Sunday, November 21, 2010

Motor Home is NOT ready.

Showed up at CW at 2 as directed to pick up the completed motor home.  "It's in the detail bay getting cleaned up, be right to you..  Oh, BTW, your batteries failed, (since we had the coach for 2.5 months and failed to kill the battery switch, of course the batteries died.) Not to worry, I just went ahead and replaced them, rather than trying to charge them up,." (Well fine.) 
As they started it up, the jack pad control started to buzz, indicating a loss of power- well of course, since the  batteries had failed.  "No problem, we'll manually reset them, and get the coach right out to you." 

An hour later, they had the panel to the control board off, and discovered that somehow, water was leaking into a secured area, and had basically shorted out the circuit board to the jacks.  On further inspection, every storage bay on the curbside had evidently been leaking also, due to bad gasket seals. 

Hopefully, the circuit board will dry out none the worse for wear, and they will let me know by Tuesday what they have found out about the leaks and seals. 

It's part of motorhoming.  I need to be like my friends Jerry Davis or Texas TC  and know about this stuff, so I can work on it myself, or be better at spotting things before they become big issues....  Think I'll do so online research for checklists and stuff. 

In the meantime, we'll just take the car up to SC.  Just got a call from Cooper wanting to know if we were coming..... 

1 comment:

Mary Alice Hinshaw said...

Gosh, your service provider sounds rather incompetent. Is there somewhere else you can take it for repairs?