New to Jimny - need help

Hi,

I recently bought a 99 jimny, all looks good drove it 60+miles home and it seemed fine. a few weeks later we had serious floods down our way and our road got washed away, i though no problem for the Jimny, but the 4wd light started flashing and didn't work. It worked when i took it for a test drive before buying it so it must have got a knock when i was stuck as there were some nasty boulders in the road - i only realised the extent when the floods dried up a bit.

So as i was stuck in the road in the middle of a flood with no 4wd i had to get a neighbour to tow me out, and in the middle of it all the back shock must have taken a knock because now it is hanging off - it came away from the axle. I took it to a garage the other day and he said it'd take approx 4 hrs to make something up and get it fixed properly in time for the MOT in a couple of months. He said also that the other shock doens't look too good and could come away soon too. he's going to charge me £42/hr so the bill could run away by the sounds of things - can i get some advice?

He's thinking of making some kind of reinforced bracket or something to go onto it which should hold it but he didn't fill me with confidence. I don't have a lot of money to throw at it and need it with the winter coming in fast...

Any advice? I can post some photos but this is my 3rd time posting this in the same no. of days but it doesn't seem to be making it to the forum!

Thanks,

Hi sorry about your jimny and welcome to the forum, if you register with photo bucket or some photo upload service you can post your pics on here more easily you just copy and paste the link into you thread, see if that works there is plenty of people on here that will advise you on what to do next I'm not a mechanic so I'll let people in the know comment when you get some pics posted

Cheers Daniel done the photo bucket thing, see photos below...

Hope these help! You'll see the floods were quite something!

That's better :laugh: Blimey yeah they were bad

So sorry to hear about and see the damage.

I think you are going to have to go with your mechanics advice

All the mountings on your axle look really badly rusted I'd think the radius arm ( painted Blue) mounts will be next and it won't be easy fir your garage to weld anything to. Personally I'd be looking for a second hand axle with less rust, should cost about £100.