We are now at Premier RV Services in Junction City, Oregon. The good news is that we are here, and that the new Girard awning is also here and the guys are working on installing it.
The not-so-good news is that the center AC unit has been diagnosed as terminal (locked up compressor) and replacements are hard to find right now. They are trying, but it doesn’t look good for finding one. We can limp home on two ACs in this hot weather, but if another one fails we’ll be in trouble. Right now, going to our Polson lot is out of the question.
And, the saga of not being able to shut the engine off continues. It happened again this morning (the sixth occurrence now) and not even the chassis battery switch would kill it. (I did later find out that if I am plugged into shore power…and I was…that might prevent the chassis battery switch from doing its thing.) Because having the engine running prevented me from bringing in the bedroom slide (the others came in…go figure), I called Premier RV Services and they sent a tech to the RV park to see what he could do, Naturally, the second time he turned off the key, the engine quit. We brought the coach over here to the shop and they’ve tried 15-20 times to get the problem to recur and it won’t. ARGHHHHH!!!
The techs here are still waiting for a call back from Spartan (it has been nearly four hours now, but it is Monday) for help in diagnosing the problem. Customer (or “technical”) service sure isn’t what it used to be.
We are looking forward to getting all the known issues resolved so that we can sell the coach. We’re just tired of having to deal with a slew of continuing problems. It was a good coach for three years, but has been going through a bad phase over the past few weeks. I’m sure we’ll eventually get things resolved, but waiting for the other shoe to drop has lost its charm!
TJ