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I have a suzuki vitara jlx 1991 model standard nothing done to it nd want to do it up, i was wondering wats the biggest tyres i can fit on it or woulda need a 2 inch lift to do that. I want suzuki to look all tough nd i plan taking it off road. I jus bought the car yesturday nd its my first eva car. Nd prices if thats possable,

I think we have a young NoOb chicky on our hands

You want big tyres.

You will need lift.

Try searching through the suzuki bible abit. Then come back and try some more detailed questions.

What year vitara?
What motor?

etcetc.

Sorry, but i am trying to help

Also edit your first post so some 1 can delete it. 1 post at a time in tech

I can sell you a Body Lift, Lwb or Swb??

Welcome to 4wding

Amanda, welcome to the board and Suzukis in general.
If the 1989 refers to your year of birth and by your SMS style spelling I would say your pretty young ..
So my advice to you is it not bother with the big boots yet.
Learn to drive properly first (no offence intended, we were all young once and thought we knew how to drive on and off-road .. in time you will see how wrong you were)

Get some 235's (not a bad compromise size for a standard vit) and drive it for a bit.

There is alot more to making a tyre work than just making it fit. You need to have the power to turn it as well and the gearing to not make it a pig to drive in the bush and having to chew up clutches etc to trying to drive stuff your car is to high geared for.


Also can you please try to spell somewhat properly, you will get alot more help and less agro if you make an effort to ask a question properly.

Read the stickies at the top of the screen regarding "the bible" alot of newbie questions will be answered there already .. if you require clarification or want more info. Then post.

Enough with the SMS-spelling, ur nt on ur fone itz nt cool.

You need to read through the bible and do some research. Bigger tyres are going to make your speedo inaccurate, affect your gearing (meaning that your car feels like it has less power) and are likely to also make your car illegal, meaning tat if you get pulled over you might get a defect notice which can be expensive and time consuming to fix. If you understand all that and want to go ahead fine, but there's always a downside when you modify anything. Yes, it will have more traction offroad, but with standard gearing that's not always helpful.

Yes, a 2" Body lift is a good way of fitting a larger tyre like a 30X9.5 or a 31 X 10.5, so long as you are willing to put up with the other hassles of large tyres.

Figure on around $1000 for wheels and tyres, $200 for the body lift, plus a big day in the shed if you can fit it yourself with some help or about a day of workshop time for a shop to fit it - so about $600-800 minmum for fitting if you have to pay for it.

There's not really anythng you can do with a vitara to fix the gearing on road (if you have a manual) , so you'll find the speedo reading somewhere between 80-90km/h when you are travelling at 100km/hr, and that might mean you struggle to use 5th gear when cruising (as an example) but also it will use bit more fuel and won't accelerate as well.

Personally, I think you need to hook up with the other suzuki owners in your area and get a feel for what they are doing with their cars and you can work out what you want to do with it. You'll get lots of opinions on here but only you can decide if you want to deal with owning a modified car.

Just some thoughts.

Steve.

Gwagensteve wrote:Enough with the SMS-spelling, ur nt on ur fone itz nt cool...

...Yes, a 2" Body lift is a good way of fitting a larger tyre like a 30X9.5 or a 31 X 10.5

Steve with the funnay Might want to preview your posts....

Moph wrote:

Gwagensteve wrote:Enough with the SMS-spelling, ur nt on ur fone itz nt cool...

...Yes, a 2" Body lift is a good way of fitting a larger tyre like a 30X9.5 or a 31 X 10.5

Steve with the funnay Might want to preview your posts....

A wheel barrow tyre ? one way to lower the effective gearing I guess ...

if you put a 0 then an X you get a


I should have written 30 X 9.5.

Sry evry1

Steve.

as said just drive it as it is now. Learn how to drive it offroad and then slowly modify it to meet your needs not just chuck some bigger tyres on because "That's what a 4wd is all about"

If you really have to go the bigger tyres… I'd go the 235's as mentioned earlier.
Being your from Queensland and your state is pretty strict on vehicle modifications, it would be in your best interests to research exactly what can be done legally where tyre sizes and bodylifts are concerned. It's going to be a big PITA if you get a 'canary' all because you wanted your Zook to look tuff and have jumped before you looked.

why is everyone on here so mean and judgmental. i joined this site so i could get advice from poeple on parts for my car and wats good for it or not and make friends. I love 4wds i may not no much about them but i no that i love them and want to learn more. thanks for the advice i apreciate poeple being smart ars. u should be more welcome to new people not ne smart arses. especially if its a girl very rarely girls like 4wds

im deleteing my account i can't take people like you wen new comers come into a site and ask for advice then u like act all smart ars and up ya self and tell poeple to type properly it really shits me ay.

bye

Nobody has been mean to you
A few have suggested you read through the bible (which is a damn good idea for background knowledge).
A few have asked for decent grammar & spelling so your questions are easy to read (and make sense of).
A few have offered sound advice relating directly to your question.

Believe it or not... you aren't the first person to want to put tyres on a Vitara. Answers to this and hundreds of other questions are already there if you read the bible or use the search function.

Jas.

amandalove44wds1989 wrote:why is everyone on here so mean and judgmental. i joined this site so i could get advice from poeple on parts for my car and wats good for it or not and make friends. I love 4wds i may not no much about them but i no that i love them and want to learn more. thanks for the advice i apreciate poeple being smart ars. u should be more welcome to new people not ne smart arses. especially if its a girl very rarely girls like 4wds

no one is being mean, people are giving you advice on how to get the best out of this forum. Communication is the primary way to do so. So make sure you are clear in what you are asking, if people can't understand what you are asking it makes it hard to give answers. Over the last few months a lot of new people have joined and frankly their communication skills are extremely poor making it very hard to figure out what they are actually asking.

So either take the advice on board or get upset and leave, the decision is yours.

*sigh*

I didn't see anyone being judgmental. Interestingly, your second last post was well written and easy to follow, just like most people on here try to do. Was I being a smart arse? Well, I made a joke out of your spelling (which IMHO deserved a joke as you are clearly able to spell quite well), but answered your question, and you've responded with full sentences so I think that was effective. Sorry you took that so personally that you feel you have to leave be board. At least you will have left it with some sound advice.

Sure, I made a crack at SMS-spelling. It does my head in. Yes, we can work out what you are trying to say, but after all, you are asking for advice and being polite by writing in an easy to understand way and doing some research y doing a search and reading the bible before you ask will get you a lot better advice than not taking the time to even type out what you want to say properly.

Your gender has nothing to do with it. You were treated the same way as if you were male, which is exactly as it should be.

Steve.

Gwagensteve wrote: Your gender has nothing to do with it. You were treated the same way as if you were male, which is exactly as it should be.

Steve.

If you were a male, you would have maybe copped a bit off stick. More so because male 'noobs' are a bit more 'gung ho' and some don't like the answers which they receive (ie they don't fit in to their grand plans of building 'their beast').

Don't be upset, everyone here has copped some kind of stick at some stage and all in all this is a great forum, with lots of informative threads and knowledgeable people, including a lot of young females like yourself who enjoy and love 4WD's.

Hang around for a while, you may like it.

Funny I thought everyone was being nice.

If you were male you would have got a "don't let the door hit you in the but" comment by now, or something like "goto 4wd action forum, itz soooooo mch betta"

i think all here are too set in there ways, people are suppozd to be english masters or are torn to shreds, hello, no everyone has english as a first language, an even if they do, can spell proppa, yet most here seem to rip the shit outa those who do not speak like an english master.

The lass came for help, most answers were about her lack of er, perfect, ha, written english.

chill out.

david123 wrote:i think all here are too set in there ways, people are suppozd to be english masters or are torn to shreds, hello, no everyone has english as a first language, an even if they do, can spell proppa, yet most here seem to rip the shit outa those who do not speak like an english master.

The lass came for help, most answers were about her lack of er, perfect, ha, written english.

chill out.

Unless you are accessing the net via your phone there is not need to type with your thumbs, most phones have premptive spelling that makes typing easier as well. Not we aren't asking for perfect spelling just a vague attempt would be considerate. If you want to sound cool text your mates, if you want information, type and PROOF READ WHAT YOU HAVE WRITEN

Forgot to add, you can edit

yea goodo, im fukd if i can use that pre emptive shit yr talking, I spell the way I speak, if ya dont understand, so be it, I understand all sorts of written stuff.

X2 That pre- emptive spelling on mobil phones does my head in.
When i'm reading something that is hard understand , I just imagine that I'm listening to a kiwi speaking - then it all seems to make sense. I not making fun of kiwi's , just using an example that people often write the way they talk.

Lets not get side tracked. Amanda good choice in 4x4. Comfortable to ride in and room to pack things when you go camping. If your Vitara still has good tread on the tyres , just keep them for now until you've seen what other people have on their cars. Best way to see that is find a club and look at jioning ( like North Brisbane Suzuki Club ) for instance. You will find people very helpful there , and see there cars as well. In person you can also ask lots of questions and get ideas for your own vehicle when you see other peoples modifications.

Lets hope you change your mind about the forum as other forums aren't any different because the same people view all of them anyway.

just cruizin' wrote:PROOF READ WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN

david123 wrote:yea goodo, im fukd if i can use that pre emptive shit yr talking, I spell the way I speak, if ya dont understand, so be it, I understand all sorts of written stuff.

Spelling and writing the way you speak is pretty close to what spelling, punctuation and grammar are all about.
If you speak flat out without taking a breathe, by all means write without stops and commas. In general, a stop or a comma go about the same place you'd take a breathe. How difficult can that be??

Oh and ...


Welcome Amanda ...

By the time you had spat your dummy. you'd received 9 replies. of those, FIVE had helpful advice, one was trying to sell you stuff, and three were just padding.

bye Amanda ...

I was just trying to work out who was trying to sell their stuff..Just Cruisin'

amandalove44wds1989 wrote:im deleteing my account i can't take people like you wen new comers come into a site and ask for advice then u like act all smart ars and up ya self and tell poeple to type properly it really shits me ay.

bye

Your loss ...
If your really that thin skined .. Please stay off the internet .. That was most people being nice.

The advice you got was good.
The manner in which it was presented was helpful.
The tone was non threatening.
The answers were eay to follow.
I am not sure what more you could have asked for.

Your loss.. we are all male models... hey boys

BlueSuzy wrote: I was just trying to work out who was trying to sell their stuff..Just Cruisin'

I'm here to help

jonno_racing wrote:Your loss.. we are all male models... hey boys

Hahahahahahahaha

Best comment so far!!

jonno_racing wrote:Your loss.. we are all male models... hey boys

Gold

I'm betting she's still waiting for 4wd actions suzuki section to load...

hehehe hell when i say your first post and everyone was bein nice i was a little annoyed, if you were male they would of went off about usin search functions and lookin thou the bible till hell had frozon over and someone had gotten around to deletin your post . so if you think they were mean to you in this post it might be a good idea to close your account since im pritty sure it for shit sure woulda been a lot worse the next time

please insert all missin letters and grammery type stuff as required
and yes i know i cant spell
and no i couldnt find the anything relatin to this with the search function
have a good one hehehe