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This morning I installed and wired the solar controller. I started by removing the panel above the driver's side back seat door and adding an additional electrical connection for the solar panel. Adding the connection allowed me to keep the factory power connection in that location as well...

Continuing work on my solar project, I needed a place to mount a solar charge controller so I designed and built a simple bracket that mounts to factory bolts under the rear seat. I will be using a Victron MPPT 75/15 controller. The controller and a fuse panel will be mounted on the bracket -...

When I first bought the Grenadier, I had the dealer remove the ladder because a ladder on the rear didn't seem as useful to me as the hinge steps I had on the JKU. Later I reinstalled the ladder to use it for various cargo purposes as I've posted recently. I may design a version of my hinge...

Being 6'6", I can easily stand on the Grenadier's very high door sills, rear tires or rear barn door sill and reach everything I need do.

Yesterday I posted a DIY Ladder Mount Jerry carrier. Next I mounted a grid panel recycled from one of my Jeep projects on the ladder using the same mounting clamps I used for the jerry can tray yesterday. I tried mounting a bunch of different things on the grid - a "rotopax" (actually a Chinese...

DIY Jerry Can Carrier... I mounted a jerry can tray to the ladder using a two pairs of clamp mount brackets I found on eBay (<$20). Quick project, all that was really necessary was drilling a few new holes in the back of the jerry can tray to line up with the brackets. Many jerry can trays are...

Thanks, I'm glad you find it useful. More ideas... being a long-time subscriber to a number of UK Land Rover magazines, a few years ago I started a thread called "Land Rover Ideas for Jeeps", and in it I posted ideas from the Land Rover magazines that I thought might be useful for Jeeps...

My better half can't believe that a vehicle this expensive doesn't come with a mirror on the visor. It does seem very cheap not to include one, so to end that discussion, I added this one. It was $13.99 on Amazon and it's very large - you can see how much of the visor it takes up. Attaches...

Thanks. I used that technique for years in my Elmira house; when I moved I took the strut channels with me and installed them in the new garage. That bay is the third of three in the new garage; it's a single bay with an 8' high door so taller things (like vehicles with racks can fit): The...

As I'm using the JKU less and less these days, I'm thinking maybe I should get rid of some of the JKU accessories that I haven't used in a long time. First on the list to go probably will be my half doors. Never got around to painting them to match the JKU and they've been hanging in the...

Haven't had my Grenadier to Montana yet, wasn't me. I've done about 13 states in it so far, including from home in Delaware to Overland West in Arizona, but haven't been to the northern states yet. and will be heading for Colorado in July to do some exploring (ghost towns and mine sites) and...

I have a Garvin rack basket that I've been using on two of my Jeeps for years and now I also use it on my Grenadier. I don't have it installed on any of them full time, I just put it on when I need it. To make it easy to swap and install, I hang it from the garage door rails. I put mounted...

It would have been nice if Ineos included a provision for labeling the High Load Aux Switch Panel switches. I've added a number of accessories to those circuits, and it would be helpful to have labels for each circuit so there's no confusion about which switch does what. I've only added things...

I've been working with MORryde on a slide tray for Wranglers, Broncos and also the Grenadier, I've posted about it here before. The project is done and the cargo slide is ready for production, so my part in it is done. As often happens during the product development process, MORryde sent me two...

A few weeks ago I installed a battery monitor on my factory second battery because the dash display only reports on the primary battery. The monitor works very well and since I'm not 100% comfortable with the status display on the dash for the primary battery I installed a monitor on the...

Overland Outfitters sent me a black pocket panel for the small rear door to try out. I've had one in tan installed for a while and I'm finding it very handy. They used my Grenadier in their booth at Overland West and all of their new Grenadier products were installed in it - the products got a...

Some years ago I built an extension for the front of the Garvin rack basket I'd been using on my Jeeps; the extension expanded cargo capacity when the roof top tent was taking up most of the original rack but more importantly it provided a place for a solar panel. The panel stows under the rack...

I'm wondering why, if the Grenadier engineers intended the side-mounted L-tracks to be truly useful, they didn't put one on the top of the side panel? This photo shows a short fragment of L-track left over from my dash mount project posed in place... mounting things on the sides would be much...

When I was shopping for my Grenadier I considered adding the factory front receiver - I use a receiver-mount winch on my three Jeeps and planned to use it with the Grenadier as well. Unfortunately the factory front receiver is only rated for moving trailers around, it's not rated for as much...

Some years ago I implemented a jumper cable/winch power system for all three of my Jeeps which consisted of cables permanently connected to the battery with an Anderson connector on the end, jumper cable ends with clamps and an Anderson connector and an extension cable. I kept a jumper cable...