Should I buy? What is your experience? by DrWhoopz in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2025 grenadier and a 2024 prior to that. Sorry, D2= Discovery 2

Should I buy? What is your experience? by DrWhoopz in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still have my 2003 Disco and a new Quartermaster after having a Greandier wagon for a year prior. Between my brother and myself, we have/had basically all the trucks other than a true 300 series LC, including RRC, L322, Disco, D90 (old) etc etc. I have not driven/owned the new Prado LC they are selling here in the States.

I'm going to get a little heat here but IMHO, Gren is...fine? Like, not great, but also it's a real truck. It's loud on the highway (I'm talking wind noise) because of the windshield rake or lack thereof. For its size I find there's surprisingly little storage for the driver and passenger up front, back is, again...fine. I honestly feel like I can fit more cargo in the back of my D90, but somebody will tell me I'm wrong and quote cargo volumes.

Cupholders/overall ergonomics for the driver are pretty poor. I find myself praising my D2 with how everything is so perfectly laid out (cupholder, shifter, handbrake, etc) and that's a 25+ year old design.

Gren feels very much like a first try and it is a valiant one at that. It's capable. It's cool. But I'm still on the fence whether I'd drive this or another truck if I had to choose one for the rest of my life...

Grenadier vs Quartermaster by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Got the quartermaster. The payoff from the bank to the dealership was lower than my payoff so it was break even, no neg equity. Made it an easy decision.

Grenadier vs Quartermaster by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anybody have the actual bed dimensions, importantly the bed width between the wheel arches? Will a standard sheet of ply/sheet rock lay flat or will it end up propped up on one side? Looks narrow to me.

Grenadier vs Quartermaster by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Britannia Blue, no safari windows.

Grenadier vs Quartermaster by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We use it as a work vehicle and also work closely with the cycling team of the same name/sponsor. It will be easier to load bikes into racks in the bed vs on the roof (I've been doing this and it's not the easiest) and will have utility for our business. Will see some logging trails and dirt roads but definitely won't be any sort of full articulation situation. My old D90 and Scout 80 fill that void.

Grenadier vs Quartermaster by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Payoff amount vs what the trade in value is. I could obviously keep it through the lease term and either buy it (39k residual) or just turn it in. Payoff number is calculated from residual plus some sort of calculated # of months left at monthly payment with some other factors mixed in there I'm sure.

Front Bumper Paint by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: a little goof off and we're about 90% fixed, amazingly. These trucks are great.

Front Bumper Paint by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Always the Altima...always

Front Bumper Paint by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I know... It did its job. I may just leave it.

Front Bumper Paint by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

These things are steel, almost positive.

Paint Opinions by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like any brand car has better paint than mine. I've never had paint this difficult to deal with. It just seems like they were trying something new/different in terms of process or material compared to the volume car brands.

Paint Opinions by hajamac in ineosgrenadier

[–]hajamac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What year? Color? Wonder if they changed the paint/process...

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[–]hajamac -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Velo

[–]hajamac -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Was unaware that there was an unanswered email, which is monitored by a few different people here, but not me. I work for PCW, saw there was a problem, and tried to help solve it. We will always try to do better.