Vehicle
Suzuki Jimny
The small ladder-frame four-wheel drive, and the least electronically complicated new car most workshops will see. That simplicity is the point diagnostically — the transfer case is mechanical, the engine management is conventional, and a fault has very few places to hide. Off-road duty is what its high-load and sensor-contamination codes usually trace back to.
Generations
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Second generation (SJ and JA) 1981–1998
Sold as Samurai, Sierra and Santana; leaf-sprung, and simpler again than the coil-sprung JB43 that replaced it.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- Suzuki SJ
- Engines
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- 1.3 — G13 · petrol · SJ413 and Samurai
- 1.0 — F10A · petrol · SJ410
- 0.66 turbo kei — F6A · petrol · JA11 and JA22
- 1.9 diesel — diesel · Santana-built, Spanish market
- 0.5 — LJ50 · petrol
- 0.5 turbo — petrol
- 0.7 turbo — petrol
- 0.8 — petrol
- Transmissions
- 4-speed manual · 5-speed manual · 3-speed automatic · 4/5-speed manual
- Drivetrain
- Part-time four-wheel drive with low range
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JB43 1998–2018
The long-running third generation; M13A petrol in most markets.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- Suzuki Jimny
- Engines
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- 1.3 — M13A · petrol · 62–63 kW (83–84 hp)
- 0.66 turbo kei — K6A · petrol
- 1.5 DDiS — diesel
- 0.7 turbo — JB23 · petrol
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · 4-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Part-time four-wheel drive with low range
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JB74 2018–present
K15B petrol; a particulate filter and more driver assistance, on the same mechanical layout.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Engines
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- 1.5 — K15B · petrol · 75 kW (101 hp) · 130 Nm (96 lb-ft)
- 0.7 turbo — R06A · petrol
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · 4-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Four-wheel drive · Part-time four-wheel drive with low range
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