What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[pioneerofthenile]

Wonder if the time is right for an 'Issues found' page. Perhaps broken down into Bodywork, Engine, Electrics, etc.
Currently I find it difficult to search out all the potential faults which have been encountered. Currently I have a 'bong' that sings out every time I move from a stationary position. To date I have seen no warning on the screen or other signs of why it might be bonging.

yes, there should be a thread for this. or people should just lump it in with the gremlins thread. that thread shouldn't be called gremlins as well. that only downplays and minimizes what could easily be major problems.

the IG seems like an amazon product now. I wake up and look for the next review just to uncover the next new problem. this list of negs just keeps getting longer.

while I thought the low tech sfwindws could eventually have problems, I seriously didn't think the safari windows would have a problem this early into ownership. how could a car supposedly made "off the charts exceptionally rugged" be crippled by rain?

 

[Tazzieman]

crippled by rain?

Are you prone to over dramatising?

 

[MarkH]

One Safari window incidence reported and the sky is falling.

 

[Tazzieman]

One Safari window incidence reported and the sky is falling.

With the chinese whisper effect of male gossip , before long , one possibly leaky sunroof will become a LHD cigarette lighter socket malalignment.

 

[ECrider]

Karma would be a ladyboy

I'll take your word that Karma is

as in the words of "Some Like it Hot";

nobody is perfect!

 

[pioneerofthenile]

Are you prone to over dramatising?

One Safari window incidence reported and the sky is falling.

this is the kind of responses people encounter for just for speaking the truth. maybe if I called it a gremlins instead of crippled it would make it better for you. or brushed it off with an lol and "I still like the car"

people need to be more focused of the problems and less focused defining how severe the problems actually are.

safari windows not watertight...vents leaking and spitting water...this coupled with a xmas tree dashboard of lights and the car stopping for no reason at an intersection, as one person reported.............overdramatizing the problems......gtfo

 

[DaveB]

One Safari window incidence reported and the sky is falling.

I sat in a Grenadier today I looked up and could see the sky.
No way I am getting the Safari windows.

 

[emax]

this is the kind of responses people encounter for just for speaking the truth

So tell us which Grenadier was crippled?

 

[Tazzieman]

safari windows not watertight...vents leaking and spitting water...this coupled with a xmas tree dashboard of lights and the car stopping for no reason at an intersection, as one person reported.............overdramatizing the problems......gtfo

I know a guy who knew someone who had a reaction to the covax. Therefore rather than risk autism I refuse to have the jab.

 

[globalgregors]

this is the kind of responses people encounter for just for speaking the truth. maybe if I called it a gremlins instead of crippled it would make it better for you. or brushed it off with an lol and "I still like the car"

people need to be more focused of the problems and less focused defining how severe the problems actually are.

safari windows not watertight...vents leaking and spitting water...this coupled with a xmas tree dashboard of lights and the car stopping for no reason at an intersection, as one person reported.............overdramatizing the problems......gtfo

It might just be a cultural difference. I also reckon your framing is rather breathless, but we’re a pretty sanguine lot downunder.

Has a bit of the Texas Sharpshooter about it as we see at least as many happy deliveries.

Montaigne(?) “my life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened”. Let’s get the cars and then lose our sh*t when we have actual, rather than possible, issues.

 

[AnD3rew]

this is the kind of responses people encounter for just for speaking the truth. maybe if I called it a gremlins instead of crippled it would make it better for you. or brushed it off with an lol and "I still like the car"

people need to be more focused of the problems and less focused defining how severe the problems actually are.

safari windows not watertight...vents leaking and spitting water...this coupled with a xmas tree dashboard of lights and the car stopping for no reason at an intersection, as one person reported.............overdramatizing the problems......gtfo

 

[DCPU]

Karma would be a ladyboy

 

[bemax]

I just decided that 1500 km is enough for running the engine and moving parts in. So the next level has been reached and I could try the top speed. The acceleration up to 160 is very good in the diesel. It will be even better in the petrol. The speed limiter doesn’t care for the the tachometer but has a sharp look on the real gps speed. So you can go up to 166 km/h (info screen) which is 161 km/h gps speed in waze.
Didn’t had a look at the consumption at that speed. To be honest I really do not want to know
(I did not take the picture myself!)

 

[bemax]

Just another thing! Either this year we have more flying insects than in the years before or the Grenadiers windscreen is designed as a fly swatter…

 

[Jean Mercier]

(I did not take the picture myself!)

That's what everybody tells to the police

 

[DCPU]

And that's held 7th gear?

 

[Jean Mercier]

Today, again driving slowly back from Hungary to Belgium in Germany. Besides the 100 times I stopped to restart the car to eliminate some error warning, nothing special happened.

But, two funny moments...

I suddenly was invited to stop by a police car behind me. NO this doesn't happen like in the American movies, I haven't seen weapons.

I immediately thought "they never saw a car like this". They spoke English to me, nice. I had to give all my documents and car papers. One officer said something like "Franseusish" (excuse me the writing). From my name he deduced that I spoke French. And he asked ... and then spoke French, told me his grandmother was French, asked about my car and my profession... but he clearly was happy to speak French ... in the middle of nowhere in Germany

Some hour later, I stopped my car to put another destination in my navigation app. I do this often, westward, small trips of 20 km (we are living in crowded Europe). A car stopped besides me. I thought first ... he will ask if I need help ... but then I noticed the car: G-wagon, military green, quite new and clean, and I knew why he stopped.

In English: "nice car you have, first one I see"
Me: "You have also a nice car" (being polite )
He: pointing to my car ... "yes but this is the real one, to do the real things " ... "nice color also" ... and off he went.

 

[emax]

Either this year we have more flying insects than in the years before

Was my impression as well today.

I just got home from an afternoon training flight and it took 45 minutes to clean the plane. I have never had so many insect corpses on an airplane. And because of the very dry air, no clouds, just sunshine, they were really hard to remove.

WT9 Dynamic, my aircraft today.
Powerful, light, very fast, glass cockpit. 270 Kmh / 145kts.

 

[Krabby]

Was impression as well today.

I just got home from an afternoon training flight and it took 45 minutes to clean the plane. I have never had so many insect corpses on an airplane. And because of the very dry air, no clouds, just sunshine, they were really hard to remove.

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WT9 Dynamic, my aircraft today.
Powerful, light, very fast, glass cockpit. 270 Kmh / 145kts.

That’s an awesome looking plane.

 

[bemax]

And that's held 7th gear?

I have been pushing hard on the pedal so it’s been in seventh. It certainly would have shifted up to eighth if I would have taken back some pressure