What did you do to your jimny today?

Fitted a new battery YBX5057 
Nice to know it's roll over safe 

My Gen 4 heated rear window wire protectors arrived from China- pretty good value @ £5.66 including post.

TIP: clean the panel with propan-2-ol, and then position the cover exactly where you want it without removing the backing from the sticky pads then draw around it with pencil so you can put it back in place, you can't move it once it touches.

(Here is the one I drew around (the other side is a bit wonky....... )

Very nice, they look identical to the ones fitted to mine even down to the little grove.

 

Good price as well, bet the previous owner of my car paid a lot more.

Robin

Had the most frustrating afternoon with my Jimny. 

Thought I would change the oil in the Differentials, Gearbox and Transfer Box. Never done it before so watched a few YouTube videos which looked like a task I could easily do myself. Ohhh how wrong I was! Easily bled the Diffs and the Transfer Box but when I came to undo the filler plug on the Gearbox my troubles started.

I struggled getting my 10mm square socket in between the panel and the plug so I could undo it. 
I could only work by feel as I was underneath the Jimny and couldn't see the whole of the plug. Whoever had attempted this feat before had butchered the plug and I was unable to get the male end of the socket in to enable me to undo the thing. I tried everything mole-grips, ⅜ square socket. No room to use a hammer to force the socket in. Eventually had to give up.

Whilst underneath I noticed a coating of black oil covering rectangular rubber boot. From this forum I think I have the common oil leak problem that stems from the gearbox outlet as my Jimny is on an 2007 plate. So what I did with my jimny today was very frustrating.

It could have been worse, you could have let the oil out before discovering you couldn't put some back in!

True! Good job I watched some videos on how to do it before attempting it.