The Grenadier leaves space for improvments

[Sauerländer]

Hello together,

the more I do some work on my Fieldmaster I think about, if the engineers at Grenadier did certain things on purpose or not!
Probably they want to leave opportunities for the owner to make some improvments. May be the hired former engineers from Landrover, esp. from the old Defender.

Today I took the side steps off, to prepare the truck for an underbody protection.
As I took the bolts off that attached the steps to the frame I found out, to cover the bigger long hole in the frame of the steps, they engineers took washers with a hole of 18mm for a bold of 10mm. How should the bold find the center of the washer? By luck?

Then I found out, that the raised airintake is not really good attached to the fender, do not talking about sailed.
It's just hanging in the bolts off the A-Pillar in the fender it is loose. I will have to take the airintake off, attach it and seal it to the fender.

Only little things, but if You buy a truck for that price and the company tells You, "Build to last", You start thinking about.

But so far no serious reason to be sorry, just leaves me the opportunity to improve the Grenadier!

Regards Sauerländer

 

[Logsplitter]

Hello together,

the more I do some work on my Fieldmaster I think about, if the engineers at Grenadier did certain things on purpose or not!
Probably they want to leave opportunities for the owner to make some improvments. May be the hired former engineers from Landrover, esp. from the old Defender.

Today I took the side steps off, to prepare the truck for an underbody protection.
As I took the bolts off that attached the steps to the frame I found out, to cover the bigger long hole in the frame of the steps, they engineers took washers with a hole of 18mm for a bold of 10mm. How should the bold find the center of the washer? By luck?

Then I found out, that the raised airintake is not really good attached to the fender, do not talking about sailed.
It's just hanging in the bolts off the A-Pillar in the fender it is loose. I will have to take the airintake off, attach it and seal it to the fender.

Only little things, but if You buy a truck for that price and the company tells You, "Build to last", You start thinking about.

But so far no serious reason to be sorry, just leaves me the opportunity to improve the Grenadier!

Regards Sauerländer

I’ve had to stick me RAIs on as it came loose on bad roads.

 

[Tazzieman]

Nothing's fallen off mine.
Most people seem to be on purpose sticking more stuff on, more than is falling off.
On a positive note , it keeps car accessory and modifying people in jobs, important to encourage them now that AI has started to offload large numbers office and factory workers worldwide.

 

[CRH]

Hello together,

the more I do some work on my Fieldmaster I think about, if the engineers at Grenadier did certain things on purpose or not!
Probably they want to leave opportunities for the owner to make some improvments. May be the hired former engineers from Landrover, esp. from the old Defender.

Today I took the side steps off, to prepare the truck for an underbody protection.
As I took the bolts off that attached the steps to the frame I found out, to cover the bigger long hole in the frame of the steps, they engineers took washers with a hole of 18mm for a bold of 10mm. How should the bold find the center of the washer? By luck?

Then I found out, that the raised airintake is not really good attached to the fender, do not talking about sailed.
It's just hanging in the bolts off the A-Pillar in the fender it is loose. I will have to take the airintake off, attach it and seal it to the fender.

Only little things, but if You buy a truck for that price and the company tells You, "Build to last", You start thinking about.

But so far no serious reason to be sorry, just leaves me the opportunity to improve the Grenadier!

Regards Sauerländer

It keeps you happy and stops you getting upto mischief, idle hands and all that.
Mines not perfect, but i love it

 

[Jiman01]

Hello together,

the more I do some work on my Fieldmaster I think about, if the engineers at Grenadier did certain things on purpose or not!
Probably they want to leave opportunities for the owner to make some improvments. May be the hired former engineers from Landrover, esp. from the old Defender.

Today I took the side steps off, to prepare the truck for an underbody protection.
As I took the bolts off that attached the steps to the frame I found out, to cover the bigger long hole in the frame of the steps, they engineers took washers with a hole of 18mm for a bold of 10mm. How should the bold find the center of the washer? By luck?

Then I found out, that the raised airintake is not really good attached to the fender, do not talking about sailed.
It's just hanging in the bolts off the A-Pillar in the fender it is loose. I will have to take the airintake off, attach it and seal it to the fender.

Only little things, but if You buy a truck for that price and the company tells You, "Build to last", You start thinking about.

But so far no serious reason to be sorry, just leaves me the opportunity to improve the Grenadier!

Regards Sauerländer

I’m looking at the pics on my phone but are these eccentric bolts? Is the angle…they look off-set.

 

[Sauerländer]

Hello Jiman,

no there are no eccentric bolts!
This is the issue I tried to discribe, the hole in the washer is much to big, that the bolts do not get centered!

Regards sauerländer

 

[Clark Kent]

Hello Jiman,

no there are no eccentric bolts!
This is the issue I tried to discribe, the hole in the washer is much to big, that the bolts do not get centered!

Regards sauerländer

Steps and sliders are a dealer fit option during predelivery (or owner fit after delivery) so IA aren't directly responsible for your oversized washer set. Definitely weird though.
RAI is a factory fit option. There's been a few issues reported with RAI security and gaps.