My new Jimny!

Got her yesterday, half an hour later i was down the woods! Its a 2000 model with a 3" lift pro comps all round, and 45 degree shocks at the rear, breathers (snorkel to come) and a set of A/Ts on 16inch alloys, and a set of insa turbo special tracks on the standard rims! chopped bumpers, removed sills. Winch bumper and rocksliders to come aswell!

thanks for looking!

sorry first post aswell! im 22 from surrey and have driven landrovers for a while,ive come over to the dark side now though! my old mans ripping the p**s cos hes landrover to the core!!

cheers Molie(john)

Looks good.
Now you've come from the dark side ... the Jimny is more than capable. Hope you have loads of fun. Wed do

Looks good, how are you finding it compared with Landrovers?

That is other than more capable, more comfortable, cheaper to run, less likely to break etc, etc, etc

Good job this is a Suzuki site or I'd have started war by now!!!

Kirkynut

haha, yeah its brilliant, been blasting it round the fields lamping rabbits every night over the weekend, nippier than a landy deffinatly! theres no stoping it off road yet either! we took it through various places we have got the landys stuck and it breezed the lot! whats more, its warm, doesnt rattle, cd player and 'lecy windows! very impressed so far!

cheers Molie

Weve just come back from 100 miles over Salisbury plain today.
Lots of mud, lots of water and quite a few very steep inclines. Loverly.

The baby (3yr old) in the back loved it. We did come to one water crossing that we didnt attempt due to the fact we werent running MT tyres and we had no recovery on hand.

Need to contact Newbury 4x4 later on and get the car in for a full service and get the 2" springlift fitted.

I take it your 3 year old does not get car sick then Ookie_123!

I think the Suzuki benefis over the Landrovers sometimes due tot heor lack of weight as they are still able to maintain momentum by in effect paddling through some of the gloopy stuff but eh landrovers sink into it and are then trying to drag more mass through it and push against it, thus getting stuck.

It can be a downside being so light though, bare more rarely I find - in as much as the landrovers weight puts their tyres more firmly onto the surface below the gloop and grips giving them traction. We eventually get down to that surface below the gloop but after a bit of wheel spinning through it to dig our way down.

I don't think we break CV's and halfshafts as much due to the lack of weight that they are having to push against, even when we are revving hard, spinning up and then gripping suddenly, in the true old fashioned way of overcoming your lack of power with momentum - albeit Jimny's have a bit more oomph than our old 410!!!

That's how I see it anyway.

kirkynut

No, she loves it.
My husband usually drives as I tend to bottle out on some of the steeper slopes and water crossings.

Regarding weight, we have found that with nice agressive MT tyres, the jimny is sure footed and, as long as they can dig nice and deep, will haul the lightweight Jimny through most conditions. the biggest problem we have experienced is lack of axle articulation. particularly when driving through boggy ground and as lightweight as it may be, the jimny just digs itself to the axle's and needs a little assistance to get out.
That goes too for some of the more challenging deep rutts we have encountered. The width of the track isnt big enough to ride in the rutts made by landrovers and, you usually have to adopt a one side in / one side out approach or try and balance ontop of each rutt.