Daily on road use

Alright guys I'm about to purchase a wonderful Jimny. I want to tart it up to look off road but will need to use it every day to get to work.

Thinking of a two inch lift and some naughty all terrain tyres.

Any suggestions? Costs? Sizes etc?

Much appreciated

Jamie

Hi Jamie,

If you just want it to look like an offroader stick a spring spacer on each corner, that will give it about an inch in lift. Then stick some Mud Terrain tyres on. Cost for the spacers will be about £100.

If you want a proper offroader get a 2" lift kit. They are £500 - £800 depending on where you get it from. I suggest the 50mm (2") trailmaster kit from bits4vits.com, then a set of recip trial tyres. All together it will be around the £1000 mark.

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Thanks mate. What are the biggest tyres I can put on original rims? Or so
I have to get different wheels? Love the whole black look

are you planning on using the jimny off road or do you just want to make it "look" like you use it off road?

if your only going for the offroad look i wouldnt bother IMO, knobbly tyres only increase fuel consumption and sap the little power we have and lifting it will make it handle worse than they already do.

offroad mods are to make it better offroad not onroad, if its a on road only car i wouldnt bother modding it for offroad use just to look cool.

if you REALLY want the offroad look fit some AT's and a snorkel, 2 of the things most commonly assosiated with offroading

all my opinion obviously.

Will use it off road but more on road nothing extreme

i use mine as my daily driver aswell as greenlaning, you can see from my signature what mods i have and it does very well in the rough stuff and is still very drivable on road, maintaining a reasonable MPG etc.

ive got mud tyres on mine but thats purely because i do alot of laning and they get pretty muddy and sloppy, i also venture out on my own so the muds help me not get stuck as easily.

you really need to decide what you want from the vehicle before spending shit loads on un needed mods. a lift is only really needed for fitting much bigger tyres, i run 195 80 15 MT with no lift and have no issues, these are slightly taller than stock tyres and perform well offroad as long as you stay out of really deep ruts (which you should anyway), under armour stops things getting damaged when you do ground out and is conciderably cheaper than a lift kit and massive tyres (not taking into account the other mods needed to run huge tyres, like a rocklobster).

get out there on the rough stuff in your standard jim and see just how well it will do then decide upon mods from there, dont just think "well everyone fits a 3" lift and 30" tyres so i must need them" as this probably isnt the case if your doing mild laning.

i have quite a few laning videos on my youtube (search my name) all in my unlifted jim if you want to see what they are capable of.