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shortlineMCI
Age: 54 Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 241
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: I regretfully have to make this announcement |
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7341/1631 I'm afraid has reached the end of the line. The financial burden has become to great for me unfortunately with the mounting problems and the diagnosing combined and it is still not running. After the tremondous cost of having it towed it is still not any closer to running condition.
Hey, in the begining it was a great Idea and lots of fun, but the reality of it was when I purchased it back in december (?) that was the last time it actually ran.
Tonight I will go and say goodbye and be happy I will get the scale value, remainder of the insurance, and registration. I'm sorry I couldn't put it up for sale but it has been sitting on someone's property for a month, still not running after a new set of batteries (the second pair I might add) and the mechanic really needed the room.
Ken |
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RailBus63 Moderator
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 1063
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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You gave it a good shot, Ken. |
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shortlineMCI
Age: 54 Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 241
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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RailBus63 wrote: | You gave it a good shot, Ken. |
I really did. |
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LLE Rebel
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 54
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Ken - you had a shot at saving some euipment. Why did you not at least try to reach out to the community here??? Mark and I have discussed the issue and we would have liked to have saved your bus... if only you could have put a for sale sign up!
C'est la vie! |
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shortlineMCI
Age: 54 Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 241
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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LLE Rebel wrote: | Ken - you had a shot at saving some euipment. Why did you not at least try to reach out to the community here??? Mark and I have discussed the issue and we would have liked to have saved your bus... if only you could have put a for sale sign up!
C'est la vie! |
I got a hold of three mechanics, each of which came out at least once, looked it over and said they'd be out on this day which never came, I called them again, told me "sorry we got all tied up" and they'd be out there in a few days, I waited for months for them to come out, they ditched me every time, left me waiting in the parking lot for 5 hours, then I decided it was time to give up!
all the while I'm paying insurance, thousands of dollars. Each time before the major problem I had a service truck come out, 3 times in total. (Very expensive!!) each time to get it started.
Also, the property at which the bus was sitting was going up for sale and the owner wanted it out asap. I had it towed again out of the property (400 dollars to the mechanics shop) It's been sitting at the mechanics for a month, after the new bats were put in (Not cheap!!) and still wouldn't crank over.
The possibilities of things going wrong were endless. I could have been on a fan trip, should the bus have broken down with you guys, it would have been, Take care Ken.. good luck.
The math goes like this...I'm thousands of dollars in the hole.
LLE.. I tried for four months to get the problem straightened out.
So there it goes..I really did try...also Pls check your IM |
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LLE Rebel
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 54
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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I understand all of your pain more than you can imagine.
I respect your efforts.
The simple fact remains that a simple for sale sign is all we ask for. I'm rather sure NIMCO did not reimburse you of your purchase price... and after the all the work you put into the bus I find it extremely painful that everything needed to come to this conclusion. It's just a good thing that there are success stories out there to balance everything out. |
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