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10-31-2016, 01:35 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA for September 8, 2017 delivery
Posts: 22
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New member, 1st post, just ordered a 5.0 TA
Hey everybody! My wife and I joined your forum yesterday, and ordered a 2017 Escape 5.0 TA today with a delivery date of November 1, 2017. It's going to be a long year waiting on our baby.
This forum and all the great information we've learned really helped clinch the deal for us when we decided this unit was everything we were looking for. So, thanks to everyone who took the time to answer questions so that we may all learn from your invaluable experience. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions too over the next year or so.
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10-31-2016, 01:37 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Lake Panasoffkee, Florida
Trailer: 1997 casita & 5.0 ta July,2016
Posts: 118
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Congratulations!! The year will go by more quickly that you think it possibly could.
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Doug & Lucy Metz
2016 Escape 5.0 TA
Pick up date in July 
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10-31-2016, 01:51 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 15,544
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Welcome to the site, and congrats on your order. I will have waited 1 1/2 years for my trailer, though to be fair was a holdout for the 2017 5.0. I bought myself a temp trailer so I could camp this last year, which I will sell in the spring.
I must assume your wife is the wrench, and does the nut torquing? 
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2017 Escape 5.0 TA
2015 Ford F150 Lariat 3.5L EcoBoost
2009 Escape 19 (previous)
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
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10-31-2016, 02:04 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Port Townsend, Washington
Trailer: Escape 5.0 TA Oct 2019;current Escape 19 2017
Posts: 107
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Congratulations and welcome to the "Waiting for my Escape" club. I'm also new and am finding these forums so very helpful.
We originally had a delivery date of Aug 28, but it has been moved up to Jul 28 with a possibility of an even earlier date. Lots of options and decisions.
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10-31-2016, 02:14 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Welcome, love your avatar names ....,
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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10-31-2016, 02:23 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: St. Thomas not BVI., Ontario
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0TA / 2016 Ram Eco Diesel 4X4
Posts: 8,038
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lug Nut & Torque Wench
Hey everybody! My wife and I joined your forum yesterday, and ordered a 2017 Escape 5.0 TA today with a delivery date of November 1, 2017. It's going to be a long year waiting on our baby.
This forum and all the great information we've learned really helped clinch the deal for us when we decided this unit was everything we were looking for. So, thanks to everyone who took the time to answer questions so that we may all learn from your invaluable experience. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions too over the next year or so.
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Hi: Lug Nut & Torque Wrench... Congrats on your order!!! Another Florida summer escapee? We should be passing thru the Tallahassee area in Jan., if health permits, as we escape the SW. Ontario winter!!! Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie 
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Quote Bugs Bunny..."Don't take life too seriously, none of us get out of it ALIVE"!!!
'16 Ram Eco D. 4X4 Laramie Longhorn CC & '14 Escape 5.0TA
St.Thomas (Not the Virgin Islands) Ontario
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10-31-2016, 03:14 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Ponoka, Alberta
Trailer: 2016 19 classic "outta sight", jeep rubicon unlimited
Posts: 1,645
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Congratulations!! Exactly 1 year from today will be your big day! Enjoy the waiting. Building the build sheet will keep you busy!
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10-31-2016, 06:20 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Emerson, Manitoba
Trailer: 2016 Escape 5.0TA, 2022 F150 2.7EB
Posts: 1,848
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Jim and Alf
Perhaps you didn't notice it's not "lug nut and torque wrench" but "lug nut and torque WENCH"
Adrian
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10-31-2016, 06:41 PM
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#9
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 15,544
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Quote:
Originally Posted by emers382
Jim and Alf
Perhaps you didn't notice it's not "lug nut and torque wrench" but "lug nut and torque WENCH"
Adrian
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Good eye, Adrian. I am still looking for that Beer Wench to bring along camping. Trying to enlist my wife and other female friends gets me hit too much.
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2017 Escape 5.0 TA
2015 Ford F150 Lariat 3.5L EcoBoost
2009 Escape 19 (previous)
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
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10-31-2016, 06:46 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Quote:
Originally Posted by emers382
Jim and Alf
Perhaps you didn't notice it's not "lug nut and torque wrench" but "lug nut and torque WENCH"
Adrian
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Yes, I thought it was a nice play on words as I have know some wrenches in my life, may have married one or two in fact....
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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10-31-2016, 07:01 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA for September 8, 2017 delivery
Posts: 22
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I posted my first post this morning, and have spent the day scrolling through the "It's Friday " thread, looking at all the pics of the new Escapes under construction. I'm so reved up, I can hardly contain my excitement. Imagine my surprise when I revisited my first post and found so many friendly and welcoming comments. Thank you all. I recognized so many of your names from pics I saw of your units being built.
Yes,I'm "Lug Nut", and my beautiful wife is "Torque Wench" (without the "r"). Yes, she knows how to torque me up! I'm crazy about that girl, and can't wait to Escape with her in our new 5.0 TA.
Torque Wench is pursuing fabric, vinyl and Formica options as we update our Build Sheet. We got so much great information from your posts about what works. Our Build Sheet is about 95% done with your great advice. We can't wait to meet other Escapers at campgrounds across North America. -- Lug Nut
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10-31-2016, 09:02 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Mesa, Arizona
Trailer: '15 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 188
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Congratulations on the 5.0, we really like ours. What is your tow vehicle?
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2013 GMC Sierra CC Max Tow
2011 Casita 17 SD-sold
2015 Escape 5.0TA-sold
"How can I be lost, if I have no place to go"
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11-01-2016, 06:24 PM
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#13
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA for September 8, 2017 delivery
Posts: 22
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My tow vehicle is a 2001 Toyota Tundra with 125K miles on it. I already have a 5th wheel hitch and electric trailer brake on it. I had a 27' Shadow Cruiser 5th wheel that I pulled when the truck was new. This is my third Toyota truck, and they just keep on going and going. If it ever gives up the ghost, I'll just get another one.
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11-01-2016, 09:39 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Retired from Dallas & Full-Timing, Texas
Trailer: 2017 21' Escape as of 01/16/17
Posts: 1,312
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Congrats to both of you!
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Fred M.
"Whoever said retirement was overrated...
...never had an Escape"
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11-10-2016, 06:40 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA for September 8, 2017 delivery
Posts: 22
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Just got an e-mail from Tammy and ETI today, 11/10/16. She moved my delivery date up from Nov 1, 2017, to Sep 8, 2017. I'm stoked! The sooner, the better. I'm working on my Build Sheet, trying to be ready.
I've learned so much by reading all the really informative threads on this forum. Thanks to everyone for sharing what they've learned. -- Lug Nut
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11-10-2016, 07:43 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Southwick, Massachusetts
Trailer: None, sold my 2014 5.0TA
Posts: 7,124
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Perfect time of the year for a xcountry trip too.
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Happy Motoring
Bob
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11-10-2016, 07:53 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,256
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New TA
Quote:
Originally Posted by padlin
Perfect time of the year for a xcountry trip too.
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Good for you. I'd rather drive the country in Mid Suptember than November.
Here's an idea, Rally your way back home, depending upon the route you take, there will be several opportunities.
Dave
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11-10-2016, 07:58 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,256
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Typo
Suptember, must be a Freudian indication that it's time to start to cook my final meal of the day. And for country people, that's Supper.
Dave
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11-10-2016, 09:05 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Bandon, Oregon
Trailer: 5.0TA
Posts: 27
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Congrats to both of you, - we have a 5.0TA and it works out very well for us. I am sure you will enjoy it.
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11-10-2016, 09:18 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Bozeman, Montana
Trailer: 2018 5.0TA / 2018 GMC Canyon/Duramax
Posts: 561
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Nice! 1 year to 10 months looks like build times are getting shorter and shorter based on other soon to be owners changed delivery dates.
I suspect build times are getting shorter due to new facilities. Will be interesting to see what the wait time will be once the first 5.0TA show model is completed.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lug Nut & Torque Wench
Just got an e-mail from Tammy and ETI today, 11/10/16. She moved my delivery date up from Nov 1, 2017, to Sep 8, 2017. I'm stoked! The sooner, the better. I'm working on my Build Sheet, trying to be ready.
I've learned so much by reading all the really informative threads on this forum. Thanks to everyone for sharing what they've learned. -- Lug Nut
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