Recent content by Martinjmpr

I know that here on ExPo we like to brag about the expensive "name brand" gear we use but I'll bet I'm not the only licensed Ham here with one of these cheap little Baofeng radios. After spending a few years turning up my nose at these "cheap Chinese radios" my curiousity finally got the best...

Pike's Peak AKA "America's Mountain."

Well, we've moved and I'm happy now! Plenty of space and I'm even thinking I'll rig up a hoist so I can remove the topper by myself. Of course, that's not TODAY. Today the garage is filled with boxes I have to unpack and crap I have to put away or get rid of. But it's a start! EDITED...

Even better, there's a push broom in the garage that works great.

BTW for those who were saying "just park the truck outside" here is a photo from this morning that explains why I'm so insistent on parking the truck in the garage:

I think this is a hangover from the crazy market of 2020 - 2022 where houses were selling literally within hours of being listed and bidding wars were driving prices up to $50k above asking price. People then were just so happy to get a house they didn't look twice at things like an old roof...

This is like saying is if I pay my car insurance and then never get into an accident I wasted my money ;) And who's to say what happens in the next 3 years. Have you ever had a transmission fail in the middle of Utah? Wanna guess what that costs?

I know we all love us a good rage-bait horror story but I thought I'd buck the trend here and post my first experience using my Ford ESP Extended Service Plan. I bought my 2018 F-150 used with about 18,000 miles on it. I violated the "conventional wisdom" of the internet knowitalls by buying...

So this whole issue is officially moot now. We terminated the contract on the house with the shorter garage because the house needed a new roof (to the tune of $21,000) and the sellers refused to pay for it, so we walked away. We just went under contract on a house in a different part of...

I'm going to have to start following this thread. We recently bought a new house and haven't moved in yet but the garage may be too short for my F-150 to fit. Based on that I'm considering moving to a shorter vehicle and honestly I prefer an SUV body style to a pickup truck anyway. Biggest...

Biggest issue I'm seeing on the used market is that so many of them are black. Living in a desert I refuse to own a black vehicle. I have the same issue with the Tahoe/Suburban. Why do so many people like black as a vehicle color? It's awful!

I also just browsed the Nissan Armada. Very interesting...looks like it has the chops (380 - 400 hp and 8600 tow capacity) to pull a trailer and would definitely fit in the garage. I've heard mixed things (OK negative things) about Nissan's quality reputation ("the Japanese Chrysler") but I...

Realistically, between spending $10 - $15k on building or extending the garage, it would make more sense for me to either continue to park the truck outside (not great but I could do it), remove the rear bumper of the truck to try and cut a couple of inches off the overall length, or simply go...

My guess is that it would be prohibitively expensive. The issue is that the garage backs up to one of the bedrooms so I can't expand backwards without doing some serious interior work (moving walls backwards.) Expanding forwards might be a possibility but I would imagine that even that would...

Well, it looks like the sellers agreed to all of our most important terms so the move is back on. I'll be figuring out how to put my truck into that small garage, but the good news is that I'll have a nice wide bay to do it in. Closing is set for two weeks from Friday. We won't be moving in...