Re:What did you do to your jimny today?

Think they might require a bit of trimming....

Well at least they'll fit your Landy

Slam Panel primered

What did you inflate to? Just askin...

I bin welding.

Made my own Radius arm mount guards, made from 90x90 box section, 3.5mm thick, washers to space it out, cost of just making the rears, was 7 quid for the box section

few design changes for the front ones, and again for my brothers when get the rest of the metal

Lesmondo nice

Took the jimny through muddy puddle and lost my license plate going through.

Today I fitted a set of 2018+ Jimny Load Bars and a 1.4 M Eazy-Out Awning. Was considering the 3/4 rack and full rack but put off by the weight with 3/4 rack being 22 Kgs and the full rack being 27 Kgs. Add the awning on at 9.5 kgs you are already over the 30 kg limit.

Load bars plus Awning comes in at 18 kg so still some capacity for carrying as well and given the primary reason for the load bars/rack was to mount the awning I'm happy with the choice I made.

Quality of load bars and gutter mount etc was very good, One minor niggle in that the gutter mounts did not come with rubber or plastic coverings it was very much metal on metal. I appreciate that this the strongest option but don't like metal on metal. Easily fixed using some Gorilla tape to cover the ends before fitting.

The awning was again good quality however the bracket supplied with the awning was not black. Looked odd against the black load bars so sanded down applied some grey primer followed by black matt. Obviously just cosmetic but does now look better. One surprise when fitting the awning was that the bolts used to connect the awning to the bracket already fitted to the load bars was only M6. All other bolts relevant to the load bars and used to fix the mounting bracket to the load bars were M8. Initial thought was 4 x M6 bolts was not particularly strong however after actually fitting it does appear robust and well secured. I suppose giving that the awning only weighs 9.5 kg then 4 x M6 bolts should be fine.

Lastly I fitted 4 tie down points. Happy with my purchase and should give me some extra protection whether it be sun or rain when I head off on my 4 x 4 adventure next week.

So last week fitted an Armstrong steering damper from JB's and didn't have the opportunity to take it for a decent run until I took the Jimny in to have the slam panel replaced at an Excellent, not so local Body shop.
I can happily report that it has removed all trace of the steering 'shimmy' and was money well spent! I included a pic of the '05 on the ramps because this is the first time I actually used 2WD in Low range and was chuffed to mintballs at how easy it was to climb up the said ramps!







Cheers
Gaz