For those of you who own a Grenadier: how often are you having issues with your vehicle? Is there a year that has less issues than others? Would you recommend for someone to get the Grenadier given all that you know about it now?
Thanks in advance!
I test drove a 2024 station wagon with 25k miles on it last weekend. The previous owner added a lift. Overall the truck was louder than I expected. Pretty loud whirring noise, coming from underneath (driveshaft? transmission?) this is the first one I have driven, wondering if that is normal or if this one had an issue. Road noise and that whirring noise made for a fairly noisy, uncomfortable experience. I’m coming from
a 1994 NAS Defender 90 soft top, so I can deal with some noise, but honestly this Grenadier seemed louder than my defender. I know I need to drive another one, but was wondering if anyone feels the same or if I just drove a bad / broken / abused one (although I know it is built to take the abuse).
Hello. Trialmaster. In US. Driver side right at the rear axle. Driven ten minutes for the first time today, came back to parking lot 15 minutes later and saw this. This exact same scenario happened yesterday. Fresh out of my garage, ny, after first drive.. parked 10-15 min and see this leak. No ac was run. No odd smells and doesn't seem very thick if at all. Roughly 15k miles. Gren drives normal. Seems like an awful lot of fluid. Anyone have experience with something similar? Dealer is FAR so hoping to get an idea if this is something I need to go in for. Thanks!
Edit: Not a spot in my garage so either this is clear fluid or it just happens after the initial drive outside.
My trailer is 6-7000 pounds. Currently have a 2020 f150 2.7 ecoboost I've been towing with for the past year. It's been great, up until 2 weeks ago.
Anyone tow regularly? Not just weekends. I'm sure the granny can tow, but i don't want to buy and in year it stops doing its job.
So excited to have my new Fieldmaster… in Magic Mushroom with Red frame…
Been researching for quite some time and excited to pick this up yesterday at Crown Ineos in Dublin Ohio.
Black Bear, Imogene, Engineers, Ophir, Cinnamon... Love this truck so much more every day.
Just acquired my first boat, didn’t have any concerns with the Grenadier being able to tow it but even still I was impressed at how little I noticed a 20’ trailer behind me. Trailer tires are dry rotted so I didn’t exceed 60 mph and I even got 21.1 mpg!!!
I hate the screen so, so much. I don't have time to figure out how to do this, but I want it so bad. If you've thought about building this but aren't sure if there's demand, there is. From me, at least.
I found this rubber piece on the floor of the cargo area and cannot figure out where it goes. Would one of you please take a look at your vehicle and let me know where its supposed to go? Thank you.
I’ve been torn between having them or not, so I’m polling Redit users. I was almost decided on NO mainly for noise concerns and because it restrict the size of racks you can use. However I just saw one Grenadier yesterday and it still has a very large rack even when sparing the windows, so now I’m back to undecided. For owners how have them or don’t have them, what do you like, don’t like or what do you fell you miss without them?
Hello! Those of you that have raised air intakes/snorkels, is there any noticeable suction? I don't seem to be getting any, but I don't know what's normal.
I am horrified by the pricing on all of the accessories. It’s insane actually.
Been making these for a little bit now, but the demand grew so fast I had to keep my head down and machine running.
Whenever the laser has downtime I pop in some sheets and make more. Recently added a diesel version as well.
We've wanted this vehicle for so long, but it was hard to justify for our small business unless it could pay for itself. Seems to be a solid rig in many ways though.
Feeling cute, might delete this later.
TL;DR I found what I feel like is a good deal but I don't trust myself and am looking for input. Original sticker on this 2025 was $95k and they're offering it to me for $72k. Has 6k miles on it, and one owner. Totally clean except for a small dent on the front bumper. I have hangups about spending money on cars, but I feel like this is a lot of car for what I'd be getting. Help, friends.
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Edit: Still mentally working through this but I want to thank everyone who took the time to read and reply.
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I've always driven older vehicles and kept them for a very long time while buying nicer safer cars for my wife. My current truck is getting on in years (14 years old), but doesn't have too many miles (~105k), and I'm confident I can still keep doing what I do (which is drive the car and enjoy no payment).
My mentality has always been that vehicles are for getting places and once it's paid off you hold onto it and ride that wave. Not a bad idea for sure. However, I've been stalking Ineos since Doug Demuro's video March 2024 and have fantasized about owning one ever since. I've never owned something nice.
Right now I am in a different financial space than I was with the last vehicle I bought for myself 13 years ago. Combined with a little down plus trading in my truck and my payments on this would be about $1200 a month. This is totally within my budget and I will not be car poor.
However, seeing the number $1200 on the paper makes me break into a cold sweat. I've run through my family budget a million times and it is well within our range, but it's still nerve wracking for a guy who 20 years ago had trouble paying half that for rent.
My wife and I don't have kids, and my budget accounts for our necessities (of course) and prioritizes saving for retirement *before* we add in luxuries like this. It even accounts for luxuries for my wife first (I'm not henpecked but giving for others is one of my love languages), like her car lease (she likes new car every few years), and other things. Sure, car payments are a necessity, but not car payments like this. At this point it's luxury money, but luxury money we can manage.
Long story short, I can financially swing this but it still makes me nervous. I think of all of things around house we could beautify with that money, or the other things we could get instead, and I feel awfully guilty for spending money on me. And yet... I test drove it today and fucking love it. I walked away without signing to cool off but I'm not sure I'm cooling off; rather, I'm worried I'm just sitting here overthinking it.
I'm going on vacation next week and figure I cool off while I'm gone, but I'm worried this might jump off the lot. Don't know if I should pull the trigger or roll the dice, and if it's gone try to find something when I get back.
Some great trails/routes…tomorrow will be off-road. Just wish the Harley Deals weren’t so tempting!
I'm in a camping near Orebro, Sweden. Out of 300 spots I picked the one with AAA grade view
21 units parked in an overgrown field, with weeds growing through the rims and rotors full of rust...
Sad.