You just have to find a person who knows and start feeding them beers and shots…they’ll talk
You just have to find a person who knows and start feeding them beers and shots…they’ll talk
Now I have a goal...You just have to find a person who knows and start feeding them beers and shots…they’ll talk
It's like a whole different colony.
My dealer said that they can’t return parts to Ineos if they have ordered by mistake. Often having spare unused parts. There is only so much inventory a dealer can hold due to costs. The parts are often DHL to the dealers which can take several days from Belgium. Unlike major manufacturers (BMW) where most parts are available next day.
Interesting, this is vastly different than the US where we have our own parts distribution warehouse, of course some stuff still ships from Europe (as with any European manufacturer), but most is stocked here and to the dealer in a day or two
Imagine the custom and shipping charges for each item if we don’t have a UK distribution centre. No wonder parts and insurance is so expensive.
Australia must be following the UK lead and writing cars off for very little damage. In Australia they make a car a statutory write off with minimum damage only good for spare parts, cannot reuse the chassis VIN even if there is nothing wrong with the chassis up to 15 years old. We do have repairable write off but to get to the point of registration the car's finished inspection criteria is so strict the car is better than when it left the factory and could be entered into a concourse event. We cannot use undamaged statutory write off chassis to make better and safer hot rods relegating us to old chassis. Yet it is ok to rebuild/rebirth some old classic rusted or extensively damaged heap from as much as a door handle and put it on the road with a bigger engine and same old crappy brakes.If you want to understand further UK insurance and why all of our renewals are going up then watch this video and if you don’t watch any further just see what damage the 4yr old Defender suffered for it to be deemed at write off. The guy rebuilds it and you won’t believe where he gets the parts from and how much it costs !! For reference a new shape defender of that age is worth around £50k.
View: https://youtu.be/Vh2PFRO1x1A?si=nTqVrsLmnC5II-v-
Think it was another YouTube video where it is claimed that insurance companies are starting to use AI to assess vehicle damage and decide if it is repaired or not.
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I would like to add that while a service manual was promoted during early phases of marketing, it is unrealistic to expect a brand new company with a brand new vehicle to offer one so soon. Ineos needs the feedback that their authorized service centers can provide - more neutral territory than what could show up on Social media with all of its negativity over a problem that the DIY owner repair that wasn't handled correctly. I know there are so many knowledgeable mechanically minded people on this forum. The potential damage done to the vehicle reputation by an unknowledgeable well intended individual could sink us all for the future of this vehicle. The manual was not promised upon delivery of the vehicle.
If you think this is bad, wait till you find out that you can't even rotate the tires without the dealer reprogramming the tpms. I couldn't believe it... really I thought it was a joke at first. They expect me to drive 5 hrs for a tire rotation.
The other factor being EVs, any damage to a battery pack will write the vehicle off.
Yes. On my LC200, it just displays a vertical list of 5 tire pressures. When I perform a 5 tire rotation, the order of the list simply changes. I am not worried when the Grenadier will show me the wrong position, because I will have rotated them and know which tire it is.
Like I tell my engineer, Sometimes the best customer, is the one we lose. Not every attractive job is a winner in the end.
I gotta tell ya, I'd be nuts right now about that.If you think this is bad, wait till you find out that you can't even rotate the tires without the dealer reprogramming the tpms. I couldn't believe it... really I thought it was a joke at first. They expect me to drive 5 hrs for a tire rotation.
I understand your perspective, this specific issue is an annoyance but I can live with it. But it is frustrating considering Ineos is definitely aware that most of the customer base live many hours away from the closest dealer. How many more avoidable issues are we going to find? The Grenadier itself is so good, I wish Ineos would get its act together regarding servicablity.
