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Recently bought my 2003 Jimny to tow behind my motorhome, which gives us a car to use whenever we are in the UK . Most of each year we are either touring around Europe or house based in Spain.



We use an a-frame from Towtal which allows the car to brake proportionally to the motorhome to comply with regulation changes that are due to come into force after 2014.



Anyway, the Jimny is great so far and although its mostly going to be used on-road I'm looking forward to getting back to our Spanish house later in the year and getting up into our local mountains. We use an ageing Isuzu Bighorn out there so it will be interesting to compare their abilities

Since buying the car I've changed the graphics and tinted the rear windows



Very tempted by some of the Jinmys on here to start modifying but will be keeping it fairly standard for the time being.

Nice jimny, although should you be towing it? theres something in the handbook and door where the tyre pressures are, about not towing it?

iloveics wrote: Nice jimny, although should you be towing it? theres something in the handbook and door where the tyre pressures are, about not towing it?

You are right on that one easyest thing to do is just unbolt the rear prob off the diff

iloveics wrote: Nice jimny, although should you be towing it? theres something in the handbook and door where the tyre pressures are, about not towing it?

I did quite a bit of research before deciding that a Jimny would be suitable and the conclusion was that so long as it was pre 2004 and manual 4 wheel drive selection it is fine for flat towing. This has been reinforced by several motorhomers who have some years of experience.

The owners of Towtal towed a Jimny for several years themselves and raved about it. So I'm quietly confident

I don't understand what damage this could cause? how is towing it any different to coasting down a hill for example?

Towing with an a-frame the car becomes recognised as a trailer.

A trailer must be braked if over 750k
A jimny curb is 1030kg

How have you hooked you brakes up?

This is the reason you see many motor homes pulling Toyota IQ's as they weigh next to nothing

See this link:
www.gov.uk/towing-with-car/towing-equipment-safety-standards

adamatdraycott wrote: Towing with an a-frame the car becomes recognised as a trailer.

A trailer must be braked if over 750k
A jimny curb is 1030kg

How have you hooked you brakes up?

This is the reason you see many motor homes pulling Toyota IQ's as they weigh next to nothing

See this link:
www.gov.uk/towing-with-car/towing-equipment-safety-standards

Certainly have

The system I'm using is called RVi2 www.towtal.co.uk/motorhome-a-frames/rvi-brake/

Brilliant bit of kit and easy to set up, does away with the overrun system that is likely to be outlawed after next year.

Impressive bit of kit!

So how does it work with a servo assised system the more you aply the brake with out the engine running the harded the pedel gets and when you want to use it the battery is flat due to jimnys fag lighters only working with the ignition on

It doesn't rely on the servo, when setting up the kit pumps the pedal a few times to bleed it. There is enough strength in the mechanism to work the brakes without servo assistance.

The cigarette lighter is permanently live on mine so doesn't need to have the ignition on and the current drain is tiny.

Suzuki say that as the gearbox is not turning no oil is been splashed onto the rear gearbox bearing that supports the propshaft and over a long distance of towing the bearing will run dry.Markyp2000 is right,take off the prop for long distance towing

The gear box will turn the lay shaft but not the input shaft on the clutch end

Not towing it is some thing to do with the t box and it being 4wd but if its been tryed and tested by othere with no problem then its up to the owner