Why we CAN'T get insurance on our
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- Join us as we explore the challenges we encounter to ensure we have proper coverage for our tiny home on wheels. You need to do more than just remove the seats to get skoolie insurance. In this video we will be removing all of the stickers and all other items that are used in school buses. Every insurance company is different and has different requirements. This was the next step for us to gain coverage for our skoolie.
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Not I built a house, But a tiny home, But I am building a skoolie, But I am building a skoolie for full time travel, But I am building a skoolie for full time rv life, But I am converting a school bus into an RV, But I am building a tiny house, But I am building a DIY RV, But I am trying to get insurance, But I had to remove the stickers to get insurance, But this is a Sticky Situation, But Not I Built MrBeast a Real Life Fortnite Battle Bus, But I don't know if this will work, or any other video like Chuck Cassidy, Isaac Turner, A Bus Life Story, Navigation Nowhere, Us Plus A Bus, Mobile Dwellings, or Jess & Jake would make. This is a real life journey of us building a custom rv to travel full time in 2024.
00:00 Why No Insurance
00:43 Attempt 1
01:52 Attempt 2
03:58 Reflective Strips
04:11 Not Working
06:32 Home Depot
07:48 Scraper Blades
09:08 Did it Work?
09:57 A better way - บันเทิง
I always love seeing school bus conversions. Came on over from Tuber Chat and coming to you from Chattanooga TN
Thank you for coming over and watching.
Wooooooooo! To be the man, you have to beat the man! You all have a lot more patience than I do, Would have slapped wood over those decals 🤣
If this bus has done anything it is testing my patience lol
You got it done in the end. Lesson is to not give up. Those scrapers you bought were a real time saver. Looking forward to seeing the bus on the road. 😃
Yes, getting it done was all that mattered. Getting on the road is what keeps us pushing through this build, we can't wait to share it with everyone.
I agree with the easy off oven cleaner. I have used it many times. It starts working after a few minutes, making the decals look like paint remover does on paint. I have never had it destroy the paint. It just allows you to easily scrape off the decal.
Thank you, I am going to remember this for next time.
Those eraser wheels are magic. I use one to take dealer decals off of my cars.
Yes sir, I wish I would have had one at the beginning 😂
I'm enjoying this journey and seeing what actually works.
For the letters if it’s a sunny day (and anything above 70 degrees) you can peel the letters right off by hand as long as you slowly do it/ don’t just rip it off it comes off fairly easy.
Yes, most of the lettering came off fairly easily. The reflective tape on the sides was a totally different story for us. That stuff was really stuck on there.
I'm having flashbacks to the process of removing all the decals on our bus. I found out towards that end that Klean Strip "Paint Thinner" does a good job of releasing the left behind adhesive. We also discovered after we finished that the aerosol version of "Goof OFF" works well too, or at least it works to remove decals from semi's. Looks like you got it done, but keep it in mind for the next bus! ;)
Thanks for watching and for the advice. We will definitely keep it in mind for next time!
Chuck Cassady channel has used a tool to remove stickers more easily when prepping his bus for paint.
Great video. Please note. Do not put a roof top deck on your bus. As of May 2023 the insurance companies will not insure due to liability. GoodSam or Alstate will not insure with roof top deck. Solar is fine.
Thank you for watching and for the tip. We appreciate all the advice we can get.
@@bigfamilyexpedition Absolutely. My profile pix is my bus. 2002 Thomas/Freightliner FS65. Cummins 5.9/24v, upgraded to 300 hp, upgraded trans to MT643. Three years to build.
Another one that is important as well. Here in Illinois, to get a commercial vehicle to RV they have six requirements and require five photos. Following that a visit from the Illinois secretary of State police to inspect.
The handy trick. If your state requires. Take 20 photos and in great detail. Write long detailed letter on your build, parts. Divide build and chassis repairs done too. They love seeing the photos of new tires, with tread date and receipts. Illinois rated my bus a superior condition and no mandatory inspection required. My title conversion took 10 days. However the person who has a cruddy bus in another spot by me, took 10 weeks and multi inspections. The first two are free, after that $150 per visit
@@johnclamshellsp1969 Wow, that is a lot of steps for the title. We were lucky in our titling process. Our state only required that we write out a statement stating that it was going to be used as a motorhome, and what changes we made or were going to make to it for that purpose. We also had to state that it would not be used for commercial purposes, and that's it. Sounds like you had to go through a lot, but at least you were prepared and got it done in the end 💪
Wonder if it can be designated as something other than a deck
Looks like it’s coming along.
Getting closer every day! Thanks for watching! ❤️
Old fashioned easy off oven cleaner should remove most stickers. It puckers the paint op like paint remover does paint.
Wow, I didn't know that easy off would do that, thanks for sharing.
Enjoyed, Rick Flair, nice ring to it I guess Acetone wouldn't help
Woooooooooo!!!! LOL
To be the man you have to beat the man! Wooooooo! 😂 Thanks for watching.
I love seeing you all work as a family to do this… it’s so amazing 💚💚
Thank you! Kenny and the boys have been working so hard on it. We're really proud of them! ❤️🥰
The requirements for insurance on that thing is insane! 😮
It varies by state and insurance company, our original insurance company just told me NO, so we switched lol.
Seems reasonable to me given the liabilities the insurance company would be walking into.
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Do yourself a favor and get yourself a heap heat gun and all that sticky stuff comes off a lot easier
Easy off oven cleaner will remove the residue. But if your paint is oxidized it'll remove that too.
I did not know that. We used some 3m adhesive remover that worked well, but it was expensive. Will easy off remove adhesive residue from other surfaces? That could be helpful in the future.
@@bigfamilyexpedition I'm not sure the extent of it's usefulness. I had a van once that had decals on the sides with shadows on the letters painted on. After using heat gun and razor blade like you did, I used easy off to remove the residue and the old painted shadows of the letters. It took off sone oxidized paint in the area i was working but the gloss paint was not affected. You can either spray it on a towel and hold it on the adhesive to avoid any overspray. If you're planning on repainting then you can just spray it on and let sit a lil bit then wipe it off. Probably cheaper than other adhesive removers. Use your best judgement and test it in small area first.
hair dryer to heat them up. and they will peel right off.
Heat gun & plastic razor blades. Good luck with full coverage when you're finished. After i finished converting our mc9, our insurance co dropped full coverage because i wasn't a "licensed" bus converter.
Wow, I didn't know there were any "licensed" bus converters. I wonder it they could point you to one. Sounds like they just didn't want to cover it and made up an excuse to drop it.
Removing decals works much better in the summer with a razor blade scraper and then it's cake work. In cooler months, then use a cheap $10 heat gun from Harbor Freight and the razor blade scraper then it's even easier than doing in the hot summer months. I have Shelter on my bus the day I bought it. No questions, of what was in it, what letters, nothing. Just gave them the VIN, year make and model which the VIN confirmed. Asked me what I was using it for. I said just personal use. You're not using it for any kind of business? Nope, not all. Just personal use like maybe as a pick up truck to pick up items for working on the house or garden, maybe a few camping and fishing trips with the kids. And the price !!!! OMG, it was so much cheaper than 80's pickup truck. OK, I do have a perfect driving record, I am over 50, and I have been with Shelter for many years wo a claim ever. Leusure use only, meaning low low mileage annually. LIability Only, $78 every 6 months. Yep, about $13 a month.
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There is no requirement to remove the safety yellow reflective tape strips. Unless you are removing them as prep for a new paint job, you could have left them on for safety sake.
We did need to remove them eventually for paint. Each insurance company may have different requirements for covering skoolies. The insurance company we found that would cover it told us they needed to be removed for them to give us coverage. Other companies just flat out told us no, so we were just trying to do what we could to get covered.
Cheap heat gun makes it a breeze
We used a heat gun in the beginning, and while it worked better than the scraper it seemed to leave more residue behind than the other methods we tried. If we had to do it again we would use a rubber eraser wheel for the whole process.
Too bad you couldn’t have, spelled out, cool district.
We totally would have done that, but the insurance company won't allow it 😂
If I had it to do over again I would delete all my bus windows this is the one regret I have on my build
whats wrong with windows, son
Heat transfer, condensation, mold, I like Windows I just wish I would have upgraded.
don't have a schoolie, just looking into buying one, for some reason i want to load it full of tools and have a mobile shop but I don't think it would work well.@@pushythom
@@schlomoshekelstein908 that's the beauty of building it yourself it can be built however you see fit
Thank you for the comment. One reason we got the bus was for all of the windows, but we knew from living in a RV previously the windows can be problematic. From what I have seen the cost to replace them all with upgraded windows would be extremely high (about $400 per window). We are going to try to take every step we can to reduce the condensation and heat loss.
Heat would have helped remove
The heat gun did help remove the stickers, but we bought some scraper blades for our oscillating tool and an eraser wheel that really sped things up.
Do you need a different type driver license you need for a skoolie?
The bus has been retitled as an RV and we are not using it for commercial purposes, so we do not need a commercial license where we are. However it varies depending on where you live so always check. We hope this helps.
@@bigfamilyexpedition Thank you so much