Gurcharan Mehta

Hi, for this drive, the message states long range patrol's stuff, would a jeep's (392) fuel capacity be an issue?

Thanks, and I look forward to hitting the sand with the 392.

Hello Davie,

Unfortunately, I will have to cancel tomorrow's journey because the 392 has developed a "Serv4WD" alarm and is currently in the workshop. It will take a few days for diagnostics, and then we will know how long it will take to fix the problem. Kindly excuse me, and thank you for your understanding. regards Gurcharan (driving 392—a Jeep thing) 

On 10/25/2023 at 3:15 AM, DP1011 said:

@Gurcharan Mehta Your first fantastic decision - Jeep 😉, and second one is 392🔥😁😁! Welcome to "Jeep brotherhood"😂

haha, thanks for having me 😂

6 minutes ago, Davie Chase said:

@Gurcharan Mehta no issue what vehicle will you be bringing?

I'll be bringing a jeep Wrangler 392

Hey Davie,

Hope you're well, just wanted to say that I'll be driving a different vehicle and have gotten all the equipment required

2 hours ago, Rizwanm2 said:

Good afternoon, sand sailers

@Imteeaz @Krishna R @Gurcharan Mehta @Ishak @Felix Obst @Patrick van der Loo @Mark B @Bjoern @Chris Wing @Mahmoud Taha @Looper @Davie Chase 

also i would like to invite waitlist members @Amr Aydin @Zed to join the drive. yes it long train but i trust all of you guys👍.

Also i noticed that tomorrow sunrise is at 5.30 so we should be able to start the drive by early morning. So im changing meeting time at 5.15 AM  and lets drive off by 5.30 AM 

Kindly everyone confirm, i will post the convoy list later today. 

 

Hey @Rizwanm2, unfortunately will have to pass as the drive would be a bit too early for me. Enjoy the drive!

Hey, I am at the location, but not seeing anyone. 

Congratulations @Looper on your first lead. It was a very fun drive and am looking forward to more of your drives in the future. Likewise, it was nice meeting you after a longer period of time.

@GauravSoni, @premindra rajaram and @Juan R it was nice meeting you all, hope to catch up again soon.

10 hours ago, Frederic said:

Hope your get better soon @Ashutosh Garg,

@Gurcharan Mehta ive added you to the convoy list in Ashustosh his position (11)
See you tomorrow morning ! 

Alright thanks, looking forward to the drive!

Although I was looking forward to the drive, I am unfortunately having to withdraw as the lead suggested I go to a lower level. Have a fun drive

@Asif Hussain Hey, sorry I think I joined the drive by accident, apologies for the confusion.

Oh alright, and you didn't feel a loss in power compared to stock?

Hey @JamesThorn, sorry for restarting this post after a while. Just had a question, when you put your 315/70s did you end up regearing?

Hello @Ale Vallecchi, due to the dense fog we have reduced our speed, ETA is 7:05

Hello All,

I am looking at picking up a 2 door chevy silverado trailboss. However, I am not too sure whether to get the brand new variant or an early 2022/ late 2021 version. In the newest one, they offer a floor shifter with paddle shifters, which seems to be a neat feature, whereas in the older varient, they give the regular column shifter. I'm a little hesitant about the column shifter as I'm used to a floor shifter, coming from a land cruiser and, its quite easy to use tiptronic. So, I'm asking all column shifter users whether using tiptronic on a column shifter is easy to use or whether it'd be a better idea to get the one with paddle shifters. 

1 hour ago, Ale Vallecchi said:

Dear Desertnauts

fresh off the plane, let's plan tomorrow's trip.

First thing, the meeting point has been set at Faqa's sabkha, reachable by taking the exit just before that of the actual Faqa Town. Please note that the meeting time will be 7AM, and that we'll try to start as close to the meeting time as possible (so try to reach a little earlier.

The drive plans to drive in a northerly direction, across the slip-faces, hence we may have to drive with a little more patience, to find the right places where to criss-cross the soft slopes and ridges. Initially we'll find more ling range dunes, which will leave room to more technical terrain, made more unpredictable by a bit of vegetation. Once arrived at Murqaab, depending on the time we'll have taken, we may either continue north, across a more technical area, toward the sabkhas just west of Margham, on the way to Lisaili's long range dunes, or we may take a shortcut on the "highway to Solar Park", and reach Lisaili plateau through this shorter route.

The convoy will line up as follows:

@Alexanderrr in Second Lead

@Zulfikhar Naiyar at #3

@Paolo Pellegrini #4

@Jessica Lambert at #5

@Ignacio Quindós will be #6

@Ivan P #7

@Vanessa8580 will Center the convoy

@Miguel Codes at #9

@Pierre de Maigret #10

@Zubair at #11

@Goutham Krishna #12, and 

@Rob S in Sweep.

The convoy has been built to alternate Fewbies, with Fewbie Plus's or above, so that each lower ranked driver will be following the lines of more experienced driver, The presence of another Marshal (thanks to @Vanessa8580) makes the convoy even stronger and safer.

The Carnity Radio Channel chosen for tomorrow will be #3 (446056).

Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow. Enjoy the evening.

Hello Ale,

Looking forward to the drive, just noticed that my name isn't listed, hope that can be resolved. 

On 8/29/2022 at 9:33 PM, Ale Vallecchi said:

Dear @Pierre de Maigret, @Dinesh Kumar A, @Gurcharan Mehta, @Sunil Mathew, @Ignacio Quindós considering the difficulty to reschedule, I will keep the drive on Sunday PM. I just kindly ask you to change the meeting time to 2PM. I will get ready for my trip beforehand, and will manage to reach the airport in time for my late evening departure.

Thanks for understanding. 

Hello Ali,

2pm on sunday works for me, see you then. 

25 minutes ago, M.Seidam said:

@Gurcharan Mehta was at most pleasure observing how nice and in control you were guys driving that I rarely needed to correct anything for the guys behind whom as I sow from my rear mirror they were following each other in synchrony the two

No shovels no ropes , just couple refusals  cleared with amazing self recoveries. The only “ event “ of the day is that we had to exit @Gurcharan Mehta as his passenger didn’t feel well I hope all ok by now 🙏
 

Thank you for the kind words @M.Seidam, likewise it was a delight to meet you. Yes, the family is doing better now, thank you for asking.

@Rizwanm2, it was a fun route as always, unfortunately we had to exit early, but looking forward to your future drives.

I would like to once again apologize to everyone in the convoy for the inconvenience due to the early exit as we weren't feeling well.  @Rizwanm2 , @M.Seidam and everyone else, thank you for taking us to an exit even though we were in the middle of Badayer. 

It was a pleasure meeting everyone, see yall again soon!

Good Morning @Rizwanm2 really sorry but we are running about 5 minutes late.

33 minutes ago, Rizwanm2 said:

Thanks buddy. See you next time 

Dear @Gurcharan Mehta

Can u please confirm your attendance for tomorrow 

 

Hey Rizwan, was meaning to message you. Yes we are confirmed for the drive tomorrow.

Hey @Rizwanm2, I'm not 100 percent sure on whether I will be joining this drive or not, hence putting myself in the waitlist. Will update if plans do change, thanks!

@JeromeFJ sorry, had to pull out, enjoy the drive!

Congrats @Gerrit Bus

@Rizwanm2 Congratulations on your first lead! It was a very enjoyable route and we all had a lot of fun and we really liked the mix of dunes. From climbing the big dune to ridge riding the smaller ones. Also, thanks for letting me in at such short notice. It was a great drive and l look forward to future drives.

On 6/18/2022 at 3:48 PM, Hisham Masaad said:

@Gurcharan Mehta glad to see you again with your sun, who’s performing amazing copilot and secretary jobs 😅.

Likewise @Hisham Masaad, it was great to meeting you again. Haha yes, my son does a great job being a copilot. He compares it to the job of a copilot during rally races.

On 6/18/2022 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Varghese said:

The surprise was @Gurcharan Mehta who I am meeting for the 1st time and his LC. Drove exceptionally well. It was a beauty to watch him climb all the dunes with ease. 

 

@Thomas Varghese It was really nice meeting you for the first time last Saturday. It was great driving with you and I wanted to take the time to thank you again for all the lovely compliments. Hope to see you again soon!

@Tom B It's always great to see another Land Cruiser. @Jonny90 , @Sunil Mathew and @Sam K It was nice meeting yall, hope to see you guys around. 

Thanks again everyone for such a fluid and fun drive, hope to see yall again soon.