Suzuki jimny, fitting a LSD, who?
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Is the Jimny RWD in normal road use mode?
If so be wary after its fitted, in the wet especially till you are used to it, our Hilux had an LSD as standard and in normal RWD mode it was very tail end happy, where a normal live rear axle might allow the inside rear wheel to spin relatively harmlessly on a corner allowing the outside tyre to keep the track the fierce LSD on the pick up prevented that happening which meant both wheels would break away, this obviously resulted in quite scary moments on wet roundabouts, without driving at all stupidly.
Saw me ditching the poor wet grip OE tyres in short order and fitting some with good wet grip which improved things a lot, presumably your are on all or mud terrains so wet road grip might not be your tyre's strongest suit.
Not trying to put you off fitting the unit nor call into question your driving abilities, just a friendly warning that you might find the road behaviour of the vehicle to be somewhat different in the wet than present.
As for fitting it if you get no better suggestions, if John still owns Dutton Bros Tyres at Bryn Newydd Prestatyn he was big into Subaru racing and tuning and a decent helpful guy to boot so can't see a Jimny diff being an issue, i'm not from North Wales but together with my son we had several dealings with John 12 or so years back, very involved work too.
If so be wary after its fitted, in the wet especially till you are used to it, our Hilux had an LSD as standard and in normal RWD mode it was very tail end happy, where a normal live rear axle might allow the inside rear wheel to spin relatively harmlessly on a corner allowing the outside tyre to keep the track the fierce LSD on the pick up prevented that happening which meant both wheels would break away, this obviously resulted in quite scary moments on wet roundabouts, without driving at all stupidly.
Saw me ditching the poor wet grip OE tyres in short order and fitting some with good wet grip which improved things a lot, presumably your are on all or mud terrains so wet road grip might not be your tyre's strongest suit.
Not trying to put you off fitting the unit nor call into question your driving abilities, just a friendly warning that you might find the road behaviour of the vehicle to be somewhat different in the wet than present.
As for fitting it if you get no better suggestions, if John still owns Dutton Bros Tyres at Bryn Newydd Prestatyn he was big into Subaru racing and tuning and a decent helpful guy to boot so can't see a Jimny diff being an issue, i'm not from North Wales but together with my son we had several dealings with John 12 or so years back, very involved work too.
Any decent mechanic should be able to do it, Jimnys are pretty simple machines.
I wish my work Hilux had an LSD, the previous one did but with the facelift version has an open diff with sh!tty overactive electronic nannies instead. The one with LSD and no electronic nannies was much nicer to drive, and actually more predictable in interesting conditions.
I wish my work Hilux had an LSD, the previous one did but with the facelift version has an open diff with sh!tty overactive electronic nannies instead. The one with LSD and no electronic nannies was much nicer to drive, and actually more predictable in interesting conditions.
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