Dumbass things that bus converters do!

Over the years I have seen some crazy things that bus converters do.
1. Covering over or welding shut emergency exits. The word emergency is important. If you cover over or weld shut emergency exits then you run the very real risk of dying in your bus should an emergency occur. They’re put there for a reason! In a real Bus evacuation, the aim is to have the bus evacuated in under two minutes and that’s as a school bus with hardly any flammable materials inside. A motorhome conversion is a tinderbox on wheels!
2. Removing the bifold door from the front and replacing it with one of the rather useless RV doors or even worse a house door. The bifold door has many advanatages including durability and having glass panels the while length. House doors with glass have not got the right kind of glass and could be very dangerous.
3. Raising the roof. If you need to raise the roof then you’ve bought a bus that’s too short. That’s a buyer’s error. In any case, how much standing will you be doing in a bus? I’m six feet tall and my head does not touch the ceiling of any known school bus. I should know - I drive the blessed things for work.
4. Removing interior ceiling and wall panels in the vain hope of making the bus warmer inside by replacing them with wood. It’s a bus - it’ll leak heat through every oriface and every surface. There’s just no way of doing it economically.
5. Believing their busses will last forever. They’ve been sold by a school district. They’ve been hammered by bad drivers and have had accidents poorly repaired by underpaid and overworked bus mechanics. They’ve had their oil changed once a year instead of every 10,000 miles. That’s three times over the recommended changes. They’re not going to last forever!
6. Whining about insurance. Nobody is going to insure a self-built bus conversion. Nobody is going to inspect a self-built bus conversion. The best you’re going to get is a standard collision only policy.
7. Not knowing how to drive a bus. That’s one of the craziest ever things. A bus is twice the width, twice the length (or more) and three times the height (or more) of an average car. It’s also ten times the weight. The braking system is different - powerful air brakes as opposed to the pathetic hydraulic brakes of a car. Driving it is a very different experience.
8. Not performing a pre-trip inspection before driving their bus. Tyres, lights, fluid, belts, brakes, horn, wipers etc all have to be inspected before each trip.
9. Not doing annual or mileage maintainance.
10. Believing internet baloney about it being possible to get highway speeds out of a school bus designed to spend 90% of its life on back roads and dirt tracks. Sure - it might be “possible” to get more than 55mph from a school bus by tinkering with the engine, it is not prudent as it shortens the life of the engine.
11. Repeating internet baloney. There is no such thing as a bad engine or a bad transmission. The problems reported by bus conversion owners are almost always down to bad driving, bad maintainance or bad modifications.
12. Whining about the costs of running a bus. Tyres are costly $250 - $500 each or $1,500 - $3,000 for all six. Servicing is costly at about $1,000 a go.
13. Buying a school bus with no idea about parking regulations where you want to park it.
14. Believing a bus conversion will be cheaper to live in than renting the cheapest mobile home. Sure - it might be possible but it’s debatable. The cheapest parking will be a lot of land in the countryside outside zoning regulations.

I see those as the most common whines online. There are more. I see so much craziness online. One of the craziest is that people pay redneck bus converters to convert their busses for them when it would be so much cheaper just to buy a used motorhome.

I have converted my bus and done everything myself. I have not paid anybody to do anything. I made my own cabinets - did all my own carpentry and after teaching myself to weld, did my own welding. I attended no welding classes nor did I watch any welding videos. I used the cheapest welder I could get and was told soundly by online groups that I could not weld, could not weld using that welder etc. Well, my welds hold strongly and are in use. That should tell you everything you need to know about internet advise!