What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[parb]

Part number for the springs?

I quoted the wrong price. The spring was $100 each so $200 for the set. Labor was $400.

Part number was GAR-4C00-004560 "Red coil spring, winch" on my papers.

 

[Clark Kent]

I quoted the wrong price. The spring was $100 each so $200 for the set. Labor was $400.

Part number was GAR-4C00-004560 "Red coil spring, winch" on my papers.

Presumably you removed a set of green springs?

 

[parb]

I assume so. It was bone stock without a winch so it should have been green, but I didn't verify myself. the service tech verified it for me.

 

[Ccam]

Today I added the Leitner Side Kick Accessory Panels. They are well built and do no require a roof rack. Rotopax mounts are a direct bolt on.

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Keep me updated if you don't mind?
Did the installer pull signal from existing speakers or did they try to hook it up to some other output?

I've also found the Grenadier to be sensitive to where you pull ground and positive. Can't piggy back on other wires or the computer gets unhappy.

Display controller OOC, installed new one in Colorado. Pulled signal from existing speakers I believe. AudioCraft out of Lubbock installed some nice pillar post speakers.

 

[DenisM]

Display controller OOC, installed new one in Colorado. Pulled signal from existing speakers I believe. AudioCraft out of Lubbock installed some nice pillar post speakers.

hi @Ccam ... Can you please provide a translation of what the above two lines mean?

 

[255/85]

I knew I wanted a driver's side grab handle.
I ordered the right hand drive version cars grab handle for the left side from ineos. Works to much better and I prefer to have this handle to get into the car.
Took about 6 weeks to get to the US and my ineos dealer.

We've got a RHD handle on order. Still several weeks out. The Better Half asked for it specifically but I've noticed that, at my height and seat position, I can occasionally activate the lockers with my head when using the steering wheel to climb in. I've never quite mastered @Tazzieman's gutter grab.

 

[ColoradoMike]

Just some fun with our local dealership! Super fun with @ForceV4 and Thom for leading us on the trail..."not TRIAL"....LOL.....

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juUGfzdbxKY

 

[landmannnn]

Finished fitting a sub (above the handbrake mechanism under the rear seats) and a Wolfbox.
All good, a couple of worthwhile improvements.

 

[DenisM]

Finished fitting a sub (above the handbrake mechanism under the rear seats) and a Wolfbox.
All good, a couple of worthwhile improvements.

Do you have sufficient room to adjust the handbrake cables with the subwoofer in place?

 

[Deleted member 9052558]

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Local dealer hosts a regular "Trucks & Trees" event. I forgot to count but eight or ten Grenadiers showed up. The drive, weather, scenery and new friends were all really nice. Can't beat fire and hot dogs next to a lake. Thanks to Mark & Darren & Weissach for organizing!

Holy cow, that is some absolutely stunning scenery!! If I was there, I may have never left.

 

[landmannnn]

Do you have sufficient room to adjust the handbrake cables with the subwoofer in place?

No!
Just a 1 minute job to take it out though.

 

[ECrider]

After 13 mos of waiting I finally got the wing chequer plate installed. Some things I think (as will most of you with your own particular items) the Gren has to have, lockers, panels, safari windows, sela green, whale foreskin steering wheel hide etc etc. The chequer plate was on the 'must have' list. I al still searching for bonnet chequer.

Thanks to Mr. & Mrs. @Logsplitter for very kindly picking up my OEM plate down in South Africa and for carting it around for weeks. It is definitely the best travelled item on my wagon by a long shot!

Unfortunately due to some EU laws we were denied the option at build, but where there's a will (and a willing friend) there's a way.

Most chuffed.

Black rivets matter.

 

[ORSO]

did you put something between the chequer plates and the bodywork to prevent damage?

 

[ECrider]

did you put something between the chequer plates and the bodywork to prevent damage?

Just the standard rubber strips and silicon on the rivets. Did not want to lock moisture in.

 

[CRH]

After 13 mos of waiting I finally got the wing chequer plate installed. Some things I think (as will most of you with your own particular items) the Gren has to have, lockers, panels, safari windows, sela green, whale foreskin steering wheel hide etc etc. The chequer plate was on the 'must have' list. I al still searching for bonnet chequer.

Thanks to Mr. & Mrs. @Logsplitter for very kindly picking up my OEM plate down in South Africa and for carting it around for weeks. It is definitely the best travelled item on my wagon by a long shot!

Unfortunately due to some EU laws we were denied the option at build, but where there's a will (and a willing friend) there's a way.

Most chuffed.

Black rivets matter.

I missed the whale foreskin option, bugger

 

[ECrider]

I missed the whale foreskin option, bugger

better than being buggered by a whale foreskin - subjective I know

 

[CRH]

better than being buggered by a whale foreskin - subjective I know

Everyone's free to make their own choices

 

[CrazyOldMan]

Everyone's free to make their own choices

I missed the whale foreskin option, bugger

I missed the whale foreskin option, bugger

I wonder if, like the saddle leather, it also develops a rich patina with extended handling?

 

[Max]

I wonder if, like the saddle leather, it also develops a rich patina with extended handling?

Where are you trying to steer this?...handle it carefully, please

 

[Loc Nar]

Last week, I installed the CTEK D250SE following @Ragman's awesome video. Today, however, I installed a Victron 500 amp SmartShunt Battery Monitor on the auxiliary battery, and I found the perfect place to mount it (methinks the Grenadier electrical engineers planned on installing one themselves due to the perfectly placed mounting holes I found - note M5 20mm machine screws, washers, and lock nuts get the job done). This is looking at the passenger side of the dual battery setup in a NA vehicle - the perfectly placed holes are circled in blue below.

Here it is installed. I had to figure out how to replace some battery cable lugs - replaced one 3/8" with 5/16" on the shorter cable and vice versa on the longer cable (picked up cables and lugs from Autozone), and also replaced the 3/8" ring terminal on the positive battery wire with a 5/16" ring terminal (thin red cable in the pics below) to get this job done. If anyone needs guidance on this (including tools needed), let me know - all the copper lugs have been added to the battery cable in the pics - I made good crimps on everything and just added Duct tape on top as an extra bit of insurance):

Here's an overview pic showing the connection to the D250SE:

This Victron SmartShunt has the ability to monitor a second battery and I looked hard at trying to also wire it up to the starter battery, but there is just no easy way to wire any connection to the negative battery terminal. The nut/bolt combo on there is not removeable even after you take it off the post (I tried to the point I was afraid I was about to break something). See blue circle below. Any ideas on adding a 5/16" (or any other) connection point there?

And, I've now installed the VictronConnect app and updated the firmware. Now it's time to RTFM and figure out what the hell a Victron SmartShunt Battery Monitor can do.