Thread: Ineos Grenadier, do you reckon it'll take off?

Well my Defender has not lasted until the Grenadier arrives. The Td 5 engine seized due to a "series of unfortunate events" I have now embarked on fitting a M57 BMW turbo diesel and 6 speed auto. As well as upgrading a few other things on the old girl. Probably spending 15 k on her to do the work (all done by myself) The dilemma is now, do I justify 100k for a grenadier when I will have a vastly improved (but not new) Defender? Debating whether to cancel the order and get back 5 k towards the Defender project. Another way is moving on the wife's 11 year old Rangie sport and giving her the Grenadier as a shopping car. Decisions decisions..... ...

Originally Posted by Deefa

Well my Defender has not lasted until the Grenadier arrives. The Td 5 engine seized due to a "series of unfortunate events" I have now embarked on fitting a M57 BMW turbo diesel and 6 speed auto. As well as upgrading a few other things on the old girl. Probably spending 15 k on her to do the work (all done by myself) The dilemma is now, do I justify 100k for a grenadier when I will have a vastly improved (but not new) Defender? Debating whether to cancel the order and get back 5 k towards the Defender project. Another way is moving on the wife's 11 year old Rangie sport and giving her the Grenadier as a shopping car. Decisions decisions..... ...

Sorry to hear about the TD5.

Please start a thread detailing the conversion.

I'm sure plenty of people here would be keen to follow your progress.

Why have you decided to us the 6 speed and not the 8?

Tony

Yes I'll start a thread separately. I've already got the engine and transmission in the vehicle connected up to the transfer case. The reason that I didn't go 8 speed is that I bought a compete BMW X5 . Buying an 8 speed is out of budget. It's not a cheap conversion. I see some guys spending 30 K and still having a used engine in a 20 year old car. I think the conversion side will cost about 10 K the 5 K is upgrades to the vehicle. I have spent 8 K already and I bought the donor vehicle embarrassingly cheap.

Originally Posted by Deefa

Well my Defender has not lasted until the Grenadier arrives. The Td 5 engine seized due to a "series of unfortunate events" I have now embarked on fitting a M57 BMW turbo diesel and 6 speed auto. As well as upgrading a few other things on the old girl. Probably spending 15 k on her to do the work (all done by myself) The dilemma is now, do I justify 100k for a grenadier when I will have a vastly improved (but not new) Defender? Debating whether to cancel the order and get back 5 k towards the Defender project. Another way is moving on the wife's 11 year old Rangie sport and giving her the Grenadier as a shopping car. Decisions decisions..... ...

I’d like to see a build thread on that.

Just checking the Ineos Grenadier site and I noticed that the official figures for fuel consumption. They are, just over 25 MPG for the diesel and just over 19 MPG for the petrol. I thought that 25 MPG for the diesel to be a bit on the low side. I suppose this is down to the substantial nature of the parts and the automatic gear box. I am not griping about it but it is just an observation. If I bought one I would accept it and live with it.

In comparison my puma 130 gets up to 15l/100KM (18MPG) depending on how fast I go and what load is on the back, I reckon I'd be happy with 25 MPG. The cost of driving a brick at the legal limit I guess.

Regards,
Tote

Have just been reading that the Grenadier prices from 2023 are going up by approx $13k! Yikes.
So $98k for the base station wagon and $109.5k for the trailmaster.

It’s not the cheap Defender replacement anymore… Not saying that it’s not a great vehicle - but all those people that said “Ineos can build a cheap, no nonsense Defender replacement” - I hope that they are choking on their weetbix!