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Happyoldgit

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  1. Oh God, him again. I thought he had already “done” the Grenadier. I will watch it later.
  2. As has been said it's probably less hassle and possibly cheaper to get some new black ones, Google will bring up suppliers. What about the wingtops?
  3. I think it’s easy to overlook personal safety sometimes Tony. Glad to read you are doing ok now.
  4. I do think it is a lot to do with the office you deal with as premiums can vary depending on which one you use or if you deal with the national HQ so to speak.
  5. My memory is hazy but I had the centre panel out far enough on a couple of my Puma's so that is easy enough but I can't recall what the access is like to the cig socket as that is down low but I did need to take various live feeds for this and that so if the socket was a ball ache I'd have got the juice from elsewhere. From memory undoing the two front screws and easing the panel forward and up until it is unclipped. The radio comes out with DIN keys - the thin ones I believe. If it's coded you may need that if you unplug the wiring. I think it all comes out easily and there's enough room for plenty of air at the back of it. Edited to add... https://youtu.be/Lj_96jbcsqU?feature=shared
  6. I wouldn't be too snooty about current 4x4 pickups, they are popular for valid reasons. My gut feeling is that big users like utilities will continue to use them en masse from the big manufacturers [rather like the Power Network Ranger cherry picker that turned up at the farm when we had problems last week] perhaps subbed by a few Grenadiers [but to do what?] Charities are something else entirely. My gut feeling is Grenadiers will continue to be a bit niche, certainly expensive and as a result will not be adopted by fleet users to the same degree that Defenders were, not while 4x4 pickups are available from the big makers with big parts and repair facilities. As an aside, if my last brand new Defender had been as reliable as the 3.2 auto Ranger it was replaced with or my current D Max I would have held onto the Defender. In fact all the Defenders I bought new spent more time back and forth undergoing warranty work than either of these so called cheap pickups [cheap at over 30k - hmmm].
  7. Is this the five minute argument or the full half hour? 😉
  8. I think most modern 4x4's would be somewhat more relaxing and comfortable than an aged 110 🙂
  9. I have been wondering where you had got to Dave. Pleased to learn that you pulled through but can only agree about getting back up and fit again. Hope your daughter is ok.
  10. For years I was miserable, then almost overnight a miracle occurred and I became happy. Truth is I got fed up with folks, mostly newbies it has to be said, who said I lived up to my name if they didn't like this or that bit of moderating - back when such things were more common 😉
  11. Shame, I recently sold my 16x6.5 twin axle Ifor tilt bed that had a new phenolic ply floor just last year. I’m not a lover of tri axles but that’s just me.
  12. Mine. Been a local tractor all it’s life… Resting in piece…
  13. 1974 Ford 4000 satisfies my classic tractor itch. There's a DB 1490 with a loader sat at the back of the yard here, when I was given the Big C diagnosis and subsequently laid up in hospital for weeks at the end of 2020 I kept messaging the family to regularly start and run the machinery but they overlooked the DB. Months later I was able to get back in the DB which started fine but found the clutch pedal on the floor as the slave cylinder had leaked the contents of the clutch system. I ordered replacement bits but just have not got round to fitting them so the tractor sits there unloved and slowly turning green. I perhaps ought to get it sold before winter sets in and the land gets too wet.
  14. What a horrible thing to happen and I can well imagine it shook folks up. I have horses, they are not only heavy but can be an unstable load so I only tow horse trailers with a fixed towbar. The main thing is that no people, or livestock, were physically hurt.
  15. What was she paying to insure the vehicle prior to the price increase? With the 6 speed box on the Puma, it’s worth checking the history to see if the intermediate shaft in the adapter between the main and transfer box has ever failed and / or been replaced.
  16. Local dealer had three on display at the Sandringham Game & Country Fair at the weekend. I spent a fair while looking over all three, luggage compartment, back seat area, underneath engine, bodywork and spent a long time sitting in the drivers seat taking everything in and chatting to a nice lady member of the public who joined in the passenger seat. My 21 y/o daughter was with me was approached and chatted to by a young member of the dealership. Walked away, went back later, did the same again. Hundreds of vehicles in the parking areas but Grenadiers I saw not one.
  17. She’s not daft and knows what reasonably priced workhorses for normal working people are 😉
  18. Thanks Ralph. I was going to do it but... well... I forgot.
  19. My wife has shown a marked disinterest when I have mentioned this or that about the Grenadier and each time we pass the dealership refuses my invitation to stop and have a browse. We parked close to one at a village fete last weekend and I was intrigued to see her wander over to it and have a look at it. She eventually rejoined me and not a word was spoken. As we wandered on I asked her what she thought, not a lot she said, not worth the £77,000 window price she had spotted at the dealers, no not for something that looks like a Defender that someone has got at. We walked on....
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