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Re: Foggy headlights
hostage wrote: grant135b wrote: It depends on why they're fogged. If like I've experienced it's because of moisture on the inside of the lens (due to a failed seal) polishing them won't do any good. Also, some discoloration from UV exposure can go all the way through the lens. If either of those things are the case, replacement is the way I correct it. I've had good experience with aftermarket headlight assemblies over the years. These days if I get headlight discoloring or I buy a used vehicle that already has it, I don't fool around with it. A new set of aftermarket headlights makes a world of difference in effectiveness and instantly takes years off the vehicle's appearance. iam pretty sure 99.9% of us posting here are not referring to moisture content in the lense and is NOT what we are discussing here just saying ! 99.9%, huh? Even if that was a real number (eye roll), I'M pretty sure that like with any other open advice forum where ideas and experienced-based suggestions are solicited from the members, if a particular situation doesn't apply to you, rather than oddly trying to suppress it you're quite free to ignore it. It may be outside your limited range of experience, but believe it or not there's a chance the advice just MIGHT be helpful to someone else. So if it's ok with you (and even if it isn't), the advice stands. As long as we're handing out unsolicited commenting advice, before jumping in as the self-appointed suggestion enforcer you might try enlightening yourself with a Google search of the many articles and videos that address the problem of headlight condensation fogging. Imaginary 99.9 percentages aside, apparently it's not an uncommon problem. Just saying!590Views0likes0CommentsRe: Is There An Easier Mouse Solution? ;)
The only thing I know of that works for sure is prevention such as physical barriers (sealing up entry points), not leaving accessible food in the unit, and baited traps if you find evidence of their presence. Cayenne pepper sprinkled at their possible point(s) of entry can be downright unpleasant for them, too. I stay away from poison because I don't want them going off and dying somewhere I can't find and dispose of them. There are online videos of tests of various scented and sonic repellents and commonly recommended home remedies that show a low success rate. In some cases the mice made nests out of the supposed repellents such as dryer sheets or scented cotton balls. As for simply equating correlation with causation, that would be like me saying I carry an anti-grizzly bear charm in my pocket and I've never been attacked by a grizzly, so the charm must work.582Views0likes0CommentsRe: Foggy headlights
It depends on why they're fogged. If like I've experienced it's because of moisture on the inside of the lens (due to a failed seal) polishing them won't do any good. Also, some discoloration from UV exposure can go all the way through the lens. If either of those things are the case, replacement is the way I correct it. I've had good experience with aftermarket headlight assemblies over the years. These days if I get headlight discoloring or I buy a used vehicle that already has it, I don't fool around with it. A new set of aftermarket headlights makes a world of difference in effectiveness and instantly takes years off the vehicle's appearance.589Views0likes0CommentsRe: Single person - How difficult to do everything by yourself?
My wife and I did many multi-week trips and weekends with our two young (under 10) sons in our motorhome-toad combo, and our routine was always this - she takes the boys and keeps them fed, occupied, go exploring, visit the restroom, run off some energy, or whatever, while I get the docking and set-up done by myself. Ditto for hooking up the toad, undocking, and preparing to set sail. They would take care of their personal effects and keep their clothes picked up, put away, or whatever needed done related to their stuff, but I took care of anything related to the motorhome and/or toad by myself. Depending on physical and hands-on abilities it's a bit of work but very doable for one person.739Views0likes0CommentsRe: Total Eclipse of the Sun will jam CG's!
I heard of someone who went up to Saratoga, and his horse naturally won. Then he flew his Lear jet to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun. All kidding aside, those lyrics were in reference to the March 7, 1970 eclipse that was total along the east coast of North America. I was a ten year old kid in Ohio at the time where it was about an 80% partial eclipse. I had gone with a friend and his family that afternoon to trade in their Rambler wagon (green with fake wood) and pick up their brand new Ford Maverick. We were on the way home when the eclipse started so we pulled over to use the eclipse viewing gear they had brought along. Luckily it was clear and sunny that afternoon. I remember it got dim for a while and then got bright again. Woo hoo. That's the only solar eclipse I remember ever seeing. The charts tell me there was a near total solar eclipse in this part of the country in the early '90s ('94?) but I don't recall it at all.331Views0likes0CommentsRe: WFi In theYukon,
I did a round trip from Ohio to Fairbanks and up the Haul Road to the Arctic Circle tent camping on my motorcycle in the summer of 2010. I had a non-smart phone at that time (a dumb phone?) and I also took my laptop, but from everything I had read, I knew ahead of time I probably wasn't going to have much cell service at all, let alone a 'net connection. That turned out to be an accurate expectation. So people back home wouldn't worry about me and/or would know where to start looking if a griz got me and I was never heard from again, I bought a SPOT (a wearable GPS transmitter) and a subscription to the SPOT service that allowed people back home to see where I was in real time on the SPOT web site. I was glad I did, because except for when I was in a town such as Fairbanks, I seldom had even a cell signal out west and north of the border. For a 'net connection that would allow me to occasionally get and send email to friends and family, I periodically stopped at a McDonald's or similar in the lower 48 or in Fairbanks, and just did without in between. My campground in Fairbanks had pretty decent wifi (Ice Park). What a luxury. I could actually get and send email from my tent for the few days I was there, although I couldn't upload photos.503Views0likes0CommentsRe: Worried about looks..
That reminds me of being on the tail-end of a multi-week, multi-state tour of the west several years ago in our well-maintained but ten year old 35' gas Class A (Pace Arrow). It was pretty fancy for a gas coach especially when it was new but nowhere near the really high level coaches, of course. I always kept it like I do my other vehicles, clean, waxed, chrome shined up, etc., but in staying at CGs of all types up to and including "resort" type facilities on that trip, we saw and were docked next to everything up to and including high six figure and beyond rock star-type coaches. Ours typically wasn't the fanciest thing there by a long shot, but neither was it at the other extreme. After 8,000+ miles and on our last evening out before getting home, we wanted to get off the road about 6 pm, so as it approached that time we looked in the book for a nearby CG. We ended up a nice but smallish mom-and-pop type rural CG that was well off the interstate and which seemed to cater mostly to weekender locals who were there to do some fishing, or whatever. It was a Saturday evening, and many of the campers apparently knew each other like it was a regular, every weekend crowd. After checking in, we slowly drove back to our assigned spot in the MH pulling our toad behind it. The CG was mostly full with a mix of set-ups including a lot of tents, but few other MHs. People were sitting around campfires in groups at the various camping spots with kids running around, some of whom stopped and watched us trundle by. We docked and began our well-practiced routine of breaking things down, getting hooked up, putting out the awnings, getting the kids bikes, patio carpet, and lawn chairs out of the basement bays, and all of the typical setting-up activities. Once we were settled in, a few of our new "neighbors" wandered over and struck up a convo about where we were from, where we had been, and about the coach itself such as how many feet long it was and how much it cost to fill up the tank. One of them said, "When you guys pulled in, we were all like 'Whoa!'" I was flattered and a little taken aback, and I answered, "Really?" I guess I had lost sight about how lucky we were to have what we had and to be out traveling the country as a family, and how our rig looked to those who could only dream about doing what we were privileged to do. I still chuckle about that convo and try to keep it in mind. It helps remind me that like everything in life, it's all about perspective.346Views0likes0CommentsRe: how to avoid the grapevine
Old-Biscuit wrote: CA 46 over to Bakersfield CA 99 (S) to CA 58 CA 395 (S) to I-15 (S) I-15(S) to I-215(S) I-215 (S) to I-10 (E) roughly 450 miles I'm not sure if the OP is trying to avoid traffic or grades, but if it's traffic, it really depends on the day of the week and time of day (or night). Depending on the day and time your go through the Grapevine, traffic isn't necessarily an issue, and absent the traffic wildcard, the Grapevine to 210 to 10 can be the quickest, most direct route. Of course, on the other hand if you hit it at the wrong time it can be a mess. As for grade, the GV doesn't seem much different than the Cajon. I used to make the drive between the IE and Merced every weekend one autumn when I was living in Riverside and going to school up north. To break up the monotony I used a similar route to the one quoted above going northbound on Sunday nights, and the Grapevine southbound to I-210 to I-10 westbound to the IE on Friday nights. Both routes put me in the opposite direction of the main flow of weekenders who were going out of LA on Friday nights and back into LA on Sunday nights. My northbound variation was I-15 to 138 to 14 to 58 to 99 in Bakersfield, although 395 and 58 in lieu of 138 and 14 would certainly work, too. I really enjoyed that drive on 138 on Sunday nights, skirting along the mountains in the high desert with the lights of the desert towns twinkling in the distance on my right, the sky-glow of the LA basin outlining the mountains on my left, almost no other cars on the road, and nothing to keep me company but a voice on the radio (KFI, the 50,000 watt talk radio blowtorch out of LA).1.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Ohio to Florida on I 75. Steep grades?
The two most significant grades I can remember on I-75 is the one climbing up out of the Ohio River valley when you first cross into KY, and it's more sustained than steep (up going south, down coming back north). The other is Jellico just inside the TN border followed by some ups and downs between there and Knoxville, but those aren't bad compared to others I've seen esp out west. From Atlanta south is flat.1.7KViews0likes0Comments
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