tiptronic, alarm went away.

Hey thanks for the brilliant introductory drive guys, what a superb day. I learned heaps and definitely caught the bug. 

Done. Thanks Boss

Wazza, 2016 Pajero SWB, zero sand skills, standard car with standard towing eyes.