2005 M450 Excellent Price

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Al,
Rich owned three birds and in my opinion, summarized very nicely the big picture of both pro's and con's. The only other thing I have to add is be aware, the higher up the food chain you go, the more you will spend to fix and replace things:
Example: inverter/charger for my bus 700-1200, m450 3-5 k.
Ask an m450 owner how hard it is to change the air dryer
cartridge or how much labor is involved
Got that 8x8 trap door on the curb side out back on an m450?
No, you're disassembling the alternator assemblies to get the
air filter out
Got a diagnostic computer for all the computer controlled wiring
systems to diagnosis a system failure. IF not, were you ever a
mainframe guy who could code troubleshoot his own m450 by
writing diagnostic code to monitor it? Very much like VMspec
and Ray Davis did, write to the user supplied interface.
I am NOT slamming the m450, I'm trying to point out the higher up the food chain you go, the more sophisticated you need to be as a diagnostician to save money on repairs or you new best tool is American Express Black! And it starts at 100 bucks an hour!

Also, and you probably already know this in this current age of social media.. when you disparage products in a public place, you paint a TARGET on your back and NO ONE likes that because it illicit s emotional responses, and when it does that, BAD things happen and YOU become the target! PERIOD!