What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[pmatusov]

Used the lunch break to install the rear seat cover and dashboard cover from Tougher. The fronts were done a few months and many thousands of miles ago.

 

[Jeremy996]

It's been a bit of a snow day in my part of the UK, so getting to work involved avoiding lots of motorists in lesser vehicles as they drove badly all over the place. A Gren on KO2s does well on wet snow.

 

[Max]

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It's been a bit of a snow day in my part of the UK, so getting to work involved avoiding lots of motorists in lesser vehicles as they drove badly all over the place. A Gren on KO2s does well on wet snow.

It is hard for me to grasp the drive you have just undertaken as I have not driven in snow of that depth. I have experienced ice which is not for the faint hearted...I drove on a wet dirt road yesterday between Woodford and Glasshouse Mountains with the centre diff locked, corrogations, soft soil and water but the Grenadier soaked it all up in her stride, in the snow are you locking centre diff?... It is amazing how black and white your world looks today, safe travels

 

[Bluesurf]

I was going to incorporate these lights into my Carbon Fiber Grill and at the last minute I decided against it. At that moment I had the idea of using the lights on the roof. They really came out great. I used very few parts to make it happen. I ordered from Agile Off Road.... the Female 2 Way Plug Deutsch DTP-Series 4 Kit. They are in the USPS mail. My new wide view mirrors also arrived today, both took no more that 8 minutes. The view is so much better, a wide angle.

 

[landmannnn]

It is hard for me to grasp the drive you have just undertaken as I have not driven in snow of that depth. I have experienced ice which is not for the faint hearted...I drove on a wet dirt road yesterday between Woodford and Glasshouse Mountains with the centre diff locked, corrogations, soft soil and water but the Grenadier soaked it all up in her stride, in the snow are you locking centre diff?... It is amazing how black and white your world looks today, safe travels

Wet snow is not really challenging provided the vehicle is relatively heavy. The tyres just just force their way through the snow to the road.

 

[parb]

you don't want to use diff locks on snow generally. The key skill to have when driving in snow is to avoid varying the speed of the tires relative to the surface you are driving on. You want to be very gentle with acceleration so you don't break traction and even more gentle with braking. A mental image is to imagine that you place an egg between your foot and the brake/gas pedal. don't push so hard or with so much momentum that you break the egg.

I grew up in the snow in northern scandinavia and that is where i learned to drive in snow. we used studded tires in the winter but that is mostly useful for ice. for snow just being a really smooth driver is the trick to being a safe driver. I've never used chains for anything, if i'm super stuck maybe that is useful.

I'm heading into the snow in the sierras this weekend. Should be a bit of snow up on altitude if i'm lucky.

 

[pmatusov]

you don't want to use diff locks on snow generally.

There may be an interesting exception for the center diff lock in a vehicle with a considerable difference in weight on the front and rear axle.
A good example of that is Disco 1 and 2 - with CDL open, the front would break traction first.

 

[parb]

I was mostly thinking of the front and rear lockers. i don't think center diff matters as much as the lockers per axle where you want to make sure the lockers aren't artificially breaking traction.

 

[AngusMacG]

Went in for service due to getting the “Brake Wear” indicator. I had 4mm left on my front brakes so was getting the warning. The odd thing was that my gas mileage dropped significantly. When the indicator popped up. I filled up with about 21 gallons and had roughly 275 ish miles on the tank…ON my way to the dealership Ihad roughly 90 miles on the tank and was just above 1/2 a tank on the gauge. Reached the dealership with around 120+ miles and was a tad below 1/2 a tank.

Now I have new pads and rotors on the front, a software update that apparently helps with the fuel level sensor issue, and another wash…Had a bit over 34k miles. Will be having my 3rd service most likely before the end of the year.

 

[Karearea]

Went in for service due to getting the “Brake Wear” indicator. I had 4mm left on my front brakes so was getting the warning. The odd thing was that my gas mileage dropped significantly. When the indicator popped up. I filled up with about 21 gallons and had roughly 275 ish miles on the tank…ON my way to the dealership Ihad roughly 90 miles on the tank and was just above 1/2 a tank on the gauge. Reached the dealership with around 120+ miles and was a tad below 1/2 a tank.

Now I have new pads and rotors on the front, a software update that apparently helps with the fuel level sensor issue, and another wash…Had a bit over 34k miles. Will be having my 3rd service most likely before the end of the year.

New rotors in addition to pads seems early to me unless you’ve covered significant distance in your truck.
I certainly don’t want to be doing that in the near future!
Any reason for this level of what I would call early maintenance?