Is there a cold weather pack, heated steering wheel front windshield?
why not just move to somewhere that has better weather?
You do understand that many, many, MANY vehicles do not have heated steering wheels, right? Including those sold in Massachusetts (or.... big shock coming here, places that are even colder, including Canada and Northern Europe).
I'm sure lots of cars have no heated steering wheel, but I'm not in the market for any of them! I have a heated steering wheel, seats, and front windshield - and combined with the defrost it works wonderfully well in the winter. If that's not for you, OK that's fine, but I'm coming from a LR where I have it already and I'd not pass it up on my next car. In all seriousness, the Grenadier may just be too much OD than I'd want, and that's fine, we're all a bit different. I will test the newly designed Lexus GX Over Trail, and maybe the new LC in the US. I suspect Ineos will eventually offer a heat package, if for no better reason than US consumers will pay for it and the feature is available on alternatives.
Not only that, but the Grenadiers controls are all designed to be operable with gloves on.
And quite comfy and easy to do so... Wait, you Aussies should be used to that after the past few months, right?
Not me, I have occasionally worn driving gloves when driving convertible cars, both for sun protection in summer and warmth in winter. But have never done so in a hardtop vehicle. Only time I could envisage operating the vehicle with gloves on would be while doing a recovery.
And I asked myself many times why on earth they put this out that often. It always sounds like „our heating doesn’t work, but you can wear gloves instead.“
My old Mum would say take them off inside the vehicle or you won't feel the benefit of them outside.
I've had no extra cost with 2 windshields replaced. It may be a State insurance difference, so it's going to depend on where you live. In Mass. a windshield is "covered" no matter what. it's potentially unsafe and the State mandates/forces insurance companies to pay for replacements. when the glass replacement company came out, they absolutely tried to install a non-heated variety, rather aggressively. I asked for heated one several times, and they tried their best to install a non heated one. If i wasn't there to shoo them away with their non heated windshield, that's what I'd have now. They said it would take weeks, where they were here now with a glass replacement, and didn't I want a new windshield! Ha, yes, but I want the LR heated one, and it was covered by insurance so I waited. That said, I'm sure it did cost the insurance company more money, but it didn't cost me. as a mandatory item to replace, it also didn't nix my insurance premium, as a chip is likely a "no fault" item anyways. Living in New England, I've found the heated windshield to be effective in that it melts the snow more quickly when the defroster is on as well. It's not magic, but it does speed the process up a bit. It's a nice feature, but I don't view it as a mandatory feature.
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