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I stopped outside the shops in Hervey Bay last week and waited in the Grenadier while my wife went in to pick a few things up.Recently when travelling back to Melbourne from Narooma we stopped in Bruthen, its a small country town used by many drivers as a rest stop. Was a 35 degree day, had just done a 4.5 hour stint and the Grenadier must have been part way through a burn. We had to stop as I needed a slash and a pie and a Big M, but the cooling fans ran at max velocity the entire time we were away from the car. The whole town was staring and glaring at the ruckus coming from the Grenadier, we skulked back from the bakery and quickly drove back down to a nearby deserted footy oval to park under a tree and finish our lunch in solitude.
You (and everyone around you) will know when its doing a burn, trust me.
I had windows down and safari windows open so I turned the car off and sat there and read a book.
It was doing a DPF burn so pretty noisy.
This lovely woman came over and demanded that I turn the vehicle off and stop destroying the planet with pollution.
I held up the keys and told her the engine was turned off.
She didn't believe me.