[Kailes]

Hey guys, so is their a replacement mount for the spare wheel that has a Jerry can holder as well as the spare tyre holder ?

[Gwagensteve]

You don't want to do that. It's miles too much weight.

[Kailes]

Damn, the jimny fuel tank is just to small for long trips

[Gwagensteve]

Use a quality jerry can and carry it inside the car. A proper rheem plastic or NATO steel jerry won't fume into the cabin.

Jimny rear doors are really only designed for the weight of the tiny 660cc 16x4.5" rim. Adding more weight, and critically leverage to the door results in excessive load on the hinges and body. It can also cause poor dust sealing as the door moves enough to break the the seal.

Steve.

[pete_79]

Kailes wrote:

Damn, the jimny fuel tank is just to small for long trips

How far are you planning to drive?
How often do you really truly expect to be more then 400km from a town in any direction?

We drove most of the east coast in our Jimny and never had any real fuel dramas.
I can only recall a couple of trips that we took (and needed) a 10L jerry can on the roof rack just in case.
Braidwood to Bendethera via Merricumbene fire trail that was 1st gear low range pretty much all day.
And another from our camp at Geehi Plains up into the high country with a couple too many side tracks taken along the way. We just needed a top up to get back to the servo.
For these trips we had the kids in the back seats and I had drawers behind the seats, so I preferred using the low profile 10L jerry on the roof for my setup.

Other then that, we never had any fuel issues driving around the coast from Qld to Tassie, exploring heaps of tracks and finding a ton of camp sites in between.
We didn't venture too far inland, but there's a number of guys on here that have crossed most of the deserts around this country in Jimnys.
Pretty much all of them found space in the cabin for their jerry cans on these long inland trips.


To answer your question directly, yes you can get jerry can holders for the rear door on the Jimny.
But in my view they stick out too far and as Steve said the doors are not designed to hold that sort of weight.

[Kailes]

Awesome , thanks for the info , I had just always been told : no Jerry cans in the cab. It's not a big concern of mine the fuel I mean . Was more thinking for those times u are out playing and don't really want to stop to go to town . . I did see a fabrication post on here , not sure who by ( blue jimny with learner plates ). And he had made a separate swing arm one ?

[Toomanycars]

http://www.highwaydreams.net/carrying-a ... erry-cans/

[Gwagensteve]

The big problem with jimny's is they get heavy quick. Most are over GVM when packed for a weekend away. A swing away carrier and rear bar will add 30kg minimum ( more often 50kg) which is just lost payload. A light jimny is a happy jimny.

It's also illegal to carry petrol on a rear bar/ outside the vehicle

Steve.

[shep]

There is no problem carrying fuel in the cab, I carry fuel in aircraft often with no issue. Just use good jerry cans and tie them
down [like ya should with every heavy object in the cab] so they don't cave ya head in if ya roll it.

Plastic cans are the best in my opinion as no rust issues and they don't mark the interior plastics when ya stack 7 of them in the passenger footwell and seat

[shep]

Gwagensteve wrote:

The big problem with jimny's is they get heavy quick. Most are over GVM when packed for a weekend away. A swing away carrier and rear bar will add 30kg minimum ( more often 50kg) which is just lost payload. A light jimny is a happy jimny.

It's also illegal to carry petrol on a rear bar/ outside the vehicle

Steve.

Mine ended up weighing 1400kg empty and no passengers. GVM is 1420, hence now I don't own it

[ZUZUKI]

Genuine 4x4 have / had a rear bar & swing away wheel carrier - but it didn't additionally offer a jerry can mount.
Don't think they made them - Thailand maybe.
Rgs, Michael