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What did you do with your Grenadier today?

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I went back to my dealer today, to reset the maintenance warning, and ... they didn't succeed in resetting it: therefore the maintenance warning is still popping up, now at 19075 km, and going down of course, highly irritating. They will contact Sweden they said! Hmm, Ineos isn't located in Sweden, but yes the Hedin headquarters! Does also irritate me that for an Ineos problem they don't contact directly Ineos!

And the nice looking Grenadier from the Ineos Grenadiers cycling team was still parked there (see my previous post in this thread), and I looked inside, and saw a nice mount for a tablet:
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I do wonder if that tablet mount is legal as it is smack over the middle of the hazard button.

If you ever need extra help I recently met Adam he is the program manager from Hedin in Sweden for Ineos europe :)
I was for a short weekend in Gothenburg and I spotted mister Hedin himself his grenadier.
Next day Adam asked met to come over to the dealer ship and he came in on his day off to chat with me.
Really nice guy and he love grenadier en modding them.
He let me drive his own grenny and afterwards the highly modified Beast :D
I have not seen this kind of energy and vibe from other brand manager I have enountered.
 

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So, about an hour ago I returned home from the Erzgebirge / Ore Mountains in Saxony. Last night we stayed in Oberwiesenthal, about 900m above sealevel. The weather was yesterday rainy and windy - over night this was a real storm and gusts in 1200m on 120km/h in the town still above 80km/h. - and then snow showers..
Ole was the night out.. wipers were initially frozen.. but the heating system was so fast.. No issues to get the snow off.
Snowploughs were in action but the road itself was above 700m snow on rough ice, No salt used or salt ineffective.

I locked the center differential and Ole the Grenadier went on like on rails. No odd or slippery behavior.
Yesterday evening on central parking area in Oberwiesental (picture taken by spouse - the lad in red its me.
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Up there is the aerial cable way to Fichtelberg.. suspended today because of gusts.
There is a steam powered narrow gauge railway next but it stayed in operation.
This morning a bit different
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snow dispersal on its way - picture from hotel room. The Fichtelberg mountain and upper houses invisible and covered in snow clouds.
Heading off - back home..
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This was like so - until below 600m altitude. Snow on rough ice. my knit cap located front of central display.

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Gusts and dispersal of snow building up. Water freezing on wipers building up.

Conditions got better after some time .. disengaged the center lock but then I had to follow a lorry until motorway access. There was a queue building up following a snow plough.
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Pictures were taken by spouse.
Once we were heading south direction Plauen - all of a suddden snow was gone all green but gusts remaining and hefty rain. - Still ongoing.
as you notice - in this picture average consumption 10.9 l / 100km quite loaded. But the overall consumption from last Friday to today - including Autobahn (up to 140 km/h) downtown / stop n go / grades, and this weather was 12.1 l/100km.
No issues at all. No warning lights or whatever.
Fact is maneuvering in old towns is a challenge - but I got used to it.
Reverse driving with rear wiper on, rear wiper is quite noisy.
The cooling fan is quite hefty when shutting down for a break, sounds like a turbine.. but shuts down quickly.
The wind noise is quite noticeable.
Gust effects / side wind have less impact than expected - perhaps due to the weight of the vehicle. So no corrections on wind. - Again, worn out roads with grooves need a lot of corrections. More than expected - but - is it steering, is it the BFG or just the width of the tyre.. what has the most impact?
 

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I went back to my dealer today, to reset the maintenance warning, and ... they didn't succeed in resetting it: therefore the maintenance warning is still popping up, now at 19075 km, and going down of course, highly irritating. They will contact Sweden they said! Hmm, Ineos isn't located in Sweden, but yes the Hedin headquarters! Does also irritate me that for an Ineos problem they don't contact directly Ineos!

And the nice looking Grenadier from the Ineos Grenadiers cycling team was still parked there (see my previous post in this thread), and I looked inside, and saw a nice mount for a tablet:
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Hard to tell but it looks like it clamps onto the switchgear protector for the volume knob. Pretty clever!
 

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BDM seat bags and some Laser offset wrenches arrived this week, but still waiting on PDI.
 

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I take it that by gear oil oil they are referring to the axle oil which is changed on the first service and is sae 80w/90 EP and seems a bit short on engine oil at 6.5L. Should be 7L for petrol engine and 7.5L for diesel engine.
attached a service schedule and oil and lube spec. 👍🏼View attachment 7836688View attachment 7836689
The engine Oil viscosity spec for the petrol does not seem right? Every other document I have seen, seems to specify 0w20 for the petrol. Is this document from the African dealers or UK dealers?

Fluids resource section
 
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The engine Oil viscosity spec for the petrol does not seem right? Every other document I have seen, seems to specify 0w20 for the petrol. Is this document from the African dealers or UK dealers?

Fluids resource section
I really don’t remember where I got the document from but the oil I picked up from The BMW dealer in South Africa ready for an oil change at a later date was 5w30 but as you say in the U.K. the oil specified is 0w20. Maybe in hotter climates that’s what oil they use. 🤔
 

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seems like the transfer case oil in this chart 75w90 is different form @Logsplitter chart that specifies dexron atf? Not sure who‘s to trust?
Also the engine oil mounts are different also , The half litre difference is the difference between the on road and off road engine oil amounts maybe ?
 

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seems like the transfer case oil in this chart 75w90 is different form @Logsplitter chart that specifies dexron atf? Not sure who‘s to trust?
Maybe the U.K. and Southern Africa fluid specs are different to reflect what’s locally available.
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I had reason to enter the 7 stud Littelfuse box for the first time. For a while I explored the crazily engineered plastic battery/fuse covers. Eventually, my assistant "George" told me to stop faffing around with bolts and impossibility - and just cut the focker.
So I did.
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