What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[ChrisR]

Installed the starlink mini on the bison gear roof rack. DVA cable and striker fab mount. Works excellent, anchored it into my roof rack with pre-drilled holes!

I used three washers for each m6 bolt as a poor man's standoff. Worked really great.

Really low, sits behind the low profile light bar.
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I opted for the style with the apple tracker in it.

Looks great, how much height does this add above the roof platform?

 

[parb]

i think maybe 3-4" or so. I can measure tomorrow once the rain stops.

 

[AFdude412]

Unfortunately, not the best photo as it was just my phone in bright sunlight. My first chance to get it into 4wd and a whole lot of pin stripes on my 2 week old car (which was always going to happen). Back beach Denmark western australia with the southern ocean in the background.

Its only a short 2km track, but its very soft fine sand for most of it. Low 2nd and 3rd with the rear locker in and the car walked straight through all the wombat holes, dune climbs climbs and the guy in the toyota who had rolled a tyre off the rim on a bend. I did ask if he needed help. I had dropped my tyres to 15psi. I've done the track previously in my defender and landcruiser 200 which both had lockers too and drove it similarly, if you drop your tyre pressures. I was really impressed with the car though and can't wait to try it out on some other tracks.

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Nice work on the stripes for such a new car.

Is that a Leitner rack all the way out in WA?

 

[clintooo]

yeh it is the 3/4 Leitner. Not too expensive for shipping, as it packs pretty well.

Its a great rack, I do like the way you can move the cross bars around and add more if needed.

its super low profile and next to no wind noise.

My only complaint would be that the outer sections are about 20mm higher than the cross bars, so anything longer than the rack won't be supported in the middle.

The pieces on top are the Front Runner surf board racks. They must have caught a low hanging branch and gotten themselves pushed out of alignment.

 

[Reducs]

Changed the oil! 4,000 miles and nice weather, so why not? No flames or smoke or warning lights yet, so I'm declaring success. I put in 7 liters of BMW 0W-20 and it's reading OK for on and off road.

Big thanks to @Ragman for his video (below) to help reassure folks like me. It helped a lot and definitely increased my confidence!

I would like to have a "chat" with Hans about the filter location. Ridiculous. Getting it and the cap (housing) out is trying. You will drip oil.

@Ragman's Oil Change Video

 

[Asnes]

Installed GP factor Roo bar yesterday…. Then off camping with the grenadier today!

 

[rovie]

Today I drove to one of my meadows to check the condition of the soil. If it's too damp, the horses and cattle can't get on it. It was very damp. The Grenadier did an excellent job. My tracks are hardly noticeable. Wild boars have plowed through the whole meadow.

 

[Psignore00]

Riding through Ocala National Forest yesterday.

 

[Tom109]

Riding through Ocala National Forest yesterday.

Looks like fun. It's been in the single digits at night here...

 

[AUDIOBUS]

A sunny Sunday drive down a muddy track, mostly in locked high. As noted elsewhere, the Grenadier doesn’t like slick mud… Locked the rear diff in low once on a wet, rutted hill—better safe than sorry. We’ll never know if it was needed… but there was zero slippage, and in control the whole time.

 

[Krabby]

It’s the tires that don’t like the slick mud, but I know what you mean.

 

[kbdgr]

Middle of nowhere, Utah.

 

[CRH]

Middle of nowhere, Utah.
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Ineos puts Grenadier on Mars to test durability, Musk has a meltdown as his Tesla is just more space junk, as he still can't find the local charging station

 

[vtgrenadier]

In anticipation of rising prices, I bit the bullet and put in a pretty big order with Owl... a set of 60s; rail/side steps; visors, mirrors, Leitner load bars, GP Factor table, and some smaller items. Also bought a DropRacks XL roof rack to pair with the Leitner bars. Should make for a fun weekend come April when I pull it out of storage!

Still debating whether to go with larger tires, but won't make that decision until I put some miles on it. Currently, the odometer stands at 323.

 

[ADVAW8S]

Too funny, I bought the version 2 audio upgrade from audio upgrade Ineos. The goal was to avoid any inflated price.

 

[clintooo]

I returned to work after a week on holiday to find a nice package from Owl. Very well packaged and protected, quite the contrast to the ARB side steps my mate had delivered for his troopy. Despite my wife's annoyance, my daughter and I removed the factory side steps and fitted these last night. A 10L bucket and a piece of plywood were the perfect height for supporting one end as we bolted them in. I haven't had a chance to wash the car since we got back...

They are much more effective as a step than the factory side steps I must say. As well as looking better. They should stop a lot of shopping centre/mall door dings too.

 

[Tazzieman]

Yesterday - tiny job - I adjusted my aftermarket rear view camera so it can swing up and down with greater sweep as required.
Today I bought my first car magazine since I gave up a chronic classic car (Octane , Classic and Sports car, classic Land Rover etc) magazine buying habit (around the time I reserved the Ineos)
My wife was complaining about the library I had accumulated over many years. "Surely that's enough for the nursing home years". She's probably correct.
And yes they do become a bit repetitive.
Anyway our Aussie mate @GrenX has become a bit famous , so I broke the habit.
SWMBO won't mind , as she loves the Grenadier

 

[255/85]

Had a little snow in the neighborhood today. Lovely wet, slick Cascade Concrete. The stuff is just slicker than snot.Like a cross between a snow cone and something out of the abominable snowman's soiled nappy. Returning home I stopped on the hill a few hundred yards down from our place. The tracks on the left are from the wife's TJ this morning on her way to work. There'd only been one other vehicle up until I stopped for a picture.

The vehicle had been doing fine in high range with the center diff locked most of the day on the OEM Bridgestones. I jumped back in and dropped into drive. At the first touch of the accelerator the vehicle broke free and immediately began sliding rearward and to the right. Judicious use of the go pedal managed to slow things enough that I came gently to rest just a few car lengths back down the grade and up against the curb. The parking sensors complained a bit as I caught my breath.

So low range and lockers it was. Still, it wasn't pretty. At one point I was literally 90 degrees sideways in exactly the same place as the image. Several wild fishtails later I had some momentum again and made it the rest of the way home.

I warned my better half and she found a semi-plowed street to come up on her way home but, when she turned the corner above us, her unlocked Jeep slid off the crown of the road and into a shallow culvert. I could here her revving the engine and spinning tires from the front porch. I grabbed a shovel and a few flattened cardboard boxes, walked up the hill, and dug her out.

 

[AaronS]

In anticipation of rising prices, I bit the bullet and put in a pretty big order with Owl... a set of 60s; rail/side steps; visors, mirrors, Leitner load bars, GP Factor table, and some smaller items. Also bought a DropRacks XL roof rack to pair with the Leitner bars. Should make for a fun weekend come April when I pull it out of storage!

Still debating whether to go with larger tires, but won't make that decision until I put some miles on it. Currently, the odometer stands at 323.

Put some miles on that thing!!!

 

[vtgrenadier]

Put some miles on that thing!!!

I wish I could!! Still deep in salt season where I live and this one's a keeper... at least until I see how others fare over a winter or two, it'll stay in storage. First impressions weren't great, honestly, as the very first photo I took a year ago showed rusty windscreen frame hardware of one on the lot... highly reminiscent of the Winter of '92-'93 when the NAS110s first appeared with corroded safari cage bolts. By Year 2, LRNA replaced doors under warranty and in the second winter of ownership, my '94 Defender 90 interior seatbelt brackets were rusty. Yes, corrosion resistance has come a long way, but bleeding hardware out-of-the-gate was not reassuring.