The inevitable breakdown on the road....
It finally happened to me...I became "that Guy" yesterday. The law of averages met our camper head-on far from Vegas but luckily not "100 miles from a dial tone" like the back country Olympic Nationa...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:jimh425 wrote:
I'm in the replace "disposable" parts before they fail side as well. I guess I had to walk too far after failures when I was younger. :)
So what is your criteria that alerts you when to replace.......
In other words how do you know before hand when something is going to fail so you can replace it prior to failure???
OP........
Good job with dealing with 'mechanical' failure.
Stuff happens...it's the way you deal with them that matters.
It's a little bit of gut feel, bunch of past experience and in today's world, the Internet.
Dedicated truck forums, with some reading, you can get a feel for "problem" areas with particular models and it's always easy to ask the question "Got xxx miles on xxx trucks, what has gone wrong?"
By polling the crowd, you can get a feel for things that may break before they do.
Not an exact science by any means but if I can reduce the chance of a roadside repair or a tow, I'm all over it.
