Liam
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Has to be on your end, site is working properly.
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Its difficult to say “never” about many things.
After see pictures of Prevost coaches with the outside skin stripped off (unit being scrapped out) and seeing raw shells at the RV and Prevost Expos where you can easily see the structure of the coach, its very clear to me that Prevost chassis is a “cage”, much like a NASCAR stock car. Somewhere I’ve seen a Prevost coach rolled down an incline and the coach is intact.
I don’t know how other large Class A diesel pushers are built, but I’ve seen the bare chassis at the RV show in Florida. Appears everything is built above the frame.
I’ve attached pictures below from an accident in North Carolina that occurred around April 9, 2021. Its my understanding the two occupants were killed and the RV was NOT a Prevost. It appears from the pictures that most everything from the frame up is gone.
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How about if the rest of the 4643 of us say “wasnt me” and Jon can figure it out by process of elimination. Ill start. Wasnt me.
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10 days ago mine passed on to the scrap heap and I bought 4 napa batteries because we were stranded at campground 1420 my luck.Napa did deliver batteries to our campsite and picked up old ones no start to back running in 2 hrs.All good
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Yesterday, after 154 days without a road trip, we took the bus around the block for a spin. We took the interstate route by way of Columbus to Der Dutchmen in Plain City, Ohio and shut down for lunch and rest.
I stopped twice on the way to check wheel temps and look things over. All good.
We drove back through Dayton and pulled into home after 200 miles total.
There did not seem to be any fuel issues at all. The Anti Skid light stayed on all the way up, but was off when I restarted to drive home.
Thank you for the help.
Davy
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I’m not the one downsizing. We have a number of senior citizens on PC that traded in their Prevost coaches to get SOBs and as those folks age even more the horse drawn RV is clearly in their future.
The end result is obvious. As these old farts age their ability to remember how to get home diminishes, so dobbin becomes their living, breathing, fertilizer making GPS.
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- Don’t forget the hundreds of thousands of 18 wheels lots of parts available.
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I am not going to share emails with inspection advice to members because we discuss some things best kept from public view, but I want to amend something Dick suggests as my advice.
I am steadfast in urging buyers to use Prevost for chassis inspection, and the engine / transmission dealers to review coach history and codes. But the best inspector of the conversion is the buyer because the buyer is not going to make assumptions. By systematically pushing every button, turning every knob and otherwise operating every device, system and appliance that inspection if complete shows what works, and how and the inspection also becomes the training.
When an inspector (not a buyer) goes through the conversion the buyer loses the opportunity to get the detailed training.
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Michelin has an excellent manual specific to tires for commercial use. It is almost 300 pages long and it covers 100% of what is needed to know.
It makes two points strongly. The first is they only suggest mild soap and water to be used on tires. If there was a good protectant or tire dressing you can bet the farm Michelin would be selling that to people that want pretty tires under their brand name. They have millions of tires on cars, trucks and buses and could add a lot of money to their bottom line by selling that.
I had BFGoodrich de-icing boots on my plane and BFG sold protectants that extended the life of the boots as well as making them look nice and shiny. The same could be done for tires, but nobody that makes tires that I know of sells anything so despite claims to the contrary my gut tells me soap and water is the limit for tires.
As to tire covers, I am certain it makes people that use them feel good. But the best thing to do is use the tires because driving on them releases the compounds that resist the effects of aging. But if you cannot drive regularly the next best thing is to treat the tires as they are in storage in a tire warehouse. Get the weight off the tires by supporting the chassis and dumping the air in the level low system. That will not resist cracking, but it will minimize flat spotting.
Read the Michelin book. It is incredible.
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Don’t mess with just any chemicals unless you know for sure they are for aluminum. Unless you want to turn a problem into a disaster.
Acids as Rudy suggests have an ability to eat aluminum like it was a snack. Just because it works on steel means nothing relating to aluminum.
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One serious problem with coach listings is the intentional continuance of a listing for a coach that has been sold.
When a private individual sells a coach the best way to stop unwanted phone calls is to insure the listings are deleted. But when a commercial seller sells a coach letting the listing remain means there are more ads with the seller’s name on them. That in turn gets folks calling the converter, broker or dealer who then has the ability to get that potential buyer’s contact information into their list of possible customers.
Sometimes the end result is a coach that does not sell is wholesaled to another broker or dealer and now the coach is listed on line at two or even more locations.
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That is exactly what I was going to do when I get home!
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mine has broken a few times you will wonder what happened I put a valve in front of seat under slide control now just reach down turn of valve till next stop
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We booked online. After a great time in Driggs for the last Eclipse we look forward to attending. Thanks for getting this going Dan.
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I know this is an old thread, but I was unable to get my recently purchased tow vehicle brake lights to operate, and found the solution, so I wanted to post for other towing newbies or fellow Liberty owners of similar vintage.
My turn signals functioned properly on the toad, but no tow car brake lights. I had tested the pins on the coach, and I had power at the trailer brake pin when applying brakes, but nothing at the right or left turn/stop light pin. After doing a bunch of online searching, I saw the reference to a switch in the coach for Amber Turn Signals or Red Turn Signals. This morning, I went searching for that…I looked in the electrical box above the engine on my 2002 Liberty XLII…nothing. A couple hours later, I tried tracing the wires from the trailer plug, and I noticed a box with a switch on the ceiling of the engine bay. A little cleaning, and it revealed the Amber/Red Turn Signal switch label. So, I hooked up the tow vehicle umbilical cord, flipped the switch to “Red Turn Signal” and we were in business! I’m attaching (or, at least, trying to attach) a photo of the unit on the engine bay ceiling.