Don
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If i had a 05 liberty elegant lady that had to have the cruise airs replaced with roof air units. Personally it would have to be installed to look like factory installed equipment, also i would want to keep crestron control functions of the breakers as well as maybe add thermostat control functions. IMO to do it right i would pull the ceiling down and duct it then reinstall or rebuild the old celing to fit. i would also program the crestron system to have at a minimum the same functions as it currently has or add additional functions. At that point unless i was completely stuck on having that specific coach or an 05 liberty specifically It may be more cost effective to change to a different converter that used roof airs during that year range or go to a newer liberty that came factory equip.
Every person has their own opinion as well as a different way to do it.
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CA, and possibly other states are on a mission to clean up the environment. In their wisdom they are picking on easy targets, which are older vehicles. The targets are easy because there are so few, yet politicians can brag about being environment friendly by supporting regulations and legislation that imposes standards.
Some of those standards exceed the standards that applied when the vehicles were manufactured. Testing to the standards is a given. Even if the test criteria is the same as when the vehicle was produced the cost to comply as a result of age, modifications, lack of maintenance may be sufficient to effectively price the vehicle off the road. What is absent from all discussions is the cost to benefit ratio. Since vintage vehicles represent a small percentage of vehicles, and their use is likely way below average the impact on cleaning up the environment is likely minimum, if any but its effect on what is primarily a hobbyist is considerable.
With that my suggestion is for interested groups to band with the purpose of promoting reasonable laws and regulations that do not economically punish vintage vehicle owners disproportionately.
The camel has its nose in the tent and with each passing day what you view as merely a pesky issue will blossom into an expense or legislation to cause the scrapping of older vehicles. At one time your bus met every requirement for emissions. Now you are going to pay to prove it, and as time passes you may find new requirements you do not meet, causing its value to drop below the cost to meet those requirements.
I do not live in CA or a state targeting vintage vehicle emissions so I do not care what Californians do, but the politicians are creating new legislature daily taking away your freedoms to drive and use what you choose and it is a clear signal doing nothing is going to have a negative result.
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I live here in California and am monitoring this, as I yawn. There is no reason to worry, as it is usually the CA bashers that live outside the state that are the experts on this subject. Keep on trucking folks, and don’t let anyone steal your dream.
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I have heard that it is MUCH higher, so hence why I was asking. I would guess well north of $50K, if not $75K. Depending on whether it is a H or X.
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IMO most don’t care because it is not that big of a deal.
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