Finally it's not standard

YES ! great job ! I need to start de-standardising mine too !
Any plans for the front foglights under the 'spare bits' picture..? :whistle:

Cheers Lukey Those roof lights of yours are a good start Just changing the wheels / tyres made a helluva difference, to looks and handling plus the little extra bit of height comes in handy...

Don't know if alloys are your thing, but spotted these on benjyalloys.co.uk tonight for £250 with 217/75 15 camac muds, not that I'm trying to encourage you I was going to go for the same wheels off fleabay before getting the modulars but it was 4 bare wheels for the same price.



The fogs found a new home with the original wheels I'm afraid or you'd have been welcome to them, sorry matey.

That's the thing I like about the Jimny, so easy to work with :laugh: as I mentioned, here it's better to have all external accessories (antenna, winch, lights) well mounted because of two reasons:

- they will fall off due to potholes in the road
- they will get nicked by night friendlies

Here's another idea for mounting them; it looks more difficult as DIY because of the metal bending involved and didn't found a way to order the mounts unfortunately. But it's an interesting idea nonetheless:

Get yourself some of these VAXXi :evil:



Not too many thieving torags round here ( famous last words ! ) but pot holes are something we have lots off too, not entirely sure when the road tax money goes...

Those brackets look the part, only problem I have is I dont have the equipment to bend metal, particularly steel, much over 2/3mm thick to any reasonable standard I had a look at some of the rally prep sites and found plenty two up / two down type brackets but they're either for mk1/2 Ford Escorts or universal - meaning they're universal in that they don't fit anything properly :huh:

Seriously considering just drilling the front of the bonnet - it'll never be put back to standard so it wouldn't really matter - and just mounting them straight on.

SPC5838 wrote: Seriously considering just drilling the front of the bonnet

That might actually be the best solution. Although I'm wary of drilling holes in the body

SPC5838 wrote: Cheers Lukey Don't know if alloys are your thing, but spotted these on benjyalloys.co.uk tonight for £250 with 217/75 15 camac muds.

I'd quite like to stick with my steelies (i hear good things!). Although they need a good refurb ! I've considered painting them black (like yours) but I'm not sure how they'll look against the dark green body work.

Those tyres look like a bargain, but im not sure if that spec will fit my Jimny - being non lifted etc..?
I'll have to look into it. Thanks though ! - also no worries about the fogs. Thanks again.