Americas Would you buy a Grenadier if the closest dealer was 250 miles away?

[Mike Morrison]

I have one on order -delivery march’25 - and the dealer is 715km (440 miles), 8hr trip one way. A huge leap of faith coming from a Toyota FJ Cruiser with the dealer 20min away!

 

[Tx246]

Yes!

I am at almost 9k miles with no major issues. I Drive it daily.

 

[Baron von Teuchter]

I’m 100 miles away from a sales dealer but only 10 from a service agent. It’s been to the service agent once, for its first service, had no other reason to visit. Nothing has gone wrong or broken.

So from my personal experience I would say yes.

From the reports from others I would say probably not.

Bear in mind that vehicle-specific forums and social media groups often have people reporting the bad stuff and looking to see if others have the same issue. You don’t get thousands of people reporting they have no issues at all. It’s completely natural.

I’ve had several land rovers that have had no reliability issues at all yet common internet knowledge is that they’re dreadful. I had an Audi that was a massive pain in the ass. £5000 bill to replace a £1 seal etc. headlight bulb kept blowing and you needed to remove bumper to change the bulb. Etc etc. Common internet knowledge is that Audis are super reliable.

 

[Vilhelm007]

Yes! Live in NH, no dealers in my state. Just passed 2k miles. Love this awesome utility machine! Recommend professional rust proofing for all New England.

 

[spyder6255]

Yes! Live in NH, no dealers in my state. Just passed 2k miles. Love this awesome utility machine! Recommend professional rust proofing for all New England.

Who does the rust proofing?

 

[parb]

When I bought mine the closest dealer was 600 miles away. I bought mine from a dealer 1,000 miles from me. Now I have a dealer 120 miles away.

I felt okay with my decision at the time and would easily make it again