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Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:59 pm
by Leelo
Hi all, new to the forum and hoping you guys can help me with some advice on some gentle tweaks to my vitaras.
I do a fair bit of fishing and a little bit of shooting and after seeing a couple of the local gamekeepers using vitaras as their vehicle of choice and getting my Passat repeatedly stuck I decided to take the plunge and buy one about a year ago.
It's a 2002 grand vitara 2.0 petrol, even now it's only got 69k on the clock so I'm hoping it's got some mileage left in it! It puts a smile on my face every time I drive it and my wife loves it too, in fact she likes it so much I decided to buy her one of her own!
We landed quite lucky with this one after hearing about it through the shooting grapevine, it's a 2000plate short wheelbase vitara 1.6 petrol, it's only covered 55k and is about as good as a 15yr old vitara could possibly be. It's still early days with it though so time will tell I guess!

Re: Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:04 pm
by watty1
Hello from a Northern newbie! But not yet an owner!!!

Re: Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:13 pm
by ScottieJ
:welcome: to :suzuki: club UK

Let's see a few pics then :thumbup:

It seems to be a common theme people falling in love with Suzukis, once you are hooked it's hard to escape :lol:

Re: Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:19 pm
by Ladaman
:welcome2: to the club.

And as Scottie says, "lets see it then".

Even though I'm not sure what the falling I blge is. ;) An iPhone issue I suspect.

Re: Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:54 pm
by Leelo
Here's my GV, as you can see, lots of scope for improvement! Will put a pic of the wife's up in the morning when I got daylight lol

Re: Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:41 pm
by ScottieJ
Ladaman wrote:.

Even though I'm not sure what the falling I blge is. ;) An iPhone issue I suspect.
Damn this phone!!!! I'll go back and correct it :lol:

Re: Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:22 am
by Anton
Welcome to SCUK!
ScottieJ wrote:It seems to be a common theme people falling in love with Suzukis, once you are hooked it's hard to escape :lol:
Do you know, I was thinking that the other day! I need a new daily driver sometime in the next 2 years, and recently I realised that I've only considered Suzuki's really. My sensible hat tells me to buy a VW/skoda daily driver, but I keep coming back to a Suzuki Diesel (sorry Dan, Donkeychomp and all the other derv haters!).

I can't get the thought of a diesel Jimny out of my head. What's wrong with me?

I'm infected with zukness somehow!

Re: Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:56 am
by ScottieJ
Could always go for a little :suzuki: car. Some of them are really economical. I keep wanting an old swift GTI but I can't. Well not until I get rid off a few :lol: one just popped up locally cheap though., just needs an engne rebuild but I don't have the space :thumbdown:

Re: Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 8:09 am
by dan_2k_uk
Welcome. I'm also in love with just about any Suzuki.

Had 2 SJs, a Jimny, and now a Grand Vitara.

Went out for some gentle greenlaning last night in the GV. Performed well. Comfy. Warm.

Re: Hello, new member from the midlands

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:50 am
by Martin86
:welcome: