Long Drive into Botswana and a Corrupt South African Cop @4xoverland 

It’s not just in the Kalahari either. Long stretches of straight road in a vast expanse will do that. I encounter it a lot here in Canada.

Like the one called the Electric Brae south of Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland

Fata Morgana

And his Rolex .

He should team up with his brother from a different mother. Sir Richard Attenbra.

…and you can fit a poptop tent for your grenadier, which looks fabulous, thanks to alu cab😎. That’s the moment, when the car gets interesting.

didn't watch to the end did you?

@@4xoverland i did, like every your other video... dont take it as a hate comment, i just see different style of yours later and i preffered the old one...

I did not say it would be impossible to convert the roof at all. I said it would not be as simple as the Troopy. And this is a fact. People do tend to put words in my mouth and come to conclusions that are the opposite of what I said. For example, I said several times about how impressed with Grenadier, and went on and on about it too! But still, because of some criticisms, many conclude the that I do not like it. One can like something while not liking everything about it. Sorry you don't like my latest content.

@@4xoverland You’re one heck of a content creator, Andrew. In all the friendly tone of voice my text can share, sometimes your replies to comments come through as a little arrogant. I know you’re not an arrogant person, but sometime, in text, you could appear to be. I am well aware that text doesn’t have tone of voice, which means that choice of words to be very important. The Grenadier is no longer a car I’d buy as the options look far more interesting. My current vehicle is the most interesting of them all in my opinion. Another is the Mini Landcruiser coming in Nov. I won’t buy it, but I will have a good look at it, for sure. Please keep up the good work you do, from every video I learn something.

​@@4xoverlandGrenadier is certainly appealing, albeit with some flaws - for example look at the oil filter location, but the uncertainty of BMW plastics is the main deal breaker for me in not surrendering my 12 year old basic G Wagen for one and your refurbished albeit slow South African Landcruiser might be one of the last vehicles running in a post apocalyptic landscape. After only previously seeing birds eye views of two Grenadiers in Yorkshire while propelling a Unimog camper, I finally got to look closely at one 3 weeks ago in Egilsstadir airport carpark, where its suspension lift and oversized tyres looked well suited to Icelandic rivers. I was then nearly mown down by one a few nights ago in Jakarta and was glad it lacked a bullbar!

one never know what video will strike a chord. It seems this one did for a lot of people.

We have a 1HZ and LOVE it; never enjoyed the journey more.

what you saw was 'SUB', indicating I am using my sub fuel tank.

@4xoverland have a good opinion here buddy!

Just the risk of being shot in Joburg at the traffic lights or attacked in the bush or catching Berri Berri or being stung by tetsi fly or going through the agony or giving your passport to an Ak47 toting border guard who can't read but is asking for a bribe. I think the OZ flies are tolerable.

Kalahari winter is the worst time for time lapses because there is too much dust in the atmosphere.

You must use it very little. They make the metal fairly soft as to make sharpening easier.

@@toejamr1 I don't use it heavily, but I don't hesitate to use it either. The serrated blade is showing some wear but it cuts fine

I could. But need to be able to get it down without climbing all the way up. There is no ladder and it has no rim, so doesn't weigh much.

I thought that after I had posted, when travelling solo, as you do, keeping things simple is the best. Cheers mate.

We wish there were good rains in the kgalagadi but the area as is all of Botswana had terrible rain and is in a drought . This has already escaped human wildlife conflict in the kgalagadi and given commutes more motivating to change land use in the area Andrew is camping in off road and illegally.

I have a technique where I can do it on my own. I roll the wheel into position, sit on the sand, cradle the wheel on my legs and lift it onto the bolts. Getting the wheel back onto the rear carrier is more difficult, but with the aid of a strap, I can do that was well.

keep watching!

I was joining a highway from Pretoria yesterday and from stand still a single cab 79 series kept up with me all the way to 120. Don’t know what they did to it but damn it was flying. Yes it was empty but wow I was impressed and the exhaust note, oh my, I felt it in my rib cage. I’ve watched many of your videos of how much extra power can be squeezed out of those 4.5l V8, but yesterday was pure demonstration.

And im busy moving from the Eastern Cape to the Northern Cape because I thought there is less crime.

yes!

- and would probably go faster than the 1HZ!

😂​@@4xoverland

@@4xoverland looks hot out there

Not Africa! South Africa.

As a South African, totally agree. I once had a 15 strong pride of lions 5 car lengths away from my turned back while closing a camp gate but till this day I’ll rather go through that again than driving around South Africa. It’s rough out here man. No joke. I mostly carry extra fuel not coz I need it but because I’m actually trying to avoid as many refuelling towns as possible.

I have owned 6 1HZ engines and turbo charged two of them. Successfully. But most off the shelf solutions destroy the engine inside 30K kms.

Africa has 54 countries. In most, travelling is very safe. Botswana is one of the safest.

What makes you think I'm not? I get all their press releases.

@@4xoverlandYour comment at 4:38 about it being a problem that all Grenadiers look the same and you can’t personalize them. If you were aware of this program, you would not make such a statement.

@@TheBTG88I think you miss what he means when he says customise or personalise. Work done by “Ineos Arcane Works” is just another spec you can tick off to be honest. Meaning same same same to customers that pick it. Meaning you can’t just sit at camp and look at your car and feel this is “yours” and caters to you and you only. Real customisation is something you think of, plan and execute in your way based your individual needs. A company customising on your behalf, it’s not for me and definitely not for the kinda guy like Andrew. The biggest joy is seeing YOUR plan come to life.

@@SoftCampingSouthAfrica Aside perhaps from bullbars not yet being available in the aftermarket, one could vinyl wrap the Ineos, put on different tires and wheels, add addition lighting accessories, etc. and make it look different today. So the statement on its own is rather specious.

@@TheBTG88 the point is NOT to just do something just for the sake of being different. Read my reply carefully. What makes it different is individual approach based on individual requirements. The ability to adjust and rearrange things to suit personal requirements. It’s not just to say I have a special bumper therefore I’m different or slap vinyl on and boom. Personally I don’t even talk to such people ever coz I don’t wanna hear about a product catalogue from some supplier that serves little purpose to the owner other than “I want a cool product”. No one cares about that difference, Ofcoz unless you surround yourself with people that care about such. It’s the result of individualism that makes a car difference. that’s when the interests comes in. I love talking to people about their setup when I can read from their setup their personal taste and requirements and how they overcame it. Flexing a special bumper or vinyl means nothing to people we are referring to. For example, Andrew usually prefers (what I would call a carcass) to start off of. Granted that’s his business and prefers it that way. I’m an architect specialising in healthcare design and I run my own company. I hardly get time to overland more than 3 weeks at a time and I spend most of my time on tarmac and site meetings at almost 28000km a month. RU-vid is a hobby for me and yes I understand its business for others. For me I need the most comfortable mile muncher I can find for the price I’m willing to pay. To allow single life (like now) to couple to 2 kids later. Basically all stages of my life. That matters to me and That’s MY starting baseline and is none negotiable. but I’m a farm boy through and through so I have to make a compromise. And it’s the response to that “Individual compromise” that makes it different. As a result, you have no idea how many people just rock up at my campsite just to have a look saying they haven’t seen my set up before. You know why? cos they have never met “ME”. That’s what makes your setup “unique”.

you mean me? It was the first thing I checked.

I've turbo-charged two of the 5 1HZ engines I've owned and I know a lot about it. These engines tend to die very quickly after a turbo is fitted. The piston crowns are too thin to cope with the pressures. So a new-ish engine turbo-charged with care, is viable. An old engine is not.

Strange question. I don't. If the engine is running, there is a reason. Pumping the tyres, for example.