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Vehicle & Technical => Suzuki => Topic started by: lambert on March 21, 2008, 09:08:39

Title: late vitara or early grand vitara swb?
Post by: lambert on March 21, 2008, 09:08:39
as a purely academic process at this point which is better?

it will be a daily driver doing twenty miles a day, it will also need to go laning most weekends and bog hopping whenever it's not too dry.

other considerations are ease of modification eg big tyres and suspension winches etc, and availability of service parts. and interchangeability of bits between derivatives ie will long wheel base springs fit under a swb to give a quick lift?

also do they have a slippery diff in the back axle?

you know all the usual sort of guff.
Title: Re: late vitara or early grand vitara swb?
Post by: jiblet on March 21, 2008, 10:40:31
ive  heard grand vits are terrible offroad, but thats only what ive heard

theres quite a few vit owners on this forum, they all seem to like theres, AKA comfort offroaders.

Title: Re: late vitara or early grand vitara swb?
Post by: CNorman on March 21, 2008, 11:01:28
ive  heard grand vits are terrible offroad, but thats only what ive heard


I own a grand vit and can confirm, yes, they really are terrible.... The grip is there, reasonable articvulation is there however there is absolutly NO ground clearance under the car.

That said, i have been looking into off roading mine and have to say that it seems that you can fit fairly large tyres under the arches easilly, 225/75 16's which i think are around 28.5"???? That would probably make it fairly good off road.

Title: Re: late vitara or early grand vitara swb?
Post by: lambert on March 21, 2008, 12:24:50
on a vitara would you need a lift to get 31/10.50/15's on or would you need to butcher the arches?
Title: Re: late vitara or early grand vitara swb?
Post by: Lincs niva on March 21, 2008, 14:16:17
Nothing wrong with vitaras offroad swb,lwb all are good from what ive seen..

There are a few companys selling offroad bits for them

Bits4vits
suzuki4x4mods.com

Cheers Gav
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