Wednesday, November 26, 2014

New Antenna



There it is up there....!  And you can't forget to crank it down....  But it cost as much to install it as it was worth by almost twice....

And changing the fuse circuit breaker was over $100 more....  The breaker was only about $20...  So, about $700 later the whole deal was done.....

But that turned out to only be the tip of the ice burg here today, as a fellow came up to me while I was hooking up the Jeep to tow it back over to storage....  I remember thinking to do things really deliberately while I was otherwise being distracted while doing departure chores...

The fellow wanted to see how to hook up the Blue Ox  tow bar...  And then began to lay all of his towing problems on me...  I know I was in the driveway of the repair facility, but I thought advice was inside with the techs...  But I showed him what he wanted to know...

But then he said his wife thought the car swung back and forth behind their coach...  She was evidently following in yet another vehicle to see this...  I suggested that the car might need alignment so it would track better...  But he protested because the car was brand new...  So we had to discuss how only a few new cars actually get aligned, and from then on they keep using the last settings for all of them....  I'm not sure he believed me....

Eventually I was able to leave and go back to the storage lot... where I determined that I didn't have the key to the Jeep any longer...  It wasn't on the D clip keyring that it lives on...  Not on the floor of the car or the coach... Not on the ground outside in storage anywhere either...  I wasn't moving the Jeep... simple as that....

So while being talked to while working, somehow I managed to drop the car key..... I had several rings and only one key was gone from one of the rings.... But it was the Jeep key...  So I drove the Motorhome back to the repair place without the Jeep....  And NOPE no one saw any keys on the driveway around here....

That made me drive the MH all the way back to the house about 6 miles to the South... And after retrieving the spare key, all the way back to the storage lot..  I looked and looked but couldn't decide what had happened to the first key....  Slowly, I was coming to the realization that I was going to have to purchase another, all in one anti theft chipped remote fob key...  Those are about $350.....

About 4PM, I was over at the Quick Trip gassing up the Jeep and began looking under the driver's seat again, and for some reason put my hand down under the carpet next to the steel flooring... And came out with the key!  It must have fallen off of the key ring and slid down under the carpet.....

By that time I was just emotionally drained.... Trying to figure out how I had lost that key.....

So if you are distracted by something or some one while hitching anything.....   Just stop!!  Wait until they are gone......!

Retired Rod

8 comments:

  1. I remember writing about that very same distraction thing a couple times over the years & your case is a good example of why not to bother someone while they are either hooking up or unhooking a vehicle or going through their camp set-up & take-down routines.

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  2. We had someone distract us last year while hooking up and ended up dropping the trailer on the truck. Now we stop everything and wait until we are thinking clearly.
    I change all our keyrings because the ones supplied by the manufactures are simply a piece of lite wire.
    Be Safe and Enjoy!

    It's about time.

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  3. EWWWW--what a pain Rod--not a good day for you!! Glad you found the key!! We only have ONE key for my Cadillac, that's how we bought it and have never coughed up the $$$$ to get another!

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  4. Sure glad you found the key - Lucky it came off in the Jeep rather than in the desert somewhere ! Now that you know it can come off the D clip - you can fix it so it can't - Enjoy - Cindy

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  5. If you ever need a fob or chip key check these guys out https://www.remotesremotes.com/

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  6. Sure am glad you found that key. Jim has actually told people to go away until we finish unhooking or hooking. He does it nicely but they know he means it. Just doesn't pay to take any chances.

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  7. I surely can't understand why the "chip" keys cost so much. Remember when it cost a buck to have one made?? Glad you found it!! We're in Alabama with a blown engine. " Rolling Earthquake" isn't rolling..Wanna trade dillemas?? LOL...Keep up the excellent blog, we read it religiously !!

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    1. Good golly NO...! Not much I can say except to keep your head up and things have to get better on down the road... And at least you are in the South where temps might be a little bit warmer...

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