[Brady]

The stainless is tough. If it is luggage bay doors the bottom piece is seperate from main door sheet. The flat piece aprox 12 inches by 53 inches you can get at a local metal fabricator. A good source for other is IBP International bus parts in Apoka Florida. Call Steve and get a catalogue

[Larry & Diane]

I have used IBP couple of times with good results.

ibpindustries.com

[Deleted User]

We’ve unforunately had a number of bad experiences with our stainless steel.

When we first bought the coach we had large rocks at the end of the driveway where it met the road. We found out the hard way they were TOO close to the driveway to consistently back the coach into the driveway. The excavator removed them when they did the dirt work for the race shop and coach parking place. I bought two lower panels with rivets from IBP.

On our first trip to Florida I parked at my aunt and uncles which live kinda in the wilderness. I had five people watching as I manuvered the coach and as many times as I told the two in front to watch the Liberty installed stainless steel valance under the coach, the end of it got hooked and pulled when a tire dropped into a rut in their yard.

Then on the return trip home I tried to buy fuel using my PC Love’s Fuel Card in Indiana. HUGE MISTAKE. You apparently need a DOT number to buy fuel in Indiana at the truck pumps; I don’t buy diesel in Indiana. The clerk inside told me to use the special RV island in front. ANOTHER HUGE MISTAKE. The space between the curbs and the platform the pump sits on is TOO NARROW for a coach to get through. The other end of the valance hit the curb. So upon returning home I removed the valance and took it to Liberty in North Chicago. They clipped the wings of the valance off, welded new stainless on, replaced a damaged marker light, and polished everything up. Looks like new.

Then we had an incident with the rear bumper. Bought a new rear bumper and one corner piece from IBP. They also cut holes in the bumper for what I think are Liberty installed back bumpers and put a hole in the bumper for the RV plug receptacle. I found out that Liberty puts a special stainless surround at the rear corners of the coach which interfered with the standard bumper corners … so back to Liberty to have the upper end of the corner trimmed and polished, IBP didn’t weld bolts to the inside of the bumper to fasten the back up lights so Liberty did that and polished, and I have Liberty open up the bottome of the bumper around the trailer hitch so it was easiler to get the pin in and out and hook the safety changes up.

Working with IBP is pretty good. Just keep in mind that the converter might have altered standard Prevost stainless pieces and/or added some of their own touches. Lots of pictures to IBP helps.

Aside from the above, we bought our coach with a few dings, creases, and scratches. Some I’m going to eliminate with IBP parts and some I’m going to learn. Other XL owners who have looked at the coach have told me, “Don’t worry about it. That’s patina.”

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A couple of years ago, I made the mistake using the car lanes to go through customs into Canada from WA state. The Canadians obviously were worried about an US invasion. For security reasons, the lanes were not straight but snaked around the area ahead of customs. I was proud not having taken out a single traffic cone along the way with the coach or toad, only to rub up to a concrete monument right as we got up to the customs officer. The spacing between the concrete monuments was so tight we could not open the door to check the damage even after I backed off. Turns out we scratched and bent the stainless fender trim on the passenger door.

The stainless fender trim pieces and skins are available even for our vintage. We ordered the replacement fender piece from IBP ($500) and installed it in 30 minutes.

I now use the truck/commercial bus lanes going through customs and I’m thinking of installing one of the mirrors truckers have above the passenger window to keep an eye on the passenger front when squeezing through tight spots.

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I hate to side-track this thread but I wanted to mention….

Dick, I was just in Indiana the other day and filled up in Indianapolis at a LOVE’S Travel stop. It says on the pump ‘Commerical Trucks Only’, no tax on fuel.

Well, what are we supposed to do at 65-70 ft. long as this was the first time I have ever fueled in Indiana?

I still tried to swipe my LOVE’S card and it said “See Cashier”. I went inside and told the lady that I didn’t have a DOT number and she changed something in the computer that added tax to my pump.

I paid $2.61 cash price and was billed for $2.51 through the PC Profit Tools program. They didn’t say anything about going to the small RV pumps.

Mark

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Huh. My experience was obviously different than that.

Tom … maybe you could move Mr. Mark’s Fuel in Indiana post to its own thread so we can talk about it. I think even with the tax added in, Indiana has good fuel prices.