What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[ECrider]

They won't stand for piscine in their pool

 

[Rowsham]

Fabulous job with the drawer but those pictures are amazing. I zoomed right in and still stayed pretty clear. Please post more in the 'Random picture' thread with details of what is in the picture.
Just stay away from the monthly competition, which does require your Grenadier to be in view or part of, as it's obviously cheating

Thank you!

Roger that, but no promises! I'm taking a trip up to Colorado / Utah next week and planning on having one or two shots with the Grenny

 

[Baron von Teuchter]

Winters back on - got caught out with a bit of snow this week but it has reinforced my opinion the BFG AT are absolutely fine in fresh snow with lots of feel and good bite but are pretty unpleasant on compacted snow and ice. Dropping the pressures certainly helps, down to 30psi and they are much better but nowhere near as good as dedicated winter tyres.

I do wish there was an MT pattern tyre with lots of sipes and a winter compound. I’d never buy anything else.

A track I use 2 or 3 times a week is muddy and deeply rutted and the AT’s cope fine with it but I rather suspect that when the snow is gone these winters will be useless on it if the ground is wet.

 

[ECrider]

Winters back on - got caught out with a bit of snow this week but it has reinforced my opinion the BFG AT are absolutely fine in fresh snow with lots of feel and good bite but are pretty unpleasant on compacted snow and ice. Dropping the pressures certainly helps, down to 30psi and they are much better but nowhere near as good as dedicated winter tyres.

I do wish there was an MT pattern tyre with lots of sipes and a winter compound. I’d never buy anything else.

A track I use 2 or 3 times a week is muddy and deeply rutted and the AT’s cope fine with it but I rather suspect that when the snow is gone these winters will be useless on it if the ground is wet.

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Always the annual dilemma - I need my muds more in the autumn/winter but then occasionally I need one with a softer compound and lots of sipes - unfort too much of a compromise, one or t'other so I stick with muds and only swap over to the AT's if heading to snow sure places, agree not great on the hard stuff or ice but better than my muds. Will probably look for a dedicated winter, nokian etc when the AT's have had their day.

 

[Baron von Teuchter]

That’s interesting

We have an old Hilux on Toyo MT’s and I swear it’s better on ice and packed snow than the Ineos on AT’s

In fairness, I used Grabber AT2’s year-round on our old 90TD5 for years, all year round, and they were fine. Maybe it’s just the BFG’s I don’t get on with.

 

[ECrider]

That’s interesting

We have an old Hilux on Toyo MT’s and I swear it’s better on ice and packed snow than the Ineos on AT’s

In fairness, I used Grabber AT2’s year-round on our old 90TD5 for years, all year round, and they were fine. Maybe it’s just the BFG’s I don’t get on with.

I wonder if their (BFG) AT K03's are any better in the packed stuff....you'd hope there would be an improvement all round but again maybe at the improvement of one element comes at the expense of another.

P.s. when you say 'old' Hilux - what era are we taling?

 

[Baron von Teuchter]

I wonder if their (BFG) AT K03's are any better in the packed stuff....you'd hope there would be an improvement all round but again maybe at the improvement of one element comes at the expense of another.

P.s. when you say 'old' Hilux - what era are we taling?

Ahh not that old, 2010. Mk 7 maybe? Not sure

 

[ECrider]

Ahh not that old, 2010. Mk 7 maybe? Not sure

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Envious, they were some of the last of the good-uns. What's on the clock now?

 

[bigleonski]

This swapping tyres with the seasons is such a foreign concept to us Aussies.
The closest I get is wanting to put on a set of mud tyres when I head outback, but touch wood so far I’ve made do with agressive AT’s.

 

[ECrider]

This swapping tyres with the seasons is such a foreign concept to us Aussies.
The closest I get is wanting to put on a set of mud tyres when I head outback, but touch wood so far I’ve made do with agressive AT’s.

Trip to Thredbo this winter?

 

[Tom109]

We have an old Hilux on Toyo MT’s and I swear it’s better on ice and packed snow than the Ineos on AT’s

The Toyo seems to be the best siped-MT available. I think I’m still going to skip it in favor of the 35” Mickey Thompson Baja. We don’t see a lot of local snow but a few trips every Winter do.

 

[PNWGrenadier]

A few more minor changes - I had the Grenadier USA center console and I liked the fact it was metal but the oversized cupholder was 3D printed with a glossy surface that showed print lines (made it look cheap) and so I decided to go back to the original (sorta). I found a replacement oversized cupholder that only replaced the original cup holder section of the original center console and went with that. I liked the small silver rails from the Grenadier USA console and so I installed those (drilled holes in the original center unit) and then covered the center unit and the front unit (where the shifter is located) with a gun metal gray wrap so everything matched. Finally, I painted the center console dial black to match the Grenadier USA transfer case shifter knob I had previously installed (which now matches the other knobs in the Grenadier). I like how it all turned out and now everything looks OEM. That's what I did today!

 

[C-Mack]

A few more minor changes - I had the Grenadier USA center console and I liked the fact it was metal but the oversized cupholder was 3D printed with a glossy surface that showed print lines (made it look cheap) and so I decided to go back to the original (sorta). I found a replacement oversized cupholder that only replaced the original cup holder section of the original center console and went with that. I liked the small silver rails from the Grenadier USA console and so I installed those (drilled holes in the original center unit) and then covered the center unit and the front unit (where the shifter is located) with a gun metal gray wrap so everything matched. Finally, I painted the center console dial black to match the Grenadier USA transfer case shifter knob I had previously installed (which now matches the other knobs in the Grenadier). I like how it all turned out and now everything looks OEM. That's what I did today!


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Very nice job! I’d like to get a GrenadierUSA center console but like you the printed cup holder does look a bit cheap which is especially galling considering the quality you are getting with the machined console and what you are paying for it. I wish they made a version of the aluminum console which would work with the OEM cup holders but it might not be possible due to how the OEM unit is made?

 

[PNWGrenadier]

Very nice job! I’d like to get a GrenadierUSA center console but like you the printed cup holder does look a bit cheap which is especially galling considering the quality you are getting with the machined console and what you are paying for it. I wish they made a version of the aluminum console which would work with the OEM cup holders but it might not be possible due to how the OEM unit is made?

Grenadier USA doesn't make any tabs or slots on the bottom of their console for the cupholder to "snap" into. The unit that I got and installed in the image above does have snaps just like the OEM console, but both are plastic. I suspect the metal console is harder to work with in terms of adding slots/tabs on the underside. The Grenadier USA cup holder just sits in the dash and is held in place by the screws that go through the console from the top - not a great solution and one of the corners in the Grenadier USA cup holder cracked when I was installing it because the plastic at that point is very, very thin. It's unfortunate because as I said in my post, I really liked the metal console and thought it was more rugged than the OEM plastic.