What is AD4x4
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:19 am
It seems that there are lots of members who still don’t understand what is AD4x4 exactly. Let me tell you the story of AD4x4, sorry it’s a long post, but please read it all.
AD4x4 was the idea of Megamoe, after joining several off road clubs in the UAE, he decided to use his IT knowledge and make a website dedicated to off roaders in Abu Dhabi. He called me (We only knew each other through the net and haven’t met before) to invite me to join his website. We had our first meeting together and started AD4x4.
The main idea of AD4x4 was to have a communication board just to meet our friends, have our own small group and enjoy the desert.
Khaiwi was our off road master and our technical teacher … We learned lots of things from him .. And still for us, he is our technical adviser.
The website started to be so popular in Abu Dhabi and number of members started to grew actually exceeding all our expectations. Yes it was a load on us. However, we were enjoying the success and that’s why we were spending so much time on the board and in the desert trying to learn things and improve our website.
We were lucky to have lots of good and friendly members who loved the idea and started helping us to make this website more popular and successful … We were all amateurs, most of members started this club as first timers in the desert and now most of them are Marshals .. They build the club and learned the hard way .. and they deserve to be part of AD4x4 Management.
Today, after 2.5 years, we reached 1000+ members (I have deleted 450 non posters in the last 4 months to clean up our data) and that was all through recommendations to friends, colleagues and family members .. Why, because everybody loved the friendly atmosphere and the easy way we are dealing with each other. Founders, Marshals and Members are always there to help and assist … And that’s why we call our selves a family.
Yes, we had too many problems, too many people didn’t like us because they thought that we are an official club .. No we are a group of off roaders who enjoy fun … Yes, we have too many restrictions and rules, maybe some members feel that some of them are wrong, but believe me, these rules are there to protect you and your family.
With over 400 official trips done through the club, we faced all the problems that might happen in off roading, and we still see and learn and we still add rules and regulations trying to make things better.
This is a public website, 1000 personality, coming from different culture, race, religion and back grounds. What is acceptable to you might not be acceptable to another 999 member. That’s why the website is continuously monitored and some posts are deleted because we think it might not be acceptable to someone else.
This club was introduced by the founders and run by the Marshals and members as a free gift to everybody who loves offroading or want to learn off roading. We are here to share our experience in everything, not only cars .. Read the posts on the board, members are asking about all sorts of things here and always get an answer …
For the last few weeks, I can see some members showing their dissatisfaction … Please understand what are we, we are not an organization, we are a group sharing experience … This is a free public website not an offroad organization, so understand who we are before complaining .. If you want to share your experience with us you are most welcome, and we will give you as much information as we can. If you are joining AD4x4 thinking that it is an organization, then sorry, you are in the wrong place ..
This is AD4x4, and this is how it started and how it will be always, a group of offroaders enjoying the desert and making jokes on the board
AD4x4 was the idea of Megamoe, after joining several off road clubs in the UAE, he decided to use his IT knowledge and make a website dedicated to off roaders in Abu Dhabi. He called me (We only knew each other through the net and haven’t met before) to invite me to join his website. We had our first meeting together and started AD4x4.
The main idea of AD4x4 was to have a communication board just to meet our friends, have our own small group and enjoy the desert.
Khaiwi was our off road master and our technical teacher … We learned lots of things from him .. And still for us, he is our technical adviser.
The website started to be so popular in Abu Dhabi and number of members started to grew actually exceeding all our expectations. Yes it was a load on us. However, we were enjoying the success and that’s why we were spending so much time on the board and in the desert trying to learn things and improve our website.
We were lucky to have lots of good and friendly members who loved the idea and started helping us to make this website more popular and successful … We were all amateurs, most of members started this club as first timers in the desert and now most of them are Marshals .. They build the club and learned the hard way .. and they deserve to be part of AD4x4 Management.
Today, after 2.5 years, we reached 1000+ members (I have deleted 450 non posters in the last 4 months to clean up our data) and that was all through recommendations to friends, colleagues and family members .. Why, because everybody loved the friendly atmosphere and the easy way we are dealing with each other. Founders, Marshals and Members are always there to help and assist … And that’s why we call our selves a family.
Yes, we had too many problems, too many people didn’t like us because they thought that we are an official club .. No we are a group of off roaders who enjoy fun … Yes, we have too many restrictions and rules, maybe some members feel that some of them are wrong, but believe me, these rules are there to protect you and your family.
With over 400 official trips done through the club, we faced all the problems that might happen in off roading, and we still see and learn and we still add rules and regulations trying to make things better.
This is a public website, 1000 personality, coming from different culture, race, religion and back grounds. What is acceptable to you might not be acceptable to another 999 member. That’s why the website is continuously monitored and some posts are deleted because we think it might not be acceptable to someone else.
This club was introduced by the founders and run by the Marshals and members as a free gift to everybody who loves offroading or want to learn off roading. We are here to share our experience in everything, not only cars .. Read the posts on the board, members are asking about all sorts of things here and always get an answer …
For the last few weeks, I can see some members showing their dissatisfaction … Please understand what are we, we are not an organization, we are a group sharing experience … This is a free public website not an offroad organization, so understand who we are before complaining .. If you want to share your experience with us you are most welcome, and we will give you as much information as we can. If you are joining AD4x4 thinking that it is an organization, then sorry, you are in the wrong place ..
This is AD4x4, and this is how it started and how it will be always, a group of offroaders enjoying the desert and making jokes on the board