Northern Virginia Roll Call

@Me. Projekt I was actually over your way all day today helping my neice and her husband move from Bunker Hill to Inwood. Her husband's four "friends" were supposed to come help but never showed up. So he and I and my neices stepfather loaded & unloaded 3 moving truck loads. I'm BEAT! Gonna be sore tomorrow.

 

probably... gonna toss the money in the bank on Monday and then shoot him a PM

haha yea, I was surprised... but I lifted it off and gently set it down on the ground... guy came and gave me $300 cash for it!

 

oh nice! yea Inwood is only like 15-20 min from me!

I've had the flu since Thursday so I was not motivated to do it, but cash is a nice motivator

 

Those bumpers are heavy. Gonna rip a nut or something with the added weight of a winch man.

 

I'm probably going to have Karen help me when I put the new one on haha

 

Nah. Gimme a call. I'll help ya...and bring your jacket. Lol

 

lol ok will do man! thanks! maybe I'll just toss it all in the bed and bring it by the shop since it'd probably be easier for you

 

You're on if it falls apart.

 

does anyone want in on Factor55 products? Ultrahook, Flatlink, Prolink, rock basher guard, etc...?

one of my Jeep buddies is in the process of getting a group buy going and I figured I'd see if anyone here wants in... not 100% sure on pricing as of yet

but I'm in for a Red Flatlink

 

Im interested

 

I'll ping him to see if he has pricing set up yet

 

he said it's likely going to be around 10-15% off... he's waiting to hear back from them (he just became a dealer for them)

 

Depending on the discount, I would be interested in a Prolink. If we can get other products at a discount as well, I'd be interested in the cable splicing tools as well.

I've had the Smittybilt equivalent of the Prolink on order from 4WP since Thanksgiving and the back order ship date just keeps pushing back. Getting tired of waiting, so I'm willing to pay 4-5x more for the real deal at this point just to have something in hand.

 

oh wow that's pretty crazy.. . he said it should be around 10-15% off

 

Yeah. Tuesday will be 10 weeks. The current 'estimated' ship date is Friday. I called 4WP when the last ship date didn't happen, and they said that it'll drop ship from Smittybilt whenever it shows up. I just messaged Smittybilt through their website contact form to see if they can give me any information.

 

yea that's unacceptable in my book... you can close on a house in 4 weeks. you can have a full custom bumper ordered, built, and delivered in 10 weeks....

it's not like SB is a small company either

 

Yeah. I think the AWS is new to their product line, so maybe it's just supply issues getting production ramped up. Or meeting demand from the holidays because I first heard of it at Black Friday.

 

Is anyone interested in a Bussmann? I'm pricing things out to build one for myself and given the minimum quantities for a lot of the parts it makes sense to build more than one. I'm not sure how many I want to commit to building, but I think maybe 5 would be the most I would consider building (including mine).

I haven't finished pricing out all the little things (like heat shrink, etc), so I can't comment on an exact price yet as it will also depend on quantity built and if you want mating connectors or just wire ends to attach to. For reference, I'm just over $300 now for what I need to build mine with mating connectors, 10 gauge wire for everything coming off the Bussman, 4 gauge main power wire to the battery, and other things that you might not need/want (like wire/connectors for harness into the cab and 8 gauge to power my OBA compressor in the bed cubby).

 

I found the source of the oil smell i have been getting whiffs of.

Either the oil change kid didnt drain my old oil, or filled it twice. FML. Ive been driving it like this for a month.

Dealerships manager will be hearing from me tomorrow.