What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[Jeremy996]

Intéressant cache roue de secours
Où peux-t-on le trouver ?
Merci d'avance

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The spare wheel cover was a freebie from the dealers, Chandlers, and is a generic cover which has be overprinted with the corporate stuff.

Any printer of branded goods could produce something similar.

 

[Jeremy996]

Nice one. Congratulations.
Is that a Rolex or a Seiko?

@Shaky is right, Seiko Pepsi, just the basic divers mechanical watch, but about 20 years old now. I have a few watches, but none of them were more than about £500 and one or two were made by friends, who made custom cases around standard mechanical gubbins.

I have a fake Seiko PADI Pepsi that cost all of £15 that has a sophisticated Korean quartz movement and a lovely bracelet. but the forger made a complete mess of the winder - it's so bad, it's laughable. I think my watch customising mate gave it me as an awful warning!

 

[Jeremy996]

So today I took part in the marshalling of the 2023 CiCle Classic race from Oakham to Melton Mowbray, weaving around the villages, so 34 teams, 176 riders and 183.5km. As a member of Leicestershire & Rutland 4x4 Response, I helped with the road closures and marshalling, moving between locations as the race snaked around the villages.

After an initial briefing in Oakham, myself and two colleagues were sent up to Burley on the Hill for our first road closure at a nominal 12:00, with the race proper commencing at 11:00. Once thay had all passed through, we had a tricky drive to the next location at Pickwell, crossing the race route and getting ahead of the peloton.


Picture: at Burley before 12:00, Matt's D2 G4 V8, Brian's D2 Td5 and my Grenadier. Brian and his dog, Libby to the right.

We had three passes in Pickwell, (three loops of the local hills), before the cycles headed towards Melton Mowbray.

Picture: At Pickwell, the cyclists came down from the right and passed behind the Grenadier, heading left.

After the last pass in Pickwell, I had a fast drive to a side turn in Melton Mowbray to block off the joining traffic before heading for the debrief and home. 42 miles driven, much rain and some abuse from the (non) travelling public.

Conclusions: it's fun to drive, it may be big, but it's wieldy, there is quite a high level of recognition from LR owners, (and motorcycle policemen), it has a lot of road presence. If you try and drive it without your seatbelt on, I swear it sulks! The power sockets, one in the centre cubby and one on the left in the loadspace only work with the ignition on; I will need to rig a power socket that works all the time or is switchable for the mag-mount orange beacon, I need it to work while stationary and locked.

 

[Shaky]

Glad you enjoyed your day out in the new truck. I could spot a seiko SKX at a thousand paces tbh. Fortunately I am not as bigger 4x4 nerd as I am a watch nerd, commonly known as a WIS.

Watch idiot Savant: WIS

 

[Wayneos]

My vehicle hasn’t yet decided on its sexuality and wishes to be referred to as ‘they’.

I thought they all identified as 'late'...

 

[AnD3rew]

More of a Breitling or Tag Heuer fan myself but my daily watch is more practical
Still like an analogue dial though

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My slightly fancy watch is Tag, but like you my practical daily is Apple. I rely can’t justify spending more money on a watch than a TAG, you get good looks, Swiss reliability but aren’t just pissing money away on a brand, a bit like Grenadier, you get the important bits of a G Wagen without the price tag. But thats just me.

 

[AnD3rew]

So today I took part in the marshalling of the 2023 CiCle Classic race from Oakham to Melton Mowbray, weaving around the villages, so 34 teams, 176 riders and 183.5km. As a member of Leicestershire & Rutland 4x4 Response, I helped with the road closures and marshalling, moving between locations as the race snaked around the villages.

After an initial briefing in Oakham, myself and two colleagues were sent up to Burley on the Hill for our first road closure at a nominal 12:00, with the race proper commencing at 11:00. Once thay had all passed through, we had a tricky drive to the next location at Pickwell, crossing the race route and getting ahead of the peloton.

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Picture: at Burley before 12:00, Matt's D2 G4 V8, Brian's D2 Td5 and my Grenadier. Brian and his dog, Libby to the right.

We had three passes in Pickwell, (three loops of the local hills), before the cycles headed towards Melton Mowbray.
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Picture: At Pickwell, the cyclists came down from the right and passed behind the Grenadier, heading left.

After the last pass in Pickwell, I had a fast drive to a side turn in Melton Mowbray to block off the joining traffic before heading for the debrief and home. 42 miles driven, much rain and some abuse from the (non) travelling public.

Conclusions: it's fun to drive, it may be big, but it's wieldy, there is quite a high level of recognition from LR owners, (and motorcycle policemen), it has a lot of road presence. If you try and drive it without your seatbelt on, I swear it sulks! The power sockets, one in the centre cubby and one on the left in the loadspace only work with the ignition on; I will need to rig a power socket that works all the time or is switchable for the mag-mount orange beacon, I need it to work while stationary and locked.

I thought the ones behind the centre console and in the loadspace worked with ignition off, but there is a switch in the roof panel you need to turn on to make it work

 

[DaveB]

So today I took part in the marshalling of the 2023 CiCle Classic race from Oakham to Melton Mowbray, weaving around the villages, so 34 teams, 176 riders and 183.5km. As a member of Leicestershire & Rutland 4x4 Response, I helped with the road closures and marshalling, moving between locations as the race snaked around the villages.

After an initial briefing in Oakham, myself and two colleagues were sent up to Burley on the Hill for our first road closure at a nominal 12:00, with the race proper commencing at 11:00. Once thay had all passed through, we had a tricky drive to the next location at Pickwell, crossing the race route and getting ahead of the peloton.

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Picture: at Burley before 12:00, Matt's D2 G4 V8, Brian's D2 Td5 and my Grenadier. Brian and his dog, Libby to the right.

We had three passes in Pickwell, (three loops of the local hills), before the cycles headed towards Melton Mowbray.
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Picture: At Pickwell, the cyclists came down from the right and passed behind the Grenadier, heading left.

After the last pass in Pickwell, I had a fast drive to a side turn in Melton Mowbray to block off the joining traffic before heading for the debrief and home. 42 miles driven, much rain and some abuse from the (non) travelling public.

Conclusions: it's fun to drive, it may be big, but it's wieldy, there is quite a high level of recognition from LR owners, (and motorcycle policemen), it has a lot of road presence. If you try and drive it without your seatbelt on, I swear it sulks! The power sockets, one in the centre cubby and one on the left in the loadspace only work with the ignition on; I will need to rig a power socket that works all the time or is switchable for the mag-mount orange beacon, I need it to work while stationary and locked.

I am surprised you didn't get surrounded by protesters driving a big 4wd with a sign saying race security

 

[MarksGrenadier]

I collected my Grenadier at 11:00AM this morning. no hitches on the handover, was gifted a signwritten tyre cover, two fancy keyrings, a dealer branded baseball cap and more diesel than I expected.

The trip home had a little more drama than anticipated as Maria had a puncture in Charlie our 2002 Vauxhall Aglia. She drove over a pothole, the rim and tyre are destroyed, so we proved the hands free phone works really well and changed to the spare tyre.

The afternoon ws a little less fraught, with a trip to Burghley House, 20ish miles away for a mooch around the stately home and a gawk at the pictures. We will have to go again, as the house promises much more than we saw. There is now 109 miles on the Grenadier; it needs a name, it already has a Leicester Tigers sticker.

A few pictures, the better ones taken by Maria, my wife.

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Great looking build, enjoy it.

 

[DaveB]

Glad you enjoyed your day out in the new truck. I could spot a seiko SKX at a thousand paces tbh. Fortunately I am not as bigger 4x4 nerd as I am a watch nerd, commonly known as a WIS.

Watch idiot Savant: WIS

Rolex GMT Master has a very similar bezel

 

[Barney]

Here in Germany, the sex of a car neuter, an "it" so to say: Das Auto.

various

 

[grenadierboy]

What I would have been doing today - if my order had arrived as originally advised (Jan), - part way through a planned 9 day camping trip to Kangaroo Island off the cost of South Australia - magnificent part of the world

 

[DCPU]

Intéressant cache roue de secours
Où peux-t-on le trouver ?
Merci d'avance

 

[Arkaig]

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Here's another Dealer's:

 

[Solmanic]

Here's another Dealer's:
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Not really an option for those of us who specified the lockable storage box in the spare wheel well.
Even if I hadn't, I don't really want another superfluous tyre cover floating around in the garage.

 

[Eric]

Here's another Dealer's:
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Curious, where is the vertical plate that the optional tow ball is mounted, showing on all other vehicles

 

[Eric]

Curious, where is the vertical plate that the optional tow ball is mounted, showing on all other vehicles

Ah, is there an additional bash plate?

 

[DCPU]

Curious, where is the vertical plate that the optional tow ball is mounted, showing on all other vehicles

You don't get the Vertical Towing Interface if you don't spec the towing package.

 

[Eric]

You don't get the Vertical Towing Interface if you don't spec the towing package.

Ah, I hadn't appreciated that. And out of all the hundreds of photos I'd seen and the dozens in the flesh (PTO2s at drive days and dealers) I can't honestly recall not seeing a vertical plate before. Mind you'd expect the PTs to have one.

 

[Krabby]

Do they all come with the white stickers on the rear window?