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OFDPOS

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  1. Dang even the aftermarket shops around here cheapest labor rate is $90 , guys working out of their home garage want $50 +.. Went to three different shops to get a quote on a front brake job done on my 08 Chev Z71 4X4. cheapest quote was $275 to turn rotors and new pads (rotors just slip off, No taking front hub apart /bearings pack) Then when I took it in for an oil change at the Chevy dealership (I just don't trust jiffy-lube wally world etc places to change the oil) I asked my service writer to let me know how much using factory pads, not parts house cheap pads.. he quoted $215 plus tax. When I came in to pick the truck up total price for oil change and brake job $235.08 even got the tires rotated and rear brakes checked /adjusted and a nice wash on the truck as well... I think I got lucky and found the needle in the hay stack on this one ! It is nice doing the work yourself IF you can , but some of us either don't have all the right tools or health reasons like me back surgery and still on the mend.
  2. Funny you mention that , we were out for a drive one Sunday afternoon and it was getting late , so the Mrs tries shorter route ? on the Garmin , so we take the next left it turns into a dirt road with in 1/4 mile thinking ok it will take us over the hill instead around it. approx 5 miles later we are all but scraping the sides of the Toy FJ were in along the road and at one time thought we heard Banjo's playing !! . Next thing ya know we pop back out on the road we turned off not more than 50 yards from we started .. Yeah we now call our Garmin the yyyy ... lol
  3. Too Funny lol I haven't been on for awhile, just lurking all the sites ... Must be the Winter Time Blues !! Can't get out and do anything ?
  4. Yes what 05toyota said most often it is like that... I know the GS one we bought the chassis is an 00 but the coach is an 01 and it is (DMV) registered as an 01.
  5. Hope this was the right place to post this ? Ok quick lesson I learned the hard way when I got my license and my first vehicle... I didn't know that you should "only" use car wash soap to wash your car. There I was every Sat. morning washing my mini Toy truck , then dry it all off to spend another 3 hours hand waxing it from bumper to bumper ,man you could toss the towell on the hood and it would just slide right off it was so smooth and glossy. Armerall the tires, polish everything up nice for Sat night cruise, Yeah I'm looking fine !! lol So next Sat morning rolls around I wash the truck , dang its not smooth and glossy what the heck cheap wax ??? Nope ! next door old fart neighbor, apparently I was his entertainment on Saturday mornings, he would sit out on his porch drinking coffee and watch me do the whole thing. Finally after a month or so of watching me wash , dry , then scratch my head and do the wax job all over again he wondered on over to my driveway and asked "did I know why my wax job wasn't lasting longer than a week" I said no !, I was using expensive wax (to a 16 year old $10 for a bottle of wax is very very expensive lol ) He had saw what soap I was putting into the bucket , Dawn Dish soap. (Now this was way before any commercials about oil spills now so don't go there lol ) He gave a life lesson on (well to a 16 yr old) the basics of what to use to wash your car and why . He said there was a reason why there is DISH soap and CAR wash soap... I had no idea I was basically stripping the wax off every time I washed my truck when I used the (Dawn) Dish soap . After that I only bought CAR wash soap, and ya know what the wax lasted ALOT longer lol Turned out to be great neighbor I learned alot from that old fart , I miss talking with him to this day... SO now to my question ; What do you use to wash your MH especially now that most of the sides are gel-coat fiberglass... Do you use the marine/rv wash soap thats on the market ? or do you just use the standard CAR wash soaps ? I've used Meguiers car wash for many years on my cars and trucks, but now with the motorhome having the fiberglass sides bigger than the front end ! Should I be looking at the marine/rv wash or just use car wash soap ?? Sorry for the lengthy post , but thought a few would get a chuckle and kinda explain why I'm asking...
  6. True they are out there , but as usual I'm always a day late or a dollar short ...
  7. I learned a new word today ; Smarmy And here I thought I was going to just learn something about batteries ...
  8. Thanks , I hope we do ! Now that we got the MH now its the take a few over nighters then when June hits we want to drive back to the East coast . I've never been further East than Sturgis SD which ain't far lol. Just always stayed over here on the West from Washington North to Arizona South, and a few other states Nevada , Colorado, Utah, New Mexico. Went to Sturgis in 05 , but that was a straight 24hrs drive there the 22hrs drive back, didn't have time to stop and see the scenery , this time around will have the time to stop and enjoy it
  9. Well we went and looked at three other toy MH's and maybe I'm just too picky or ? But these were not even close to what the sellers were saying they were. So we went and looked at some Class B van types and other Mh's private and well they weren't much better . SOO went to probably at least 8 MH's dealers and looked and drove and looked and drove lol wound up buying an 01 Gulfstream chevy power 22ft Class C with 33K miles , cleanest one we had seen 36 hrs on the generac 4800 ... Can't wait now long Thanksgiving weekend coming up !!
  10. Yeah it has the ford 460 , I now what ya mean by more maintenance ,thats a major thing holding me back on it. The pictures look like its clean , but so has alot of the others lol. Will definitely have to look it over good !
  11. In his email ,( blanket email mine and at least 10 others) , he commented $10k is lowest he'll go , he'll keep it if he doesn't get that price... At that price I've been looking at bigger MH's Found a 94 Fleetwood up North Ca. Redding with 49k miles on it , we are going to go look at it Sat. morning they are asking $11,300. for it, but just talking on the phone earlier with the guy he sounded the price was somewhat flexible ... The guy said he would even rent it to us for a weekend and try it out , if we didn't like it it would only be $125 a day to rent it , if we liked it and bought it we would just pay our agreed upon selling price... Thought that was pretty decent...
  12. Here are the picks from the Sunrader CL http://s305.beta.pho...lbum_view_click It does look nice , ... Funny tho , he has emailed this to me twice now...
  13. Yes in his email he sent an attachment of photos, but they were like all other photos where they show the big picture, not close ups of certain areas. You know the typical across the street full photo of the rig, look at the rear bath photo that was taken up front by the overhead bed to just the reverse photo of the over head bed taken from the rear bath etc lol I have seen so many adds with the photos attached and 1. If I ask for detail photos I get the silent pause on the phone, then some excuse about not being able to. 2. When I bring up the typical concerns, tires, leaks, timing chain/belt their attitude changes real fast. 3. When I do go look at them, they are NOT what they described ...
  14. I emailed the guy and finally got an email back from him He sent out a blanket email because there was a list of other emails along with mine .. Says he's asking $11K for it ...
  15. Got this email today It's been sold,thanks for the interest .....
  16. Cowl was the word I was looking for not valence thanks WME
  17. Like Totem said , open the door and look around , do you have somebody that can run a garden hose over the windshield / valence area and get down under the dash and see if you can see where the water is coming form. Start out with a trickle then slowly turn the pressure up if need be , don't go in with the water turned on full blast.. Basically that is what the body shop will do after they snoop around and not see anything obvious.. And just a thought on Carfax , I wouldn't put to much trust in that .. Yeah anytime something happens over a certain dollar amount it is suppose to be reported. Just like anytime you purchase something your suppose to pay tax on it , there are always a way around it... I've been to dealerships and looked at vehicles and while the salesman brings out a clean Carfax I'm pointing out a painted fender/ hood/roof etc... Obvious damage, the vehicle had been in some kind of ?
  18. I guess to reply back would be to say , see my post #1 last line "Are there any decent ones left?" thread
  19. FIRST OFF I'm sorry for hacking the OP ! I did ask him since he seemed to have moved on and not want the one he was asking about , I thought I'd ask where it was. Haven't heard back.. Didn't mean to start a oh yeah well I get """" We all have our stories and comments , I know back in 92 I bought Honda Prelude, I believe the sticker said something like 18 city 24 hwy ? I had a 3 day weekend before I started a new job , so we left Chico Ca. went up to Redding over 299 to Eureka spent the night, then on up 101 then cut over to that drive through Safari in Oregon , (drove through it in their vehicle by the way lol) on over to I-5 back down to Chico over all averaged 31mpg... Never got that kind of mileage again ???? lol My brother bought a hyundai sonata a few months back, swore up and down he got 50mpg the first tank full, bragged on an on about it, now he barely gets 35mpg
  20. That sounds exactly like the scam one that was listed here in the Sacramento CL when I emailed them , well I actually posted the reply on my post Any decent ones left...
  21. You would think with the news media crying how bad the economy is etc that it would be a buyers market on just about anything ! But on just about everything I look at they are very proud of their product or whatever they are selling. Its just my Fiancee and myself now , her son is in college and out of the house , I have no kids of my own . I drive an 08 Chev Z71 4X4 and she drives a Toy FJ 4X4 both barely get 15 mpg . So we were in the market to find a small convertible car to putt around in and weekend get aways. We started looking at used Mazda miatas , private party ones were really pieces of %$# , started looking at new ones , then started looking the Mini Coopers lurking in some Mini Cooper / Miata forums and read about all the problems the older ones were/are having , so started looking at new ones both local dealerships had the added market proudly taped right next to the MSRP sticker... You can build a Mini to over $40K + real fast !!! So then we started looking at MH's - Toy MH and like the post I started "Are there any decent ones left" I can't find any that are even close to what the owner thinks its worth , a couple just shrugged their shoulders and chuckled when I pointed out the typical dry-rot , mushy floors, cracked non LT rotted tires , badly stained ceilings etc... This passed weekend we went to look at the one rust bucket I posted up on and on our way back we stopped by a RV place they have a 98 Chinook 21ft course my Fiancee fell in love with it , 29K miles on it looked clean, but needed the usual tires replaced . Everything else looked clean , BUT they only wanted $29,750.00 for it. I did the NADA booked it out at $20,803.00 so that was a lost cause , they wouldn't move off the ""No Haggle"" price of $29,750.00 ... Guess we'll just keep on looking....
  22. Thanks for all the feedback. I offered $8,000 but was turned down. The owner says he will probably just keep it. I think he'd go for $9000. Will look for a 1986-89 4 Cylinder with lower miles I guess. ​Out of curiosity , if you are no longer interested in it , where is it located ?
  23. That would be great oh and Nope on the reply ...
  24. I think its one of those to good to be true ones... I have some good friends that live in the Bellingham area, but they are on day 8 of 21 day trip to Italy/Barcelona etc and another about an hour away. So if I get any kind of reply from them hopefully I can get my friend an hour south of there to drive up and check it out...
  25. DON'T use duck tape, you'll just burn it up on the exhaust pipe/muffler. Bailing wire is just that wire that they use to bail hay! lol Local Ace hard ware or for the matter any hard ware store has a small roll of wire, something everybody should have in the tool box, coarse along with Duct Tape .
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