Bumpy Ride!

The Jimny is like.... 3 meters long :huh:

My girlfriend recently broke her back so ferrying her around in the Jimny was rather comical :evil:

Will try dropping the pressures a bit, thanks.

Went into a field whilst on Scout camp this weekend, in both my heavily laden van and the jimny, and I was amazed...whilst the van was smooth on the road and soaked up everything, it threw me about all over the place on the field, where as in the Jimny it was like driving on brand new tarmac when on the field!! Aware the two vehicles are totally different, however it still stands that the Jimny appeared a lot more at home on the field than the road. Also know it is no where near off roading, but just makes me more impatient!

Cheers everyone

I swapped my ES3000's for ES1000's to get a softer ride. on hard uneven ground, the jimny was a real spine breaker.

I shattered a Disc a few years ago, and have lower back pain... before, a day out in the Jimny would take 2 - 3 days to recover

With softer dampers, is noticably better offroad

The best tyres l had on my jimny for a softer ride was a set of KUMHO 798 and they are not to bad for green laning
www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?plid=m26b0s257p6449

Tire pressure definitely makes a big difference in comfort. I have tried 1.5/1.5, 1.6/1.6, 1.6/1.8 and now finally settled at 2.0/2.0 which makes quite a difference in fuel consumption and ride quality. I chose better fuel consumption :S

Thanks Jason

With softer dampers, is noticably better offroad

have they made any difference "on-road" ?
next question - are the ES1000's actually softer than standard fit ?

I'm trying to get my head around the "3-link rigid axle with coil spring" Jimny setup (presume v8dougie's is leaf ?)

So let me get this right - we have a system where ........
when we go over a bump with one wheel, the energy is absorbed via compressing the coil spring, and the reaction of that coil spring controlled (dampened) by the shock

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the issue we have "on the road" appears to be when one tyre drops into a [strike]crater[/strike] err ... pot-hole (soon the distinction between "on-road" and "off-road" will be irrelevant anyway) - because of the rigid axle, the other wheel tries to lift and join the first wheel in the pothole, then when the first wheel clears the pothole, the other literally crashes back down ................

So my conclusion has to be that the Jimny is actually very good with bumps - the problem is it's rubbish with holes ......... have I got that right ?

thanks for everyones feedback, it does appear that the only option us "roadies" have is to drop tyre pressures and/or get big bouncy mud tyres (preferably permanently filled with mud) .

will try dropping pressures (as I've pre-ordered the new Grabber AT's).