My locker quest
12-03-2004, 09:54 AM
#11
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Re: My locker quest
LOL!
Good point, we only saw one snow when we lived on the Island, I just
keep thinking the Rockies.....
Mike
Greg wrote:
>
> But Mike, you forgot I live on the sunshine coast, one 4" snowfall last
> year, in mid winter it would take me an hour to get to snow. So that's not a
> consideration.
>
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:41AFA0EA.2A35D065@sympatico.ca...
> > Man oh man I really would have to think hard if I wanted a locker on
> > those BC logging roads or not....
> >
> > Nope, I wouldn't.....
> >
> > Lockers are called 'low side finders' and if you are going up one of
> > those steep cliff faces that's off camber with even 1/2" of snow down,
> > you would be stopped. No way to crab walk up some of those, they are
> > way too narrow...
> >
> > Now if you could get a locker you can turn on or off..... I wouldn't
> > put out big bucks like that for anything else.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> > Greg wrote:
> >>
> >> Decided to get a detroit for my CJ, after checking prices, ranging from
> >> $745.00 to $1250.00 Canadian, I went with the $745.00 one, ordered it on
> >> October 14th, they said 3 days. After numerous calls back and forth, they
> >> finally phone on November 16th to say it just came off back order, would
> >> I
> >> still want it?.So I stupidly say, if I do, how long? He said he'll go
> >> pick
> >> it up at border on 19th, you can have it on Monday the 22, I said, again
> >> stupidly, OK.
> >> Well in the mean time I decided to get my daughter a locker for her
> >> Birthday, after looking on line, I came accross
> >> http://www.completeoffroad.com/index.php in the states, best prices I've
> >> seen, so I ordered a 31 spline 9" detroit for my daughter, he said he
> >> would
> >> send it FedEx, 6 days, well today on the 6th day it came as promised, so
> >> I
> >> promptly got on the phone and phoned him again, ordered the one for my
> >> CJ,
> >> again he said 6 days, I said great. Hung up phone and 10 minutes later
> >> the
> >> first place I ordered from phoned to say it was in, I said you waited too
> >> long, (49 days is a bit much, by about 39 days) guy was pissed off at me,
> >> hung up on me.
Good point, we only saw one snow when we lived on the Island, I just
keep thinking the Rockies.....
Mike
Greg wrote:
>
> But Mike, you forgot I live on the sunshine coast, one 4" snowfall last
> year, in mid winter it would take me an hour to get to snow. So that's not a
> consideration.
>
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:41AFA0EA.2A35D065@sympatico.ca...
> > Man oh man I really would have to think hard if I wanted a locker on
> > those BC logging roads or not....
> >
> > Nope, I wouldn't.....
> >
> > Lockers are called 'low side finders' and if you are going up one of
> > those steep cliff faces that's off camber with even 1/2" of snow down,
> > you would be stopped. No way to crab walk up some of those, they are
> > way too narrow...
> >
> > Now if you could get a locker you can turn on or off..... I wouldn't
> > put out big bucks like that for anything else.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> > Greg wrote:
> >>
> >> Decided to get a detroit for my CJ, after checking prices, ranging from
> >> $745.00 to $1250.00 Canadian, I went with the $745.00 one, ordered it on
> >> October 14th, they said 3 days. After numerous calls back and forth, they
> >> finally phone on November 16th to say it just came off back order, would
> >> I
> >> still want it?.So I stupidly say, if I do, how long? He said he'll go
> >> pick
> >> it up at border on 19th, you can have it on Monday the 22, I said, again
> >> stupidly, OK.
> >> Well in the mean time I decided to get my daughter a locker for her
> >> Birthday, after looking on line, I came accross
> >> http://www.completeoffroad.com/index.php in the states, best prices I've
> >> seen, so I ordered a 31 spline 9" detroit for my daughter, he said he
> >> would
> >> send it FedEx, 6 days, well today on the 6th day it came as promised, so
> >> I
> >> promptly got on the phone and phoned him again, ordered the one for my
> >> CJ,
> >> again he said 6 days, I said great. Hung up phone and 10 minutes later
> >> the
> >> first place I ordered from phoned to say it was in, I said you waited too
> >> long, (49 days is a bit much, by about 39 days) guy was pissed off at me,
> >> hung up on me.
12-03-2004, 09:54 AM
#12
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Posts: n/a
Re: My locker quest
LOL!
Good point, we only saw one snow when we lived on the Island, I just
keep thinking the Rockies.....
Mike
Greg wrote:
>
> But Mike, you forgot I live on the sunshine coast, one 4" snowfall last
> year, in mid winter it would take me an hour to get to snow. So that's not a
> consideration.
>
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:41AFA0EA.2A35D065@sympatico.ca...
> > Man oh man I really would have to think hard if I wanted a locker on
> > those BC logging roads or not....
> >
> > Nope, I wouldn't.....
> >
> > Lockers are called 'low side finders' and if you are going up one of
> > those steep cliff faces that's off camber with even 1/2" of snow down,
> > you would be stopped. No way to crab walk up some of those, they are
> > way too narrow...
> >
> > Now if you could get a locker you can turn on or off..... I wouldn't
> > put out big bucks like that for anything else.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> > Greg wrote:
> >>
> >> Decided to get a detroit for my CJ, after checking prices, ranging from
> >> $745.00 to $1250.00 Canadian, I went with the $745.00 one, ordered it on
> >> October 14th, they said 3 days. After numerous calls back and forth, they
> >> finally phone on November 16th to say it just came off back order, would
> >> I
> >> still want it?.So I stupidly say, if I do, how long? He said he'll go
> >> pick
> >> it up at border on 19th, you can have it on Monday the 22, I said, again
> >> stupidly, OK.
> >> Well in the mean time I decided to get my daughter a locker for her
> >> Birthday, after looking on line, I came accross
> >> http://www.completeoffroad.com/index.php in the states, best prices I've
> >> seen, so I ordered a 31 spline 9" detroit for my daughter, he said he
> >> would
> >> send it FedEx, 6 days, well today on the 6th day it came as promised, so
> >> I
> >> promptly got on the phone and phoned him again, ordered the one for my
> >> CJ,
> >> again he said 6 days, I said great. Hung up phone and 10 minutes later
> >> the
> >> first place I ordered from phoned to say it was in, I said you waited too
> >> long, (49 days is a bit much, by about 39 days) guy was pissed off at me,
> >> hung up on me.
Good point, we only saw one snow when we lived on the Island, I just
keep thinking the Rockies.....
Mike
Greg wrote:
>
> But Mike, you forgot I live on the sunshine coast, one 4" snowfall last
> year, in mid winter it would take me an hour to get to snow. So that's not a
> consideration.
>
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:41AFA0EA.2A35D065@sympatico.ca...
> > Man oh man I really would have to think hard if I wanted a locker on
> > those BC logging roads or not....
> >
> > Nope, I wouldn't.....
> >
> > Lockers are called 'low side finders' and if you are going up one of
> > those steep cliff faces that's off camber with even 1/2" of snow down,
> > you would be stopped. No way to crab walk up some of those, they are
> > way too narrow...
> >
> > Now if you could get a locker you can turn on or off..... I wouldn't
> > put out big bucks like that for anything else.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> > Greg wrote:
> >>
> >> Decided to get a detroit for my CJ, after checking prices, ranging from
> >> $745.00 to $1250.00 Canadian, I went with the $745.00 one, ordered it on
> >> October 14th, they said 3 days. After numerous calls back and forth, they
> >> finally phone on November 16th to say it just came off back order, would
> >> I
> >> still want it?.So I stupidly say, if I do, how long? He said he'll go
> >> pick
> >> it up at border on 19th, you can have it on Monday the 22, I said, again
> >> stupidly, OK.
> >> Well in the mean time I decided to get my daughter a locker for her
> >> Birthday, after looking on line, I came accross
> >> http://www.completeoffroad.com/index.php in the states, best prices I've
> >> seen, so I ordered a 31 spline 9" detroit for my daughter, he said he
> >> would
> >> send it FedEx, 6 days, well today on the 6th day it came as promised, so
> >> I
> >> promptly got on the phone and phoned him again, ordered the one for my
> >> CJ,
> >> again he said 6 days, I said great. Hung up phone and 10 minutes later
> >> the
> >> first place I ordered from phoned to say it was in, I said you waited too
> >> long, (49 days is a bit much, by about 39 days) guy was pissed off at me,
> >> hung up on me.
12-03-2004, 09:54 AM
#13
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: My locker quest
LOL!
Good point, we only saw one snow when we lived on the Island, I just
keep thinking the Rockies.....
Mike
Greg wrote:
>
> But Mike, you forgot I live on the sunshine coast, one 4" snowfall last
> year, in mid winter it would take me an hour to get to snow. So that's not a
> consideration.
>
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:41AFA0EA.2A35D065@sympatico.ca...
> > Man oh man I really would have to think hard if I wanted a locker on
> > those BC logging roads or not....
> >
> > Nope, I wouldn't.....
> >
> > Lockers are called 'low side finders' and if you are going up one of
> > those steep cliff faces that's off camber with even 1/2" of snow down,
> > you would be stopped. No way to crab walk up some of those, they are
> > way too narrow...
> >
> > Now if you could get a locker you can turn on or off..... I wouldn't
> > put out big bucks like that for anything else.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> > Greg wrote:
> >>
> >> Decided to get a detroit for my CJ, after checking prices, ranging from
> >> $745.00 to $1250.00 Canadian, I went with the $745.00 one, ordered it on
> >> October 14th, they said 3 days. After numerous calls back and forth, they
> >> finally phone on November 16th to say it just came off back order, would
> >> I
> >> still want it?.So I stupidly say, if I do, how long? He said he'll go
> >> pick
> >> it up at border on 19th, you can have it on Monday the 22, I said, again
> >> stupidly, OK.
> >> Well in the mean time I decided to get my daughter a locker for her
> >> Birthday, after looking on line, I came accross
> >> http://www.completeoffroad.com/index.php in the states, best prices I've
> >> seen, so I ordered a 31 spline 9" detroit for my daughter, he said he
> >> would
> >> send it FedEx, 6 days, well today on the 6th day it came as promised, so
> >> I
> >> promptly got on the phone and phoned him again, ordered the one for my
> >> CJ,
> >> again he said 6 days, I said great. Hung up phone and 10 minutes later
> >> the
> >> first place I ordered from phoned to say it was in, I said you waited too
> >> long, (49 days is a bit much, by about 39 days) guy was pissed off at me,
> >> hung up on me.
Good point, we only saw one snow when we lived on the Island, I just
keep thinking the Rockies.....
Mike
Greg wrote:
>
> But Mike, you forgot I live on the sunshine coast, one 4" snowfall last
> year, in mid winter it would take me an hour to get to snow. So that's not a
> consideration.
>
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:41AFA0EA.2A35D065@sympatico.ca...
> > Man oh man I really would have to think hard if I wanted a locker on
> > those BC logging roads or not....
> >
> > Nope, I wouldn't.....
> >
> > Lockers are called 'low side finders' and if you are going up one of
> > those steep cliff faces that's off camber with even 1/2" of snow down,
> > you would be stopped. No way to crab walk up some of those, they are
> > way too narrow...
> >
> > Now if you could get a locker you can turn on or off..... I wouldn't
> > put out big bucks like that for anything else.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> > Greg wrote:
> >>
> >> Decided to get a detroit for my CJ, after checking prices, ranging from
> >> $745.00 to $1250.00 Canadian, I went with the $745.00 one, ordered it on
> >> October 14th, they said 3 days. After numerous calls back and forth, they
> >> finally phone on November 16th to say it just came off back order, would
> >> I
> >> still want it?.So I stupidly say, if I do, how long? He said he'll go
> >> pick
> >> it up at border on 19th, you can have it on Monday the 22, I said, again
> >> stupidly, OK.
> >> Well in the mean time I decided to get my daughter a locker for her
> >> Birthday, after looking on line, I came accross
> >> http://www.completeoffroad.com/index.php in the states, best prices I've
> >> seen, so I ordered a 31 spline 9" detroit for my daughter, he said he
> >> would
> >> send it FedEx, 6 days, well today on the 6th day it came as promised, so
> >> I
> >> promptly got on the phone and phoned him again, ordered the one for my
> >> CJ,
> >> again he said 6 days, I said great. Hung up phone and 10 minutes later
> >> the
> >> first place I ordered from phoned to say it was in, I said you waited too
> >> long, (49 days is a bit much, by about 39 days) guy was pissed off at me,
> >> hung up on me.
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