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it's starting to sound like that $60 quote in an earlier post is a reasonable price......
But I hear they give you the "Eunuch Discount" if you show up with a trike.....
This washing coaches thread and our present location reminded me of what happened to a guy last fall here at Texas Motor Speedway.
We were parked facing three newer Prevost that belonged to some people from Missouri who were real special I guess cause they sure didn't have much use of my visiting with um about buses and the such. I'm a quick learner so I quit bothering with them after three or four days and went on to learn more than I ever wanted to know about 5th wheel trailers from the guy next to us. I had told him right off that the fiver never had appealed to me but since I didn't want him thinking about me like I'm thinking about the Prevost Proud people, I was nice and listened and smiled for awhile.
Anyway, here at the racetrack campground they always have a truck or two driving around with a pressure washer and three or four international helpers to wash your camper for a hundred Lewbucks.
One of the PP guys is fixing to go over to the track to watch the race cars practice, and just as he is driving off in his golf car, the wash crew stops and convinces him to let them wash the bus. I don't hear what is said, but I see lots of smiling and head shaking and hand shaking and I can tell Mr. PP is giving some real detailed instructions on how to go about washing a new H3 Prevost bus with as purtty a paint job as you have ever seen.
He goes off and the wash crew gets to work after a bit of trouble getting the pressure washer up and going. There is a lot of talking (hollering actually, cause the pressure washer is a big one and the muffler on the engine is shot to begin with) and waving of arms and taking turns using the wand and changing tips on the wand and its clear that this is the absolute first camper ever to get washed but this crew. Now, I'm sitting there in my own coach watching this taking place right across the campground lane in front of me. It's not long into the washing of the H3 that one of the crew just goes nuts while talking to the guy who has the wand. He is so loud that I really perk up to see what is causing such a stir. Wow, did you all know that a pressure washer can actually take the paint off the side of a coach? I couldn't hardly believe my eyes, but sure enough, that ole boy had found a tip that would remove even the hardest to remove paint on that bus. He had cleaned the paint off about three square feet of the H3 before the head guy saw what was happening.
I'm sure that crew meant to come back and finish washing the bus, but I bet when they saw the Sheriff's car parked there that evening they figured maybe it wouldn't be necessary.
You all be careful who does the washing, please.
Thanks for the story Ted, I enjoyed it. :)
Stories like Ted's and $5 versus $60 is what makes me want to wash my own bus.
Great story. As long as it's not your bus.
The only person I consistently let wash mine is JDUB.
... and he makes it purty.
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At Branson, Jerry, Kevin and I washed my bus and Jerrys in about an hour. Might be a good idea to enlist your neighbor and save some Lew bucks.
Kevin has to be the hands down best bus washing padna you can have. The guy wears his clothes out from the inside; nothing but constant motion.
I think we even scrubbed the top of Gary's coach.....
I am sure I wash my bus the wrong way so I'm going to be taking notes on how you guys do it. I do know that Jon feels adding some liquid nitrogen to his water helps in some way but I'm looking for all the other secrets too.
Miles & Laura Circo
2004 Country Coach XLII 45' D/S No Lexan Shield