Dan
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What happened to the rookie? Asking for a friend.
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If your aux compressor never pressurizes the Prevost accessory system, how will slide seals remain pressurized if the air from the slide seal source to the seals has a slight leak? How do you know the slide seals remain inflated if there is no source of compressed air.
I am not suggesting your seals lose air over night or even in a day, but if you remain in one place without the engine running for longer than it takes for Prevost accessory air pressure to drop to zero how do you know your slide seals are still inflated. This is a serious question because water leaking past uninflated seals has the potential to do some very serious and expensive damage.
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Les,
When you get through with that beautiful coach being washed, you can take a towel with slight sprinkles of vinegar on the towel and wiping horizontally, remove whatever slight residue from the process remains. The stainless will then have nothing on it.
It literally takes less than 10 – 15 minutes to wipe down the stainless.
Pres
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Ditto, what Tom said. I nursed an Amana through three repairs and when I finally got rid of it and replaced it with a Bosch of the same dimensions I realized how dumb it was to keep trying to nurse a lousy refrigerator back to life.
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Don’t spend your time polishing a turd. Contact Gill Johnson or Jeff (ETLC) and get the replacement LED setup. Polished lenses will only glaze over again and need replacement (or more polishing). Still doesn’t make up for the lack of actual lights behind the lens.
LED is the way to go, super bright and you can get replacements if you need them.
Both are plug and play. No modification, no fuss.
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Ed, thanks for the info.
I used the PC link, and came up with $475 ea + $52 FET ea, + mounting and balancing for the GY L rated G291? Is that about right?
For what its worth? I’ve always used “Rays Tire Service” RaysTire link. Ray is a neighbor to you and me, lives about halfway between us. I haven’t bought many tires from him, but I have given him my old tires in exchange for him mounting and balancing the new ones that I bring him for free. He has a $100k tire machine that’s incredible.
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If you need to crawl under the coach, remember to adequately support it! Good luck.
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Checked tire depth myself they are 7/32. Guess I must be driving too fast and peeling off the rubber on the hot highways. Tire’s are wearing total even across.
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We are in the home stretch with seminar preparations and if you haven’t registered yet or paid now is the time.
The seminar is going to be the best ever and we have some fantastic presenters to help us all with their expretise.
On Saturday we will have Fred Pickering of AAP, the go-to guy for Cruiseair questions and assistance. Following Fred the folks from Inverter Services are going to have their “A” team to unravel the mysteries of inverters and how to get the best use of them.
Later on Saturday we are going to have a great presentation by the representative from Relion Batteries. Relion is offering drop in replacement for our current batteries and we can expect to learn about the advantages of using Li batteries in our coaches.
On Sunday morning we are going to start off with Will Saluzzo from Prevost Car and he is going to teach us how to navigate the Prevost Car web site to answer any questions we might have regarding our coaches, how to operate them, maintain them and pull up every piece of information we could ever want specific to our particular VIN.
Later on Sunday we are going to address tires and for certain discuss the issues with 365 tires. The presenters will be Steve Smith from TDI who was with us last year and he will be joined by Chris Burris from Michelin.
Included in the seminar will be topics such as pre-trip inspections, driving the coach and understanding what is “normal” for your coach in terms of temps, pressures, etc.
We are going to provide basic overviews of the electrical systems, both house and chassis and power management for those systems.
Maintenance requirements for the coach will be discussed and how to track the complex maintenance schedules will be covered.
Common problems are going to be identified and how to cope with or make repairs to those problems is going to be a valuable topic. Time permitting we will work in discussions about spares, tools, and of course we will always answer any and all questions throughout the seminar, at meals or when we are relaxing in the evenings. This seminar is for you and when you come away you are going to be a lot more confident in your coach and your understanding of it.
The entire seminar will be available as a take away on a thumb drive and all the links and resources will be available on the thumb drive.
Do not miss this seminar. Register or pay now because spaces are limited and only a few are left.
Tom said for $10 he will let all attendees look at the outside of his new coach. We will waive that fee if you sign up by tomorrow.
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Correct. And they are stainless steel, polished.
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Every truck fuel tank I have seen has been a metal tank, either steel or aluminum. The tank in my Preovst is plastic and I would never pressurize it. Jon is right, it could get real interesting, really fast.
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A relay is a relay is a relay. What you need is a relay with a coil of the correct voltage, and contacts that will allow the relay switching action you need. It must be properly rated for the current draw and type of duty cycle, such as continuous or intermittent.
When I seek parts the internet is my friend in the respect that I start by doing a google search for the manufacturer and part number. You may not get the same brand relay but some company may be offering a direct replacement.
Otherwise you have to search based on the criteria I listed above.
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That’s Awesome Tom!
Great coaches are “hard to come by”!
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This scenario should be instructional to both buyers and sellers.
From a buyers perspective the speed with which this sale happened shows two very important things. Buyers in the hunt need to do their homework in preparation for a purchase of a coach. Start with zeroing in on the specific model, model year, converter, price range, and what features are important. Be very well educated so if and when a good coach with the right boxes checked off appears, and it has a good service history, and it is in the price range as a buyer you can jump on the deal. Well maintained and correctly priced coaches will never last long and any buyer that hesitates is going to lose an opportunity.
The second thing is to avoid hesitancy by looking at as many coaches as possible, lining up financing if required, and generally being able to react very quickly with no hesitation. We all have our hot buttons and some won’t buy a coach unless it is dirt cheap, others won’t buy because it doesn’t have the right colors, others will not buy unless the coach is perfect. Regardless of what will motivate you to buy a coach, make sure you have done your homework because the worst thing possible is to not know what you are buying. The more you as a buyer have learned the more likely you are going to recognize the coach that fills your wish list.
A seller has to educate himself in much the same way to evaluate the market. He has to be realistic about the coach, its features, its condition and its service history and know how to price the coach. Buying and selling may be an emotional thing, but just because a coach has been a family member for a long time the seller does not set the value, the market does. If a coach is overpriced, it sits on the market for a long time and then gets the stigma that it is presumed to have something wrong.
To enhance the value clean it up and empty it out. A dirty or cluttered coach will not do anything but prove to a buyer it just was not well cared for, even if it was. If you are going to take photos look at them and compare them to how the professionals stage a coach for its photos. There are not dirty clothes on the floor, or bays full of crap. Make it sparkle and use a nice bed spread, do a nice table setting, and take the time to get good quality photos because you are competing against a whole lot of other sellers. Dirty tires, corroded wheels, stained carpets, greasy engines, and other signs of neglect are going to have an impact on price and buyer interest.
If the coach is well maintained and you say it is well maintained, prove it. Do whatever you can do to produce the records that show continuous scheduled maintenance. If there are none available and you cannot get copies of the records a buyer is well justified in viewing the coach as one without a good service history and as a seller you are going to take a serious hit on price or you are going to have to wait for the rare buyer who might rely on your word.
Tom and the buyer both appeared to have done everything right and congratulations to both. I know the coach and I can tell anyone willing to listen that it is a great coach and it has been properly cared for.
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We saw this solid color Xl2 a couple years ago in Kentucky. It shows the true beauty of the design lines of the model without all of the additional visual distractions. I sat in the co pilots seat and marveled at its beauty in the rain. Painting the stainless is sacriledge in my opinion.