New white SZ4 - possible SZ5 upgrades

Jon100 wrote: did you just apply paint or first remove the ‘texture’, if so how? And the bumper ?.

I removed the mirror cases & grey scotched them, plastic adhesion promoter and then straight on with base and clear. The front was the same but done in situ with the help of some lovely 3M fine line masking tape to get a perfect sharp edge. I like the painted texture look which you used to get on the Gen 3 jimny and RAV4's, I think it looks nice but as it happens the clear flowed out over all the texture on the mirror cases but the front bumper is still visibly textured. I have been doing this long enough and seen sooooo many cars with heaps of 2k primer on the front bumpers (mainly T5's) , one chip and it sheets off or fractures and splits so I went with minimal material build so If I do get a chip it should be just a touch in job. The most difficult part in all honesty was removing the number plate holding bracket.. talk about over engineered! every time I took a bolt out I found 2 more holding it in place

As I thought, lots of preparation and skilled application.

I've just Googled grey Scotch, plastic adhesion promoter and 3m fine tape. All inexpensive but I guess for a durable job experience would count.

In the past I've used Auto Body Tech Ilkeston Rd Notts for painting. They made an excellent job of my mrk 1 MX5. So I'll leave it to the experts.

I agree

We've now had our Jimny for one whole week and have driven 150+ miles on undulating pot holed 'B' roads.

First impressions:

Initially I didn't like the low speed gearbox whine and high revs, but now at times in low gear the car seems like an adorable old fashioned truck, but given some welly I'm sure it transforms in to a citroen 2CV, a really enjoyable sound. We didn't know the Jimny was air cooled!

As the miles increase the vague steering is getting less vague and the ride less wobbly and floaty. Our only want is for a rear view camera, since with a permanent Suzuki dog guard and big German Shepherd - rear visibility is limited. But our SZ4 has no Sat Nav display to view a camera image.

Just like waiting for a bus, the dealer we originally placed our order with phoned yesterday to say our SZ5 was ready to collect ! D'oh!

So two weeks ago we had none and now we could have two Jimmy's ...

But we've decided to keep our SZ4 and dam the Sat Nav / camera - we'll learn how to turn our heads and look past the dog.

Questions:

We have two window switches, the drivers has an 'A' - shouldn't the driver's window be one-touch ?

What are the tyre pressures (26 psi front and 27.5 psi rear)?

Is undersealing with Bilt Hamber dynax UC a good idea? We're going to pop the Jimny on our friendly engineers ramp on Thursday and see what could be sealed with wax. Suggestions. Has anyone here used this product?

Having fun

Jon and Julie

and how do we add a photo ?