Gary F

Drive title promised adventure and adventure materialised… from @Krishna R Xterra leaf spring issue and recovery ( I hope you made it back safe and are back in the sand soon) @Stumpy Paj and @Gaurav temp spring repair and axle realignment l. @Bravoecho mystery patrol locking itself with keys and engine running but no driver , we all learned how to jimmy a door open. @Benjamin took over 2nd lead and had a few opportunities to pump his shovelling arms. the most beautiful self recovery from a creat situation I have ever seen by @Gaurav We hit some nasty vegetation patches and some sharp dips , my gladiator managed through followed by @Beide Worku lovely f150. With @MMansoor taking up sweep. And just as we were ending the drive Faqa had one last surprise with the exit location needing some work to get too. Post drive I found my rear bumper took a nasty hit , reinforcing gladiators shallow exit angle.

Apologies I need to drop, for some reason my brain was thinking this drive was today Friday, but on Saturday I have a clash with the starting time by an hour.

Really nice drive , I enjoyed the technical terrain a lot @GauravSoni and only ran into one turn that I had to do the old, stop and reverse to make the tight turn, of course my rear bumper took a few more hits, a metal one is in my future. great to catch up everyone . See you at ARB @Stumpy Paj @Benjamin @Joseph Raju any update on the patient , electrical or mechanical issues ? @Ahmad Nerat great photos and ideas on positioning the cars for a photo shoot , while the rest of the convoy was in recovery mode. that was a fun area.

At the drive start point with @Benjamin @Bravoecho @Stumpy Paj ready to go 😂 5:05

Having recently done numbers 2, 9, 12 on a 2019 sport that had full agency service history, list price for this work alone is about 8000aed but we got it for 6k. batteries for main and auxiliary is about 1500 at agency ( but if they die within 7months like ours did there is guarantee) in the case of vvl seals ours leaked again within one month of replacement but this was handled under warranty cc @Benjamin