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What did you do to your jimny today?

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08 Feb 2024 00:29 #254128 by Filipao
A pillars + mirror + sun visors painted black. 

Roof will follow as soon as I get the necessary 3 black grab handles. 

   
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09 Feb 2024 03:31 #254155 by Filipao
Black grab handles arrived, so all I need to do is paint the head liner.

Today I traveled 230km under heavy rain, the roof insulation proved to be very effective.

     
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09 Feb 2024 09:23 #254159 by rogerzilla
Replied by rogerzilla on topic Re:Re:What did you do to your jimny today?
I picked up the scrapyard gen3 wheels from the refurbishers.  These are going on the LCV (I'm not keen on the rather angular gen4 alloys, and they're out of stock anyway).  Will have Bridgestone AT002 tyres and TPMS valves fitted tomorrow. 

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09 Feb 2024 11:57 #254163 by Soeley
That looks brilliant, looking forward to seeing those fitted.
Though I have steelies from an LCV, I have kept my SZ5 alloys. I like the of bothe sets equally, but hate chipping alloys.

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10 Feb 2024 12:22 - 10 Feb 2024 16:07 #254194 by rogerzilla
Replied by rogerzilla on topic Re:Re:What did you do to your jimny today?
I took the alloys to have tyres fitted.  They are struggling with them - apparently the ratio of tyre weight to wheel weight is so high that a lot of balancing weights are needed.  I expect this with cheap tyres, which tend to be heavy and non-uniform, but not with Bridgestones!  They are talking about 300g of weights per wheel, when 100g is normally considered the "forget it" point.

Update: they've given up.  They can static balance them, but that's no good at 70mph when the wheel is shimmying around the kingpin.  Will have to call etyres on Monday.  There is a really good local fitter who has always balanced things perfectly for me, but I shouldn't have to pay twice.
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10 Feb 2024 16:41 #254197 by jackonlyjack
You should have gone with dyna beads 
I have these in my G005 X-MT geolandars 
Big heavy tyres on light alloys 

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