Let's get some perspective: Is your Grenadier AC working as it should?

[G-Man]

Who else's AC is batsh1t crazy and randomly blows hot air one day and cold the next on the exact same setting? I don't think the AC system got the attention it deserved during the 1.2 million miles of road testing, that's for sure. I love my new truck but it's the one thing that drives me nuts on pretty much a daily basis as I fiddle away at the controls and I'm surprised Ineos haven't found a fix for it yet. I gather it's down to sticky solenoid valves or such like and is probably an expensive warranty concern for them.

It would be useful to set up a poll on this forum and get an idea of what percentage and numbers of owners here have flaky AC. This forum must represent a decent amount of the Grenadier owner population, perhaps it would help sharpen Ineos' perspective on the issue if it popped up on every Google search relating to Grenadier AC issues. I don't have the ability to raise a forum poll but maybe @Stu_Barnes would consider it a worthy exercise

 

[Dok]

Well put, when it works it works great. I’ve had my truck almost a year now and 95% of the time the AC works great but it’s that 5% that goes bad at the worst possible time. I went 3 month after purchase with no problem but since then it has gone bad maybe 30 times or more. It usually is fine if I turn it off for 10 minutes but there have been a few times where it took over 24hours before it would reset to normal. I think it’s a software issue and am hoping it gets figured for some future software update.

Worse possible moment?
When dressed as a beekeeper with hives in the boot (+buttons not working just touchscreen)?
When offroading with tons of dust?
...

 

[Kevin Mokracek]

Worse possible moment?
When dressed as a beekeeper with hives in the boot (+buttons not working just touchscreen)?
When offroading with tons of dust?
...

I have had the latter happen.

 

[CRH]

I had the aircon re-gased earlier in the year, that worked fine there after but the heating wasn't much cop (pretty useless), I've had it bled about 4 or 5 times. Just got it back on Friday from the latest bleed and was told it needed fluid topping up. Tried today and it worked like a normal car, hot, warm or cold rather than just hot or cold. Auto worked!!! Not had the random direction issues but need to have a longer run. the final bleed sorted out any air lock and was reason for top up

 

[BD1]

I feel fortunate. No issues with heating or cooling (so far). In fact, no issues at all other than ADAS (which is minor with Fav button).