What did you do to your jimny today?

yeah drilling holes always make one think twice, i just put an led light on the roof for reversing works well. how did you get to the underside of the bumper can u get to it in front of the rad? i was after a light bar but thought it better on the roof, did u wire it to come on when on full beam or a diff circuit?

Received a tray-style roof rack today for the new Jimny, made by a local (South Africa) company called Eezi-Awn. Fitted it myself in about an hour and a half with just a size 13 spanner and an allen key which was provided along with installation instructions.

Took it for a drive including a short freeway stint and it was nice and quiet so I am happy.

The company makes a bunch of accessories like Jerry Can holders etc but for now it will serve as a platform for lockable racks for my surfboards which I also ordered today.

That looks very nice

Today I will mostly be eating yoghurt! No sorry not that. I'll be changing the oil and filter and plugs on Ermintrude, 7 months for 9k miles? Seems to have been a quick service interval this time round!

What a transformation!

That needs expansion. The previous set of plugs have been in service for 45k miles or one too many intervals and while I have inspected them every service regapping as necessary they have finally eroded the very fine point of the electrode. So having been replaced and in conjunction with the new clean oil I have recovered smoothness that honestly I hadn't realised was lost, there's also an evident reduction in fuel use too. Just goes to show how important it is to keep up with the services!

Good lambert.. often forget to do the servicing inbetween putting the fun stuff on our cars..

Yesterday i changed the rubbish LED bulbs to proper halogen in the fog lights.
Amber ones for better visibility in the snow.

And tried yet again to find the reason for my still shining brake warning light. Tried cutting wires behind the cluster but it never stopped shining. Hooked them backup again. Will have to get a new cluster hoping it will help.
My MOT is coming up and a shining brake warning will be a failing point.

Service brakes fluid level being low will cause the hand brake to illuminate.

Lambert wrote: there's also an evident reduction in fuel use too. Just goes to show how important it is to keep up with the services!

I have always wondered what the trade off is over this. You save on petrol but is that as much as the cost of the plugs?

Given that in isolation I didn't think there was anything wrong with the way it ran on plugs with 45000 miles on them I would say that it's the service life you're paying for. In other vehicles especially my Nissan Maverick a set of cheap normal copper plugs would need to be changed every service not every 4 or 5.

I did very little apart from change the air filter.
Was intending changing the diff oil but cant get the front filler off.
I have no heat or welder so just plodded on knuckle scrapping using various tools and sockets etc. Gave it up as a bad job.
Did find in a locker some metal putty which got me thinking about cutting a bolt down and sticking it in the recess with the putty, leaving it to cure for a day and having another go.
Not sure it would work ? antone used this method?

A good pair of mole grips work well