Anoop Nair

Thanks @Frederic Thank you @Chinthaka Ruwan hope to meet you on sand soon

Thank you @Gaurav for this, please note that my profile still mentions Fewbie. Appreciate if you could amend the same so that the trip leads will not get confused when I join the invites. thanks again Thanks Ale @Ale Vallecchi Hoping you see you soon on one of your FB+ drives.

@Tareck well done. Congrats

Thanks @MANOJ NAIR hope to see you soon.

thank you @Tareck congrats to you as well, see you on FB+ Thanks @Hisham Masaadsee you soon on the sand.. thank you @Islam Soliman see you soon on sand and hoping to do better next time. Thank you @M.Seidam hoping you see you soon on sand thanks @Sunil Mathew c u soon. Thanks Greg @Gregory expect you to follow the suit soon,

Hi @Islam Soliman Can you please waitlist me - second drive for the weekend

Hi @Neil Jarman Welcome to Carnity. I live in Mira too. I have a Manual Jeep as well, but still getting a hang of it. See you soon in the desert.

I have the same Sony headend unit and have been using it with Apple play for the last 4 months without any issue. Not the most savviest interface but no issues with connectivity etc.

@Islam Soliman unfortunately something at work has come up on Saturday and I will not be able to make it to the drive. Really sorry about it and I will remove myself from the attendees list. Hope to catch up with you soon..😬

Hi @Janarthan I managed to get invited to the other fewbie drive on Friday by Tbone. So please drop my name from the waiting list. thanks

Hi @TboneI confirm my availability. Please add me to the list. see you on Friday. Thanks

Can you pls waitlist me, 2nd drive for weekend thanks

Can you pls waitlist me, second drive for weekend

Hi Richard , can you pls waitlist me-2nd drive for the weekend thanks

@Zixuan Huang - Charlie Charlie if you remember last drive also I had the issue of the gear getting stiff towards latter part of the drives, It was assumed that the issue is related to the oil. I have taken it to the garage and they have opened the transmission and it appears that the fork assembly and first and second gear synchronisers needs to be changed. Parts are on 1 week order and they advised me if we close up and drive further while we wait for the parts there is a chance of damaging the other synchronisers as well. so I left the car there and hopefully it will be ready for the next weekend. 🙄

@Kailas I will have to pull out from this one as my car is still at garage and they are working on the gear box (same issue I had when I was in your drive in al Qudra. Was expecting the car today but they advised now that it will be only ready next week due to the delayed ETA on some parts 😒. Hope to catch up with you soon.

@Islam Soliman Unfortunately I have pull out form this as my car is still at the garage as are working on the gear box. I was expecting it back tomorrow and they just advised it will be ready only by next week 🙄. I will remove my name and hopefully will catch up with you soon. Thanks

Hi @Kailas can you pls waitlist me for this - 2nd drive for the weekend

congrats @Sunil Mathew well done

@Looper i also have a mi one along with mean mother for precisely the same reason 😁

Thanks Zed @Zed very informative article. You are now slowly but surely nudging into Fred's @Frederic territory 😁. Really good one

Hi @Anish S unfortunately my car is having some issues and I will have to pull out. I will remove my name and hope to see you on sand soon

@Gaurav That was checked first couple of weeks back when I had this issue first and was assured that there is no issue- I service it at one of the jeep specialists. Admittedly I was not in the room when they checked and would try to stay there this time 😬

Thanks @Srikumar @Gaurav thanks for the guidance, I will have to go though this in details during the Eid break to find out the root cause, starting with the oil. I don't think its a burnt clutch. It has done only 70K KMs, so that should not be a factor. It seems there is no issue affecting the on road behaviour or shifting. It does not also improve if i pump the clutch multiple times either before shifting. Feels like it is directly related to the temperature inside so which again point to the quality of oil as Gaurav mentioned. I will start with the same and see how it goes. TIA

Evening Friends, In the last 2-3 drives, towards the latter half of the drive, my gear appears to be very stiff and even at full clutch down position i would need a lot of force to move between first-second and reverse. It happened on couple of afternoon drives and also on one morning drives mostly during the third hour. In the last drive with @Kailas it was stuck on neutral and I had to stop and wait for 5 minutes and then to put it on reverse then to first gear. It seems like happening when I have to do lot of shits between first and second gears. During all these occasions the engine temperature dial was showing normal- just above halfway mark. I had taken it to the garage after the previous drive and they said the clutch fluid was low and they topped up the same. But same issue has happened in the next drive as well. Appreciate if any of you have any observations / suggestions to solve this issue. @Gaurav @Frederic @Srikumar any thoughts as you drive manual cars and might have experienced something similar. TIA Anoop