New LCV

I guess it's a personal thing but I look at that and think it would look better a bit lower. There's no benefit to making a car taller than it needs to be.

I have the Trail Master 50mm lift - comfort - and Tonka looks good with it and even better with the BFG 215 A/T tyres.
I would be wary of the sport mode Trail-Master set-up as in my opinion the comfort mode is bordering on a wee bit harsh. I will be looking at a softer, probably adjustable, alternative sooner rather than later.
Anybody with views on the shock. issue?

Cheers.

Roger

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Not planning on doing serious offroading, more for visual purposes only. I think the OME 40mm lift kit is small enough that the wheels won't look lost, but big enough to make it look better. 

I had a Gen 3 previously with 3" lift and 235/75 15 tyres. It looked great.

Are you not planning to lift yours?

I do like the look of the OME lift. I like the panhard relocation bracket too.

Yes, plan ok lifting mine. But I do off road it. I’m torn between a 2” lift or a 3” lift. Not really wanting to jack it up too high. Although I’ve got beached a couple of times. The Jimny certainly lacks ground clearance compared to a Land Rover. But I’m more interested in suspension travel and flex gains.

I like the look of the JimntBits Black Raptor Premium kits. Although I’d probably add the panhard relocation bracket too. But I’m undecided how hardcore I want to go with it. I know when off road I’ll wish I went for the 3” and a lot taller tyres. But the Jimny is also my main road car and I do have a fairly heavily modded Land Rover should I want to do anything extreme off road.

Personally wasn’t keen on some design aspects of the Trailmaster kit. OME is limited in what it can do off road. But probably makes more sense as a road going setup with improved clearance. I don’t know anything about the Pedders kit part from Martin/James’s comments on here. It wasn’t one on my radar.

I'm sure you already appreciate that a lift kit will not increase clearance under the diif. For that you need larger dia. tyres.

Roger

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I'm sure you already appreciate that a lift kit will not increase clearance under the diif. For that you need larger dia. tyres.

Roger
 

I have been wondering about what a lift would mean as to what grounds first, but you beat me to it.

OK here is the though train:
- A lift doesn't change the axle height
- As the diff and axles are a solid piece a lift doesn't change the diff height, only tyre/wheel size is going to do that.

A lift does however, increase the clearance of the chassis, radius arm mounting points and gives more clearance in the wheel arches.

I don't think I have ever hit a diff on my Jimny, but I have hit the radius arm mounting points before.  I would hit the diff if I have both wheels in ruts and the centre is high (like a well worn track).  I would hit the radius arm mounting points going over a sharp crest of a hill.

So my tyre change from 205/70R15 to 215/75R15 made the tyre diameter go from 26.3" to 27.7" almost 1.5" increase in diff height. 

Hey, Hey I have a lifted Jimny.

Robin

School boy error, I should have taken the radius not the diameter, so actually I have a 0.7” lift.

Oh well back to near standard and I don’t have to alert my insurance company.