Not very good in the wet on roads?

I'm suprised you've spun it 3 times!
I've tried a few times to provoke the rear on mine in the wet with very limited sucess.

Check tyres pressures and tyres and then slow down a bit

Just out of interest was it always the same place you spun it? Reason I ask is I used to use a petrol station on busy fast road in London. You would have to pull out of it pretty sharpish and the road was always exceddingly slippy pressumably from oil and diesel being on peoples tyres as they left the forecourt.

Never had any issues in mine and that was with Insa Turbo Sahara's, i expected it to be terrible but it wasnt.

On my colways m/t i would drift every corner in the wet it was so backend happy! Deffinatly a wake up call after a night shift

My new m/t grip quite well i have to be really giving it some to even get a little wiggle on a corner


When i was running road tyres i dont think the back end slipped once on mine

I have dueller h/t's on my jimny and it's been my one and only car so it's safe to say that I have probably ragged it a few times but I still find that it's dead easy to slide especially on damp or wet bends/roundabouts. It doesn't usually understeer first so I don't think I'm going too fast but that's just me.

First of all, watch your tyre pressures. Most garages put them way up too high.

Second, the Jimny is a good old fashioned rear wheel drive car. Unless you are a BMW driver there are not many rear wheel drive models around. In particular there is no weight on the rear wheels. It can be quite a change if you have been driving a modern front wheel drive car.

When I bought my Jimny I was surprised how easy it was to drive, because I had been driving my SJ for many years! Jimny has longer wheelbase than SJ and it's also much wider. And I have welded rear diff on my SJ, so imagine how it drives on ice and snow. :laugh: I don't think I spun the Jim even once last winter, and I'm driving on M/T's throughout the year. And I hate having an open rear diff for now, because I can't push it into good fully controlled drifts on wet tarmac! :laugh:

Offroad suzuki's are drivers trucks, and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone who does not have experience driving RWD cars, especially in winter! I won't let the missus drive the Jim when the snow is on the ground...

So, this is not a problem with Jimnys, it's a feature!