Gettin' close...

Time is indeed marching on as we approach 17 June. Delivery was originally scheduled for 16 June at 11 AM. Last week we got a call from the salesman saying they found a previously repaired chip in the windshield that had failed. So they needed to have their shop replace the windshield. That new windshield will arrive Tuesday 15 June. Though it will get installed before Wednesday, the sealant requires 24 hours to cure. So scheduled delivery moved out a day to 17 June at 10 AM.

In the mean time I spent some time on our broker's website fiddling with stocks and sold enough to cover the transaction. Unfortunately our broker (Chas. Schwab- been a happy customer their since 1991) won't issue a cashiers check. Since Lazydays will only accept payment in that form I feared we were in for some special handling and lots of driving. But Schwab said they would do either a wire transfer or an electronic transfer to a local bank where we could pick up the check locally. We already had electronic transfers set up and so that works for us. A week after we signed the sales agreement we have the money worked out.

Insurance was equally easy. We have a policy for our Arctic Fox through Progressive so I got an on-line quote from them for the 2016 Thor Vegas 25.2. It's less than the $/yr for our 2016 RAM 2500 & Arctic Fox combined, so the total cost will be less. A few days ago I committed to the policy, paid the annual premium and asked that it be effective starting 16 June. Progressive had the electronic ID cards available before I logged off.

While all this is creeping along toward the finish line we got the Arctic Fox out of storage and set up on the lot across from us on Monday with the AC running. The truck is still hitched (but no truck-to-trailer electrical connection) so it should require nothing more than retracting the slides, disconnecting power and installing the sway bars.

What will require some thought, however, is the over-110°F forecast for Tucson on 17 June (and several days before and after!). Astronomical physics aside, summer has been here since early May and can be brutal in Arizona. And this year it is.

Our 2014 28F Actic Fox connected to our 2016 RAM 2500

 

In the photo above our truck is a little nose-high. Unloaded it's normally nose-down. Without the anti-sway bars (equalizer bars) installed, the weight of the trailer tongue on the hitch (about 700#) pushes down on the rear of the truck. However the equalizer bars of our Blue Ox hitch transfer some of that tongue weight from the rear springs to the front springs which 'equalizes' the loading between the front and rear.

Btw, thanks to all the over-the-top enthusiasm about RVs it appears the 'low-book' value of our truck may be slightly higher than what we paid for it. Bizarre!