Ineos Grenadier
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Not updated this for a while. I’m just over 3000 miles now, done an 800 miles trip to Chester and just back from a 400 mile trip to the borders.
Some observations:
1. Great mile muncher. Quiet, smooth, comfortable for driver and passengers. Feels completely solid, tracks straight and can be driven most comfortably on cruise control with an arm on the door armrest and guiding it with one or two fingers. Rumours of cars wandering around must be due to dodgy alignment, mine is perfect. 8 hours to Cheshire in one hit and no aches or pains.
2. Mpg on a long motorway/dual carriageway about 28mpg. 420-450 miles on a tank of diesel at 70-75ish.
3. It’s a crap city car. Centre of Edinburgh is always a pain to drive around in any car but narrow streets, tight corners, very tight corners and even tighter corners are not the forte of the Ineos. Same with car parks. Fits in spaces just fine but the turning circle is an issue. Mind you, coming from an L2 Transit custom crew van thing so am sort of used to it but I don’t do much town/city driving at all. You’d be a mentalist to have one of these as your main car if you lived in a city.
4. TPMS keeps having a thrombo, telling me one of the tyres is high, though they are all showing the same, via the TPMS and a gauge. It’s going in for first service in next few weeks so will get them to look at it.
5. HVAC is odd. Can do very hot or very cold no problem. Anything in between is a bit hit and miss and needs constant adjustment. It does have auto climate control but I tend to use it on manual mode. Some owners report on no heat or no cold - usually it seems a re-gas or bleeding the coolant sorts it. I’m not having these problems, just that the fine control of anywhere between raging furnace heat or cryogenic cooling isn’t as precise as one might be used to in modern cars.
Some observations:
1. Great mile muncher. Quiet, smooth, comfortable for driver and passengers. Feels completely solid, tracks straight and can be driven most comfortably on cruise control with an arm on the door armrest and guiding it with one or two fingers. Rumours of cars wandering around must be due to dodgy alignment, mine is perfect. 8 hours to Cheshire in one hit and no aches or pains.
2. Mpg on a long motorway/dual carriageway about 28mpg. 420-450 miles on a tank of diesel at 70-75ish.
3. It’s a crap city car. Centre of Edinburgh is always a pain to drive around in any car but narrow streets, tight corners, very tight corners and even tighter corners are not the forte of the Ineos. Same with car parks. Fits in spaces just fine but the turning circle is an issue. Mind you, coming from an L2 Transit custom crew van thing so am sort of used to it but I don’t do much town/city driving at all. You’d be a mentalist to have one of these as your main car if you lived in a city.
4. TPMS keeps having a thrombo, telling me one of the tyres is high, though they are all showing the same, via the TPMS and a gauge. It’s going in for first service in next few weeks so will get them to look at it.
5. HVAC is odd. Can do very hot or very cold no problem. Anything in between is a bit hit and miss and needs constant adjustment. It does have auto climate control but I tend to use it on manual mode. Some owners report on no heat or no cold - usually it seems a re-gas or bleeding the coolant sorts it. I’m not having these problems, just that the fine control of anywhere between raging furnace heat or cryogenic cooling isn’t as precise as one might be used to in modern cars.
I’ve really enjoyed reading about this. While probably not a car for me at the moment, utilitarian and useful vehicles are becoming hard to find, at least new. If you buy used there’s obviously plenty on offer, as already discussed. They’re quite sharply priced here in Germany; a brief search showed a good selection of dealer-mileage cars around €70k. Doesn’t seem too bad these days.
I wa surprised to learn petrol is even an option for these, what with Europe’s obsession with diesel. I would’ve expected a diesel range in excess of 500 miles but I guess in the UK the need to fill up more frequently isn’t such a drama.
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I wa surprised to learn petrol is even an option for these, what with Europe’s obsession with diesel. I would’ve expected a diesel range in excess of 500 miles but I guess in the UK the need to fill up more frequently isn’t such a drama.
Glad you like it! Please keep us updated when you can.
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