Ryan's 2003 Jimny JLX

That Firle byway is one of my favourite local ones.

Looked like you had a lot of fun and done very well in the jimny

A great group of pictures. Keep having fun and post more.

Good start, look forward to hear the upcoming stories

Thanks guys, I'll keep this tread updated with any developments

Not really done anything further to the Jimny at this point apart from fit a new front grille badge.

Had another trip to Slindon Safari last weekend though which was great fun but it didn't go exactly to plan!

We had a great day off-roading and was starting to get more confident with some of the more extreme inclines and muddy bogs



Then we started to get a little over confident and inevitably got stuck....more than once!

Me first:
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Then Lee:


My rescue attempt failed, Jimny's don't really have a massive amount of towing power in these situations. A defender came to rescue but he also got stuck...




Thankfully a nice guy in a jacked up discovery pulled us all out:



At this point we were reaching the end of the day and thought we'd go for one last blast before heading back on the 47 mile journey home. We found an area we'd not explored before. I lead the way over a large hill with a boot full of acceleration to get over it and straight into a fairly deep river. Quickly stuck it in reverse to try and get out of it before I was too deep but all four wheels were spinning in the water, the car was beached and water was rapidly filling up the passenger foot well.




We quickly started to get the tow straps connected to the other Jimny to pull it out before too much water got in.




Unfortunately at this point the clutch in the silver Jimny decided to throw in the towel trying to pull another jimny out of a muddy bog, in reverse, up a hill....we were both stuck at this point. Fortunately we were both rescued by another friend Land Rover Discovery owner who dragged both cars back over the hill. Massively impressed with the capabilities of Discos now!

Luckily most of the water drained out parking the car at an angle with the door open.



The interior is still sodden a few days later so any ideas on how to dry it out this time of year would be welcome. We ended up towing the silver Jimny back to Lee's mechanic around 20 miles away to get the clutch replaced so all in all a pretty eventful if costly day. Still a great experience though!