diesel jimny now arrived

hi guys 
after many months of searching and dreaming of owning a diesel diesel jimny, all the stars aligned and i crossed paths with one that i could not refuse.
i found this one after hrs sat at the computor and in this country too.
So heres julian the jimny its a 2008 lhd diesel and a genuine factory converted van, thats done a recorded 55 km (34000 miles).
its been used as a maintenance truck travelling from calais to falkstone and done very little looking at the whole condition (dicounting the missing arch and damage to the bonnet, that was done buy the guys son who i bought it off).
We just had a little trip up the road to see how it drives and pulls and ended up very pleasantly supprised.
it drives nice and tight for one of these and pulls very strong in all gears making driving it very pleasant. 
so one first impressions its my intension to get it registered on uk plates and all legal then valet it up, repair the bonnet and refit the arch and after then decide on its future.
as you guys know i like to carryout the odd converion on these trucks, and think it could end up looking like one in the profile picture 
whats your thoughts guys
the doc  
 

Hi Dr
Forgive my ignorance I've never seen a factory diesel jimny what motor is it and is it turbocharged can you do performance mods
Neil

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There were a few diesels released. Think it was a with a renault 1.3 diesel.

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hi guys 
its a renault 1.5 turbo diesel engine, thats a common fitted engine in many vehicles.
its 86bhp standard and can be remapped as well, spoke to my remap guy whos saying once remaped around 110- 115bhp with a posible 200plus nm  of tourqe so should have plenty of low down power, but i will post figures once its been done.
the doc

Jimny Dr wrote: hi guys 
its a renault 1.5 turbo diesel engine, thats a common fitted engine in many vehicles.
its 86bhp standard and can be remapped as well, spoke to my remap guy whos saying once remaped around 110- 115bhp with a posible 200plus nm  of tourqe so should have plenty of low down power, but i will post figures once its been done.
the doc

Respect that has so much potential

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I used to own the same model for four or five years and travelled about 60 000 km with it total.

I wrote everything that I knew and learned about the DDiS model in this wiki article:
www.bigjimny.com/mediawiki/index.php/Die...DiS)_Jimny_specifics

There does not appear to be any other information knowledgebase about DDiS Jimnys in the existence on the Internet.


I can just say buyer beware. It might be fine for years if you dilligently perform all preventive maintenance, but if it happens to be a specimen with an already dodgy engine or transmission, you WILL find yourself in this state of mind after a while:




Anyway, read my wiki article with this in mind:

So guys 
Had the vehicle on the lift and a poke arround and to my amasment it all seems to be in good order with little to no work needed for the mot.
so we begin 
Reece not drive a dirty car, never mind someone else’s dirt and said he was going to start to fettle out the inside as the first job, ok son get on with it was my answer.
of I went to get the granddaughter from pre school and got back to this? 
Have a look guys, he will only do a job to his full Potential  he’s a good lad you see 
look at the condition of the internal floors and the underneath is is the same condition apart from some light scabbing in areas 
looks like it’s a real jem this jimny
the doc
 

Thats not looking too bad at all is it! Congratulations on finding what you were looking for, keep posting on this I'm very keen to see what your plans are and how it turns out

Me being me I think you should look at wedging a Cummings 6bt in there, a proper diesel engine not some shopping trolley effort!

Hi guys
just a update on progress 
reece managed to get the inside of this little gem cleaned and rebuilt over the weekend.
the original seats came up very good indeed, and shows the amount of use this vehicle has had.
were both very pleased with the progress up to yet and he’s going to start the outside next 
so will post more pics as we move on 
take care guys
the doc 
 

I don't think mine has been that clean since it left the dealership!

Impressive

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