What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[Tazzieman]

• Nov 5, 2023

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To all who have a saggy petrol cap cover...more defined on the lighter colours...I have been for some time now working on a solution to raise it without having to do too much...finally, it is still a wedge and in the first pic you can see the arrow pointing to a rub mark...second pic shows the little lug that runs along that surface...third a forth show you the wedge created to lift the petrol cap cover up as it moves in...pic five shows the top that has to be slightly rounded off because it binds on the top of its housing...

The wedge is 2mm at the thick end and can go to nothing on the other end...mine is a little under a mm...the yellow wedges I know will work and they are ceramic tiler wedges...I used a smear of Sikaflex to hold mine in place...which is black plastic cut, filed, and sanded to shape...double sided tape worked in one of my early prototypes but the thickness can then vary...with the wedges it will be cheaper and easier to get the right result...the yellow wedge can but cut with Wiss tin snips...hope this works for you

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You realise you have destroyed a "feature" of the series 1 Grenadier?

That said , I have a packet of the yellow wedges. I need to get all entrepreneurial!

 

[simonpa]

You realise you have destroyed a "feature" of the series 1 Grenadier?

That said , I have a packet of the yellow wedges. I need to get all entrepreneurial!

My apologies for not following previous threads but can anyone help ........ just received email from dealer (UK) to say that there are some
Ineos 'product enhancements' which need to be done and vehicle needs to be with them for three days.
I know that I could ask them the question as to more details but would prefer initially to ask fellow forum members !
Thanks

 

[nuclearbeef]

A little foggy on the Mississippi river bank.

 

[AnD3rew]

My apologies for not following previous threads but can anyone help ........ just received email from dealer (UK) to say that there are some
Ineos 'product enhancements' which need to be done and vehicle needs to be with them for three days.
I know that I could ask them the question as to more details but would prefer initially to ask fellow forum members !
Thanks

Not sure how long you have had your car and how long since it was at a dealer. Product enhancements is a nice way of putting it but there are quite a long list of field campaigns to rectify various issues that particularly some of the early cars need checking or fixing.
This is not an exhaustive list:
- double nutting some suspension components and torque checking others
- some vehicles need the transfer case replacing
- door handle buttons fixing
- several cooling hose bracket’s moving or adding
- alternator cable checking
- battery cable checking
- software updates for the head unit and all the ECUs

Three days seems excessive but if you need the full software update and the transfer case done that is probably at least 6 hours work.

 

[Max]

You realise you have destroyed a "feature" of the series 1 Grenadier?

That said , I have a packet of the yellow wedges. I need to get all entrepreneurial!

No you don't, all you need to get is Sikaflex

 

[Max]

My apologies for not following previous threads but can anyone help ........ just received email from dealer (UK) to say that there are some
Ineos 'product enhancements' which need to be done and vehicle needs to be with them for three days.
I know that I could ask them the question as to more details but would prefer initially to ask fellow forum members !
Thanks

It could also be a Transfer Case...mine was with my Agent for two days...I wouldn't second guess and ask them...happy motoring

 

[Tazzieman]

Product enhancements os a nice eaybof

You've got your own covfefe

 

[AnD3rew]

You've got your own covfefe

OMG, appears I have had a stroke

 

[crimson]

Some pictures and videos exploring tropical far north Queensland.

 

[Jean Mercier]

I am so delighted by my cheap Chinese "Wolfbox alike" rearview camera/mirror, that today I decided to make a nicer cabling of the 12V power supply.
The first picture is the mirror with the temporary wiring to the back and to the cubby box:

After some thinking, I decided to power it through the left side 10A INT1 footwell power point.
I already had installed a Deutsch DTP plug there in the past, see my post here: https://www.theineosforum.com/threa...xiliary-power-point.12412534/#post-1333191448
Why?

• I don't use it
• It is a short way from mirror to this point
• Cables can be hidden under the roof trim and left side trims
• If INT1 is not switched, camera is off and doesn't use current from the battery, even is the the ignition is on.
• And if the the main roof power button is on, I can use the camera with ignition off!

So, I bought a female cigarette 12V plug (on Ali Express), connected a male Deutsch DTP connector, and here we go:

I removed some of the left hand side trims (driver side in my case) and fixed the female Deutsch plug and the male camera feed plug with velcro and some other smaller recuperation stuff:

And then I pushed the feed wire up and under the roof trim, see also the interesting video of @grnamin here : https://www.theineosforum.com/threads/wolf-box.12414017/page-7#post-1333248407
Look at the white dot on the 12V feed of the camera: this becomes green when powered.
Therefore I drilled a small hole in the trim, filled it with a plastic transparent rod, like I did in my "wireless charger" device (see post here: https://www.theineosforum.com/threads/wireless-phone-charger.12412772/#post-1333204613)
And this is the result when my camera is powered, look at the green dot:

This "green warning" is also interesting for diagnosing problems: in case the rear view mirror/camera shouldn't work anymore, at least I can see if it is because of a failure of the power module.

 

[grnamin]

@Jean Mercier, your explorations of the inner workings have led me to call you the Leonardo da Vinci of the Grenadier.

 

[Jean Mercier]

@Jean Mercier, your explorations of the inner workings have led me to call you the Leonardo da Vinci of the Grenadier.

Was that a football player? Like Edson Arantes do Nascimento?

 

[grnamin]

Was that a football player? Like Edson Arantes do Nascimento?

Ok. You are the Pelé of the Grenadier.

 

[Tazzieman]

My Gator camera wiring goes down the A pillar, under the sills (protected by flex conduit) , through to the cargo area and along the floor ( under the mat, taped carefully) and under the plastic trim crosspiece at the back. Emerging just above the bumper , where it is useful for my purpose ( backing trailers).
It's wired to a USB/cig lighter box velcroed to the side of the passenger console ( she can access the USBs) powered by the footwell wire and I can power it with the Int1 switch. A green light tells me it's on ; well the camera automatically comes on when Int1 is flicked.

 

[Jean Mercier]

By the way:
"Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... WOW! What a ride!"

I like this a lot, somehow also my goal, or like my father said, when we thought, "something is wrong":

"Why should I go to the doctor? As long as I don't go to the doctor I am not sick!"

 

[Tazzieman]

"Why should I go to the doctor? As long as I don't go to the doctor I am not sick!"

As a doctor, I would say why ever bother changing the oil in your Grenadier , it is running perfectly well

 

[Jean Mercier]

As a doctor, I would say why ever bother changing the oil in your Grenadier , it is running perfectly well

I agree ... but ...
when I went the last time to my doctor because I thought I had a problem, he advised me to do a body scan for mapping my body so that they would be able to do an early diagnosis of skin cancer.
Problem: I visited him for a totally different problem.
I didn't do it!

And some ten years ago, after a temporary relationship with a woman, from whom I suspected after stopping the relationship that she had some other "partners" at the same time ...
after 6 months I went to my doctor for aids test and so on, but it was a young doctor who replaced him because of holidays:
and I said "while I am here check for prostate cancer".
She (yes, it was a she) answered, if I remember correctly her words: "I advice you not to do the test. Statistics have shown that the expectation of life is the same with or without cancer treatment for prostate cancer. The difference is: years of treatment and worries!".
I didn't do it.

My father was wrong, he died of cancer less than a year later, but would it have been any different?

Let's be clear: without doctors, I would have been dead a lot of years ago ... intestinal obstruction!
But in the mean time, I know how to solve the "mechanical" problem! Because I had 3 surgeries for the same problem in a time span of 10 years, and after that none anymore (surgeries), but quite a lot of "obstruction" alerts, and some very serious: I know how to solve it. It is a mechanical problem. When I explain it to a doctor, he doesn't believe me!

I believe in doctors.

My comment was like Neil Young says: "It's better to burn out than fade away", can you live with this?

 

[Tazzieman]

My comment was like Neil Young says: "better burn out than fade away", can you live with this?

Hey hey , my my
Re health , know your genetic or other risk factors and work your preventative maintenance around them.
No different to vehicles.
And doctors who look after people our vintage are just trying to keep us on the road of life as long as possible, until authorities deem we are unreliable or unsafe

 

[Eric]

and I said "while I am here check for prostate cancer".
She (yes, it was a she) answered, if I remember correctly her words: "I advice you not to do the test. Statistics have shown that the expectation of life is the same with or without cancer treatment for prostate cancer. The difference is: years of treatment and worries!".
I didn't do it.

I was told by my doctor, "at your age if you have prostrate cancer - You will die with prostrate cancer, not because of it.

 

[Jean Mercier]

I was told by my doctor, "at your age if you have prostrate cancer - You will die with prostrate cancer, not because of it.

Seems to confirm what she said!