Check your tyre pressures!
- supergaz
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mlines wrote: Our new Jimny drives well, in fact it has been all the way from "Darn Sarf" to Blackpool and also fully laden down to Hamble and the marinas.
However it seemed a bit light on the front end to me, a smidgen of jimny wobble if provoked by the road surface and skittish in a cross wind.
A quick check of the tyre pressures (it was fitted with new tyres just before we bought it) shows it had been inflated to 28 PSI all round, a typical tyre centre trick.
Dropping the fronts to the recommended 23 PSI and topping up the backs to 29 PSI and it drives like a dream (well as much of a dream as a Jimny can manage).
So if you are not happy with the way yours is driving, check the front tyre pressures. They should be at 23 PSI for normal tyres and a tad lower for fat off-road tyres (I run mine at 18-20 PSI)
Martin
M6 southbound around Charnock Richard services is a bad spot for wobble, and when towing a heavy trailer its a death trap even with a shogun, towing the jimny on a quality Ifor Williams trailer it snakes badly. The road surface is very deeply rutted from the wagons.
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