I notice a lot of drivers allow excessive wheel spin eg: the first Jimny. Notice the other drivers just took their time and they made it up easy … old rule of thumb in off-road driving is “As slow as possible and as fast as necessary”
A Britain depends if you have lockers. The jeep has front and rear so it can go nice and slow. The suzuki has open diffs so the only option is to get a bunch of momentum.
or you could say the jimney is out of place. it doesnt belong next to a rubicon. that would solve your complaint. if its going to compete against a rubicon then it must face the consequences.
Attention world.... Lockers are everything when offroading. Apples vs oranges when you see videos like this. The rubicon is awesome, period. But it wouldnt be half what it is, without the lockers.
Todd P. They lock the axle making both tires spin. Without them only the tire that is easier to spin will get power. If you watch the Jimmys only on tire spins when they lose traction.
Getting a Jimny and installing a rear locking diff and lift kit will still cost a lot less than a stock Rubicon the same age. Suzukis will get you further off road for the money though they'll never tow as much or carry the same payload purely because they're smaller and lighter. As a result of having no centre differential, a Jimny must have one wheel on each axle slipping to lose drive. This is easy enough to do when diagonally opposite wheels are carrying most of the weight as in the trail in the video. Careful line choice and/or more axle articulation might do the job to get through, but locking the rear diff will definitely do it. Since the engine weight keeps the front wheels on the ground, usually a rear wheel is the first to lift, so locking the rear diff keeps the drive going to the rear wheel on the ground and the car stays moving. Without the locking diff the traction force is limited to twice the friction at the lightest loaded front wheel is generating (Which is going to be pretty low while pointed uphill). The rear wheel on the ground does nothing at all to drive the car forward until the rear differential is locked.
I'm currently shopping for one at the moment, one shows up to my local offroad meets, he runs fairly stock I think a 50mm lift and some slightly bigger BFG MTs, the thing is like a little mountain goat, the only time I've seen him get in grief is when he tried to tow a Landrover out and dug himself in :D. I got sick to death of my pajeros stupid electric/vacuum 4wd system malfunctioning.
Cost wise the jimmy is an awesome little rig. It’s a simple yet effective 4x4. The rubicon costs a lot more because it has a lot more off road stuff on it
Wei-En Lee I tend not to agree. If your Jimny's modifications are well implemented and thought out then there's no reason why they shouldn't be just as capable.
What is the point of this/?? With "lockers" on my almost stock Samurai, I can follow a Rubicon anywhere... But The jeep can't follow the Samurai anywhere. >Samurai 2,200 pounds Rubicon 4,500 pounds... Running the same tires, it's no contest
