Our new Jimny nearly ready - excited

Glad one made it up 'beer oclock hill', pity it wasn't a Jimny.

What great weather and trails you have, thanks for sharing. It's raining here and with the mist I can only see about 150 yards and that is nearly lunch time. Packing my Jimny in to a bag and flying down your way looks appealing.

Robin

If you search beer oclock hill on youtube you will probably find heaps of attempts, and I think that there is one Jimny that made it up, had a full external roll cage, the guy who runs the place explained he doesnt let them up I think its because the short wheelbase makes it likely that they will roll and someone will get hurt as parts would be near vertical for a Jimny.

We are lucky with the weather here, but when it rains, it comes down hard, but it also means we dont get to play in the mud much. However it is rainy season at the moment, and this weekend we plan a trip that the last time I went out this way had some muddy spots, so if we get some footage I will add here

Best colour and some sensible upgrades. I tried to find the Juhmo tyres here but no such luck.

Salt water? You can probably hear it fizzing!

Best colour and some sensible upgrades. I tried to find the Juhmo tyres here but no such luck.
 

The Kumhos are decent, I would have gone with BFGs but for the price, they look cooler and are probably tougher tyres, but quite a bit more expensive.

Still want to do a few things, probably under body protection and diff breathers next up.

Then a long range tank, torqit exhaust and airbox.
Maybe some.rock sliders.
tempted.with an awning and rood rails of some sort, but prefer not to have anything up there if I can avoid it.

may also get a throttle controller down the track but want to cruise around for a good while.without one first.

one thing I found is that with the little.center console cup holder that lots of people.aeem.to buy, it doesn't.like to go into low range so when that's required that little thing gets removed.  It doesn't really server much purpose anyway in reality can hold a can of.drink and a few coins but not.much else.

Rogerzilla wrote:

Salt water? You can probably hear it fizzing!
 

yep we stay well away from the ocean when on the beach, and the car always gets a good hose down and foam bath after we get back.

I have an old (2005) navara that's been on the beach a fair bit and still seems good as gold by doing g the same thing with it.  Mostly just get sand in the underbody rails that need hosing out if anything but to be sure we are careful to stay out of the water or even the really wet sand when on the beach,  but it's a wonderful place to drive, should be going to 5 rocks in a few weeks which has a good few kms of dunes to drive through to get to the beach do really soft sand which can be a challenege but is also quite fun.