Re:DrRobin's Northumberland Jimny

Fitted my dash cam.

 

I took the A pillar trim off and dropped the cable down, then routed behind the carpet of the passenger footwell, took about 20mins.

Robin
 

A few minor jobs today

- I took the bling cover off the spare to check it was fitted with locking wheel nuts, it wasn't. I have noticed that the standard Suzuki kits only include 4 nuts, so I put a locking wheel nut on the spare and one on the plastic cover from my old set.

- I checked the tyre pressures on my Maxxis, they were at 23 psi cold, so topped them up to 26 psi, don't want the TPMS going off.

- A SD card with 2023 maps arrived (eBay £17.50) one day after ordering (that's good service), fitted and all working.

- I also found some nice rope and made a couple of slings to hold the rear load area mat along the side of the rear seat when rolled up and not in use.

Getting there, but still some jobs to do.

- I have a dashboard box on order
- I am thinking of underseal, but might wait until it is drier and warmer
- I am thinking of recovery points (might use the tow bar for the rear and the Jimnybits concealed points for the front).

Robin

Looks like as well as not supplying the key for the cover, they at some point removed the locking wheel nut for the spare. All 3 of ours had a locking wheel nut for the spare that matched the one on the wheels.

The Suzuki locking wheel kit box which was in the car with the adaptor only had space for four locking wheel nuts in the plastic insert and the little drawing only indicates 4 nuts.

I suspect Suzuki have more than one kit and the wrong one (or cheaper one) was ordered for this car.

Still no problem, my old kit worked fine and we don't get too many tea leafs round here.

Robin

Fitted my Chinese dash box today.

 
 

Drove 250 mile round trip and I could still walk okay at the end, yes the Gen 4 seats will do. Plus it would pull at least one gear higher up some hills, a fair bit more power. That and 40mpg for the whole journey, a big improvement.

I got my aftermarket SD card replaced and that now works in the Sat Nav, so have my iPod mp3 permanently installed in the head unit To celebrate I subscribed to a speed camera database and now get alerts for every speed camera including mobiles, nice.

Robin