Modifying my Jimny

Welcome to the forum. I get the aesthetic aspects of wanting to change up a Jimny but honestly any modifications have consequences. Suzuki put a lot of time in on making the Jimny a good compromise between it's intended uses. Making it better with modifications aimed at one aspect will make it worse at others. That being said at 15 years old it's probably going to be quite tired in certain areas especially if it's not really been cared for. So to that end I would look at refreshing the suspension bushes and steering joints, the road springs will also have settled so even standard height replacement will lift it up, it's also a certainty that the dampers will need attention for which there are plenty of really good quality after market options these days. Add this to a set of premium tyres and suddenly you have a Jimny that eats everything and with a little skilled driving can go places a badly modified one would struggle.

It is possible to turn a Jimny into the Hulk, but it's just as easy to turn it into the Abomination. But for just mooching down the street Bruce Banner is a much better alternative. Oh and before anyone asks it might be possible to create a Smart Hulk Jimny but despite a few people getting close I don't think anyone has really got there yet.

Thing is my Dreadnaught is primarily a tool for farming which to some should mean lumpy tyres are loads of suspension but in reality it is road tyres so I can stop in the rain when towing a twin axle sheep trailer, it's standard height suspension so that said trailer sits nicely behind the car. OK so I have some Gucci components like trailmaster dampers and avm manual hubs but they are more for reliability and performance than anything else. I also have armour plates on the underside not so much for impact defence as much as for acting as skids to help not get hung up on things. Now all that works for me in my situation where I'm on a combination of sealed roads, grass and rocks. It wouldn't work as well if I were on peat or slick clay or deep loam but a Jimny that could cope with those may well be a handful on a wet road with a trailer. Horses for courses.