What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[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.

 

[TK42one]

Added some color today

 

[AndyT]

I cleaned up the wiring for my dimmer switch i built for my roof rack lights.
I also wired in the starlink to a permanent mount on the roof rack. I fought and fought with that all afternoon.
It was erratic, sometimes it worked great other times i just had no power to the starlink.

In the end i started suspecting that the cable from @DVA Mechanics had issues. It seems to be position and vibration dependent, and i think its the plug that goes into starlink that made a partial connection that was sensitive to the vibration. I ended up sacrificing a cigarette lighter cable that i had and put a Deutch connector on it. After that it worked perfectly. I probably had 2 hours of debugging into it by then. Painful...

I got the sides done and i got the wiring cleaned up.
From this
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To this:
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Happy camper now. Just the last little bit of wiring for the rear lightbar and i'm done.

@parb I love what you did with your scene lights. Question(s): 1) can you provide a link to your dimmable switch? 2) Are all LED lights dimmable, or will some lights not work right or not last when dimmed? I just installed Morimoto 1Bangers to my roof rack wired to an on-off switch, but I would rather have the option to dim it when I dont need the power of the sun, which is probably 90% of the time.

 

[AngusMacG]

Odd thing happened…hopped in the truck and pulled out but the CarPlay portion of the infotainment screen was black. As i drove about 5 minutes later the entire infotainment screen went black and reset itself. Of course the ADAS system reset at the same time, guess they are tied together

 

[AaronS]

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.

Salt schmalt... they don't salt the roads nearly as much as they did in the '80s.