How reliable is a jimny

Had our Jinny now for about 2 months. Use on roads and farm tracks, fields. How reliable are they, ours seems fine at moment hopefully we bought a good one.
Ours is a 2011 version, what are main problems if any . It's done less than 20000 miles, engine seems brilliant although on start up seems slow to turn over. Battery is tiny not surprised. Drives well no wheel wobble only other thing is high clutch pedal biting point, is this normal.

Mine is a 2012 had it from 6 months old. Only ever let me down once. It was Xmas and I had to move it up the drive to make some space. It was a start stop move and afterwards I could not get it to start for the next 4 days. My start up is just the same it cranks over several times before firing up. Never had a problem with hot start.

Hello Grainfoot.

Mine is an older 2006 vehicle and has given me no real trouble (I've owned it almost a year now) and as others have said, proper/preventative maintenance keeps you moving.
I've had some issues which were brakes shaking me to death (has been for many months) but fixed that with a disc and pad overhaul and changed the caliper sliders which I think were the real cause of the shaking, (I'm now preparing to cx the track rod ends and any front suspension bushes I suspect of being worn).
I had a small leak from the ill-placed thermostat housing - a really horrible job.
My battery is noticeably slower turning the engine over in the recent cold weather - just as it was last winter, but it isnt struggling to light the fires, yet, so I'm monitoring that for now.
Finally just a couple of weeks back had the clutch cx'd by Mr Clutch of Swindon.
They're Nationwide outfit, and the job cost me £255. I was very very pleased they seem quick but thorough. The reason I had the clutch done was the biting point was high, AND if I so much as touched my foot on the clutch will driving I could perceive it was slipping. It transpired it was indeed very worn.

I would say they are exceptionally reliable. There are certainly no surprises that will catch you out and apart from wear and tear, you can count the common failures on one hand- kingpin bearings, crank position sensor, gearboxes on 2005-~2009 models if they haven't been reconditioned already, ummm.... the seatbelts can get a bit slow to retract?

The clutch cable is adjustable so if the bite point is high get underneath and slacken off the adjuster nut until you have 10mm of free play at the pedal.

If your battery is getting weak it needs replacing. It's probably the original, and at 7 years old and on a low mileage car it won't have had the easiest life. I wouldn't count that as a reliability issue though.

jimkyx wrote: Mine is a 2012 had it from 6 months old. Only ever let me down once. It was Xmas and I had to move it up the drive to make some space. It was a start stop move and afterwards I could not get it to start for the next 4 days. My start up is just the same it cranks over several times before firing up. Never had a problem with hot start.

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I had the same problem with a two year old Jimny, I just moved it a few yards and then couldn't start it afterwards. I called out the recovery service and the guy knew what the problem was. To start it he put his foot hard down on the accelerator and the turned the key. He said that this scenario was a common problem for modern cars.

^^^^^^Yep not just Jimny... Wife called AA to Micra that would not start after I had moved it a few yards one morning. Same cure, foot to the floor until it started. In the old days it was called "flooding"the engine with the choke, who remembers them?
We just dont expect this with fuel injection, but it does happen from time to time when the sensors are half warm / cold and the ECU picks the wrong map.

The foot fully down thing usually puts the ecu into a "flooded engine recovery" mode, and stops the injection whilst the pedal is down to try and clear excess fuel.

You should never run a "modern" car for less than a couple of minutes or it won't start again.

It will be in the handbook.

2001
Used daily for commute for 6 years.
Utterly bullet proof.. can take any abuse
Only failure was a pulley damper collapsed.