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Nicehobbits

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About Nicehobbits

  • Birthday 04/01/1972

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  • My Toyota Motorhome
    1990 dolphin ... New to us this year .. 95k miles .. Bought at cranky ape internet auction site for awesome price .
    Bonnie the toyota now lives in Canada
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    Manitoba Canada

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    Male
  • Interests
    Travel & More Travel ....
    Plus doing what I can to bring a end to childhood cancer

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  1. Music was Completely random John ... It was the first free download I found!
  2. Hey Corbin Sure is a great drive !!!!
  3. telluride ..... your paint job is awesome ... did u do it yourself ?
  4. Rollin with Bert ... Movie San Carlos coast .. Mexico
  5. Hey Forrest ... Go 4 it bro ... Toyota is the way yo go ... Sure folks have other units , but it depends on what you want & how much cash y'all got ... We run 89 Dolphin .. 3.0 V6 ... Auto with O/D ... All the power you could ever need ... We roll the road in Bert the Toyota ... myself the old lady & 2 kids 6&9 .... All kinds of room & we trip in the winter & run from Canada to Mainland Mexico for 3-4 months & run up approx 6500k miles .. Ave mpg 15 . We just sold our Class A ... We have not used it since Bert joined the family .
  6. P-man ... Let's see this lovely new set of wheels ya got ... Give her a name already lol !! Enjoy your toy ..
  7. Too big boat ... Not sure how you may have read that we flushed the transmission . But here goes . This is what I said " Transmission we drained & filled 3 times before we left & 1 more time at our half way stage in Mexico " ... So ... Let's say your transmission holds 12 liters of oil !! .. You unscrew the drain plug under the tranny sump & catch all the oil that drains out , I use a 1 gallon used clean dry milk plastic jug , it will not over flow , once it's finished dripping , make a note on the side of the milk jug , fill a 2nd jug with the same level amount of new oil .. Screw in the sump plug .. Then pour into the tranny fill tube ... Run the rig for 2-3 hundred miles .. Then do the same all over again .. Do it 3-4 times & you will have diluted them 12 liters into nice juicy new tranny oil ... Takes me less than 10 mins to complete a drain & fill .... Little toys trannys work real hard ... Nice fresh blood/oil transfusions are essential .... Cheep too . I'm in Canada & today I was talking to a rv dealer in the US about a class C motorhome & he was telling me he has 4 customers waiting for a Toyota to come up ... I know why I told him lol !!
  8. Love road trips Bob ..... Family time brother ! . Rear view of Bert the Toyota ... Coastline on the West side mainland of Mexico , sea of Cortez ... Stopping for gas at a Pemex in Mexico .... 1990 Toyota Dolphin 3.0 V6 ....
  9. From the start of our trip ... Mileage from start of trip to the Mexico border = 2408 miles ... Gas $595 ....190 gallons .. Gas ranged from 2.68 low to 3.39 high per gallon . This was just the 1st leg of our trip ... But easy to see how the Toyota did on a long trip . Average of 12.67 mpg .
  10. Hey Linda ... I sure wish I could win the Loto lol ... I'd share with ya ... Not sure how much ya traveled yourself but this Toyota is tough I do not see it as over loaded in anyway , handled very well , pulled great , never a problem braking , roads in Mexico can be a little rough in places , Topes ( speed bumps ) are the big surprise most days when you don't see them .. I've traveled the world in all kinds & sure wish I had this Toyota on some previous trips .. You got it right with the kids ... Fresh blood in a tranny is always the key . Riverman Pete .. As we have been traveling so many miles & days & as you know with a Toyota & the small tank you get to stop for gas many times ... So we played around with it on many occasions ,, speed,, overdrive ,, using Cruzzzing control ,, not using ,, full water & holding tanks .. Empty ... Motor scooter loaded .. Not loaded ... Speed as you asked was changed too ... But the best mileage was achieved in warmer conditions holding 55-60 mph ... On one stretch from Flagstaff AZ to Santa Fe NM we 14.1 mpg with regular gas & fully loaded ... All math done with fill up to fill up noting gas tank completely full to spilling over ... Noting gallons used & miles driven . I've had a pile of RVs & all kinds of trucks to travel in ... I read lots about the little Toyotas , folks still saying they won't get you up a big mountain , they week , ... Sure I guess there is other units on the road that get you from A-B a bit faster & you get to carry more crap ... & I have one of them sitting in my yard ! But bought the dolphin to get us to Mexico & more over just for the hell of it . They get great mileage sitting in your yard ... I like to drive them ... I would not hesitate to drive it 20k miles next trip . You never get to overtake too many other things on the highway ... But I'm never in that much of a rush lol . Get your Toyotas out this summer & hit the road !!!
  11. Just returned home to Canada after a road trip ! Rig was our 1990 Toyota Dolphin ... Mum & Dad & 2 kids ... Fully loaded inc roof storage , 2 kayaks , motor scooter ... Left Manitoba Canada mid December , traveled the USA & Mainland Mexico 6,500 miles round trip .. Bert the Dolphin never never let us down , it is the most dynamic rig on the road for this type of adventure . The motor turned 100k miles on the way home , we ran 5w30 full synthetic oil & it did not used a single drop . Transmission we drained & filled 3 times before we left & 1 more time at our half way stage in Mexico . Ran regular unleaded gas & mileage varied from a high of 17mpg to 11mpg into a all day head wind in New Mexico ... On a real good test from Phoenix Arizona north to Flagstaff climbing 6500ft fully loaded , full fresh water tank but empty grey/black tanks we got 13.6 mpg ... & never got more than warm . We bought this Toyota for this trip only ... But I can say to all I doubt we will ever sell it now .... Bert is now one of the family ,, kinda like a older child to say . He was our home for 92 nights ...
  12. Thanks Linda .. That rig is Awesome in the link ... I'm hooked now on a slide now ... I think the only reason hardly any had slides was simply just that ... Not many rv builders used slides at that time ... My toys gona be one sweet rig
  13. Oops I forgot to say .. We have a 34ft class A ! .... But Luv our toy ! ... Had 6 RVs in the last 2 years , truck camper , C class , B class , 36ft 5th wheel , A classes .... But I can tell ya the little Toyota has given us more happiness than any of them ... Bought just for our trip to Mexico , but Is now a part of the family ! .
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