Never buy a Bus

it is the nature of mechanical objects to 'break', to just plain wear out, even with the best of care, which they almost never receive anyway. they ain't magical. expecting the cost of purchase to be the largest cost of owning one is just plain naieve. think of them as adopting a child. the expenses and their ongoing nature is comperable.

the first cost of purchase is the LEAST cost of owning ANY vihicule. the larger the vehicule, generally the more so. large, origeonally commercial vehicules, do have the advantage, generally of having been designed more to facilitate maintainence then personal transportation aimed at the mass market. a potential advantage for those with the skills and experience to work on them. costwise it is offset though, by the much higher cost of many of their more common parts.

i bought a boat once, when i wouldhave, couldhave, shouldhave, bought a chunk of land instead and i've been kicking myself ever since. i highly immagine it would have been the same had it been a bus.

fuel for them is also ungodly expensive, enough to go anywhere. all that can be done about that is to pick up hitchers and ask them to chip in, if and as they can.

one thing i noticed 'back in the day' was a lot of busses, de facto perminently parked, as living quarters, on shaired bits of land. because it had become totally impractical for their origeonal purchasers to keep them drivable and fuel in them to do so.

they look pretty, but if you ain't born with a silver spoon and have some sort of mutual fund income to keep them going, i think it's just insane to expect to be able to live fancy free driving all over the place and exploring in and with them. it would be a fine dream if they ran on nothing and never needed to be fixed, but that ain't the world i know of any of us living in.

personal mechanical transportation ISN'T freedom, its an effing albatross. live and learn. a backpack or a scoot, or a backpack AND a scoot are a hell of a lot closer to it.

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hey I didnt screw anyone,
I have a massive thread here and on it I told all the bullshit iwent threw maintaning that bus,
I told chevy straight up that I used either to start it and told her its not good for the engine,
It needed glow plugs
I had a compression test done before I put it up for sale and it past fine!
the fucking thing past emmisions as well

your bieng screwed if someone tells you that its fucked
it had 137k on the engine when I sold it to you....worn down my ass
I drove it accross the staes and back threw mountains never any engne probs, only shit like the alternator fan clutch tranny clutch, all of which I fixed before hand
I told you where I can get you an engine for that bus for 1000 dollars
\you sent me an email saying a used engine would cost you 8 grand?
the fuck?

you paid 3500 for the bus, thats cheap for the interior alone it cost me more to buildit

the mechanicals I put way more than 3500 in

I told you everything that was wrong with it and what I had problems with...

ask anyone in the rieb about that bus ..wait you have and they told you
its a kick ass bus!

I doubt very much you got a third opinon,
or a second
not trying to dog on you but I know buses I built that fucking thing!
I gave you a deal,since Ive sold it Ive been offered 7 grand for it...you got a hell of a deal!
sorry your having problems sorry yoru stuck
not my fault
I bought a 2000$ golf and it lasted 3 months then the timing belt went and I didnt have an engine
shit happens

sorry to say chevy
I love ya
but deal with it, get it fixed, get a new engine
dont deal with the fuckers your dealing with, thats all I gotta say

 

and hey
my new bus the mechanics say I need 5 grand to get it on the road, but then I did my magic and cost me 800

deal with babylonians get fucked by babylonians......
your tribe
be the gypsy thats inside of you!


and if you cant find it inside of you

Ill buy the fucking thing bcak, its a good bus I didnt want to get rid of it in the first place my ass hole wife made me....

shes gone now Im in BC
I miss that thing.

 

Yikes,

I guess these are the risks you take to live that life right? As far as mechanics,

they are crooks 95% of the time. That's what they are trained to be. You can smell a babylonian from a mile away, no matter how nice they try to seem, they will double or triple the expected cost of things out of pure greedy instinct. It's so ingrained that they do it without thinking.... they might even think they are being honest.

Anyway we all hope you can find a way home, that is more important than fixing the bus, right?

Godbless