Adjustable suspension without lowering the car and without swapping a single spring? It sounds like a marketing trick, yet Japan’s TEIN has done exactly that. The company has extended its EnduraPro PLUS range to the Suzuki Jimny and the Honda N-WGN, and the geometry stays completely standard — the factory springs and upper mounts remain right where they are.
The kit for the Suzuki Jimny JB64W and the Jimny Sierra JB74W, built since 2018, costs 82,500 yen. TEIN’s catalogue confirms the standard ride height and compatibility with the four-wheel-drive versions. The real trump card is the adjustment: rebound and compression move together through 16 positions, from a soft, comfort-first setting to a tight, almost sporting response.
But there is a detail worth knowing before you pay. The EnduraPro series is advertised with H.B.S., a hydraulic bump stopper that softens the blow when the suspension compresses fully. The rear dampers of the Jimny, however, use the Damper Body Adjuster mechanism, and TEIN states separately that H.B.S. is not fitted to them. So claiming that the entire Jimny kit carries the system is simply wrong.
For the front-wheel-drive Honda N-WGN and N-WGN Custom with the JH3 body, produced since August 2019, the official catalogue lists the same EnduraPro PLUS at 78,100 yen per set. The ride height is again untouched, and the rear axle comes with TEIN’s own hardware — bump rubbers and dust boots.
There is a flip side, though. The EnduraPro construction is sealed and non-serviceable. That helped the manufacturer cut production costs, but such a damper cannot be rebuilt or revalved once it leaves the factory. In exchange TEIN offers a warranty of three years or 60,000 km, provided the terms of use are respected.
So who is all this for? Certainly not only for owners dreaming of turning a Jimny or an N-WGN into a sports car. It is the smarter way to replace worn factory dampers: the height of the car stays exactly as it was, while the character of the suspension — softer or firmer — is chosen by the driver.
Earlier it was reported that Suzuki had overtaken Mercedes-Benz in car imports to Japan.
