My Chiffon Ivory JB74 SZ5 - blog/mods/build thread

300bhpton wrote:

Drool....red bits of shiny new metal...looks great and a little bit better position further up the car.

Bit of an impulse buy. But these turned up from Jimnybits today.

Super speedy service. I was really wanting to get the transfer case skid plate and the radiums arm chassis end protectors. But both were out of stock. And the tree sliders sorted of beckoned to me!



They arrived in two huge boxes and very well packaged. Instructions are basic, but sufficient.

A couple of the bungs hadn't been removed. But were easy enough to sort.



Fitting is straight forward, if a little fiddly. There are 3 separate brackets to attach to the vehicle. The front and rear go on the bottom of the body mounts. Then a bracket in the middle. You then attach the slider to the brackets and align it all up before tightening all the bolts down.

Found it easier to fit the front and rear brackets as per the instructions to the vehicle. But to then mount the middle bracket to the slider and usher the entire thing up and then locate the middle bracket on the vehicle. And then attach the ends of the slider to the other brackets.

All finished.




Reckon they look pretty smart. Although they do obviously hang a little lower than the stock sill does. This isn't like adding sliders to a Defender 90, where the slider replaces the sill panel. These hang underneath.

You also notice they are there getting in and out, as they make it wider, so you are likely to rub the back of your calf on them as you ingress and egress from the vehicle.

So my Jimny is in with the dealer still about the transfer box. They have had it since Monday morning.

I've had a bit of an update, but I'll wait to update this thread until we have an agreed way forward. Have been given a brand new Ignis as a curtesy car. Probably not a bad car, but not my sort of thing.

Interestingly, I'd say it has more road noise and is less refined than the Jimny however!

In the meantime I've been keeping myself occupied with a couple of my other 4x4's

300bhpton wrote: So my Jimny is in with the dealer still about the transfer box. They have had it since Monday morning.

I've had a bit of an update, but I'll wait to update this thread until we have an agreed way forward. Have been given a brand new Ignis as a curtesy car. Probably not a bad car, but not my sort of thing.

Interestingly, I'd say it has more road noise and is less refined than the Jimny however!

In the meantime I've been keeping myself occupied with a couple of my other 4x4's

I feel your pain. Dealer has had mine for 2 weeks and expected to have it for at least another 2 while they wait on parts from Japan to fix an issue they caused when replacing TC parts.

crash486 JB74W

300bhpton wrote:

Lambert wrote: Sorry but I don't get why you have done this, I understand that it improves the approach angle that I get but why the bull bar on the top, what are you anticipating is going to hit you that you need that level of frontal protection? Also just out of curiosity, what have your insurance company said about having that on the front of your car? If you hit a pedestrian at any kind of speed with that you are going to inflict life changing damage.

I don’t really understand why you are so negative. Is it not meant to be about accepting that people like different things. And critically that this isn’t your vehicle.

As for insurance. Loads of vehicles have Hd bumpers and like fitted. Many as factory items and as if evident by the vehicles at Westcost Off Road, as aftermarket market additions.

That's turned out very nicely 300! The Iron Man bumper looks like a really well engineered solid piece of kit, I think you made the right call going for that opposed to the ARB bumper.

I see both sides of the argument, you're absolutely right about older vehicles and new commercial vehicles being equally as dangerous. However I also appreciate that the Jim is a modern passenger car vehicle which has been safety tested and approved for use in Europe. The Jim has been built in the last year and you've changed the design intent with an aftermarket accessory. At the end of the day mate it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, it looks superb and providing your insurer has been notified and is happy that's all that matters!! As said previously I've got family in AUS, the rules out there are slightly different with regard to bull bars. Their main use on SUV's & 4x4's is to protect the vehicle and passengers from kangaroos jumping out onto the fast open highways. Hence the name Roo bars! Us brits might encounter the odd squirrel or badger.... :lol:

Awesome progress on the Jim so far, excited to see what you've got in store for us next.

Lots of deer round this way, although I hope very much not to hit one. Roe and Muntjac. The LED headlights have well served their purpose for this several times.