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RE: SAMS CLUB GAS
We've been using Sam's Club gas and diesel for years and have never experienced any problems with our vehicle's performance.
Please share the location of the Sam's Club where you've purchased diesel. So far, we haven't found a Sam's Club that sells diesel.
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Oremus
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07/29/08 10:37am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Suicidal cabinet contents.
We weren't sure where to find cargo netting or how to install it in an easily removed manner. And the "curtain rods" don't effectively contain smaller items (spice jars, etc.). So, we used another method to create cabinet "barriers." We had some leftover 3" wide plastic vertical blind vanes and cut those to fit across the cabinets. The vanes are flexible and easily slip behind the cabinet openings' side facings with the vane edges resting on the shelves. This makes 3" high barriers across the cabinet spaces that contain the items. They stay in place on the road, but they can be removed easily to get into the cabinets. I just push against the vanes before removing them, so that nothing falls off the cabinet shelf. Cheap? Yeah, but it works well for us.
Now, our only problems are the cabinet spaces that are too tall for the 3" vanes. We still have an avalanche of tall boxes, etc., when we open those cabinets. :R I'm thinking about attaching heavy duty Velcro on the vanes and and the back of the cabinet facings, so that we can try to "install" additional barriers higher in those cabinets.
Wide plastic vertical blind vanes are available at stores like Home Depot and Lowe's. Or a blind shop might have wide vertical plastic vane remnants that could be put to use instead of thrown away.
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Oremus
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07/28/08 01:16pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: RV BREAK-IN
You can forget bringing the storage yard into accepting ant liability unless they were directly responsible for the break-in. Even the most secure yards are not fool proof and that is why a prudent person has insurance. . . . Forget about a local alarm, put stickers and warning signs on the coach. And don’t leave it at a storage you are not comfortable with. . . . Paul
I agree!! Even after our MH was broken into the second time, the storage facility refused to make any restitution. Four weeks later, the owners still had not corrected the lack of security, stating that the cost was exorbitant . . . $8000 - $10,000. But the owner did raise the monthly fee by an additional $50. Since our MH was (and still is) in the local repair facility (extremely secure), we cancelled our storage contract. When the MH repairs/replacements are completed, we will store it in a friend's fully enclosed, locked barn.
We also removed the registration/insurance documents. When we're finally back on the road, we'll keep those in the safe. We even have trouble getting the safe unlocked. :R :o
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Oremus
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07/09/08 05:42pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: RV BREAK-IN
Welcome to our world. Albuquerque area MH breakins. Guess the creeps finished their "work" in our area and have moved on to your area.
Our MH was broken into and burglarized in Mid-April, and the repairs/replacements still are not completed. Since they broke into our MH twice over a five day period, we get the joy of paying two deductibles. We do have an alarm, but it only works when the entry door is opened. So, they broke the driver side window to bypass the alarm.
The insurance adjustor said these break ins are being done by a ring of creeps that go from state to state. Last count for the Albuquerque area MH breakins was 200. One night, they hit 50 RVs in one storage lot. I told the adjustor that these creeps should be hung from very sensitive "appendages" for days, then put in jail. Do I seem bitter??? :M
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Oremus
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07/08/08 10:48pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Gas theives got my neighbor
In our county if you take copper wire in to sell you have to leave it and your identification is checked. Three days later you can pick up your money. . . .
Great idea!! How do they "check" someone's ID and what info do they "check"?
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Oremus
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07/07/08 11:50pm |
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RE: Campground Neighbors
Again here we go profiling Bikers as a bunch of bearded, tatooed and I believe the other word used as Grizzly to discribe a motorcyclest . . . But profiling is a bad thing. Fact I am trying to convince my wife to let me buy another Harley. A V-Rod!
I agree that "profiling" is a bad thing. But please check out your earlier "profiling" comment: "But I have seen some RVers especially if they have a real expensive coach that they don't want to socialize with a person with a regular motorhome."
We have a coach that most would consider expensive, and we NEVER have a problem socializing with other RVers, whether they're in a big coach or a popup. In fact, we might be the too friendly RV neighbors that some ask for tips to escape. :o
By the way, several of our friends are bikers. One is especially tough looking with tattoos, long hair, beard, etc. He travels with a 2.5lb Chihuahua, named Princess, who has her own leathers, goggles, etc. Believe me, Princess RULES!!! So much for being a tough guy. :W
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Oremus
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06/29/08 11:57pm |
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RE: Revenue Agent Searching for Montana llc's
I've been a law enforcement officer in California for 25 years and I have seen it and it does happen. Military cars with out of state plates also come with military stickers in the windshield. Those are easy to spot.
Are military base stickers still required in CA? They're no longer required at our local bases.
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Oremus
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06/26/08 11:20am |
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RE: Revenue Agent Searching for Montana llc's
You're Arizona case is mixing apples and oranges. The facts of that case are completely different than what the OP described in this thread. You have far more protections in your own home than you do anyplace else. Any entry into your home by law enforcement must be done with a search warrant, with valid consent, or under one of the many exceptions to these rules. You can never have valid consent when there is coersion involved or any otype of threat of arrest.
Personal/private property is personal/private property. So, the principle is the same to me. Such an intrusion, interview, whatever, is not legal without probable cause, a warrant, or as you pointed out, consent. Yes, I have given testimony RE: a witnessed crime and RE: witnessed traffic accidents. But I will not freely participate in violating someone's civil rights, including my own.
As to the OP's original point, we personally would not use a Montana vehicle registration of any type, unless our residence was in Montana. Hey, NM has reasonable RV registration rates plus plenty of nice real estate to purchase . . . I'd even sell my house to help out. :B
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Oremus
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06/26/08 10:42am |
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RE: Revenue Agent Searching for Montana llc's
As a former federal law enforcement officer I think you are way off base on your . . . statements. #1 It would appear that such a rally was open to the public if they were so inclined to participate, therefore it is questionable that it was totally a private event. If the property owner gave permission to the revenue agent to go on the property, other than complain to the property owner, not much the participants could do. #2 No search warrant is required to question someone under any circumstances that I am aware of. No one is required to answer the revenue agent's questions whether he has a search warrant or not. #3 One would have a hard time proving a civil rights violation under the stated circumstances. Again no one is required to respond to any questions posed by the revenue agent but the 5th amendment does not prohibit a law enforcement officer from questioning someone (if the person is a suspect in a criminal case he must be Mirandized before questioning) it merely indicates a person is not required to incriminate him/her self. They can still be questioned, after being given Miranda warnings, if appropriate and agreeing to such questioning. Don't cooperate with the revenue agent if you don't want too, but you are certainly setting yourself up for further scrutiny. Be honest or be quiet.
First of all, we're always honest, and we don't avoid or refuse to pay our taxes, either.
You are correct in repeating my point that no one is obliged to answer any "agent's" questions. But refusing to answer an "agent's" questions doesn't make someone a criminal. We have nothing to hide and we're certainly not criminals, but we actually have refused to answer questions or allow unauthorized inspections of our private property. The response we received was a very polite, "okay, that's your right." There were no problems or "further scrutiny" either.
However, I believe your point #3 may have been proven wrong. In fact, some Phoenix folks recently won a Supreme Court ruling against an Arizona state agency and Sheriff Joe A's office for violation of their 5th Amendment rights. The agents and deputies had no probable cause and no warrant, but they coerced entry onto the citizens' private property by threatening them with arrest . . . even though the citizens were on the phone with their attorney and were explaining their rights to the agent and deputies, asking them to return with a search warrant. The agents and deputies were there, unannounced, because of a vindictive neighbor's (false) accusations. The agents and deputies learned that the neighbor's accusations were false after their coerced "inspection." Hence, the court's ruling against the state agency and sheriff's department. If these citizens had done nothing wrong, why didn't they answer the agents'/deputies' questions and/or allow entry right away. Why should they . . . this the USA, not the Soviet Union!!
Please don't get the wrong impression that I'm anti-police. I have many friends who are LEOs and they agree with me on this.
And J&R makes a great point that this "revenue agent" could be a crook looking for a future robbery target. Maybe the rally participants should have called the police to check on this "revenue agent." :)
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06/26/08 12:33am |
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RE: Revenue Agent Searching for Montana llc's
. . . If someone from MT was asking questions in the state of IL, I'd tell them to get lost.
The earlier guess was that the agent was from Illinois. I would have the following questions RE: the incident.
1) Was the rally held on private property? If so, why was the agent allowed to be there doing "inspections" and questioning participants? And I would inform the property owner and Newmar that the allowed violation of their customers' privacy is not appreciated.
2) Did the agent have search warrants to do his "research" or probable cause of some kind of crime (which I think still would require a search warrant)? Without a warrant, I don't think anyone is obligated to answer his questions, no matter where their coaches/toads are registered.
I don't mean to seem like a "guilty party" but I do think such an agent doing this type of "inspection" (interrogation) could be a violation of folks' civil rights (5th Amendment??).
By the way, our MH and cars are registered in our state of residence, not Montana.
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Oremus
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06/25/08 05:04pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Sometimes We're Rude
I also don't post very often because of some nasty responses I've read and/or received . . . and I have blocked a couple of those folks. Thankfully, someone usually expresses my thoughts much better than I would, so I don't have to post a reply.
However, this discussion made me go back and look at one of my rare posts. After reading it, I realized that one phrase could have been mistaken as being sarcastic or nasty. So, I edited it and rephrased my response so that it contained only what I hope is helpful info.
I have received such good, helpful info in this forum, and I thank everyone for sharing your wisdom.
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Oremus
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06/25/08 02:25pm |
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RE: What I've learned so far about Full-time
. . . We get monthly meds so have plenty of free containers. We now use those as our Quarter holders stuffed into the glove box or center console for any Quarter Emergency.
A casualty caused by most folks using digital cameras: no more 35mm film canisters, which were perfect quarter holders.
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06/24/08 12:13am |
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RE: What do you think?
Take it home. No need to tempt the criminals. Good point.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. Our friends' MH was parked right under their bedroom window, but it still was broken into and buglarized. No one heard anything that night, and their neighbors's homes are very close. This forum has many posts about RVs broken into and buglarized even when parked at the owners' homes. Determined crooks always find a way to do their dirty deeds.
I think a fully enclosed and locked RV garage would be a good deterent. But that's not a possibility for every RV/MH owner, including us.
After our experience, my advice is to have the lowest insurance deductibles that you can afford.
Note: edited to remove remarks which may have been mistaken as sarcastic.
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Oremus
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06/23/08 10:39am |
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RE: What do you think?
. . . Recently another camper mentioned that a rig was broken in too which raised some concerns within the family . . . It has never happened here before, just wondering if maybe with the economy changing, it is time to think differently. Thoughts?
Our MH was broken into and burglarized in April. In fact, about 200 MHs in the Albuquerque area had the same fate this spring and all were in "secure" storage lots. Our MH does have a built-in alarm system, but it only goes off when the entry door is broken into, not when a window is broken.
Please don't excuse these creeps' behavior with comments like "maybe with the economy changing." One of the local investigating "police officers" actually made a similar statement adding that "people are out of jobs, etc." My response was "Don't even go there! Stealing private property IS these creeps' job! In fact, I bet they even had shopping lists during the burglaries." As far as any of us can determine, the police are doing nothing to find these creeps.
Yes, insurance does take care of part of the repair expense, depending on deductibles, the adjustor's decisions on replacement parts, etc. But since the creeps burglarized our MH twice, with several days in between, we have to pay two $500 deductibles. So much for saving money by having higher deductibles. Same thing happened to many other Albuquerque area MH burglary victims.
More than two months later, our MH still is at the repair shop as we wait for the adjustor's decisions on replacement parts, then for the parts to be ordered and delivered, so that the repairs/replacements can be completed. The insurance policy does not compensate for the time, inconvenience and heartburn involved in repairing the creeps' damage. Our planned MH travels are cancelled, but the good news is that we aren't paying for MH fuel. :R
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Oremus
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06/23/08 12:35am |
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RE: What else is your motorhome good for?
We use ours for PURE PLEASURE!!....:B
As if I wasn't already jealous!!! :(
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Oremus
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06/11/08 04:07pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: What else is your motorhome good for?
Unfortunately, our MH still is helping take up space at the local Cummins lot, waiting for the completion of repairs from the break-in and burglarizing in April. We had hoped to take it to a convention in Las Cruces this weekend so that we could stock up on Blue Bell ice cream.
In other words, I'm extremely jealous of all the uses mentioned here. :( Y'all have fun, now!! :)
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Oremus
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06/11/08 02:28pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: FRIG GAS SHUTS OFF
I would check all of the connections first. More then likely the circuit board is going out. If you replace it buy it from dinasour electronics. They make a better board then the original.
Had the same problem a year ago. We finally discovered that we had accidentally shut off the LP detector, and the detector safety feature had shut off all LP flow to appliances. Before we discovered our mistake, our repeated attempts to re-start the refrigerator on LP completely messed up the circuit board. The service tech replaced it with a Dinosaur product.
Our compounded mistakes resulted in an expensive solution. :S
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Oremus
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06/06/08 01:50pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: WARNING: Motorhome Burglaries in Albuquerque
Last week, the Albuquerque Journal printed a good report about the local RV burglaries. Yesterday, a friend who works with the police told me about a new RV burglary at another facility last week. Apparently, the owner saw the TV and newspaper reports, checked on his RV and found it burglarized. A report in today's newspaper states that 50 additional RVs were burglarized at another storage facility two days ago. Seems like nothing is being done to stop these creeps' late night "shopping sprees." :M
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05/01/08 01:41pm |
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RE: WARNING: Motorhome Burglaries in Albuquerque
Two nights ago, the thugs hit 20 additional motorhomes at another RV storage facility. I notified two local TV stations, and one reported the problem on the news last night and this morning. Also called the local newspaper, and the crime reporter followed up with me and confirmed the problem with a couple of local police departments. Really hope that her report is published, so that MH owners are made aware of the problem and will be more vigilant.
After the TV report, the police in our storage area started notifying other storage facilities. Why the heck didn't they do that after the first incident at our storage facility????
We finally got our MH to the repair shop this afternoon. But it looks like the replacement window won't be available for almost two months, in addition to all the other repairs/replacements that are necessary. And the damage to our MH is minimal compared to some others.
Like Roadieroy wrote, "Some people are just no damn good!"
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Oremus
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04/24/08 09:55pm |
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RE: WARNING: Motorhome Burglaries in Albuquerque
Here in Los Angeles. The storage lot we have are baby stored at had a bunch of break ins a few weeks ago. I think they hit about 12 or more rigs of different types. I heard that there has been a rash of RV break ins in the area.
Thankfully ours wasn't broken into. Knock on wood!
Some People are just no damn good! :M Roy
Your post goes along with what the police told everyone here: these B&E/burglaries are committed by a well organized MH B&E/burglary ring travelling all over the country hitting MH storage facilities. They probably stick around for about a month and move on to another location. That makes it very difficult to find and connect evidence that would make it possible to arrest them. It's probably going to take a huge blunder or someone catching them in the act in order to arrest them. Makes me wonder if this state-to-state MO makes their crimes a federal issue.
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04/23/08 11:45am |
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