Health and safety Roll cage's

Roll cages are a great idea if you often push your ability and those of your truck!

Wear seat belts when laning (its the law as green lanes come under the Road Traffic act.) £60 non endorsable fixed penalty!

There is another offence that can be used if you decide to go of piste! Driving otherwise than on a road!

Most play sites want people to wear seatbelts front and rear!

You really need to find out the limits of your ability and truck before trying to go to extreme.

Most accidents are down to misadventure or inexperience!

A roll cage is good but not if used as a security blanket for inexperience!

Plus it would destroy my economy for my daily driver!!

Most sites insist on seatbelts (quite rightly!), however do not forget that once you get the Jimny even slightly off upright that the seatbelt mechanism locks. Therefore if you have put it on its side and you have to get out rapidly (waters coming in :ohmy: ) then one of these gives you that piece of mind....a seat belt cutter and glass hammer.

Locally (South Africa) the following is generally recommended

Seat-belts should not be worn for water-crossing and windows should be rolled down.

At all other times seat -belts on and windows 3/4 up.

As others have said, i'd say driving skill/ability to read the terrain/forward thinking/common sense would be a far more important factor than a rollcage.

I've personally always had the logic that i won't do any extreme mods until i could afford to have both just a plaything and to have a rollcage. My thoughts being that once its modded to a certain level i'm going to be in situations where a cage is more likely to be needed.

We would all love a tooled up truck but i do think theres a section of new people that see all these nicely modded trucks and think its essential to have all the mods. IMHO the single most important thing is experience, learn what the truck is capable of and how to drive different terrain and obstacles. No amount of trick suspension and aggressive tyres will help if you don't understand how your truck will behave.

One other piece of advice from a magazine feature on trackdays that i keep in mind is to not let the excitement get the better of you, don't do the "round one more time" you've had a good day and you and the car are in one piece its a good time to pack up and go home, there'll be another time.
Its perhaps boring but if i get that feeling i'll just go have one more go, i'll stop and take my time cleaning up the truck ready to go home.

mlines wrote: Most sites insist on seatbelts (quite rightly!), however do not forget that once you get the Jimny even slightly off upright that the seatbelt mechanism locks. Therefore if you have put it on its side and you have to get out rapidly (waters coming in :ohmy: ) then one of these gives you that piece of mind....a seat belt cutter and glass hammer.

I bought one of these after seeing a club had a requirement that every truck has one. For how cheap they are why not. I've got mine mounted where the handle would go on the drivers side above my head.

I sort of 'wish' i had an Roll Cage - This was Henryd (North Wales) last year -- essentially I just took a wrong/bad line!!







Also, another problem i have with having a roll cage fitted, is that the Jimny probably wouldnt fit in my garage anymore ... although i have kept the original 15" rims and tyres that came with it, when i bought it..