Dear Friends,
You want to buy an Ineos Grenadier... read my story. I picked up my Grenadier in November 2023. It's a beautiful car, exactly what I was looking for. Very sparsely equipped, but supposedly tough and unbeatable. It was, but only for a moment. I sold my Volvo XC90 Twin Engine to get it. In the Volvo, I had everything in good quality, but here, I was expecting reliability. The air conditioning works on its own, not quite how you expect or how you're used to. You’ll end up opening the windows rather than using the air conditioning... it’s doable for a while.
I bought the car in Poland, but I live half the time in Italy. After 20,000 km, I wanted to do a check-up, so I made an appointment at a service center in Genoa. I drove 100 km, left the car there, and they did nothing because they didn’t have the oil filter. Absolutely nothing. And this isn’t just an Ineos service center, it’s also BMW, Mini, etc. I know, a high-tech engine, but no filters. So I drove 1600 km to Poland. The service was done, and the air conditioning was supposedly improved. But with the air conditioning, no change. In Poland, they found that the differential was damp, so they told me to keep driving because they didn’t have the parts.
A month ago, I drove another 1600 km because they had the parts and were supposed to fix the air conditioning. They fixed both the air conditioning and the differential. The air conditioning works, but only in one setting: manual, maxed out, giving 3.0°C. If you adjust it even slightly, it jumps to 23-27°C, and if you move it further, it reaches 54°C. Nice, but I didn’t grow up in Africa. And the differential? It was damp before, but now the whole car is covered in oil.
30 phone calls, 8 days have passed in a foreign country. I have no replacement car, and after my car was towed, no one touched it for a week. I have a GPS tracker. No one knows anything. It's too late, call tomorrow.
Do you still want to buy a Grenadier??? Don’t do it.
PS: I know the Volvo XC90 doesn’t appeal to you, but I also have a Pajero Evolution, Pajero I Classic 3.0, Pajero 4, a few Mitsubishi Evolutions, a BMW, an Alfa, etc. I know how cars work. I had a service for rally cars with a 1000m2 facility, I raced in WRC, etc. I know a bit, but I still got ripped off.
Best regards,
Tomek
You want to buy an Ineos Grenadier... read my story. I picked up my Grenadier in November 2023. It's a beautiful car, exactly what I was looking for. Very sparsely equipped, but supposedly tough and unbeatable. It was, but only for a moment. I sold my Volvo XC90 Twin Engine to get it. In the Volvo, I had everything in good quality, but here, I was expecting reliability. The air conditioning works on its own, not quite how you expect or how you're used to. You’ll end up opening the windows rather than using the air conditioning... it’s doable for a while.
I bought the car in Poland, but I live half the time in Italy. After 20,000 km, I wanted to do a check-up, so I made an appointment at a service center in Genoa. I drove 100 km, left the car there, and they did nothing because they didn’t have the oil filter. Absolutely nothing. And this isn’t just an Ineos service center, it’s also BMW, Mini, etc. I know, a high-tech engine, but no filters. So I drove 1600 km to Poland. The service was done, and the air conditioning was supposedly improved. But with the air conditioning, no change. In Poland, they found that the differential was damp, so they told me to keep driving because they didn’t have the parts.
A month ago, I drove another 1600 km because they had the parts and were supposed to fix the air conditioning. They fixed both the air conditioning and the differential. The air conditioning works, but only in one setting: manual, maxed out, giving 3.0°C. If you adjust it even slightly, it jumps to 23-27°C, and if you move it further, it reaches 54°C. Nice, but I didn’t grow up in Africa. And the differential? It was damp before, but now the whole car is covered in oil.
30 phone calls, 8 days have passed in a foreign country. I have no replacement car, and after my car was towed, no one touched it for a week. I have a GPS tracker. No one knows anything. It's too late, call tomorrow.
Do you still want to buy a Grenadier??? Don’t do it.
PS: I know the Volvo XC90 doesn’t appeal to you, but I also have a Pajero Evolution, Pajero I Classic 3.0, Pajero 4, a few Mitsubishi Evolutions, a BMW, an Alfa, etc. I know how cars work. I had a service for rally cars with a 1000m2 facility, I raced in WRC, etc. I know a bit, but I still got ripped off.
Best regards,
Tomek
