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I love mine, the best addition I made to the truck. I use it for shooting, yes, but also for other things like sitting a skeleton up there and driving in our local Halloween fest parade. The kids also love to pop their heads out.
Also I am looking for a 20 foot slave cable to jump a dead HMMWV as my friend's 1165 was dead the other day and we had to resort to charging each battery on a 12 volt charger, which took forever. If anyone knows of a Nato one cheaper than the $225 or so on ebay please shoot me a line.
Dredging up a topic that's been discussed here before but it looks like two of the models people like are now discontinued or unavailable.
So I am looking for a reco on a 24 Volt trickle charger to keep the HMMWV batteries charged over the winter (I don't expect to be driving much until the...
The lessons here are:
1. collision insurance is a good investment on more expensive models, given that parts for a HMMWV cost an arm an a leg
2. a dashcam, or even better a 4-channel DVR recording system (front, rear, sides) pays for itself with one incident like this. The red explorer could...
Well think of the damage and missing parts as your deductible and also a painful but not overly-expensive lesson on getting insurance coverage. I'm glad the story had a happy ending.
These seem pretty rare, here is your chance to get one:
https://www.govplanet.com/for-sale/Ammunition-Trailer-2011-General-Dynamics-M1164-ITV-AT-Ammunition-Trailer-Alabama/5510607?h=5000%2Cq%7Ctrailer&rr=1&hitprm=&pnLink=yes
Saw an M1165A1 I wanted sell earlier today on the govplanet, hammer price $45,400. Adding premium of 15% that’s $52,210, and with GA sales tax of 8% = $56,376!!!
I paid less than half that for about the same thing in February. A second slightly newer M1165A1 (but with more issues) sold for...
There’s a book you can get on Amazon that has some charts stepping through all the different models and evolutions (although I found one small mistake in the chart)...
Finally got around to putting in the Trucklites I bought 3 months ago. The difference is pretty noticeable, here is HMMWV with the passenger side replaced and the driver side still incandescent:
Jay is your truck an M1165 or M1165A1? Is the serial number over 300,000? It makes for a number of mechanical differences vs. the slightly older M1165.
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