[humsafar]

humsafar

March 8, 2009 at 5:50 am #10110

Just want to check,

Stanly did you tighten the bolts of your front wheel??? because they were loosen to replace the wheel then later on we decided to inflate the same tire.

I did not see any one tightening it. Please check right now. I am trying to call you but line is not going through.

Regards
Ali Adnan

[roshan]

roshan

March 8, 2009 at 5:00 pm #10115

Thanx Humsafar,
I just called and check with Stan. He told me you had called him in the morning and informed him.. :thanks:

[renegade]

renegade

March 8, 2009 at 6:02 pm #10117

quote humsafar:

Just want to check,

Stanly did you tighten the bolts of your front wheel??? because they were loosen to replace the wheel then later on we decided to inflate the same tire.

I did not see any one tightening it. Please check right now. I am trying to call you but line is not going through.

Regards
Ali Adnan

hey just wanted to check. i found 3 nuts missing on the front tyre. do u remember who removed it or where they would have kept it.

[DD]

DD

March 8, 2009 at 6:17 pm #10118

quote stanlyc7:

quote humsafar:

Just want to check,

Stanly did you tighten the bolts of your front wheel??? because they were loosen to replace the wheel then later on we decided to inflate the same tire.

I did not see any one tightening it. Please check right now. I am trying to call you but line is not going through.

Regards
Ali Adnan

hey just wanted to check. i found 3 nuts missing on the front tyre. do u remember who removed it or where they would have kept it.

u drove d car without three nuts??? u mite b kidding

[humsafar]

humsafar

March 9, 2009 at 4:15 am #10119

As far as I remember, No body has totaly removed the nuts for the studs. I am not certain about this because I did not loosent the nuts.

There are strong chances that the nuts fell while you were driving.

I wonder how you have driven the vehicle for 2 days with loose nuts, your car must have been vibrating termendously and there must be huge sound coming from the front wheel.

Any way Thanx God nothing serious happened and we noticed it well in time.

Ali Adnan

[renegade]

renegade

March 9, 2009 at 4:48 am #10120

quote humsafar:

As far as I remember, No body has totaly removed the nuts for the studs. I am not certain about this because I did not loosent the nuts.

There are strong chances that the nuts fell while you were driving.

I wonder how you have driven the vehicle for 2 days with loose nuts, your car must have been vibrating termendously and there must be huge sound coming from the front wheel.

Any way Thanx God nothing serious happened and we noticed it well in time.

Ali Adnan

By gods grace nothing happened. actually i noticed only when i took it to tyre shop to get the tyre cleaned inside. There was no vibration or noise nothing of the sort.

[sahmed]

sahmed

March 9, 2009 at 6:11 am #10122

Hey Stan,

I can tell you with 100% certainty that your front right tyre – the one with the popout – had all it’s nuts when we reinflated it.

Additionally, when you had the tyres reinflated at Sakhi, even if the guy who reinflated them didn’t notice (or didn’t care), you would have noticed when you checked the pressure yourself (please tell me that you do check the pressure in each tyre after getting them reinflated…).

So here’s a lesson for everyone – when involved in a recovery, assume nothing and make sure you are ready to drive out once recovered – once out, check the car throughly – your life depends on it.

[sahmed]

sahmed

March 9, 2009 at 2:08 pm #10123

Trip Brief

After a late start at 7.15hrs due to some miscommunication regarding the trip timing, the convoy moved out to a new area with Shan in the lead.

Six cars, most fairly experienced drivers, spent about an hour exploring new terrain. Unfortunately, most of this time was spent avoiding bushes and rocks, with very little dune bashing or side sloping.

The intention was to locate a play area previously visited under Shahzaad’s lead. Instead, the convoy stumbled upon an area strewn with pink rocks, some very nice rock formations and, albeit accidentally, some very technical driving.

The day’s ‘Stuck’ award goes to Stanley with one side cresting, recovered by Roshan and two simultaneous pop-outs.

After attempting to reinflate the pop-out, we decided to just change the tyre… at which point the attention was diverted to unhooking the spare tyre and finding the appropriate jacking point.

This is when the second attempt to reinflate was successful and in our hurry to get going (after 40min) we didn’t check if the lug nuts on the tyre were tightened.

In the meantime, Dino had managed to get bowled and after much shovelling and some enlightened wisdom, we managed to use our jacking boards for traction and pushed his mighty wrangler out of the bowl.

Six cars in, six cars out at Big Red, followed by a hurried breakfast at Sakhi and off to home.

We later heard from Stanley that 3 of his 5 lug nuts fell off on the drive to the tyre shop to get his tyre cleaned out. Lucky man that Stan.

All’s well that ends well.

[roshan]

roshan

March 9, 2009 at 6:15 pm #10124

Thanks for the report Shan.

I think its a lesson for everyone to make sure all ur recovery equipments and tools are properly placed in safe place during a recovery.

[anonymous]

anonymous

March 9, 2009 at 6:29 pm #10127

Good brief Shan! :thanks:

[sahmed]

sahmed

March 10, 2009 at 5:24 am #10129

quote Roshan:

Thanks for the report Shan.

I think its a lesson for everyone to make sure all ur recovery equipments and tools are properly placed in safe place during a recovery.

At the very least, you should be well aware of where you’ve left your nuts…

[humsafar]

humsafar

March 10, 2009 at 6:19 am #10131

Offcourse every one of us have the knowledge and commonsense to check the nuts and not to forget our gear in sand,

but

These Things Happens guys, specialy when you are short of time and in great hurry.

as shan said

All is well that Ends well.

😀
Ali Adnan

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