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- Dennis The Bus Dweller
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OK, so get this. I was having a lazy moment so I called "Wes Trailer" ( the local camper place and nice people ) and I told them that I have a Roadmaster tow bar, brackets and wiring harness to install and asked them how much it would be for them to do it and I came close to dropping the phone. He said it would be 3 grand to install the brackets and the wiring harness I asked him if he was out of his mind and he didn’t seem to think so and said that it was 10 hours labor. Well, not only is that 300 bucks an hour which is BS but I went on youtube and all the roadmaster videos are very clear and I’m thinking if I’m under the jeep for more then 5 or 6 hours that will be a lot and in that time I’ll have the rear trailer hitch and wiring installed as well In this kind of economy you would think these places would be a little more reasonable Ya gotta love it
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So I did the hitch on the back end of the jeep on thursday and it took me a whopping hour and tomorrow morning im headed over to a friends house to use his garage to install the Roadmaster front hitch and after watching the video's on youtube a bunch of time I think a good long 1/2 a day I'll be out of there wiring and all and then next week some time im gonna stop by the folks at WES Trailer to say hi That is unless im still working the hitch
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I may do an add on craigslist and my site. The rear hitches are a walk in the park. On those I can do the install and wiring for a 150.00 and make a good buck. The hitch and wiring harness seam to be going around 200 to 250 with hardware so for someone like me who "thinks" he or she can't do it them selves 400 bucks is a pretty good dealHeadache wrote:That would be great if installing hitches was a sustainable business Dennis. If it was you could undercut by quite a bit and still have some decent pocket change.
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