Gerald
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Tom forgot to include my coach, fresh back from ETLC. Sitting on ramps for Auto-Fest.
Trying to bust Jeff’s chops, Tom. All has been well, but had a low speed sensor failure on the tranny as I started out to auto-fest. Got all the way up to about 6 MPH and low gear locked. Tried the work around to no avail. Also threw a bad solenoid code, so back home at a blazing 6 MPH and up on ramps. Allison service supposed to be here Wednesday. Being only 25 minutes from auto-fest, we drove the car over to harrass Tom, Jon … well, I could continue to list people, but really just wanted to see Di and Jon happened to be there.
Ah, the pleasures of bus ownership.
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Booked a spot yesterday as we will be on our return leg from our south western trip. Looking forward to meeting all.
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Tom
i see your shower is not polished brass. Did you paint it nickel or did it come that way? Reason for asking is that we want to change to a venetian bronze
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Thank you Rudy, I was not aware of a monthly exercise routine of the Webasto either. It will be done now.
Mark
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Miller placed us with Nationwide. In September 2016 during our mandated diesel emissions test, damage to our exhaust system occurred. Nationwide adjuster gave us two locations choices for repair: Mira Loma or Dallas. We chose Mira Loma. Deal done. To replace muffler and melted tipped radiator fan blade, Prevost had to pull radiator. Our adjuster didn’t want anyone else to touch the bus.
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I am not a Prevost owner yet but I remember others say the A/C will cause a fan to engage.
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Les,
I have the Coleman and it is super quiet both inside and outside. It is very efficient. A 2 ton unit with an additional fan booster if needed. Heat pump works well as well as the additional webasto (Aquahot) heat. See me at West Palm and we will go look at it.
Fred
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Most lessons get learned the hard way. Had to order Delco batteries, (which is what Prevost had put in them originally); no one local seems to stock more than one. Going to lose the charger altogether. Will consider the DDEC switch if I have to store it in the future. Thanks again all.
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Andy, I assume you realize polishing slack adjusters is not on my agenda, but was a tongue in cheek way of saying when we are in the bus it is to bring us to new places to visit and explore as an alternative to sitting in the bus watching TV.
Unless I am really in trouble I will not work on the bus when we travel and it is used to bring us to new places as opposed to just carrying us to a new place to watch TV.
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Charles are you still up by Ocala? We’re in Lady Lake. You have under taken a few projects I’m considering. Wonder if you have any time for us to stop by and ask a few questions. Thanks, Don—dwsjr169@gmail.com
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Andre…the insulation on the door of the generator compartment was like yours….leaving a pile of foam dust as it disintergrated and falling off the door. After removing the old and cleaning the surface, I replaced it with this:
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also, not knowing how long the fuse has been blown, I have been using my load lights for lighting and door light over the past month. So that could be the “phantom” drain that has been brought up. If it was something more then that, I would suspect the batteries would be much more drained then down to 10.xV.
Still questioning why the charger “Ready” light was green. I would suspect that both the green and red lights would have been out on that side of the charger.
Will check the charge tomorrow and Friday morning and if it gets to an expected level, will run the coach and let it run for a while. Hopefully this is the issue as I don’t have time to go beyond my diagnosis after Friday morning, for a while.
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This appeared in the Washington Post today and relates to electric vehicles. While this is not a good thing for mechanics, it could mean fewer trips to the shop for consumers.
As a wave of electric vehicles quickly approaches, experts say, it could wash away a large portion of a skilled labor group that has been around for decades: the neighborhood auto mechanic.
The U.S. auto repair industry employs about 750,000 workers, nearly four times the number of people employed by the coal-mining industry. Though they are increasingly skilled and tech-savvy, many experts say, they are not prepared for the end of gas-powered transportation.
Back to the conversation about autonomous driving enhancements, having owned multiple generations of vehicles with adaptive cruise control, I can say that based on the manufacturer, there have been some notable improvements in just the past few years. In 2015 I owned an Infiniti QX that used a system that I’ll categorize as garbage. I traded for a Hyundai Equus and it was reliable. I’m driving a new Volvo XC-90 and it includes not only an advanced adaptive cruise control, it has an auto-steering feature that, while not perfect, it’s pretty good. It differs between lane keeping assistance features by using cameras to keep the SUV between the lines and actually steers the vehicle…some systems use individual braking to keep the vehicle within the lane. Does it work in every scenario? Nope. But it won’t activate unless the conditions are favorable and alerts the driver when it can’t be used.
In remote areas, fully autonomous vehicles are currently in testing on remote stretches of highways. With Tesla’s recent announcement, I have no doubt that every truck and motorhome manufacturer are now exploring how to incorporate these enhanced safety features along with electric motors into their offerings. I am looking forward to the day when these systems are smart enough to reduce the “pucker factor” of navigating over a tight bridge that only has a few inches of clearance on each side.
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I have to say that I do embrace the new technology.
The new MKX has ‘lane control’ as it will help me stay in my lane (if needed). You certainly can override it by tugging on the wheel and it can be turned off.
I wanted to test it recently and I took my hands off the steering wheel so that the car could slowly veer towards the fog line. A warning came up, ‘please keep your hands on the steering wheel’.
The ‘lane control’ feature is nice because on dark roads in the rain, the sensors can see the lines where I might not.
Another feature I like is that the bumper sensors can ‘sense’ a couple a hundred feet on either side. If I’m in a parking lot, it will sense a car coming down the lane and warn me. I do like the extra set of ‘eyes’.
Safe travels,
Mark
