New Jimny

[4x4rookie]

Hey all

Just bought a new Jimny.
Just using for a daily comute to work and back around 4 miles a day.
Just sold my Fiat 500 which was great.
Now I have a 4x4 and hopefully I can get to do a bit of the off road thing soon.
Jimny seems capable. Hopefully I will get some ideas of where to do the offroading on the forum. Live in west london.

Cheers

[ScottieJ]

to :suzuki:clubUK matey

Jimny's are very capable little offroaders, the only thing to watch out for is the front CVs can be a bit weak when you run larger more aggressive tyres.

You might have to travel a bit for offroading,don't think there's a huge amount in London

[twiss]

Hi and welcome to the forum!!!

Yeah it would have to be some very urban off roading!!!
I think the closest pay and play sites to you are Mud Monsters (A23/Crawley) or 4x4 without a club (M4/Aldermaston)

[suzukisteve]

welcome to the club dude

have you any plans for it or are you gonna keep it standard?

[4x4rookie]

welcome to the club dude

have you any plans for it or are you gonna keep it standard?

Well I have loads of plans for it but seeing as though I bought it for my wife(me) the changes will be subtle at first and slow. But nevertheless if I can get her interested in the offroading then maybe changes will be bigger and better.

Anyone been down water lane Alton? Looked on youtube and seems perfect for an outing and not too far from me only 50mls.

And cheers for the welcome

Cheers

Louw(pronounced Low)

[dan_2k_uk]

Your best bet for local offroading info might be to speak to Alex known as donkeychomp on here. He lives in Staines and when I dropped him some parts off he showed me some photos of some local spots.

Anyways to SCUK

Dan

[4x4rookie]

Your best bet for local offroading locally might be to speak to Alex known as donkeychomp on here. He lives in Staines and when I dropped him some parts off he showed me some photos of some local spots.

Anyways to SCUK

Dan

Cheers mate. Will ping him a message.

[Edweird]

Well I have loads of plans for it but seeing as though I bought it for my wife(me) the changes will be subtle at first and slow. But nevertheless if I can get her interested in the offroading then maybe changes will be bigger and better.

The first thing you'll want is a set of off-road tyres. Any proper 4x4, i.e. Land Rovers (not including Evoques or Freemasons), Land Cruisers, Hiluxs etc. are plenty capable if they've got a set of decent tyres. I suppose if you could fit off-road tyres on an X5 or a Freeloader, they would probably perform acceptably too, so long as they didn't need to flex much.

I've got road tyres on the front and ATs on the back, and so on wet roads I get oversteer because the ATs slide easier on wet tarmac, but off-road I get understeer because the road tyres aren't doing bugger all. In an idea world I'd have two sets of wheels an tyres, but until my university loan comes through, this is a compromise.

[ferris]

to the club .

[ROBBIE]

Hi the Jimny is a good capable little truck, the son in laws got one an it gets most places my SJ gets