What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[Dopplemax]

Installed Tougher seat covers last week. Purchased from https://grenadierworks.com/.View attachment 7888717
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They look, fit and feel great!

No orange owl grab bars in the back?

 

[Grenadier and Bear It]

Just got mine last week and got 285/70/r17 KO3's put on and the front windows tinted. Looking forward to a few more mods and more importantly can't wait for it to be dirty!

 

[LabRat]

Just got mine last week and got 285/70/r17 KO3's put on and the front windows tinted. Looking forward to a few more mods and more importantly can't wait for it to be dirty!

Looks good. What load bars are those?

 

[pmatusov]

Looks good. What load bars are those?

Look factory to me.

 

[LabRat]

Look factory to me.

Thanks, I've only seen the full platform at the dealer. Looking for the best rack for my RTT and awning. Leaning towards Leitner, but still looking at options.

 

[pmatusov]

Thanks, I've only seen the full platform at the dealer. Looking for the best rack for my RTT and awning. Leaning towards Leitner, but still looking at options.

Leitner's is cat's meow. I need neither full rack nor cross-bars, but he just won't sell brackets separately.

 

[TheDocAUS]

ROADTRAINS -OUTBACK QUEENSLAND
When you travel in remote parts of Australia, you see Roadtrains all the time. On this trip the Roadtrains were carrying fuel, cattle/sheep or general cargo. Most were three trailers in length but some can be bigger.

The Doc was talking to a Roadtrain driver in the Kimberley some years ago and he was pulling three trailers of LPG from Perth to Darwin, every three months. The combined rig and load weighed over 135 metric tonnes (these are Big Boy Toys). Most Roadtrains use an extension bar and hook to join the dog trailers. When they drive down the road you can see all the trailers moving 'Higgledy-piggledy'. The Doc gets off the road even when it is a dual lane. It is unnerving to see the trailers move around like that.

More images at the Blog here:

Roadtrains – Outback Queensland

When you are this far from the Big Smoke, you see Roadtrains every day. The Roadtrains can be configured differently, the main ones The Doc saw on this trip were carrying fuel, cattle/sheep or gene…

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You can see mud under the Grenadier, probably over 10kgs worth but under 20kgs. I spent 30-40 mins later that day with a high pressure hose cleaning it off. The water came from the Great Artisan Basin (via a bore) and came out under pressure, no water pump was needed. When the mud dropped off the car onto the wet concrete platform it just stuck, so I had to high pressure clean the platform as well. Then I had to wash the mineral rich Artisan water off the car to protect the paint. Luckily the locals told me where the bore was, plus I needed to wash the bore water off the car.

 

[NQ94]

ROADTRAINS -OUTBACK QUEENSLAND
When you travel in remote parts of Australia, you see Roadtrains all the time. On this trip the Roadtrains were carrying fuel, cattle/sheep or general cargo. Most were three trailers in length but some can be bigger.

The Doc was talking to a Roadtrain driver in the Kimberley some years ago and he was pulling three trailers of LPG from Perth to Darwin, every three months. The combined rig and load weighed over 135 metric tonnes (these are Big Boy Toys). Most Roadtrains use an extension bar and hook to join the dog trailers. When they drive down the road you can see all the trailers moving 'Higgledy-piggledy'. The Doc gets off the road even when it is a dual lane. It is unnerving to see the trailers move around like that.

More images at the Blog here:

Roadtrains – Outback Queensland

When you are this far from the Big Smoke, you see Roadtrains every day. The Roadtrains can be configured differently, the main ones The Doc saw on this trip were carrying fuel, cattle/sheep or gene…

thedocaus.com

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Nice photos of the Eromanga region. I experienced the worst dust storm I have been in when I stayed there a while back during drought time and it was a totally different place when I went back after the rains and floods on another occasion.
The road train system is complicated in Australia, for the rest of the world audience there are around 42 different common articulated truck and trailer axle, length and weight configurations up to 143t, excluding floats (low boys, low loaders) and some new configurations used in certain areas, that can be road registered and used on specific routes in Australia . The fuel truck is an A triple, conventional type II road train and the cattle truck is a BAB-quad which tend to track better and be less higgledy-piggledy when you follow them. When you see then wobbling everywhere they're likely coasting along they will accelerate to attempt to straighten the combination out when passing each other on the narrower back roads.

 

[TheDocAUS]

Nice photos of the Eromanga region. I experienced the worst dust storm I have been in when I stayed there a while back during drought time and it was a totally different place when I went back after the rains and floods on another occasion.
The road train system is complicated in Australia, for the rest of the world audience there are around 42 different common articulated truck and trailer axle, length and weight configurations up to 143t, excluding floats (low boys, low loaders) and some new configurations used in certain areas, that can be road registered and used on specific routes in Australia . The fuel truck is an A triple, conventional type II road train and the cattle truck is a BAB-quad which tend to track better and be less higgledy-piggledy when you follow them. When you see then wobbling everywhere they're likely coasting along they will accelerate to attempt to straighten the combination out when passing each other on the narrower back roads.

In my case it was a mining roadtrain traveling along the Silver City Highway towards Broken Hill that scared me. A narrow road, a cross wind, 100kph zone, the roadtrain all higgledy-piggledy coming the opposite way with less than a metre's space between it and my car. The trailers were moving more than a metre sideways!

After my high speed head on car crash, in the Nissan Patrol, I could not deal with that again. I just pull over, even on duel carriage ways.

 

[NQ94]

In my case it was a mining roadtrain traveling along the Silver City Highway towards Broken Hill that scared me. A narrow road, a cross wind, 100kph zone, the roadtrain all higgledy-piggledy coming the opposite way with less than a metre's space between it and my car. The trailers were moving more than a metre sideways!

After my high speed head on car crash, in the Nissan Patrol, I could not deal with that again. I just pull over, even on duel carriage ways.

I totally understand, I get off the road from them too on narrow roads. The biggest hazard we have in CQ with road trains is the amount of triple diesel tankers and B triple ammonia nitrate trucks running around on the narrow roads for the mines as well as cowboy miners finishing their swings. There has been a few major instances in the last six months with a.n. trucks.

 

[pmatusov]

Factory Bridgestones lasted about 25k miles to tread depth of ~4-5mm. Street legal still, but useless on anything but dry hardtop.
So the new Falkens are in, in 255/80R17 size.
First impressions - as with any new tire set: "oh how round!!! and quiet!!!" Now I have to talk myself into not believing I sit that much higher off the blacktop.