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Selling your bus
Well we sold the bus! a happy day but also a sad day, just a note, The buyers out there are looking at buses with records, this will help you get top dollar for your bus, fortunatly my records were complete from delivery of the shell to Chicago till the present, Some of the potential buyers wanted to see the records before they would fly to see the bus. The bus was ten years old and a couple hundred pages of records, Most of the records were for warranty work, service and a lot of preventitive maintenance, you know the kind that helps prevent breakdowns on the side of the road, So keep those records and all of you guys have a great and healthy New Year, by the way we have ruled out the Airstream, if we are going to travel it will be in a Prevost! who knows! Safe travels to a great group of people, Megan and Gary
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Congrats Gary, See you down the road.. Prevost or airstream, we do both, you can’t go wrong with either
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So happy for you guys !!! May all your dreams come true..
A happy healthy 2016 to you both !!
Cheers, Larry and Diane
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Well done selling your bus. Looks like lots of potential buyers are listening to the advice oft given on this site about checking out history before getting check books out. Good for the buyer and good for the seller as you say.
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I have emphasized for a long time how important service records are. This is vital for all owners, not those who are keeping records for the day they plan on selling the coach.
Our buses are very difficult to maintain in the respect we have so many key triggers for maintenance that nobody can track and do the maintenance on the required schedule without a master schedule sheet and a means of verifying the work has been done. Some items are calendar related. Some items have mileage as the trigger for rmaintenance. Some items have no specific schedule but the owner has to create one.
Then there are the vast number of items that are going to appear on a maintenance schedule, ranging from obscure items such as the power steering filter, to the obvious ones like an oil change, to the ones nobody lists as a maintenance item such as air bags.
Our coaches all have differences so the master maintenance schedule that an owner creates has to be designed to include those items on a particular coach. My list used to check hub fluid for example, but now that is off the list because I have permanently sealed steer and tag hubs. Since I have OTR my list has to include servicing the OTR filters as another example.
If you do not have a schedule, now is a good time to start one. If you are zeroing out a coach, start one. You will benefit greatly by having one you follow. If you are uncomfortable doing it yourself, contact owners who have your conversion, or have your service provider walk you through what is required.
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Congrats Gary and Megan, hope our paths will cross in the future.
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