Considering a Newell or Prevost

[michaeldterry]

There is an 03 double slide with 6 bunks on that site and it may be the one.

He sure found the right place for what he was looking for. Really a wide variety of stuff at that local.

Looks like it would be a fun place to work

Joe - which site?

[Joe Cannarozzi]

www.busforsale.com is I think where he said they ended up.

I'm guessin he bought "Tumbling Dice"

I miss the way more used to name there stuff.

[michaeldterry]

www.busforsale.com is I think where he said they ended up.

I'm guessin he bought "Tumbling Dice"

I miss the way more used to name there stuff.

busforsale.com is a class act - top to bottom. I bought an Eagle entertainer conversion through them about 10 years ago and even resold the same bus there a few years later. John Spellings,the founder and owner, is one of the nicest and most experienced guys in the bus business. He has a great group of professionals working for him and all are truly "bus people."

Vita and I intended to buy our next (current) bus through John and shopped there regularly for several months - always treated more like family than "customers". However, when I happened on "the one", it was being offered by an RV dealer in London, KY and Vita & I agreed that it was the one we wanted. Maybe one day I'll see another bus at busforsale.com that I just can't do without and will buy from them again. For now, I'm still in love with the Prevost that I have and hope that the day that I start "jonesing" for another bus is far in the future - if ever!

As for naming the bus - we really want to give our bus a name! I just have not been able to come up with one that seems to fit yet! My heart says that a bus is like a magnificent woman, and for that reason I tend to lean toward feminine (women's) names. Perhaps I'm needlessly limiting my choices? I don't know - naming is such an emotional thing....

[JIM CHALOUPKA]

Michael, how about "Heart Beat". You know Drums and Love,

JIM

[michaeldterry]

Michael, how about "Heart Beat". You know Drums and Love,

JIM

Jim - thanks for the suggestion! I'll run it past "the boss" tonight and see if it flies.

We're taking some family in the bus to the Georgia Renaissance Festival this weekend! Turkey legs, shows, lusty wenches in period dress - a good time will be had by all!

[GDeen]

Looked at http://www.busforsale.com/ tonight and there is a picture of Bob Stretch (Fixrim) standing in front of the "Fiddleback Bus." Looks like a great ride for your big family.

OTR air and 5 roof airs! Holy crap you guys won't worry about getting hot in that coach!

Congrats.

[fixrim]

Yeah that's me.

We picked up the coach a couple of weeks ago, took it on a maiden voyage this last weekend. On the way back from Nashville I realized it had a 72mph limiter in it, so I had that removed. WOW, what a difference, it drives like a car and I find I have to let off the throttle a lot or my speed creeps way up. Feels like these thing could cruise at 90 or 100mph and be perfectly fine, though I am sure that is a little unsafe!

The guys at busforsale.com were very nice, but their inspection missed a few things. A defective water pump, valves stuck, aquahot with a big leak. I think this coach suffered from sitting too long not in use. Minor repairs and I can't complain, I bought it as is and expected to have to do a few things.

I have a couple of tech questions however, not sure if anyone can help. The inverter seems to only come on after I hit the battery merge button, like it has to be "shocked" into coming on. Most times will not invert, takes minutes to hours to start inverting, and is inconsistent. It is a xantrax unit. I would prefer not to run the genset while driving, but that is exactly what we have had to do. The water pump is a headhunter mach5 110v unit, makes great pressure, but goes into fault mode after about 2 minutes unless the water is always running. Any advice on that issue? And lastly we have a Catcon tank level system which appears defective. I have called catcon but they are either out of business or won't return my calls.

I also am on the hunt for a stacker. I called Prevost and they claimed 20,000 lbs of trailer is no problem for an XLII. I hope they are right, my trailer will end up in the 14,000 range.


Also anyone know about an aquahot? Is it also my hot water heater> If so it does not supply constant hot water, rather, we run out after a few minutes. Fine for people who take regular showers but I like longer ones and am wondering what to do here..

As for the Newell vs Prevost, well, the ride in the Prevost is nothing short of amazing.
Oh and one last thing, I was totally unprepared for an insurance bill that is FOUR times what it costs to insure my Renegade! Is this normal?

Thanks in advance everyone for all the help

[tdelorme]

Bob, below are a couple of links to get you started on your issues. You don't say who you insured the bus with, but Explorer is a company that a lot of bus owners use. I'm not kidding when I say they will be one third the cost of Foremost or other regular RV insurance outfits. The Prevostman link is a ton of info put together by one of our members who is in the witness protection program. There are other helpful links on the POG home page under "articles," including a complete manual for your Aquahot.
Click on the red bus in the upper left hand corner to go there. Just take um one at a time and you will get a handle on all problems.

http://www.prevostownersgroup.com/pu...3021&publicati

http://www.prevoman.com/index.html

[Joe Cannarozzi]

Who is the converter and did you get house manuals with the bus? You have just 1 large inverter not 2? Does the inverter still function as a battery charger?

Does aqua-hot have and electric heat source as well as the "heat exchanger", anybody?

If you want true continuous on demand hot water I think you need natural gas or propane but I could be wrong.

You are going to make a good test platform for this issue with your 5 children and wife. Have you thought about a second bathroom in the stacker

[phorner]

Joe,

On our old coach, we had Aqua Hot heating and it did have an electric heating element that could be used in addition to or instead of the diesel fired heat.

When running both, it pretty much was continuous hot water.....

Lots of looooong hot showers